Taking Woodstock

Thesis Statement: The Woodstock music festival in 1969 had made a mark in America history about sex, drugs, and the impressed amounts of people who came to the event as well as the debt the creators got afterwards in three days. Time went by, an other big music festival was born in 1999 and named Coachella which is about live music of famous bands and artworks. People nowadays still affirm that Coachella is an event that was original from Woodstock and represents the same values. However, some…

A Look Back at Woodstock In evaluating the generations, the Baby Boomers are often looked upon as the “hippies”, love children, and peaceful protesters (not to mention avid drug users). While these statements are typically true of the Baby Boomers, another thing instantly comes to mind when they are brought up: Woodstock. Woodstock was a 3-day festival that occurred in Bethel, New York in August of 1969 with nearly half a million attendees. Famed for its stellar lineup and notorious amounts of…

Everyone knows the story of Charlie Brown and his sidekick snoopy, but what you don’t know is what happened after the great pumpkin and Christmas specials? Dog sees God a parody on the innocent yellow sweater wearing Charlie Brown and gang. Taking the audience on a fast forward to ten years later in high school. And lets just say things aren't looking so great! Playwright Bert V. Royal has taken each character indirectly and given them a place far from how you saw them before. The show…

John B. told Brian “If you keep your mouth shut, you’ll be surprised what you can learn.” Brian ends up learning about the southern ways of life and tells it through a contemporary piece of southern gothic literature. Stown revives southern gothic literature in a more modern piece. Most of elements fit into the literal definitions of southern gothic literature but with a more modern twist. Stown is a contemporary piece of southern gothic literature because it has a southern setting, decay, and…

I’m willing to date myself by quoting a Woodstock-era folk song because if you haven’t looked around the Logistics Readiness Officer (LRO) career field lately, suffice to say that the times are changing and it’s exciting! After a decade of trial and error, the 21R career field has gotten serious about how to develop the next generation of commanders. The effort underway is taking the concept of the LRO from three haphazardly-kluged specialties down a path of creating a tactical expert that will…

to choose which career center to attend. I started Job Corps on April 12th, 2016. I decided to come to Woodland Job Corps in Laurel, Maryland because at this center only two students share a dormitory room. There was another Job Corps to choose, Woodstock Job Corps, but the center had four students…

contradictions with the life of Jimi Hendrix. He used his musical talents to portray what was happening culturally post war. When he performed “The Star-Spangled Banner” at Woodstock, he was not showing his pride in America, but his disgust…

This section of the textbook provides one of the works of Nicaraguan poet, Gioconda Belli about the impact poetry and revolution radically changed her life when she was much younger. During this time, she became well versed in foreign works that were attributed philosophical materialism, colonialism, and neocolonialism, socialist theory, and the works of other philosophers and political theorist. Her own works went on to featured themes of sexual liberation, exploration, and femininity which…

Why I Do Not Support Murder It was summer 2015. The next day after taking my last final exam I was already on a plane to Poland. I spent two amazing months with my family and friends at festivals and small trips around my home country. When I came back, two weeks until the first day of school left. I have been vegan for over ten months now. I have watched “Earthlings” and “Cowspiracy”, read many articles, statistics and facts. I knew about the suffering that animals have to go through before…

1963 – 1973 A Decade of Disillusion The era that I chose to write about was from 1963 to 1973. I felt that this was the decisively time period in America history. The 60’s were ushered in riding on the coattails of the 1950’s and was felt would carry on the hopes and dreams of the post-WWII economic growth which America was enjoying . The 1950’s ideas of bliss in suburbia with dinner promptly at 6 and of a mother doing housework in pearls were about to be shattered by the events of the…