Purchase Solution

The death of the 60s.

Not what you're looking for?

Ask Custom Question

Explore the following question: One commentator has called 1968 the Summer of Hate. During this year, the Tet offensive began in January, Martin Luther King was assassinated in Memphis in April, Robert Kennedy was assassinated in Los Angeles in June, and protestors and police clashed on television at the Democratic Convention in Chicago.

Along with your text, read various sites and consider how these events are related to each other.

The Summer of Hate: http://www.pressrecord.com/politic/chicago68.html

What were the protestors in Chicago unhappy about?

How did these events affect the election of 1968?

Remember to cite all sources.

Purchase this Solution
Solution Summary

This solution discusses the calendar events of 1968, and their effect on the presidential election in November of that year. The focus is the violence of the 1968 Democratic Convention, as a culmination of the fruitless victories of the counter-culture. The Establishment is seen as victorious, restoring order by year's end with Nixon's election victory. Chaos repressed, total collapse was only one presidential term away.

Solution Preview

Not much time here, but I will try to concentrate on the two questions you posted at the bottom. (Chicago/Election)

The "Hard Year" as Eugene McCarthy called it, the year of hate, and the year that ended the sixties, as some say, was completely interconnected, unified by a series of events that will forever show the inevitability of its outcome. The calendar marked death, violence, frustration and hopelessness for each glint of hope or victory that came about. Chicago was merely the "show" that had been brewing for years.

THE UNHAPPY

The frustrated and unrepresented were the only people with the right to vent at the Democratic Convention in Chicago. However, these included blacks, Hispanics, POWs and MIAs, Vietnam veterans, the poor, and the lost youth of America. These were NOT the people on the wrong end of the club in the televised clash between the establishment and the counter-culture. Hippies and Yippies planned, for months, a "Festival of Life" and theatrical protests to coincide with the Convention. "Hypies," my own recently-coined term, "went along for the ride" and threatened mass seduction and drugging, hoping to sensationalize their bizarre activities to the point of effectiveness. It didn't have the ...

Solution provided by:
Robert Ochs, Jr. MA, Ed.
Education
  • BA, Alfred University
  • NYS teacher certification, City University of New York-Lehman College
  • MA, Ed., University of Phoenix Online
Recent Feedback
  • "Thank you"
  • "This was great,thank you so much again"
  • "Thank you very much! I think I understand now. I will make it a point to ask for you for the additional parts of this assignment. I will let you know through a message if I need any clarification on this one."
  • "Thank you."
  • "As usual, excellant and very informative! Thanks again!"
Purchase this Solution
Free BrainMass Quizzes
Discovering the Age of Discovery

In 1492 travels and contact between the Americas and Europe impacted cultures across the Atlantic Ocean. The Age of Discovery is an important time period in history. This quiz offers a brief introduction to this time period with key highlights.

America Joins the World 1900-1939

This quiz will test your knowledge on America's emergence into the world beginning from the 20th century until the start of WWII

Social Studies European Review

A knowledge base of history is important to understanding our world today. Take a few moments on this quick review of Europe.

The French Revolution

This quiz covers the first French Revolution of 1789-94.

US World History Test II

Major Events from 1452 to 1877

View More Free Quizzes
Related BrainMass Solutions

  • Calculating the Rate of Reaction

    / 316-158) = M× min-1 × 1min/60s Time interval 4: Rate of reaction of HCl = - (1.00-1.30) / 632-316) = M× min-1 × 1min/60s.

  • Juvenile Justice Movement

    The final movement within juvenile justice was the eradication of the death penalty for those convicted of murder committed when they were juveniles.

  • Aging and Isolation

    It also increases their risk of death. Studies of nursing home patients with physical illnesses have shown that the presence of depression substantially increased the likelihood of death from those illnesses.

  • Concepts of symbolism

    Since snow is the death of nature, you might want to talk about how Ann Beattie's conveys her narrator's love story and the ultimate death of the union with this symbolism.

  • Ann Beattie's short work, "Snow"

    Since snow is the death of nature, you might want to talk about how Ann Beattie's conveys her narrator's love story and the ultimate death of the union with this symbolic title.

  • The failure of 60s lberalism

    Its no secret that "liberal" has become a dirty word in Washington, ad the death of a candidacy is often linked with its dramatic failures of the 1960s.

  • Claim Types in Critical Thinking

    Not only would it be wrong to deprive a woman of the right to an abortion, but also it would be wrong for a baby to be born unwanted. 5. When I use the term euthanasia I intend it in its literal sense of a good death. 6.

  • Are the Youth of Today Politically Apathetic?

    Another factor is demographics, the social and political upheaval of the 60s coincided with the baby boom, there was simply many more young people to challenge the system then compared to now.

  • Artists and their Influence on Important Societal Issues

    Thus you can find the artistic community rebuking both the US and the USSR for its activities throughout the 50s and 60s; of course, the US was upset because it felt it had the moral high ground even though to someone standing back from the action, it

  • Reaction Rate Problems

    between 50 and 60s? b. what is the rate of formation of O2 between 50 and 60s? 3. A reaction in which A, B, and C react to form products is zero order in A, one half order in B, and second order in C. a. write a rate law for the reaction.

View More Related Solutions