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Mathieu Caplan
Mr. Sander
English III
11 March 2008
The Hippie Generation
Past and present

Looking back at the 1940’s, there are some possible causes for the retaliation imposed by the Hippies. First of all, the United States has just gotten out of not its first, but its second world, not to mention a depression thrown in there as well. Now they were going into another war. People wanted a change…these people were the hippies.
A Hippie is a “member of a counterculture that began appearing in the early 1960’s, which expressed a moral rejection of the established society” (“The Hippie Dictionary”).
The two main places that hippies originated were San Francisco and Berkeley, and rapidly grew throughout the United States. Generally, hippies were of the younger bunch ranging “from the ages of 15 to 25”, although there were older ones as well (Huber and Lemieux). Early on, the hippie culture was......

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