Counterculture of the 1960s

Marcia Eymann moved to California in 1990 to take a job at the Oakland Museum of California and from her orientation she was invited to look inside the lives of U.S. Vietnam war veterans who came to California during that time. Eymann would later help develop an exhibition at the museum that would depict California’s role in the Vietnam era. This exhibition along with articles written by various sources who lived in California during this time would collectively create the book What’s Going On?…

Religion could be found in every corner of the world. It dictates what we eat, how we look, what we do or don’t do, and the morals we believe. For a lot of us religion is a big part of our lives and this could be seen in our government. Since the birth of the United States, religion has played a big part in our society, lawmaking, and culture. The U.S is a Christian based country and its morals have dictated a lot of laws. These religious biased laws have suppressed many types of people and the…

fashion impacts almost every aspect of our society. Fashion reveals not only cultural changes that are occurring in society, but also social and political changes that are happening in our country. If an individual was to research the Counterculture of the 1960s, they will find that the fashion during this era mirrored the social movements of that period in our history. During…

Identification and Evaluation of Sources: For the historical investigation, I wanted to do something that was relevant to my life but also something that is considered history now. My life includes high school sports and looking at that and history, Title IX was brought back to my attention. In the year 1972, Title IX of the Education Amendments Act, was passed. The basics behind Title IX were that if an activity was funded by Federal means, then no person, on the basis of sex, could be…

Experiencing a piece of literature is like becoming a mind-reader. Books and other formats of literature offer readers a unique passage into the brain of the author, allowing them to see into the writer’s inner thoughts, feelings, fears, and hopes. Unfortunately, books are limited in length and unlike seeing the author’s complete raw thoughts, a lot is left up to the interpretation of the reader. The thoughts of the author displayed on paper are purposefully calculated and edited, leaving out…

J R R Tolkien, an English writer and poet, is known for being a highly skilled writer of fantasy books, such as The Hobbit. He is also known for writing The Lord of The Rings trilogy and The Silmarillion. A lesser known fact about this famous writer, is that he served in the British Army and fought during World War 2 in The Battle of the Somme. Tolkien was born on January 3, 1892 in Bloemfontein in the Orange Free State, what is now known as the Free State Province in South Africa. Even though…

The 1960s was a time period that brought a lot of political activity and social stirrup. President Lyndon Johnson went into office after Kennedy’s assassination and the United States was being reshaped into a great society with reform programs that targeted poverty and brought relief to families in urban communities. In foreign affairs, the president invested the countries’ resources and troops towards the stabilization of non-communist efforts in Asia. However, our efforts to aid Southern…

Introduction The term “utopia” is a Greek neologism coined by Thomas More in 1516 for his book Utopia that describes a fictional ideal society, which consequently is referring to the ideal community that possesses perfect qualities and egalitarian principles for citizens. The desire of pursuing such ideal realms has diversely manifested in the history of architectural development while entering the twentieth century when the modern movement has peaked, the popularity of utopian…

Global art cinema has been a widely contested term among film critics and scholars alike. The term was created to help categorize and define a genre of film that directly opposes First Cinema, or commercial cinema produced and distributed by Hollywood in the United States. In the book, Global Art Cinema, Second Cinema, or art cinema, has been summarized by authors Rosalind Galt and Karl Schoonover, as being feature films typically including “...foreign production, overt engagement of aesthetic..…

Introduction The popular entertainment of a given time period is a direct result of the political, social, and cultural climates. In particular, investigating popular culture provides historians with a window into the values and ideologies of those without a voice. Popular culture, such as music, proves to be a major influence and outlet amongst disenfranchised and minority groups, who are able to find solidarity with one another through a mutually understood message in musical expression.…