Each era in American history has factors that distinctively define the attitudes and emotions of that particular period. In August 1969, thousands of young adults gathered in White Lake, NY, for what would come to be known as "Woodstock." Gene Ira Katz asserted, "The woefully understaffed and poorly planned extravaganza may be remembered as the most successful fiasco in the history of entertainment" ("14850 Magazine" 7).

The Woodstock Festival of Music and Art was advertised as "3 days of peace and music" and soon enough underground radio personalities were publicizing this as a "free concert" ("14850 Magazine" 7). The white dove, illustrating the overwhelming emergence of peace in home front affairs, as well as international affairs and the guitar, representing free expression for what many Americ

These lyrics symbolize the use of drugs and looking at the deeper meaning of life. When she says goodbye, she is telling him to look deeper into her words, but he is high and living the good life, meaning that the good life is drugs.

The hippie culture disturbed those that were still conforming to the government and were outraged by the nudity, sex and drugs. Anderson says, "Hippie culture was having an impact on the idea of revolution, for cultural activists began talking about the development of a Youth Nation committed to nonviolence concerned about one another" (279). This culture was engulfing many youths into a life of "sex, drugs, and rock and roll."

Woodstock was an event that symbolized peace and free expression. The participants at this love festival represented a new culture, that was influenced by "sex, drugs, and rock and roll." Built up anger from societal pressures and an irrelevant war fueled young adults to become the individual in which they longed to be. Which brings me to a question... "Am I happy or in misery?"

I was having a high time, living the good life

or their land and it focused mostly on improving the lives of migrant farm workers. Struggles like these transpired in the fifties and sixties and escalated when many Americans wanted peace and equality.

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