"How helpful is the concept of counter-culture in understanding the changes that took place during the Sixties
"How helpful is the concept of counter-culture in understanding the changes that took place during the Sixties There were many changes, shifts in ideas and movements during the period of the Sixties, which may or not be easily defined by the term counter-culture. It can be argued that there were changes at this time which were a progression of earlier events over a long period of time, and therefore cannot be defined to the Sixties; also some changes appear to be more ideological than counter-cultural; and there were also changes which could be considered a reaction to the counter-culture itself, and therefore be considered counter counter-cultural. I am going to discuss changes in History, Science and Religion, in order to establish to what extent the concept of counter-culture can be of use in this study of the Sixties. By careful study of the Chronology in Resource Book 4, we discover that changes were happening to the social climate from 1954 onwards. In the USA, the fight for black civil rights and desegregation won a victory in this year when segregation in public schools was pronounced illegal in the Supreme Court. In the following year, the movement accelerated when 'Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to a white man on a segregated Montgomery, Alabama, bus', and in the same town 'Martin Luther King leads a boycott of Montgomery buses' (Resource Book 4, p5).
"How influential was Hitler's role in the rise of the Nazi Party 1920-1933?"
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"In our society, prejudice causes just as many problems as it did in Jesus' day. It can take just as much courage to over come it today as it did then."
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"In the years 1865-1868 the Fenians did not pose a serious threat to British Rule in Ireland" To what extent do the extracts support this view?
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"It was war and nothing more and nothing less that united Germany"
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"It was work that women did during the war that earned them the vote''
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"Lack of a strong political system in Germany was the main reason for the rise and eventual empowerment of the Nazi Party," Discuss.
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Television was the key to black people successfully achieving civil rights. How far do you agree with this statement?
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In what way were the demands of the Irish civil rights movement similar to those of the American Black civil rights movement?
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