Counterculture of the 1960s

Traditionally, museums are considered secular sites in which curators display art objectively; however, in her work, “The art museum as ritual,” Carol Duncan examines how museums act as powerful entities which influence the visitors’ perception through the display, organization, and architecture of the space. She elaborates that the museum’s authority actually enables them to represent and define entire communities, which consequently shapes the visitors’ perceptions of said communities. Perhaps…

more free time, and women were being more open about their sexuality. In the 1960’s the genre of Psychedelic rock was not very straight forward for one to lyrically understand its meaning. However, this was because most of the songs were written under the influence of psychedelic drugs by artist that explained the impairment of reality because of the use of such drugs. Psychedelic rock in the 60’s created a counterculture as it reflected those ideals of the American youth. The 70’s were popular…

employed a mix of psychological, physical, and emotional tactics to brainwash his members into complete submission and vulnerability. With the cult becoming popular in the early 1960’s and only growing till the late 1970’s, there are many societal factors that caused people to join the cult. With the rise of counterculture, psychedelics, and spiritual freedom many people were drawn towards the cult's free and utopian image. In addition to this, in 1965 the cult was residing in Brazil, so many…

The “typical American family” has been a social construct for several centuries in the United States, consisting of a father, mother, and children of the same ancestry. A family can be defined as, “a basic social unit consisting of parents and their children, considered as a group, whether dwelling together or not.” In We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, a book by Karen Joy Fowler, the structure of the Cooke family demonstrates that the concept of the “typical American family” is outdated…

would carry on the hopes and dreams of the post-WWII economic growth which America was enjoying . The 1950’s ideas of bliss in suburbia with dinner promptly at 6 and of a mother doing housework in pearls were about to be shattered by the events of the 1960’s. The 60’s brought a changing of the guard in US politics as a young man from Massachusetts set his sights on the highest office in the land and became the 35th President. John Fitzgerald Kennedy and his young bride Jackie were seen by many…

like it would ever be possible. In the 1960’s there was a vast expansion of surf culture, but before that surfing was not seen as a popular activity. The counter-culture ways that were associated with the sport created a view that surfers were slackers and druggies as their time was largely spent in the ocean as opposed to an office. Surfers were often misunderstood and disrespected in society and the deadbeat viewpoint of surfers didn’t change until the 1960’s when the media exposure of the…

Throughout this unit it has shown that films do indeed reflect our lives, from the past and present. The texts in this unit are just one out of the many reasons that shows and proves that movies do not shape our lives but in fact reflect our lives. But throughout the chapter in “the Interface textbook edited by Joan Green” it shows that the texts that have been read have many supporting quotes and examples that prove films potray life. These quotes and evidence give the reasoning to prove this…

The first causes and incidents of racial tension within the army is with the military draft boards in the US that decided which Americans would be shipped to Vietnam. The draft boards at home during the 1960’s through the early 70’s were notoriously racist with African-Americans making up 1-2% of the members on the draft boards not to mention that in the deep southern states, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Arkansas, there were no African-Americans…

The counterculture movement known as punk defies definition in any concrete terms. Beginning as a perverse fashion statement in the 1970s, punk quickly became something much more politically charged than many initially anticipated. It was a movement that defined itself through a series of negatives: it was more easily seen as what it wasn’t than what it was. Punk contrasted itself to the 1960s, the hippie movement, and the rock’n’roll scene that had established itself; it was opposed to the…

their opposing views on their heritage. The main characters in the short story are Mama, Dee, and Maggie. Mama occupies an older generation who is more in touch with their heritage following a simplistic life style, whereas Dee is part of the counterculture movement during the 1970’s, fighting for the rights of black American’s and the change she feels they deserve. Dee is a first generation college student who believes that times are changing and is very vocal about it. In the closing of…