“Some folks are born, made to wave the flag, they’re red, white and blue.” This is a line of one of the songs from Woodstock. This is from a song called Fortunate Son by CCR. Woodstock made the bonds between Americans stronger. Woodstock separated the young from the old. Woodstock epitomized the anti-war movement, inspiring a generation to “set their souls free”. The first main point is Woodstock’s background. By the 1960s, Americans had created their own prophets, music, press, and America’s attitude. John Roberts, Joel Rosenman, Artie Kornfield, and Michael Lang founded Woodstock (Dougan, Clark, Nineteen-Sixty Nine). While the first band of day one was setting up, one of the officers looked out at the “sea of people” assembled shoulder to
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Hundreds of people didn’t even bring enough food for them, not to mention their families. Instead of seeing those families struggling for food, the others around them provided food and water for them. It wasn’t much, but it was better than nothing. This had brought the whole crowd at Woodstock together. They were sharing their food, water, shelter, and marijuana. At this point Woodstock was a peaceful place. This young generation endured weather together, shortages of shelter, water, food, dry clothing, and sanitation facilities. Despite all of those hardships, the whole crowd lived peaceably in a state of “harmony” and love. (Historical & Cultural Signifigance) Next comes the new generation. The generation gap made younger people think that more than twice as likely for marijuana to be legalized. As well as, having non schooled youth think that the “American way of life” is superior to any other way of life (Clark Dougan, A Nation Divided, 168). Woodstock had dramatized the link between the youthful politics like, the generation, moral, and …show more content…
There were many consequences. The children’s reactions to Woodstock were horrendous. Woodstock was basically encouragement to smoke, drink, forget about the worries in life, and live in peace, love, and harmony. Most of the consequences had to relate back to health issues. Lots of young people lived in peace and harmony. But, they didn’t have a very good guide as to what peaceful and/or loving action really were. It was mostly about personal liberations. There was a great big chunk of America that was abusing drugs, and drinking too much alcohol. Most of the people at Woodstock had gotten cancer, pneumonia, and other health problems just like them. They were the people that had to be treated right away or else their life would be on the line. The children’s reactions to Woodstock were both good and bad. But, most of them were bad reactions. The student political organization was split into the Weatherman faction, which was rather the kind of terrorist “wanna bes” at that point in time (Hippie Sayings, Quotes…). The youth were all hung up on the idea that they could make violence, partially because they knew people their own age was fighting and dying in Vietnam. Also because of the black rights movement, which they very much were coping and emulating, was very much out of its nonviolent and indicts
Hundreds of people didn’t even bring enough food for them, not to mention their families. Instead of seeing those families struggling for food, the others around them provided food and water for them. It wasn’t much, but it was better than nothing. This had brought the whole crowd at Woodstock together. They were sharing their food, water, shelter, and marijuana. At this point Woodstock was a peaceful place. This young generation endured weather together, shortages of shelter, water, food, dry clothing, and sanitation facilities. Despite all of those hardships, the whole crowd lived peaceably in a state of “harmony” and love. (Historical & Cultural Signifigance) Next comes the new generation. The generation gap made younger people think that more than twice as likely for marijuana to be legalized. As well as, having non schooled youth think that the “American way of life” is superior to any other way of life (Clark Dougan, A Nation Divided, 168). Woodstock had dramatized the link between the youthful politics like, the generation, moral, and …show more content…
There were many consequences. The children’s reactions to Woodstock were horrendous. Woodstock was basically encouragement to smoke, drink, forget about the worries in life, and live in peace, love, and harmony. Most of the consequences had to relate back to health issues. Lots of young people lived in peace and harmony. But, they didn’t have a very good guide as to what peaceful and/or loving action really were. It was mostly about personal liberations. There was a great big chunk of America that was abusing drugs, and drinking too much alcohol. Most of the people at Woodstock had gotten cancer, pneumonia, and other health problems just like them. They were the people that had to be treated right away or else their life would be on the line. The children’s reactions to Woodstock were both good and bad. But, most of them were bad reactions. The student political organization was split into the Weatherman faction, which was rather the kind of terrorist “wanna bes” at that point in time (Hippie Sayings, Quotes…). The youth were all hung up on the idea that they could make violence, partially because they knew people their own age was fighting and dying in Vietnam. Also because of the black rights movement, which they very much were coping and emulating, was very much out of its nonviolent and indicts