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Love: Your Hippie Guide To San Francisco LEAD PARAGRAPH It 's the summer of 1967 in San Francisco and Haight Street is bustling with thousands of young dreamers craving social reform. The summer of ’67 is also known as the Summer of Love and was a time when artists like Janisce Joplin and Jimi Hendrix lived on these San Franciscan streets. Flash forward 50 years and the afterglow of this monumental peace movement can still be felt on Haight Street. Wandering around San Francisco, you 'll find that

The 1960s Hippie movement was a major point in the American history. In the 1960s a certain class of young people associated their lifestyles with the ideas of freedom, peace, and love. Hippies acted against white upper middle class lifestyle because they thought it was based on the wrong ideology. Hippies were against consumerism and American suburban life of the late 1950s and early 1960s was embodied in itself the idea of consumerism. Hippies, on the other hand, felt better about communal life

Reflection: Comparison of methods I chose two methods during this investigation to find my surface area; one of them was using the body parts as shapes, which was useful as I was able to rely on already made formulas to find the surface area of my skin. The other method was to use tight clothes that fit my body tightly, that way I could measure the height x width of the cloth. I was able to find my body surface area from these methods quite easily. I would say the easiest one to perform was the 1st

In the year of seventeen-ninety-nine (1799), Conrad Reed found a seventeen-pound gold nugget when he was fishing. His family used it as a door stop for three years before they realized that it was a gold nugget! Once everyone found out that it was gold, they started looking for more gold in the Little Meadow Creek that Conrad found the gold in. The creek was located on the family farm in Cabarrus County. When the rest of the family looked for more of the gold, they found some more of it in the creek

California Gold Rush In January 24,1848 a carpenter named James W. Marshall found a piece of gold in the Sacramento Valley. News spread out to San Francisco's news paper. The gold rush began in the Sutter’s Mill , near Coloma in 1848. The gold rush continued though out 1850. California’s population went up to 250,000 in only four years. During the gold rush clothing for the miner was very important because, the clothing for the miner was based on his ethnicity. Thus used pans, sluice

Hidden Gems: Gill Sans, Know your type notes, “…each weight retains a distinct character of its own. The light font, with its heavily kerned ‘f’ and tall ‘t’, has an open, elegant look. The regular font has a more compact and muscular appearance, with its flat-bottomed ‘d’, flat-topped ‘p’ and ‘q’, and short, triangular-topped ‘t.’ The bold font tends to echo the softer, more open style of the light, while the extra bold and ultra bold have their own vivid personalities.” Gill Sans’ weight varies from

The influential typeface Helvetica, a neo-grotesque1 sans serif type design, came into being in the early 1950s - after the Second World War. The expectation of the designers, Edouard Hoffman and Max Miedinger was to create a neutral typeface that had great clarity, no intrinsic meaning in its form and could be used on a wide variety of signage to remake a new identity apart from the past (). Originally named as Neue Haas Grotesk, the typeface was changed to Helvetica in 1960. Today, Helvetica, as

The logo for the Bacardi brand has been changed quite a few times. It has been recently rebranded and given a more vintage look inspired by the Bacardi hand-drawn bat designs from the early 1900s. The bat logo was chosen because from the beginning many of Bacardi’s potential clients were illiterate, and the image of the bat helped them to remember the rum. It is also used because it stays true to the integrity of the original symbol. In Cuban and Spanish heritage bats represent good health, fortune

1 Ms. Irwin August 21, 2011 California High Speed Rail Looking at the California high speed rail project truly has shocked the public and makes them wonder if this is a great plan for California’s environment. “The current plan will connect San Francisco with Los Angeles cutting a six hour car ride down to two hours and forty minutes”(Souza, 2011). The train running through Kings County will take out many dairies and cut even more in half. Making these cuts will be hard for dairymen to get

They both are sans-serif typefaces that are universally embraced by different applications. At first glance, they seem extremely similar. But if designers examine the characters in each typeface closely, the differences between them become apparent. Mark Simonson, an