the 60's
...ed Sates and Soviet Union were competing who could lead in such exploration. The Soviets launched the fist unmanned satellite in the 1957, and they followed many other first after that. Then came the United Sates’ turn to be the first. In 1969 years of hard work and money was finally paid off when astronaut Neil A. Armstrong landed on the moon and said, “That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” In 1962 John H Glenn, Jr. became the first American to orbit the earth on the Mercury capsule called Friendship. He circled the globe three times before returning to earth. From space programs came many technological advances for example live television broadcast, dozens of television channels became available to people through satellite dishes. Transoceanic telephone calls and duplicate messages can be sent immediately into space and quickly routed to other countries around the world. Other benefits of space programs were miniaturization of communications devices and better solar-powered batteries, dehydrated foods and manufacture of medicines in weightless conditions (Wright 972). Most of the time, when thinking back to the sixties people think about drug, and great emphasis on freedom from old generation. The freedom of 60’s focuses on the youth’s fight to gain freedom and break away from the values and ideas left behind by the generation. This freedom included having freedom of expression of their own views, loneliness, greed, any other modern days anxiety and even use of drugs. In order to find these different qualities in themselves and other, the younger generation turned to drugs. They wanted freedom of drug use because older generation did not support drug use as a source of pleasure and creativity. During the 60’s, you know what they meant when they said, “turn in, turn on, drop out.” This was slogan of Harvard professor’s, which promoted use of LSD (Wright 933). This use of drugs could be considered ironic in the sense that while trying to gain one freedom, the ability to use drugs, the youths appeared to have lost another freedom, the ability to live their own lives. The combination of disobedience, revolution, and drugs created a Hippie era. High Ashberry, San Francisco, was considered hippie center of the world. In 1967, came the “Summer of Love.” This period is considered high point of hippie era. One of the world’s largest concerts took place in Woodstock, New York. During the several days of music, sex and drugs were abused heavily, almost to the point of complete stupor (American Dedades..321 ). The Momentum of the previous decade’s civil right gains led by Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. carried over into the 1960s. However, for most of the black people the change was minimal. Only few black children actually attended integrated schools, and in the south “jim crow” practices barred blacks from jobs and public places. Many black college students got tired of waiting for equal treatment. ...