Hippie

Six weeks after the Allies celebrated the victory of World War 2, Juanita Lee Hansrote delivered twin girls, Joan and Jean, in the Western Maryland Regional Medical Center. Shortly afterwards, her husband, Edward Charles Hansrote, returned home from stateside military service. Together, they began their life in conservative, union-heavy, 50,000-person Allegany County, Maryland. Edward, his father, and his six brothers all worked for the railroad, earning salaries and benefits solid enough to…

The teenagers of the 1960s wanted to check out the normality and the mainstream of American life after WWII had ended. These largely white, middle-class group of teens during this time believed that the “anvil of American industry and the brainpower of American technocrats who created ever-greater prosperity produced an impersonal machine that was concerned more with maintaining cold-war social stability than correcting society’s deficiencies” (Hamailton vi.). To make a change, kids acted out in…

Daoism Background Daoism is a religion system that began in China. It started around 200 and 300 B.C. Lao Tzu is said to be the founder of Daoism. There is actually some debate on whether Taoism has a founder, or whether Lao Tzu was a real person (BBC 2014). Daoism is also called Taoism. It is called Daoism because it most resembles the western pronunciation of the word. They follow the sacred text called The Tao-te-ching, which is only 5,000 words. Their sacred text represents the ideology of…

My honorary grandpa, Jimmie Bodie (68), is the man I decided to interview in late adulthood. On November 29, 1947, he was born at University Hospital in Augusta, GA, where he has lived ever since. He was named “Jimmie” because his parents had a good friend named Jimmie. They specifically spelled it with an “ie” because that was how their friend spelled it. He had two younger brothers who he messed with and often got into trouble with. His life was very adventurous, and he has not stopped…

It was fun as well as informative. Hearing about how the hippie culture impacted America was very interesting and it showed how hippies made an impact on everyone. The answer of “my wedding” as fondest memory, knowing that my grandma would want to hear the recording when it was done, has to bring a laugh to everyone…

Midterm Paper: China’s Three Major Religions Contrary to many Western stereotypes, China possesses an extremely diverse and rich history, and a vast majority of that culture stems from religion. The three main religions of China are Taoism, Confucianism, and Buddhism. Although these religions dominate most of China, each one of them has its own origin and set of philosophies and beliefs that contribute to the diverse culture of China today. The first and oldest major religion of China is…

Marijuana, cannabis, weeds, grass, Mary Jane, or whatever you chose to call it; it is making a big uproar in the government these days. The societal impact across the media outlets are vigorous daily, a prime example of this are the “truth” commercials aired about smoking and also including the medical marijuana research commercials aired around the clock makes marijuana the latest buzz. I will explore the history of marijuana. I will also outline the significant impact that the…

1950 On June 17, 1950, history was made at Little Company of Mary Hospital when doctors performed the first organ transplant in the world. Ruth Tucker was the patient, and she suffered polycystic kidneys. She was in need of a new kidney because one of her kidneys did not function and the other only functioned at 10 percent. Tucker’s family was also known dieing from the same disease. Before the procedure, Tucker had waited at the hospital for five weeks prior for a suitable donor. That morning…

In our world, he wouldn’t be that charismatic, but in the world in which he lived (i.e. the offbeat, dropout world of the hippie) there’s no question about it – there was something about him that was magnetic and charismatic because the kids just seemed to gravitate towards him. And, like I’ve said many times before, he didn’t have to get up on top of an orange crate and start…

Forrest Gump is an American classic. Released in 1994, the movie won 6 Academy Awards and was the fourth highest grossing movie at the time. The movie follows Forrest, a Protestant born in 1945 with an IQ of 75, as he grows up in the deep south during a tumultuous period of American history. Mysteriously, Forrest finds himself at the center of dozens of major events of the 60’s and 70’s. He was present during the forced integration of the University of Alabama, he was one of the players in…