Essays Tagged: "hippies"

The way I see myself, and hopefully you will see the same

ng on the grass with his friends. Although I am not a hippy, and I don't look like one, I feel that hippies represent freedom, and freedom is what I have always strived for.When most people think of f ... ng on the grass with his friends. Although I am not a hippy, and I don't look like one, I feel that hippies represent freedom, and freedom is what I have always strived for.When most people think of f ...

(2 pages) 106 0 4.2 Mar/2002

Subjects: Art Essays

Review of "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test"

ge of enchantment and personal empowerment. I'm talking about none other than the nineteen sixties. Hippies, Hell's Angels, psychoactive drugs and a new way of thinking for a new kind of culture. This ... ole world into some kind of new existence? Tom wolf's portrayal of this unusual pioneering group of hippies shows us that the Pranksters just wanted to enjoy life, they did not have any overwhelming n ...

(17 pages) 117 0 5.0 Nov/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays

The Music of Generation X

ral different groups oriented by music. In Generation X punks, gangs, alternative people, ravers, hippies, and pop rockers have all been labeled into groups by their preference of music. Music has ...         Next, I am going to examine a song by a band that reels in the social group of the hippies. Phish is a band that has followers, just like the recently fallen Grateful Dead had. Phis ...

(4 pages) 61 0 3.7 Feb/1997

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

Hippies, a generation never forgotten

peace signs, drugs, peace- these all bring to mind the notorious group of the sixties recognized as hippies. To many people, hippies seemed frightening, mystifying, and inexplicable. They were perceiv ... hions and passionately publicizing peace and love. What was going on with the phenomenon called the hippies? My parents had an active role in this bewildered society in the 60's. They, along with the ...

(3 pages) 118 3 3.8 Apr/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" by Ken Kesey

novel has also contributed to the reason why this book is considered a classic. The infamous hippies and their drug culture had a great deal of influence towards the writing of this book. Kesey ...

(3 pages) 67 0 0.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Hippie era, in the 60-70's.

al society that they were given their own name which is still used today.They came to be called the Hippies. The Hippie movement started in San Francisco, California and spread across the United State ... Europe. But it had its greatest influence in America. During the 1960's a radical group called the Hippies shocked America with their alternative lifestyle and radical beliefs. Hippies came from many ...

(7 pages) 101 0 3.7 May/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers

Classification of common high school stereotypes.

diverse high school. There's the preppies, goths, jocks, thugs, nerds, and last but not least, the hippies and skaters, who often fall into the same category. There are many different people in this ... heir hard drive. An acceptable Friday night for a computer geek is sitting at home downloading porn.Hippies and skaters, although really two different stereotypes, they fall into the same classificati ...

(4 pages) 316 0 4.4 Jun/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

Patterns in the Mind, summative essay on Ray Jackendoff's book on language and human nature.

owhere." I found this scribbled in my notes next to construction of experience. Being a child of ex-hippies, this is not a difficult concept for me to grasp. I have always participated in and heard di ...

(2 pages) 23 2 5.0 Sep/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

The Last Innocent Year.

to believe." (Margolis, Intro) The Draft, Vietnam, Flower Children, Riots, Women's Lib, Free Love, Hippies, the Grateful Dead, Drugs, Sex, Rock and Roll, the Beatles, Richard Nixon, John F. Kennedy.. ...

(3 pages) 42 0 1.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Symbolism in Easy Rider is the title. This essay examines two major symbols in Dennis Hopper's movie, and their meanings. Question: Name and explain 2 major symbols in the movie Easy Rider.

ng cross-country by motorcycle to Mardis Gras. These men, by today's standards, would be considered hippies. They enjoyed partaking in drugs, alcohol, and had a preoccupation with sexual relations. Ov ... or how great the tensions were between the counter-culture individuals and mainstream America. The "hippies", represented by Hopper, Fonda, and Nicholson, had a rebellious attitude and, generally, lib ...

(3 pages) 60 1 4.7 Dec/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

The Dedicated Deadheads. Why was the Grateful Dead such an influential band? What's the significance of Jerry Garcia's pop icon status?

s. Although the drug allegations are not far-fetched and many fans of the Dead did look like misfit hippies, the Grateful Dead had a positive impact on the music world. In an industry that thrives on ...

(7 pages) 26 0 4.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers

Political: Student Rights Radical activists are taking over our schools

Radical activists are taking over our schoolsThe anti-war, anti-government hippies that were so well know in the 60's and 70's have grown up. They no longer look like the typi ...

(4 pages) 24 0 3.7 Apr/2004

Subjects: Law & Government Essays

Should it be legal?

ears later in the 1960's and 1970's marijuana was back. These two decades are often associated with hippies, music, and drugs (mainly marijuana). But just as fast as the drug came back the government ...

(4 pages) 223 7 3.7 Apr/2004

Subjects: Law & Government Essays

The Legalization of Marijuana

ll come to mind, the Vietnam War, man on the moon, and for almost everybody the image of a group of hippies somewhere in a field smoking a joint. The once hippies and marijuana users are now grown-ups ...

(4 pages) 91 3 4.7 Apr/2004

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights

Canadian History and how it has changed Canada

four major events or turning points in canadian history: the stock market crash of 1929, the era of hippies and activists, Terry Fox and the Marathon of Hope, and the battle of Vimy Ridge. It talks ab ... s the colossal stock market crash in 1929, in which many people were left in poverty, or the era of hippies and activists, a time where freedom and individuality was fought for and demanded. Also, ind ...

(7 pages) 87 0 4.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers

The life of Paul Wellstone

een bus roars up Constitutional Avenue and makes a stop at Capital Hill. Could this be a busload of hippies protesting the views of the government, a group of school children on a fieldtrip to see Cap ...

(7 pages) 23 0 4.6 May/2004

Subjects: Law & Government Essays

The Graduate

the bottom of a swimming pool).``The Graduate,'' released in 1967, contains no flower children, no hippies, no dope, no rock music, no political manifestos and no danger. It is a movie about a tireso ...

(3 pages) 79 2 4.3 May/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

Positive and Negative Impacts of the Sixties Counterculture

? Positivity ?Hippies represent the ideological, naive nature that children possess. They feel that with a little ... t 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. T ... many causes that are being fought in modern American discourse. If not for the Revolution that the hippies began, political or social reform and the People's voice would be decades behind.While the h ...

(6 pages) 231 0 0.0 May/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Explain why there were such different reactions in the USA to the country's involvement in the conflict in Vietnam in the 1960's

The war in Vietnam came to dominate politics in USA in the 1960's because students, hippies and black people were amongst some of the people who protested about going to war. There was ...

(3 pages) 50 0 5.0 May/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers

Western india

a is very popular haunt for the foreigners. Not long ago this place was notoriously infected by the Hippies and drug peddlars. They have not been totally eliminated but their presence is almost nil to ...

(1 pages) 44 0 3.6 Jul/2004

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays