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This paper reviews the 1960s and discusses how the decade impacted various areas. In studying this decade, the paper uses examples of movies, songs and books that were highlights of the 1960s and helped define what that decade was all about. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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have envisioned from their safe perch of the 1950s. Although Atomic War was a distant terror, no one could have foreseen suicide bombers or terrorism. Although technology was going to
provide a boon for most of mankind, very few of those living in the 1950s could have foreseen cellular telephones, desktop computers - or even the Internet. Nor could those
who came of age during the 1950s could have foreseen women in the workplace; an end to segregation; sex, drugs and rock n roll - or even draft dodgers and
campus protesters. Yet these days, most of us take technology, terrorism, peaceful demonstrations and integration for granted. In all, then, the changes set forward in the 1960s changed everything, from
education, values and lifestyle, to laws and entertainment. Its safe to say that many of the revolutionary ideas launched during the 1960s
are still continuing to evolve this day (Bradley and Goodwin, 2002). The 1960s were the time when the older baby boomers were beginning to come of age, and were beginning
to want change from what their parents were satisfied with (Bradley and Goodwin, 2002). Part of this was the result of the so-called "space age," by the time 1960 had
come around, Americans were frantically attempting to launch a man into space, more to keep up with the Soviets (who had already launched satellites into space) rather than because of
any novelty. As a result, the boomers wanted to be more "modern" than their parents, and moved ahead to embrace technology, and the technology look that permeated art and architecture
(Bradley and Goodwin, 2002). Part of the embrace of the youth movement was also reflected in its clothes - the 1960s began with crew cuts on men, bouffant hairstyles on
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