... through the protest songs the artists, and their lifestyles. The music reflected the generation by, being heard rather than just listened to, and lyrics contained social commentary that was profoundly relevant. The 1960's was home to the Sexual Revolution, Woodstock, the Civil Rights Movement, the British Invasion ... sadness. Whereas, protest songs speak of matters that the artist finds objectionable but a lament can do both. The differences are evident, if the lyrics are examined. Protest songs demand change. Whereas, a lament describes the human condition that may lead to a call for ...

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... main characters face his living corridor is also slowly exposed, revealing the not so healthy condition he appears to be in a bit more. As the music continues and Jim Morrison's lyrics and volume intensifies so does various shots of the spinning ceiling fan in Willard's room. The sounds of the helicopters spinning blades dissolve into Captain Willard's illusion that his ceiling ... the 80's with a combination of music and noise that they've never experienced. Looking and listening even further into the Apocalypse Now intro of illusion one can perhaps tie the lyrics to The End even deepe...

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... audiences first listen to Springsteen's hit single "Born in the USA," a sense of pride is felt to the song's chorus. After the lyrics are further interpreted, a further meaning can be found in the piece. For example, Springsteen implements pieces of information about the Vietnam War. He takes ... 441). Springsteen was seen as the typical American hard worker. After Springsteen released his album "Darkness on the Edge of Town," his lyrics and songs have had a theme of individual commitment and dissatisfaction with life in everyday situations. For example, the hit single "Born in the ... ...

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... but their songs ended up widening the rift even further. Some artists even went so far as to accuse the older generation through their lyrics. Whatever the intentions of the artist, music acted more as a social divisor then anything else during the 1960s. Due to the consensus era ... eyes, communists. "Hootenanny," a popular television show, would not play anything by Pete Seeger, Phil Ochs, Bob Dylan, and countless other artists with controversial lyrics. In 1963, the FBI began investigating Dylan, Ochs, Seeger, and Jim Morrison of the Doors for anti-patriotism. In addition to banning f...

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... , her style of music was entirely new. She is described as having " brought African-American blues to white Americans?34 In her song "Get it While You Can,'she belted lyrics like, "In this world if you read the papers, Lord, you know that everybody's fighting on with each other. You got no one you can count on baby, not even ... others.38 The number of people attending Woodstock was equivalent to the population of the fourth largest city in the U.S. at the time, and traffic was backed up for literally miles.39 The celebration received a lot of negative feedback from older generations, bu...

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... event prompted a band called Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. to write a song titled "Ohio." This song speaks of the four college students who were killed at Kent State. The lyrics are extremely powerful and have much meaning behind them such as these words that are penned in the song, "Tin soldiers and Nixon's coming/We're finally on our ... more meaningful and thought provoking. "There's somethin' happenin' here/What it is ain't exactly clear/There's a man with a gun over there/A tellin' me, I got to beware"(Chuvalas). The lyrics show how close to home it is for a lot of people. They giv...

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... music. During this time, bands like The Beatles and Rolling Stones began to sing about sex, drugs, and peace, which had not previously been done before. Because of these new lyrics, the younger generation of people began to form a movement where unity, togetherness, and rebellion against "the man " became of utmost importance. During the 1960's, The Beatles created a movement amongst young ... the 1960's. Also during the 1960's, another English band called The Rolling Stones began to gain popularity in America. Like the Beatles, The Rolling Stones also decided to use their lyrics as a m...

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... " In the beginning of Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now, the haunting voice of The Doors' Jim Morrison painfully croons, "Lost in a wilderness of pain, all the children are insane." These lyrics are coupled with scenes of tumultuous chaos and discordant images of dissolving memories. The scene finally focuses onto the face of a man, and it is realized that these memories are ... had seen and done. Coppola's Kurtz "broke from them, and then he broke from himself" (Milius and Coppola Apocalypse Now). Willard had "never seen a man so broken up and ripped apart" (Milius and Coppola Apoca...

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... , their music. Woodstock was a collaboration of many diverse artists, such as Jimi Hendrix, the Grateful Dead, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Janis Joplin and many other musicians who expressed their feelings through lyrics and the rhythm. These artists performed songs about the problems of war, culture, government, family, drugs, and sex. For example, High Time, written by Robert Hunter and performed by Jerry ... musically denotes, You told me goodbye How was I to know You didn't mean goodbye You meant please don't let me go I was having a high time, living the good life These lyrics sym...

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... Hippies were actually musicians themselves. Hippies used music as a way to get their thoughts and ideas out. One of the most influential musicians of the time was Bob Dylan. The lyrics of the song Like Rolling Stone express the thoughts of many Hippies. "Once upon a time you dressed so fine, threw the bums a dime, in your prime, didn't you? You used ... meal...How does it feel, to be without a home, a complete unknown? With no direction home, just like a Rolling Stone..." Dylan's lyrics expressed his personal thoughts to what was happening to him and what was happening around him. His s...

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... dead and for the country itself. But why Fowler was so concerned about Vietnam? He loved this country much more than England. His home had shifted its ground eight thousand miles, as he put it. He described Vietnam with admiration and tenderness: the gold of rice fields under a flat late sun, the fishers' fragile cranes hovering over the fields like mosquitoes ... Phuong and he never wanted to go back. Speaking about war we can't forget the important episode with a sampan. The cannon gave a single burst of tracer and the sampan blew apart, and that's it. There had been something shockin...

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... and head into Cambodia, or turn left, below the DMZ (demilitarized zone). If they went to Cambodia the would then travel south more and end up no more than fifteen miles away from the capitol of the 6 South which was Saigon. In many confrontations the Viet Cong would destroy small villages and booby trap areas where civilians still lived. The North ... on the leaders of small villages, medical personnel, social workers, school teachers and others who improved the lives of others."(10) There was no way to tell the Viet Cong apart from the civilians because they dressed the same and would...

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... a son. It told the tale of the times in a way as to say, "For what it's worth, there's something happening here and you better beware." The song is filled with lyrics like, "there's battle lines being drawn, nobody's right if everybody's wrong, young people speaking their mind, getting so much resistance from behind, paranoia strikes deep, into your life it will ... creep." Lyrics like these reflect what was happening at that time. Battle lines were being drawn not only in Vietnam, but also at home between the Movement and the Establishment as well ... ...

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... music I listen to has no real important meaning the majority of music has to do with sex, girls, and relationships. I tend to love the music more than the lyrics. But I see that lyrics are strong and that it totally changes the mood of the song. I think that music has shown that it could withstand the test of time. It is the very ... ...

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... now fighting to keep communism out of Southeast Asia. One problem with Johnson's approach was instead of sending ships and Gatling guns, he sent B-52 bombers that could carpet bomb miles of territory easily, Defoliants that killed jungles and humans alike, and ground fire power that was greater that any in history. Johnson believed that the key to success in the ... south was therefore a surprise even to them. After the initial attack by the North Vietnamese in the Central Highlands northeast of Saigon on January 7, the south immediately began to fall apart. On March 25 the ancient impe...

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... concentrated in fortresses in North Vietnam fighting a static war. During this year the Viet Minh swept along the frontier road with China, capturing fort after fort over a distance of 100 miles within 6 weeks. Then came Vinh Yen, a "set-piece" battle fought along conventional lines that resulted in a decisive French victory. This forced the Viet Minh to revert to a passive stage of ... he was compromised by an attempted PKI coup, that Sukarno fell from power. When America requested support for its "Many Flags" policy in Vietnam, Australia's response was hardly in doubt. Apart from havi...

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... who agreed with him. When Johnson was Vice President he felt that Americans did not want to be involved in Vietnam, but when Johnson became President, Vietnam started to fall apart and he noticed that he needed to become involved for Americas best interest. "Johnson's . main advisors were the Joint Chiefs of Staff members who felt that the US must go ... . The war to Johnson was more than a conflict, it was a personal commitment he started during the Kennedy years, and Johnson did not want to lose a war to a small nation 9000 miles away. If Johnson would have listened to the CIA earlier ...

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... concentrated in fortresses in North Vietnam fighting a static war. During this year the Viet Minh swept along the frontier road with China, capturing fort after fort over a distance of 100 miles within 6 weeks. Then came Vinh Yen, a "set-piece" battle fought along conventional lines that resulted in a decisive French victory. This forced the Viet Minh to revert to a passive stage of ... he was compromised by an attempted PKI coup, that Sukarno fell from power. When America requested support for its "Many Flags" policy in Vietnam, Australia's response was hardly in doubt. Apart from havi...

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... Soviet Union might step in as defenders of communism. The rules of engagement placed many restrictions on the armed forces. Bombing was prohibited within 25 miles of the Chinese border, within 10 miles of Hanoi and within 4 miles of Haiphong So, by placing the capital, Haiphong and surrounding areas off limits, the U.S. Air Force was prevented from attacking nearly all military targets crucial ... the city's to the country sides and industries and storage facilities were moved into caves and under the ground. The North Vietnamese government claimed to have dug over 30,000 miles of tunne...

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... Then on July 30, Sailors from South Vietnam, piloting patrol boats shelled the islands of Hon Me and Hon Ngu, which are about four miles from Mainland North Vietnam in the Gulf of Tonkin. The next day the U.S. destroyer Maddox entered the Gulf of Tonkin with orders to patrol ... shore posed "an unacceptable risk." Headquarters" reply was that the Maddox should continue its mission when "considered prudent." Around 2:00am August 2nd, 11 miles out from Hon Me island, the Maddox radioed that it was being approached by high speed craft "with apparent intent to conduct torpedo attack." The ...

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... US entered this war. First American military aid arrived on South Vietnam soil in 1955, just on the rising wake of cold war. Just two years before that several thousands miles from Vietnam, on Korean peninsula bloody Korean War ended with July 27, 1953 cease fire agreement between communist North Korea backed by China and US along with UN. Communist expansion ... University, April 7, 1965) Society felt it needed, and supported in to about 1968, when number of casualties increase and many people asked why America need to fight this war thousand miles from home. There are several good poi...

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... " to show his casualty. The original song is sung by four singers to represent different people in the society but they all have the same goal – peace. The lyrics convey the thesis of the song. "Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup" has used simile to represent the opinions from the people but only ... ...

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In a war where anything could happen, even a storm that made electronics mess up while bodies piled, I still wonder how literature was affected. Many people write things like poems, lyrics, and even scripts for plays. People back then and even today look at literature everyday, and people pull out so much feelings. Every writing is written from events. They want ... ...

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... cruel situation. The next line Jarrell uses ambiguities to further remove the persona from safety and plunges him into the horror of a nightmare and the worthlessness of life "six miles from earth, Loosed from its dreams of life" (551).The Gunner is far away from everything that was comforting and familiar to him, which leads him to feel separated ... from what he knew of life. This ambiguous sentence can mean both the gunner awakes to horror of the reality that faces him. And he dies six miles above earth from the flack or enemy fighter planes. Either way the sentence is received, it s...

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... . Chris: Where in Vietnam did they send you first? Lonnie: The first time I was stationed in Chu Lai which was in I Corp, the northern part of the country about twenty miles south of Da Nang. Our aviation unit was on the beach which made it nicer but awful sandy. Chris: What did you think about Vietnam? Lonnie: The country was definitely ... Quang Tri and two weeks back in Chu Lai then back to Quang Tri for two more weeks; this went on for nine months. Quang Tri is located about ten miles south of the Demilitarized Zone. The DMZ is a one mile buffer separating North and South Vietnam. Al...

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