Rock music started in the 1950's with various small bands such as the Rolling Stones, Elvis Presley, Bill Haley, and the Beach Boys. These gurus of modern music drew a larger crowd at each show, eventually leading to the most listened to music in the world.Rock and roll started with rock, it then le...

The production of Hair was a musical melodrama that focused on the youth of the 1960s, and the tribulations that young people faced. It dealt with what the hippie generation valued most, and also what they feared. The episodic plot chronicled the life of Claude, a young man who was drafted into the ...

Apocalypse Now started its scene in the sound of silence genre wherein the viewer sees coconut groves at first and getting a visual smorgasbord of the peacefulness and tranquility that can be found in the Orient. Then all of a sudden the reverie is taken away when the sounds of flying helicopters ...

The hippies stared in the 1960s as a protest against war and to make peace . They were all pretty much drug addicts the liked to smoke weed. The also thought that the world should be peaceful and that everybody should love each other they were all about peace and love. They made lots of protest ...

In the turmoil of the 60's, America was at war with Vietnam. Butmore evident was the movement among the young people taking partin the protests and displays. Many people were against this was,especially the youth, an unfair was the was seeing many of our youthbeing killed and drafted in America. The...

Woodstock 1969The Sixties were an exciting revolutionary period with great cultural change. Some people called it the "decade of discontent" (Britannica) due to the race riots in Detroit and La, and the demonstrations against the Vietnam War. Other people called it the decade of "peace, love, and h...

Woodstock 1969The Sixties were an exciting revolutionary period with great cultural change. Some people called it the "decade of discontent" (Britannica) due to the race riots in Detroit and La, and the demonstrations against the Vietnam War. Other people called it the decade of "peace, love, and ...

The 1960's were a very controversial time for people all around the world. Over the course of those ten years, family structure changed, lifestyles were altered, and overseas battles were fought. The United States was going through multiple problems with youth rebellion, racial issues, and the Vie...

The contrast and similarities between Apocalypse Now and Full Metal JacketApocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket are both films about American soldiers in Vietnam. This genre of films broke with previous tradition in that they offer a realistic and negative view of war. Most popular movies about WWII...