Notion of progress

Thèmes abordés

Notion of progress, progrès, society, social progress, 60's

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Hello, I am going to talk about the notion Idea of Progress.
To Begin, the idea of progress can be define as an improvement, a development or a change. It can appear as a social progress which contributes to many changes in the quality of life.

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[...] How does progress affect our society? To answer this question, we will focus on the period of the 60s'. The sixties are depict as a new era when radical changes happened especially in Great Britain. Throughout 3 documents we will illustrate the social progress in Great Britain during the Sixties. First of all, the 60s witnessed the triumph of pop rock music with the emergence of famous bands, such as the Beatles and the rolling stones. Those music that referred a lot of freedom, drugs and sex, had a big influence on young people. [...]

[...] This national Broadcasting Company only aired a few hours of pop music a week. Pirate Radios fought against the domination of the BBC by broadcasting very popular pop song from ships anchored out of the British authorities' legal reach. Those radios enable British people to discover new Rock & Roll music which was banned in the UK. This pirate action finally led to the BBC launching its own pop station. Progress also leads to protest, in the mid sixties, the anti was movement arises in Britain. [...]

[...] After a long period on strike, the girls had a meeting with Barbara Castle, the Secretary of State for employment to negotiate the equal pay act. Succeeding this meeting, women obtained a guarantee of an equal pay act and a 90% raise towards the male rate at Ford. To finish, social progress led to more freedom. After having fought and stood up against the government, the pirate radios and women got what they wanted, giving society more freedom and equality. The anti-war movement spread quickly and changed peoples' views of violence and led to a more peaceful society. [...]