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and Pop because of what they did for their respective genres, and The Beatles were a global sensation often credited with changing music forever. However, there is one name that is often glossed over. Whether it’s because they are marginalized as a hippie fad or just that the average person doesn’t stop to consider their impact, the Grateful Dead are rarely brought up when discussing influential music artists. It may not be widely known, but the Grateful Dead were the founding fathers of a whole…

In contrast to the more liberated 1940s, the 1950s brought a return to traditional women’s roles. Different from the 1920s through the 1940s, less women graduated high school than men in the 1950s, and more men were still graduating college than women. This did not bring great success for women’s opportunities. In fact, the total amount of women’s participation in the labor force was 50% of that of men’s. After the war, when the men returned, the birth rate, in the United States, increased…

Beth Bailey’s work Sex in the Heartland goes into a deep analysis of sexual revolution throughout America in the 1960s. Using Lawrence, Kansas as a representation of the rest of the country, Bailey argues that the sexual revolution emerged from both sexual and non-sexual changes during the Second World War, and continued to grow as repressive elites attempted to halt the growth of sexual culture through Kansas University administration, the distribution of an oral contraception for unmarried…

Many kids can remember their parents reading them bedtime stories’, my parents may have, but I don’t remember. That could be a reason as to why I was never crazy about books, and surely never wanted to read one. I eventually gave into reading and found that I loved it. My favorite book series’ to read as a kid were Captain Underpants, Goosebumps, and Shadow Children. Each book series brought out a different part of me, and introduced me to new ways of life. They sort of molded me, but I stopped…

As the beginning of the new decade approached, a spark for change was brewing. However, unbeknownst to American society, this flicker would emerge into an immense flame that ignited passion, controversy, and most of all, change. These three words could be described as the ultimate mantra for the decade of the nineteen sixties. From nineteen sixty to the end of the decade, America witnessed tremendous economic, social, and political development. The conflicts in this turbulent stage included ones…

Forrest Gump is a film that defies the conventions of filmmaking, and in that sense it is difficult to do a typical analysis of the film. It’s not so much that the film is overly complicated or that reality is always in question or any art house tricks of that kind; it’s just that Gump doesn’t really follow any rules. We begin with the most obvious: the plot. This is a film that should have redefined the biopic. It is completely about the life and times of Forrest, the protagonist, in fact…

Final Research Paper: Os Mutantes and Tropicália By: Christie Alexander In Brazil, on April 1, 1964, the Armed Forces, backed by the United States, overthrew the Brazilian President João Goulart. Goulart was a member of the Brazilian Labour Party. The 1964 Brazilian coup d’état put Brazil under the control of a military regime until 1985. This event sparked a musical movement in Brazil known as Tropicália. Also known as Tropicalismo, this movement was not only about music in Brazil but theater,…

One in four people in the world will be affected by mental or neurological disorders at some point in their lives. They experience something that no one could understand. Two of these people tried to show how is it like to be a mental disorder invalid. Mark Vonnegut and Christopher Nolan. These two men had mental issues, but they managed to survive. One of them is a happy person with his family and the other one is dead. To show what they went through, they wrote a book. In their books they…

A Time of Change: America from 1960-1980 The death of President John F. Kennedy had a major impact on the United States of America. This president did not only die, he was assassinated, and his killer remains unknown. The day Kennedy died America wept. There are still so many questions that are left with no answers. What produced this “crime of the century”, why has there been so much controversy over it, and how did it affect the next presidents? John F. Kennedy wanted peace. In June 1963…

Woodstock The 1960’s marked a huge turning point in American history. Music continued to become more and more influential in everyday life. By the mid 1960’s, young Americans began to feel progressively more frustrated by the society they were being brought up in. The youth had to witness women be suppressed and discredited strictly based on gender. Many women revolted against the traditional housewife position that men felt the need to impose on their wives. The youth had to watch colored men…