Counterculture of the 1960s

current social justice movements, the city has offered a place to foster new ideas and shelter outcasts. In a time where men dominated the public sphere, madams of the Barbary Coast were still able to have financial agency. Later down the line in the 1960’s, San Francisco provided a platform to reanalyze conventional norms in a time of great political tension. Even now with the current political administration, the city still serves as a sanctuary for political thought as exampled by LGBTQ…

The Anti-war Movement was one of the largest movements that exists till today, as African Americans, Asian Americans, women, students, hippies, the clergy were part of this movement. The movement focused on the American military’s involvement with Vietnam and the killing of innocent lives. It showed the true representation from America and their dishonesty. Rock music was a main commodity in the music market’ since its emergence it has always been insurgent and incorporating things the youth…

Reasons for the Antiwar Movement (1964-1972) The antiwar movement during the mid 60s and early 70s was one of the most controversial and divided periods in United States history. Major countercultures full of sex, love, and rock n’ roll were on the rise, 18 year olds were being sent to Vietnam, and blacks were fighting for their freedom. Conflict in Vietnam began due to the Tonkin Gulf incident, and our rationale for war was the domino theory. Not long after the start of the war, the antiwar…

There is not much said about how Ken Kesey's character Chief Bromden came to The Ward. His diagnosis was never directly stated in the book and Kesey made no mention of it. There is evidence available both in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and in Ken Kesey’s personal life that suggests that Chief Bromden has what would now be diagnosed as schizophrenia. His unwillingness to talk and constant visions support this diagnosis. In the beginning of the book Chief Reveals himself to be unreliable. He…

In a post-war society griped with increasing racial tension in the midst of economic and demographic boom, America was slowly finding its way to a threshold of major sociocultural revolution. The 1950s African American middle class shared similarities with those that preceded them where they sought for sociopolitical reforms from the government. Inside the stable American family, alienation of teenagers and young adults become more than just a typical inner self conflict of adolescent phase; it…

The war in Vietnam, which lasted from 1955 to 1975, has gone down as one of the influential and controversial wars in United States history. The nation as a whole began to uproar over the war and the major consequences of the war. Public opinion steadily turned against the war following 1967. In the year of 1970, only a third of Americans believed that the U.S. didn’t make a mistake to send more soldiers into Vietnam. Soldiers were dying, and they continued to be sent over to fight even with the…

Current Event: Church of Satan and separation of church and state: Alex Newkirk The First Amendment of the U.S. constitution prohibits making of any law respecting an establishment of religion, impeding the free exercise of religion, abridging the freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom of the press, or the right of the people to peaceably assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. (U.S. Constitution) This means that our government guarantees United States…

and minorities, but in everyone,” (Stein 34). From this quote, Joel Stein is trying to highlight some of the more positive attributes of the current generation. In his article, in Time magazine, he says, “It’s hard, in other words, to join the counterculture when there is no culture”, (Stein 34). Since there are so many ethnicities that make up America’s culture today, there is no one culture to follow. According to Tavi Gevinson, “There’s not this us-vs-them thing now. Maybe that’s why…

Monsters have long been used to express an inner flaw or turmoil that is manifested in a particular society or an individual. We see this time and time again, from Little Red Riding Hood to the collection of Grimm’s Fairytales. Night of the Living Dead, the movie can be seen as a struggle or revolt against collectivism and consumer culture. When the Night of the Living Dead is looked at in comparison to the time it was created, a deeper meaning becomes much more transparent. NoTLD was filmed in…

important roles to develop characters’ conflicts and showed changes which would inspire audiences to think about truth quests in their own life. In addition, both of these movies contained political significance of subculture and their movement of countercultures. When the flow of the mid-1950s; oppression of imagination, freedom, and dreams triggered the social criticism and it affected schools and work. The government had no interest in individuality and unfortunately it…