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5 Pages
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Sociology

Counterculture in the Sixties the

Words: 1688
Length: 5 Pages
Type: Term Paper

The values of middle class society were seen to be the related to and unavoidably supportive of the status quo. This led to the trends and fashions that characterized…

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2 Pages
Essay

Education - Computers

Counterculture Sources

Words: 854
Length: 2 Pages
Type: Essay

Sociology Discussion There is a restaurant in New York City that is famous for its outlandish behavior. The servers are rude and obnoxious, they ridicule patrons, make them wait…

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6 Pages
Essay

American History

1960s and 1970s Counterculture Movement in the

Words: 2109
Length: 6 Pages
Type: Essay

1960s and 1970s Counterculture Movement In the United States of America, freedom of speech and the ability to challenge accepted truths and to criticize the status quo have been…

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12 Pages
Thesis

Music

Music and the Counterculture Music

Words: 4510
Length: 12 Pages
Type: Thesis

'All you need is love,' sang The Beatles. But they sang against a backdrop of militant demonstrations, the hazing of soldiers, environmental 'monkey-wrenching,' self-destructive drug trips, and a knifing…

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8 Pages
Term Paper

Music

American Hippie Counterculture the Decade

Words: 2221
Length: 8 Pages
Type: Term Paper

S. A withdrawal from that conflict and the demise of the Johnson administration. Several events in particular galvanized the Hippie generation against governmental authority in the 1960s, including the…

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6 Pages
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Music

Counter Culture the 1960's Refers

Words: 1548
Length: 6 Pages
Type: Term Paper

This counterculture movement was greeted with enormous publicity and popular interest, and contributed to changes in American culture (Law pp). Legacies of this era include "a willingness to challenge…

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7 Pages
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Art  (general)

Counter-Culture 1955-1975 Pamphleteering Between the

Words: 2071
Length: 7 Pages
Type: Term Paper

It opposed traditional art that had been an elitist, intellectual, classy entertainment. Now it became something popular, accessible to the common people, centered on simple everyday objects that had…

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Essay

Business - Miscellaneous

Merchandise Sears or Wal-Mart Cannot

Words: 897
Length: 3 Pages
Type: Essay

Since the supply is being specifically restricted, only a price increase could occur. Thus, creating exclusivity creates value to the seller. The third reason why exclusivity is valuable is…

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Term Paper

Business

Urban Outfitters Sears or Wal-Mart

Words: 926
Length: 3 Pages
Type: Term Paper

Exclusivity for these groups signals uniqueness. In a creative and individualistic society such as America's, uniqueness has cachet and value to the consumer, so any fashion item that can…

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7 Pages
Essay

Government

Movement the Cold War of the Communist

Words: 2971
Length: 7 Pages
Type: Essay

Movement The Cold War of the communist and the capitalist countries gay way to spying worldwide, together with the political and military meddling in the inside matters of the…

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Music

Hippy Is an Establishment Label

Words: 1527
Length: 5 Pages
Type: Term Paper

Drug use patterns changed from soft and psychedelic drugs like cannabis and mushrooms to harder drugs like barbiturate pills and heroin. The focus on the hippie movement also dissolved.…

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Case Study

Business

Urban Outfitters Case Study Urban Outfitters Has

Words: 1592
Length: 4 Pages
Type: Case Study

Urban Outfitters Case Study Urban Outfitters has defined a highly differentiated and unique shopping experience, supported by the eclectic and highly varied store layouts and merchandise strategy. This approach…

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4 Pages
Case Study

Business

Urban Outfitters Continuing Case Study Explain Why

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Length: 4 Pages
Type: Case Study

Urban Outfitters Continuing Case Study Explain why Sears or Wal-Mart cannot effectively create a trendy counterculture image The reasons for stores like Urban Outfitters to be able to create…

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8 Pages
Thesis

Sports - Women

Sixties A Time of Change

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Length: 8 Pages
Type: Thesis

The change was not all positive, however. Bailey notes that the social and psychological transformation that followed women working outside the home "mounted to tidal-wave proportions" (1020). hile women…

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Book Report

Literature

Kerouac the Friendship at the

Words: 1314
Length: 4 Pages
Type: Book Report

" (Cresswell, p. 249) In a manner, this also points us toward a more direct consideration of the friendship around which this novel revolves. In the relationship between Sal…

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6 Pages
Essay

Drama - World

WWII History Making Decades WWII-Present

Words: 2515
Length: 6 Pages
Type: Essay

Diversity -- with the exception of homophobia -- was beginning to be commonly accepted and praised. Technology -- such as the use of DNA in criminology and the introduction…

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15 Pages
Thesis

Sports - Drugs

Albert Hofmann and the Discovery

Words: 4426
Length: 15 Pages
Type: Thesis

To that end, throughout the course of his life "he remained convinced that the drug had the potential to counter the psychological problems induced by 'materialism, alienation from nature…

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12 Pages
Thesis

Black Studies

Corrections in Blue Suggestions

Words: 3480
Length: 12 Pages
Type: Thesis

His own work was also published in a wide variety of literary magazines several of which were prestigious and nationally respected. His publication and involvement in publishing impressive accomplishments…

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6 Pages
Thesis

Business

Innovative Function FedEx Had Spent

Words: 1735
Length: 6 Pages
Type: Thesis

Yet, the result of their failure to achieve innovation in the wake of their purchase of Kinko's resulted in significant losses, writedowns and a loss of both prestige and…

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10 Pages
Thesis

Music

Cinema Verite and Direct Cinema

Words: 3267
Length: 10 Pages
Type: Thesis

The outcome of all of this was a rock concert which -- aside from the actual happenstance of performances -- was heavily controlled by the interest of the filmmaker.…

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13 Pages
Essay

Education - Computers

Apple Computer Is One of the Great

Words: 3824
Length: 13 Pages
Type: Essay

Apple Computer is one of the great corporate success stories of the past decade. On the back of a successive string of hit products, the company has experience rapid…

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10 Pages
Term Paper

Black Studies

Standard Joke About America in the 1960s

Words: 3939
Length: 10 Pages
Type: Term Paper

standard joke about America in the 1960s claims that, if you can remember the decade, you did not live through it. Although perhaps intended as a joke about drug…

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4 Pages
Essay

Women's Issues - Sexuality

Empowering Transvestites in New York

Words: 1160
Length: 4 Pages
Type: Essay

Jennie Livingston's Paris is Burning still remains as one of my favorite documentaries. As my interest in subcultures and documentaries grew simultaneously and exponentially over the past few years,…

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4 Pages
Research Paper

Music

Surfing the Modern History and

Words: 1348
Length: 4 Pages
Type: Research Paper

The mounting preoccupation of America's youth with surfing would, for the new generations coming of age at this time, become less a counterculture and more mainstream as a recreational…

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14 Pages
Essay

Mythology - Religion

Evangelicalism and the Charismatic Movement

Words: 4549
Length: 14 Pages
Type: Essay

S. were not "hostile" to evangelicalism (Bebbington, p. 367). After II, the Church of Scotland and British Methodism launched "sustained evangelistic thrusts" and in Britain the "National Young Life…

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10 Pages
Research Paper

Sports - Women

Woman Will Reside as President

Words: 3247
Length: 10 Pages
Type: Research Paper

Under eno's direction, on April 22, 2000, under the scrutiny of national and international media and news cameras: "Armed INS officers entered the home (where the child had been…

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8 Pages
Research Proposal

Women's Issues - Abortion

American History - Roe V

Words: 2441
Length: 8 Pages
Type: Research Proposal

Furthermore, the Supreme Court (and the Texas district court also) relied on a judicial invention introduced in the earlier Griswold and Eisenstadt decisions: namely, the penumbra of privacy that…

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8 Pages
Thesis

Literature

Thompson Nixon Hunter S Thompson

Words: 2365
Length: 8 Pages
Type: Thesis

The empathy which comes through here is not fabricated either. Thompson's very approach in "Fear and Loathing," and another cornerstone to the gonzo movement, is the concept of full…

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3 Pages
Research Proposal

Literature

Siddhartha The Book and the

Words: 872
Length: 3 Pages
Type: Research Proposal

The book speaks to a kind of estern application of generalized Buddhist principles and maxims: the quest for enlightenment, the lack of satisfaction to be had from a life…

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4 Pages
Term Paper

Literature

Vonnegut Kurt Vonnegut -- an

Words: 1329
Length: 4 Pages
Type: Term Paper

Thus science and discussions of scientific phenomena with his brother also formed the backdrop to his early life, another reason why technology featured so prominently in his literary works.…

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2 Pages
Essay

Literature

Tales of the City Mary Ann in

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Length: 2 Pages
Type: Essay

Tales of the City Mary Ann in the City Early on in Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City, Connie tells Mary Ann, "Relax hon… Give it time. This city…

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3 Pages
Essay

Mythology - Religion

Manson Family Was the Manson Family a

Words: 1186
Length: 3 Pages
Type: Essay

Manson Family as the Manson family a religious cult? In this essay, the author will prove this by examining the Manson Family as a political cult and the leaders…

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6 Pages
Essay

Teaching

Faludi Violent Effects of Disassociation

Words: 1938
Length: 6 Pages
Type: Essay

What is key about both of these quotations is the loss of identity that is endemic to both of them. The cadets who have survived the fourth-class system and…

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4 Pages
Term Paper

Sociology

Code of the Street Anderson in Code

Words: 1235
Length: 4 Pages
Type: Term Paper

Code of the Street Anderson in "Code of the Street" seeks to highlight many of the ills and problems that seem to plague inner-city African-American families and communities, and…

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8 Pages
Term Paper

Music

Hemingway Eichmann Stranger in a

Words: 2643
Length: 8 Pages
Type: Term Paper

With him, this vital energy goes its own way, independent of the pessimism and the disillusionment so typical of the age.' Hemingway did not go to the awards ceremony…

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5 Pages
Book Review

Economics

Bell Daniel The Cultural Contradictions

Words: 1495
Length: 5 Pages
Type: Book Review

Mass production and mass advertising "by the creation of new wants and new means of gratifying those wants" renders individuals complacent and dependent upon 'the system' of production and…

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3 Pages
Essay

Sports - Drugs

Drug Policies the Legacy of Outdated Moral

Words: 1032
Length: 3 Pages
Type: Essay

Drug Policies the Legacy of Outdated Moral Values and Moral Panics A disinterested alien observer who came down to the planet Earth and saw the difference in how legal…

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10 Pages
Research Paper

American History

Graduate and the New Left

Words: 3275
Length: 10 Pages
Type: Research Paper

Graduate and the New Left In the United States in the 1960s, the nation was going through a change both in the psychological and sociological makeup of the population.…

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Term Paper

Music

Understanding Youth

Words: 984
Length: 3 Pages
Type: Term Paper

Youth Subcultures Sociologists base their studies of youth subcultures on structured and unstructured interviews, participant observation and analysis of media, texts and music. Unlike similar studies in the 1950s…

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4 Pages
Term Paper

Education - Computers

Apple Computers Influence on Popular Culture

Words: 1193
Length: 4 Pages
Type: Term Paper

Apple Computers Influence on Popular Culture Apple Computer, Inc. is recognized worldwide for creating powerful solutions that are based on user-friendly personal computers, servers, peripherals, software, personal digital assistants…

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4 Pages
Book Review

Race

Roosevelt Theodore

Words: 1204
Length: 4 Pages
Type: Book Review

American Morality The Rooseveltian Nation was initially envisioned by Theodore Roosevelt during the epoch in which the U.S. triumphed in the Spanish American war and heralded its largely Anglo-Saxon…

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8 Pages
Essay

Drama - World

Gravity's Rainbow and Other Cold War Literature and Film

Words: 2703
Length: 8 Pages
Type: Essay

Cold War dominated American culture, consciousness, politics and policy for most of the 20th century. Even after the fall of the Berlin Wall, which symbolized the fall of the…

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13 Pages
Essay

Astronomy

The Significance of the Sixties in the Society

Words: 4101
Length: 13 Pages
Type: Essay

Society and Culture The heirloom of the sixties era has been significant and decidedly pivotal for the advancement of culture and society in nations, an aspect that is referred…

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6 Pages
Research Paper

Business

Strategic Management for Entrepreneur

Words: 1983
Length: 6 Pages
Type: Research Paper

Strategic Management I definitely have the personality, skills and goals to be an entrepreneur. The entrepreneur requires both functional and managerial skills. Since the entrepreneur is responsible for all…

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12 Pages
Research Paper

Business - Management

Organizational Behavior the Basic Objective

Words: 3685
Length: 12 Pages
Type: Research Paper

Smith provided the appropriate managerial direction which struck the right balance between creativity, performance and productivity. His farsightedness which encompassed a wide vision was long-term, ambitious and the same…

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12 Pages
Essay

Teaching

Education Canada Option B Progressive

Words: 3483
Length: 12 Pages
Type: Essay

" (Montessori, 9) There is a counter-intuitive disconnect between the priorities of the educational system and the real-life demands of individuals attempting to function ably therein. Here, Montessori speaks…

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8 Pages
Research Paper

Sports - Drugs

Religion the Legalization of Marijuana

Words: 2581
Length: 8 Pages
Type: Research Paper

Even proponents of medical legalization concede marijuana cannot cure or even alleviate the symptoms of MS or glaucoma, merely act as a narcotic. True, other narcotics exist on the…

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12 Pages
Term Paper

Music

Rock and Roll Clearly Music

Words: 3827
Length: 12 Pages
Type: Term Paper

He encourages people to come aboard a train being engineered in "weirdo abandon" by musicians who "dramatized a sense of what it is to be American" (1987, p. 10).…

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4 Pages
Research Proposal

Drama - World

Philip Roth Books the Plot

Words: 1260
Length: 4 Pages
Type: Research Proposal

American Pastoral -- Summary The novel looks at American history after WWII through the eyes of Nathan Zuckerman, the narrator of the story. Nathan thinks this age of the…

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4 Pages
Thesis

Mythology - Religion

Buddhism in the United States

Words: 1280
Length: 4 Pages
Type: Thesis

Meditation centers became popular during this time, and so did extensive study into eastern religions, such as Buddhism. There is another aspect of Buddhism that has had a remarkable…

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5 Pages
Essay

Drama - World

Dispatches by Michael Herr Narrative

Words: 1528
Length: 5 Pages
Type: Essay

This Never-Never Land does not seem recognizable as Vietnam anymore, given how much the nation has changed since the cessation of the conflict. Ironically, Herr's portrait of a world-upside…

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8 Pages
Thesis

American History

Era of Women's Rights and

Words: 2510
Length: 8 Pages
Type: Thesis

In Iran, the American-backed Shah had become increasingly unpopular throughout the 1970s. The Shah fled Iran in 1979, finding temporary refuge in the United States. Religious extremist Ayatollah Khomeni…

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4 Pages
Term Paper

Military

War in Iraq Facts When

Words: 1388
Length: 4 Pages
Type: Term Paper

He turns some readers off with his vitriolic attacks. Further, his attacks are is blatant propaganda. hy? Because while Taibbi does mention that the Democrats already crafted legislation more…

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3 Pages
Term Paper

Drama - World

Western Civilization Define Its Major

Words: 904
Length: 3 Pages
Type: Term Paper

What is usually unconcealed is that much of the machinery and social prototypes which make up what is distinct as modernization were urbanized in the Western worlds. Whether these…

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1 Pages
Essay

Music

Haunting Piano Melody and Lennon's

Words: 330
Length: 1 Pages
Type: Essay

"Imagine all the people / Living for today." The be-here-now tenet is at the core of Zen and other forms of Buddhism. Other Eastern religions like Taoism are devoid…

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10 Pages
Research Paper

Black Studies

Social Black Experience

Words: 3284
Length: 10 Pages
Type: Research Paper

" (Adams et al.) hat the report went on to show was how a decades long deception was practiced on a race that was viewed primarily as a guinea…

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2 Pages
Essay

Sports - Women

Muted Group Theory Addresses the

Words: 594
Length: 2 Pages
Type: Essay

Girls play with dolls and boys play with trucks. Girls play hopscotch and boys play football. Girls cry and boys do not. These essential shaping experiences create divisions between…

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3 Pages
Essay

Music

Music Has the Power to

Words: 969
Length: 3 Pages
Type: Essay

The Hippie community was rapidly expanding and its primary stimulator was music, as people were literally going through brain-affecting experiences as they listened to psychedelic music. IV. Music is…

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2 Pages
Term Paper

Psychology

Namely How the Theory of

Words: 722
Length: 2 Pages
Type: Term Paper

hen raised separately, identical twins are never exactly alike. This would seem to indicate that nurture is at least as important as nature in human development and intelligence. However,…

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8 Pages
Essay

Education - Computers

Erg and Herzberg's Motivational Theories The Life

Words: 2419
Length: 8 Pages
Type: Essay

ERG and Herzberg's Motivational Theories: The life of Steve Jobs The response to the death of Steve Jobs can be described as nothing short of extraordinary. Mourners placed flowers…

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