perfect example of how their thoughts and beliefs outline America’s viewpoints on what was happening in the culture during the late 1960’s. Though some Americans fully despised hippies, being on allowed expressed of many beliefs in the younger generation. The real jump start of the Hippie movement was the protest in San Francisco Cal. in 1967. From there the Hippie movement pooled from California to the rest of the US to even Canada and Great Britain (THE HUMAN BE-IN OFFERS GLIMPSE OF SUMMER LOVE[A2])
Jamie Balkin WRI 150 Blumenthal October 21, 2014 High Profiles: An Analysis on the Changes of the Stereotypical Marijuana User in Film “What Jefferson was saying was, Hey! You know, we left this England place 'cause it was bogus; so if we don't get some cool rules ourselves - pronto - we'll just be bogus too! Get it”? This particular quote from The Fast Times at Ridgemont High, epitomizes the 1980s stoner stereotype in Jeff Spicoli, and mocks the ability for stoners to rationale and their ability
Jesus People Movement, the evangelical movement’s historical origins and influential affects throughout American life are portrayed in a timeline manor. Eskridge paints the Jesus People Movement as a spiritual awakening for evangelism, formed in a culture oppressed with secular views, vital in understanding modern evangelistic Christian influences today. God’s Forever Family provides detailed origins and descriptions of influential groups, rise of coffeehouses,
to seven and a half years in 1960 and released him in 1967. This marked he had spent half his life in institutions. Upon his release, he took off to San Francisco to settle in the Haight Ashbury area. Many things happened during his jail time and California ringed of rock and roll, young people who abandoned tradition, and a stream of experimental drugs. These people are “hippies”. Charles Manson used his cunning and skills to become well known and shared his ideas of a better society influenced by
“When the culture began to change in the late 1960s — when the old one-liner comics on The Ed Sullivan Show were looking pretty tired and irrelevant to a younger generation experimenting with drugs and protesting the war in Vietnam — George Carlin was the most important stand-up comedian in America.” (Zoglin) Outside of a few exceptions like Lenny Bruce, the concept of comedy (and especially stand-up comedy) used to be far cleaner and more held to societal decency standards than it is today. George