The hippie movement: peace and love as true motto?

Résumé du document

Ce document est la présentation orale d'anglais portant sur le thème Places & Forms of Power du baccalauréat d'anglais. Il répond à la problématique "The hippie movement: peace and love as true motto?" de la façon suivante :

1- Birth of the hippie movement

2- Peak of the movement
-Vietnam war
-Summer of love
-Woodstock

3- Consequences and legacy
-Charles Manson Family
-Psychedelic rock/folk/soul-disco-heavy metal
-Hatred from the skinheads

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[...] Top of Form The hippie movement: peace and love as true motto? "Imagine all the people, Living life in peace. You, you may say I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one. I hope someday you will join us, and the world will be as one" These lyrics and ideas are associated with the hippie movement, which came to shape much of popular and musical culture of their time. But was Hippie movement really peaceful as its motto indicates? [...]

[...] Other currents include soul and disco music, heavy metal and so on. The hippie movement also had more unsettling consequences, such as the cult of Charles Manson, a self-declared prophet using the hippie ideals of communal living to radicalize people into committing crimes for his own benefit. The skinhead movement started as a working-class authoritarian reaction to the hippie movement, leading to division and hostility between the two groups that lasts to our day.Bottom of Form As all other cultural movements, the Hippie movement had both positive and negative aspects, and it is impossible to judge it as a whole. [...]