Hippie

accessories. Clothing is a key component in fashion and can define who you are as a person. Outfits in the 1970’s were based mostly on individual expression and featured more radical designs (Pearson). During the early 70’s the “hippie” style was the top trend. People wore…

generation of adolescents dealt with homosexuality, the use of drugs, opposition to the Vietnam War, women rights, as well as African-American rights. Playwrights, James Rado and Gerome Ragni proposed a play called “Hair”, which is based on a group of hippie friends living during the revolution of the counterculture. The main character, Claude struggles to live the life of young teenager living in New York City with conservative parents. In the end, Claude has to decide whether he wants to serve…

Money, money, money rules the world is what some people say. The economy is constantly growing and changing all around. The economy is the wealth and resources of a country or region, especially in terms of the production and consumption of goods and services. Trade, business, technologies along with other things that impact the economy by increasing it in good times and decreasing it in bad times. Through the years as the economy expands stores and business raise their prizes on necessities…

tie-dying (The Turbulent the 1960s 174). The “hippie” lifestyle was just a minority movement that became identical with American youth during the 1960s. The counterculture youth of America completely broke almost all the values their parents held close. In addition, some of their slogans were, “Make love, not war. Don’t trust anyone over 30. Turn on, tune in, drop out. I am a human being - please do not fold, bend spindle, or mutilate.” (“Flower Power”). The hippie movement was all about peace,…

Wesson writes an in-depth analysis of hippie subculture in his article “Psychadelic Drugs, Hippie Counterculture, Speed And Phenoborbital Treatment Sedative-Hypnotic Dependence: A Journey to the Haight Ashbury In The Sixties.” Hippies used drugs such as marijuana, LSD, hashish, so called “magic mushrooms”, and methamphetamine…

is low, I am aware of that. My question is this: why if whites are a race-less people did I personally get judged as either a hooker or cop when I moved to my neighborhood in Aurora? Secondly, why now that I lived here and people know me am I that hippie girl? My…

Vietnam War, for some regarded even as one of the most important conflict after the Second World War must have had a great impact on American economy, culture, politics and more importantly society. More than 58,000 American soldiers were killed while more than 150,000 others wounded. A disastrous effect had not only the fight with Vietnamese soldiers but also herbicides – “Agent Orange”, which increased rates of i.e. cancers, nerve, digestive, skin, and respiratory disorders among the veterans.…

As my great work of art that inspired many other parodies I choose American Gothic by Grant Wood. The painting is one of the most recognizable and even people who do not know of the original will probably recognize one of the many versions of this painting. I think this is a great work of art for the simple fact that so much is going on in such a simple picture. The expressions on the faces and the posture they have. What are they thinking, why are they not both staring at the artist painting…

In this episode of M*A*S*H, “Abyssinia, Henry,” Henry is discharged from the military, but he ends up dying on his way home after leaving. The nonchalant attitude of the men that were in the middle of a war shows the typical hippie attitude of the 70's generation where they did not care about anything. When Klinger comes out dressed in a fruit costume, Henry says, “Klinger, that outfit might just get you that Section 8” (“Abyssinia, Henry”). This interaction shows how Klinger is pretending to…

Polarizing Culture: Domestic Surveillance Imagine the NSA (National Security Agency) recording and watching every and anything you do on the internet: all the pictures, phone calls, and searches. Well this is reality in the United States, whether you like it or not. America was built on a foundation of individual rights and freedoms, such as the 4th Amendment that protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures by the government. During the time of war, the government often suspends…