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    The Hippie Counterculture The Hippie Movement changed the politics and the culture in America in the 1960s. When the nineteen fifties turned into the nineteen sixties, not much had changed, people were still extremely patriotic, the society of America seemed to work together, and the youth of America did not have much to worry about, except for how fast their car went or what kind of outfit they should wear to the Prom. After 1963, things started to slowly change in how America viewed its politics

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    University, California. A demonstration against Nixon's decision to invade Cambodia led to violence at Kent State University; the National Guard killed four students. Finally, the University of Virginia, founded by America's forefather of freedom Thomas Jefferson, was raided by two hundred baton-waving policemen who arrested sixty-eight students" (Thompson 66-8). The greatest voice of the Hippie Movement was their music. Rock and roll was their inspiration. "Led by Bob Dylan, the Grateful Dead, Jefferson

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    Plan National Security Act of 1947 Central Intelligence Agency NATO Berlin Airlift Warsaw Pact NSC-68 Servicemen’s Readjustment Act – 1944 GI Bill Coal Strike – 1946 Fair Deal Labor Management Relations Act – 1947 Progressive Party Thomas Dewey Korean War Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur HUAC The Hollywood 10 Alger Hiss Whittaker Chambers Richard Nixon J. Edgar Hoover Klaus Fuchs Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Joseph McCarthy Red Scare Adlai Stevenson Dwight D. Eisenhower Sputnik

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    One of the most colorful music legends of the 1960’s was Janis Joplin. Blues legend Janis Lyn Joplin was born on January 19th 1943 and is the oldest child. Janis was born and raised in the small Southern petroleum industry town of Port Arthur, Texas. By all accounts, however, Janis seems to have been a "normal" and happy child, who fitted society 's usual definition of "pretty".It was in Janis ' adolescence that the hang-ups and hassles that were to affect the path of the rest of her life. In a sense

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    Gender Identity Essay

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    Gender Identity After reading through my gender log, during the past few weeks, I observed that many people are "trained" to determine their gender by their biological sex. Some of the people that I have observed and written about would probably never have doubted their sexual orientation. Others have definitely examined their sexuality. Whether this sexuality is male or female is entirely up to them. This is their true sexual identity. Still others that I noticed have actually convinced themselves

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    Any person in past of color had experienced or faced discrimination and segregation. Which lasted in the US for more than 60 years throughout the late-18th century and the mid-19th century. Many forms of racism, racial discrimination and segregation were all over the US, which resulted in a civil rights movement which made them act heroically. These activist such as Ida B. Wells, Jackie Robinson, and Harriet Tubman were all victims of, discrimination, segregation, and racism. Although these activist

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    Essay on Janis Joplin

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    By the time Janis graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School in 1960, she had already decided she wanted to be a singer, and left home. At first, Janis found work in the country and western clubs of Texas, also singing folk songs for very little money. Her ultimate goal in doing this was

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    out of a foreclosure proceeding initiated in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City by substitute trustees Thomas P. Dore, Mark S. Devan, Gerard F. Miles, Jr., Shannon Menapace, and Erin Gloth (collectively, the “Substitute Trustees”), appellees. In the foreclosure proceedings, the Substitute Trustees filed an order to docket a foreclosure with respect to real property located at 3517 Woodstock Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland 21213 (“the Property”) owned by mortgagor Celeste Wenegieme (“Wenegieme”), appellant

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    Shakespeare’s Richard II. Richard was a young king who was known to be immature and unjust. He believed that he was sent by God to the people of England and that, therefore, he was God’s gift to them. At the beginning, Richard murders his uncle Thomas of Woodstock in order to become the legitimate king. Since he was immature and unqualified for holding such position, he does unjust acts and surrounds himself by people who had no intention of saving the country and giving him feedback on how he rules.

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    ? Positivity ? Hippies represent the ideological, naive nature that children possess. They feel that with a little love and conectedness, peace and equality will abound. It is with this assumption that so many activists and reformers, inspired by the transformation that hippies cultivated, have found the will to persist in revolutionizing social and political policy. Their alternative lifestyles and radical beleifs were the shocking blow that American culture-- segregation, McCarthyism, unjust wars

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