...out with optimism among America’s youth that was unprecedented in history. Before too long headlines of civil rights, university reform, pacifist movement against the Vietnam War, women’s rights, and sexual liberation were made and the “Camelot” vision was quickly shattered. America’s youth began to revolt against the establishment and the foregone conclusion that they would adopt the lifestyle of their parents. In ten short years societal norms were turned completely around. Never before had change happened so quickly or been driven by the same group. This rapid change is breathtaking, considering most young people are generally naïve and disinterested in events outside their immediate scope. I have therefore decided to investigate what role the media played in the youth revolutions of the 1960s. This paper will identify media’s influence in driving change and analyze relationships between media, specific historical events, and the reaction of America’s youth. This will be achieved by looking at both primary and secondary sources to determine how much influence the media played in manipulating America’s youth via songs, marketing, and select writings. The media industry’s reaction to the social and technological upheavals of the twentieth century was to encapsulate the mantra “youth as fun” and sell it to America’s teens. . It was the social exposure that the media promoted that resulted in the heightening of knowledge among America’s youth, leading to their liberalized...
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...The 1960s to the 1980s were known as the “Sexual Revolution.” This is where we see a drastic spike in the number of people engaging in premarital sex (usually with several partners). There wasn’t much of a difference in the dating world at this point, but we start to see the roots of the modern "Hookup" culture during this era. In 1960, the first oral contraceptive pill was marketed in the United States. This definitely contributed to the rise in premarital sexual encounters due to of its minimal risk of failure. Lyndon B. Johnson even endorsed the use of the birth control pill. There were a series of studies done by M. Zelnik and J.F. Kantner in which they followed cohorts of young women aged fifteen through nineteen, and surveyed them...
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...Mores 1 Schae Mores Mrs. Foley AP Language & Composition 1/18/11 How Popular Culture Runs the World At age 14 girls are already wearing make up, todays fashion for girls is the shorter and tighter the better for boys, its show as much underwear as possible, and both music and T.V. are filled with explicit words and adult content. The younger genertation of America is influeced solely by popular culture. So, does that make Popular culture bad?, Shady? ad maybe a bad influence? The answer is yes to all the above, however; its great that America even allows freedom of speech and freedom of expression and all the blame can't be put only on popular culture. Popular culture is any where and everywhere. Its present as soon as you awake. Look in your closet what made you buy the clothes you wear, look at your music library how did you choose all those songs you have, turn on ur T.V what show did you watch last night? Popular culture in America is extremely crucial on the young minds of the world. Look on T.V Jersey Shore is most likely the number one watched show by adolescent teens. Teenagers idolize these people and their messages which are, to drink get wasted, party all night, and be as sleezy as you can be. Sex is a major icon in everything today for example its in music, definetly on T.V, definetly in movies, and believe it or not the clothes most teenagers where can be veiwed as sexual because of the shortness and tightness girls go for today. how could any of these reasons...
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...other developed countries. “Rights, respect, responsibility,” is the motto for the Advocates for Youth organization that has been the basis for France, Germany, and Netherlands’ philosophy on sexual health. Creating an open, safe, and informative environment has made it easier for people of all ages to feel comfortable dealing with and discussing their sexuality, as well as having sensible and realistic government policies results in overall better results when comparing teens across the Atlantic Ocean. The older generations have a responsibility to give the tools youths need to prepare them the responsibility that comes with sexuality. The younger generations have a right to know. Statistically, the United States falls behind in it’s sex education for teens, such as preventing pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases and infections, and giving more available and socially acceptable contraceptives. The rate is close to five times over the Netherlands and four to France and Germany. When it comes to teen birth rate, the United States is over seven times...
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...very comedic, it's very relatable. The film focused on a group of teenage boys attempting to lose their innocence, but also shows the main character's parents constantly trying to "fix" him. As a viewer, you are immediately on the main character's side. Throughout the movie, his father is always trying to piece in on his life. The father feels that he knows exactly what the teen is experiencing because of him unexpectedly walking in on an unusual sexual act the teen was committing. Throughout the movie, he is giving him tips on sex and tries to "rectify" his "situation," when nothing the father is offering is necessary. The main character was trying to have actual sex and since he had a hard time doing so, at times, he'd use inanimate objects in replace of an actual human being. As teens "came of age," based off of previous experience, parents understood that that was the time that they should have "the talk." Realistically, that represented America's change of attitude towards families and teens. America went from saying "Don't do it" to "Don't do it, but use protection." America accepted the fact that teens were going to do the exact same things that the previous generations before them...
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...Revolutionary Mothers Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America’s Independence by Carol Berkin is an educational book that teaches the story of many woman during the American Revolution. Most of the history books teach the American Revolution, but they don’t really explain the whole story. They don’t explain the importance and the change that woman made during this war. That’s why this book explains the truth that happen during the American Revolution using important information written at that time, and by people who were experiencing the American Revolution. This is a great book, comparing the life of woman from different points: lower class or higher class, race, and the difference woman made during the war. One of the points she explains is how woman’s roles where different based on lower class and higher class. Lower class woman was known as camp flowers, who helped the soldiers during the war. This woman helped the soldiers by making them food, washing their clothes, and served as nurses to help ill the injured...
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...Sex and drugs and rock and roll Hypothesis: the 1960’s were the most influential decade when popular culture changed the world Of the many significant events in the 20th century, the two world wars, the cold war and Vietnam, space exploration and the dramatic impacts of automation and technology on everyday life, culminating with the popularity of personal computers and the birth of the internet towards the end of the millennium, arguably no other decade had as significant an impact on popular culture as did the 1960’s. What we witness is a transition from a conformist society at the start of the decade to a counter-culture of anti-war protests, pushes towards racial and sexual equality, free love and drug influences like never before. As...
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...for a majority to agree on anything. Sex education is one of the most controversial topics concerning public education today. Many parents feel that school is not the place to educate children on sex because, just like religion, different people have different views on the subject. Distributing condoms to students is at the heart of this debate. Many people who take a side on this argument feel the decision to or not to distribute condoms to students will have profound effects on these student’s lives. If students do not have access to condoms, the possible pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases will certainly have a profound effect on them. Much of America feels that handing out condoms to students of any age sends the wrong message. The feeling is that we are supplying those with the necessary tools to have sex when they are not ready to be sexually active, and cannot handle the emotional effects that can ensue. Also, some would see this as telling the students that it is not only okay to have sex, but it is somewhat expected of them. In addition, this supplying of condoms admits a failure of sexual education. These people believe that informing young people of the possible negative effects of a sexually active youth is enough to deter them from any type of sexual activity, and instead of wasting time and money on supplying condoms we should put more emphasis on teaching students of the possible complications of teen sex; including sexually transmitted diseases...
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...social issues. I will review and discuss the future of these three social issues. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines immigration as “The process of becoming established in a country of which one is not a native of.” According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, affirmative action is an active effort to improve the employment and educational opportunities of members of a minority or other disadvantaged groups while it defines multiculturalism as the acceptance and promotion of different cultures, races and cultures as well as cultural awareness. Immigration has become one of the hot button issues by U.S lawmakers, with the senate reaching a deal on border security as part of the immigration deal this week. It is the oldest and the newest story of the American experience. People are drawn to American by the same dreams of opportunity and freedom that galvanized people to cross the oceans hundreds of years ago. Immigration has been a vital ingredient in America’s success, enabled America’s growth and prosperity and helped shape it as the dynamic country that it is today. It has been proven that immigration increases economic growth, with the U.S undergoing transformative economic growth with previous successive large-scale immigration. With the new immigration policy yet to go for a vote in the senate and the house, the future of immigration policy is yet to be seen. First used in the 1960’s, affirmative action refers to a complex set of policies that were enacted by the different...
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...Cultural Imperialism: The Impact of Western Influences on the Cultures of others through media Written by Edward Marcus, Nur Lillah and Sylvester Introduction With the vast advancement of technology today, the world has become progressively interconnected. Together with the rise in connection and communication, countries’ borders are also increasingly unclear as cultures cross borders and people adopt new ways of life styles and new manners of thinking. Most Asian societies for example, view the world from the eyes of the Americans or western culture and hence, they tend to adopt a foreign lifestyle in their apparel choices, the way they converse, even the type of food and eating etiquettes. Cultural Imperialism Over the past few decades, the vast improvements in technology have enabled efficient communication of information across the globe. Businesses in the best of nations have risen increasingly in scale and value. This, in turn, helps a handful of powerful nations exert influence over the world. Not only these few nations dominate the majority’s media consumption, they also consequently transmit their values and ideologies through these media channels. This process of dominating and influencing the mass through the media texts is known as cultural imperialism, which is the main component of capitalism and hence promoted by developed nations across the continents. Cultural Imperialism through Television A high percentage of Americans are couch potatoes...
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...by Allen Ginsberg In the poem “Howl”, Allen Ginsberg depicts an image of a disastrous world which reflects a time in history that was experiencing cultural, social and economic change. Ginsberg used this poem to express anger towards the modern American culture. “Howl” is mainly about demonstrating and revealing the madness, neglect, and hypocrisy that Ginsberg and his generation suffered during that time. Seeking liberation, Ginsberg shows his anger and frustration by showing the readers the horrors of their culture using madness and spirituality. Ginsberg beliefs are shown at the beginning of “Howl” when he describes madness and oppression which were a result of the conservative society the people were living in. I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,/dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix,/ angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly/ connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night. (Ginsberg 1-3) by which these lines show Ginsberg’s thoughts at the time. He believed that the “best minds” of his generation were the ones who were driven to madness and insanity fighting to find their way out of this culture. If you take a look at the title “Howl” which elucidates that this poem is not going to be a quiet one. As explained in class, the title hold an animalistic feature where the artists or the “best minds” of that generation were not going to let this go away easily...
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...Introduction A long history of the sex industry objectifying the female body for male pleasure continues to be widely prominent and relevant across the globe today. Annually, hundreds of thousands of America’s children and youth are being sexually exploited. This trafficking industry dates back to the late 1800s when children were first prostituted in the United States. Since then, the problem has been exacerbated by globalization and the emergence of the internet as a major source of communication. The increasing prominence of the media and internet allows for news to be easily shared. But because sex trafficking is a continuous issue, people have become desensitized to the harsh reality of the sex industry. Also, false news stories decrease...
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...Coming from Mali, one may think their culture is completely different and unaccepted in America. But one might be surprised. Talking about an American culture isn’t that easy : indeed defining what is the American culture, what it reflects and how one lives it in an everyday basis are still unclear and need clarification and further definitions need to be established in order to live or survive in here. When contrasting, it is always interesting to compare America to a kaleidoscope of cultures : a nation in constant movement, immigrations that changed the core of the country, that got built throughout the years, and definitely a perpetual change and development of multiple different cultures that, nevertheless, share common values. Knowing...
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...Maitlyn Davisworth ENG 102 Professor Smille The Injustice Involving Same-sex Marriage The legalization of gay marriages has been argued and talked about in our society for the earlier few years. It really is a very questionable subject matter. It is difficult for a lot of people to accept gay marriages. Writing a same sex marriage essay is becoming a more and more popular assignment, giving scholars the possibility to express their ideas on this particular matter. Same-sex marriage (also known as gay marriage) is marriage between two people of the same biological sex and/or gender identity. Legal recognition of same-sex marriage or the possibility to perform a same-sex marriage is sometimes referred to as marriage equality or equal marriage, particularly by supporters.(Dictionary.com) In early times, same-sex marriage was not considered taboo and in many cultures, it was encouraged. Random History (2011) explains that in the early civilizations of Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt, the union between couples of the same-sex was recognized by the kingdom. During Greek’s early years, attraction between a man and another man was normal and was considered an expression of love. “The main considerations in same-sex relationships in early history were often love, beauty, and excellence of character rather than gender” (Random History, 2011, p.1). Same-sex marriages were often believed to be more pure than a heterosexual marriage. Marriage was believed to be the union of two people based...
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... AMERICAN WORKFORCE DISCRIMINATION 2 Over the past couple years there has been an increasing concern that the efforts of minorities along with the federal government have not eliminated the threat of possible discrimination in the workforce of America. This essay reveals the difference in categories such as gender, age and race that are responsible for the stereotypes and various work envorinments. These actions that continue today in modern America need to be taken care of and even further action needs to take place in order to eliminate any relevance of such differences. AMERICAN WORKFORCE DISCRIMINATION 3 Table of Contents Introduction………………………………………………………………………………………4 Racial Discrimination……………………………………………………………………………4 Sex Discrimination……………………………………………………………………………….5 Age Discrimination………………………………………………………………………………6 Conclusion………………………………………………………………………………………. 7 Bibliography……………………………………………………………………………………. 8 AMERICAN WORKFORCE DISCRIMINATION 4 Minority groups and women, in particular, in the United States have gone through drastic changes in regarding employment over the past five decades. Mainly due to the Civil Rights Movement and its results difference in others skin color, family background and other stereotypes have become less relevant and more important in the American workforce today. Also, Constitutional ratifications have actually been put into place so that discrimination does not occur in an occupational setting. Despite all of these...
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