f 7 0 ’ s M u s i c As we have been discussing, the 1970’s were a massive decide for music. Building on the shoulder’s of giants with 60’s music, many music styles developed in the 70’s are still widely appreciated to this day. The 70’s defined an era of dance and rock music. It was an era of disco and acid rock, and a psychedelic swarm of civil unrest. It evolved the music industry into yet unexplored territories, innovations that still linger in the music of today. The 70’s were scatterbrained
The 70’s was not just an era of peace and hippies and new music. This era also went through many foreign issues that shaped and played a role in how future foreign policy acted. Throughout the 70’s planes were hijacked, U.S withdrew from Vietnam, and the Iran hostage crisis took place because of these events it help shaped the American foreign policy of the 70’s. On September 6, planes were hijacked by the group P.F.L.P which stands for The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The skyjackers
Culture and Music of the 70's Music is an outlet to all aspects of life and culture is a significant way of forming people and the way they live. Although not always seen directly culture has an overbearing influence on the music that is produced and made popular. The political Climate of the early seventies was full of fire with issues such as Vietnam and constant protest throughout the county. Later in the 70’s the end of the Vietnamese conflict brought the rise of the Watergate scandal
The war on Drugs during the 70’s When President Nixon took office in 1969 he saw it as a god given opportunity for him to take charge of the country. A rise in drug trafficking and abuse in the 60’s led Nixon to administer the Controlled Substance Act. An act that set to label the addictiveness and medical purpose of drugs by 5 Schedules. Schedule one being the most addictive with no medical purpose and schedule five being less addictive with medicinal purposes. In 1973 He created the Drug Enforcement
The main point of the source is to inform the youth of the documentation that has happened since the early 1900's to the monumental Y2K scare of the year 2000. The authors worked with reporters, eyewitnesses, historians, and politically involved personnel to compile a memoir of the last 100 years most revolutionizing moments. The source tackles such events as, the
Strikes of the 70's and 80's: The Invisible Role of Women Throughout history women have slowly moved from the role of mother and housewife into the labor force. In the middle of this rise in stature is a relatively unknown set of events that helped women gain the self-respect and individual attitude needed to move up in the work force. Women's participation in strikes during the 1970's and 80's is relatively unknown in U.S. history. Although the women involved in these strikes made a big impact
In Edward McClelland’s essay “RIP, the Middle Class: 1946-2013,” McClelland discusses to his audience that the middle class is slowly vanishing and soon enough we will only be left with the rich and the poor. Throughout the essay, McClelland uses various examples to demonstrate how the middle class will no longer exist. McClelland talks about how education is vital for pursuing a job at a reasonable pay that a person can live off of. Before, people were able to leave high school and go straight into
The main point of this essay is to deconstruct and decode the word "dude," as well as, the context at which the word is used. This four letter word, created a "catchall for lazy, inarticulate, and inexpressive (and mostly male) surfers, skaters, slackers, druggies, or teenagers." This word is so ambiguous that we shouldn't confuse "flexibility with meaninglessness." The essay begins with background information, stating that the origin dates back to the 1800's when a dude was a scarecrow. He proceed
Automotives This essay will talk about automotives and how they changed the human society significantly. Cars are getting faster and faster. Cars are getting more energy efficient. Also cars are getting more durable and safer. The automotive industry has changed the human society to the extreme. For example, cars are getting faster and faster like the 2016 Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Visa Super Sports was the fastest production car there was. It could go up to 256 mph top speed. But the 2016 Bugatti
fluctuated since the 1920 's to now. Beam talks about some of the more famous killers and why the media found them so interesting and then explains how the number of serial killers has decreased since the media changed its fasinations from serial killers to terrorism. The main point that Beam is trying to make is that the population is only interested in what 's "trending". As stated in his article, "What child abductors were to the 20 's and serial killers were to the 70 's and 80 's, terrorists are to