Hippie

variety of people shopping at this small town version of Whole Foods. There were people all over the spectrum, most notable were a hippie, a family with a mother and 3 children, and a woman with her dog in the store. The hippie rode a bike to the store and he was wearing a super bright tie-dye t-shirt, a long beard and hair down to at least his hips. I admired the hippie man’s simplistic lifestyle choices, obviously opting out of traditional practices like shaving, or brushing hair. The mother…

slipped through the cracks, and today we're here to give you 15 things you didn't know about Miley Cyrus. Check out part one now, and stay tuned for part two, coming soon! Number Fifteen: She Launched The Happy Hippie Foundation. You might be aware that Miley is connected to the Happy Hippie Foundation, but did you know she started it herself? The foundation began as a nonprofit to help vulnerable populations connect with each other and build strength. Number Fourteen: She Saved Her Best…

The Manson murders as well as the Sleepy Lagoon murder were both war time murders that involved outsiders who were seen as a threat to the American way of life as both hippies and Mexican American’s rejected societal norms through their unique attire, rebellious attitudes, and vehement resistance or support to war. As they walked to their own beat, hippies in the 60’s did everything other than the norm, by creating their own perspectives and lifestyles and rejecting the American values that had…

civil rights and anti-war sentiments, questioning dominant American ideologies including society’s ignorance and prejudice towards marginalised groups such as African Americans and women. These messages of equality and tolerance translated to the Hippie movement arising through Woodstock, a three day music festival held in New York in 1969, with its more passive protest through messages of peace and compassion. In the words of R. Darlington “[Hippies] were attempting to create Utopia”…

Southern California consists of a mixture of various cultures such as Latino, Asians, Middle Eastern, etc. As an Asian American who lives in Southern California, experiencing other cultures just from where I live is not a phenomenon. As an Asian American who was not exposed to nature often, outdoor activities become a foreign approach. Camping has been an American trend since the 1960s, but to Southeast Asians, outdoor activities are not considered as a “productive” activity. I immigrated from…

Fashions of the late 1960s became more about comfort and color. Sharply tailored Mod minis were being replaced by flowing dresses with angel sleeves. There was more movement in the styles being introduced. The “Hippie” style was coming into its own. The biggest trends of this time period were flared bottom jeans and colorful shirts. Shirts and blouses were being manufactured in bright colors and dyeing of shirts also became prominent. Loose peasant blouses, t-shirts…

experience. Rosellini, however, is considered a “hippie” because he chose to live without modern conveniences and rely on nature."Alex," was the name McCandless made for himself to try having a new life and spent two years hitchhiking and traveling around the west. He went to Alaska, where he journeyed alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley in April 1992. But Gene Rosellini did not make up a name and was starting to be known as “Mayor of Hippie…

bands made a huge breakthrough in America and people began to see the start of the ‘hippie’ era. But how much did the weed smoking and the rock and roll really change America? Today, there are many…

strength. Without temperance, Heinlein’s dream of a perfect reality is just that: a dream without any basis in reality. In reality, Smith’s Church would quickly go the way of the hippie movement of the 1960s: originally popular, but fading into relative obscurity. His belief system is, in fact, very similar to the hippie culture. Hippies and Smith both encouraged free love, doing whatever made you feel happy, and bucking the social establishment, in the forms of The Man and organized religion,…

Cap is a thirteen year old hippie who is raised by his grandmother Rain in the novel Schooled by Gordan Korman. Cap doesn’t know much about the world outside of Garland farms. Garland farms is a hippie commune farm. Cap is an only child who has lived with his grandmother all his life. He has never watched TV or even ate pizza because he lives at Garland which is sheltered from the outside world. Now after Rain’s horrible accident he is being thrown into the modern world outside of Garland. We…