Corrections

Power in the 1960s

• Power can be defined as the ability to exert influence and have control over the behavior of other people.

• Power exist not only through the government, who implements laws and standards to which the population should comply to, but also through the movements contesting the latter, such as the civil rights and hippies movement.

• Power is therefore embodied not only by the White house, but by powerful speeches delivered by influential figures, by cinema or by protest songs.

• From its outset, power was established after an agreement of the people willing to co-opt a charismatic leader capable of bringing improvement to their lives.

• However, sporadic disagreements between the authority and groups of population has led to movements subverting existing standards.

• In America of the 1960s, the turmoil reached its acme.

• The outbreak of the Vietnam war and the exacerbation of racial discrimination instigated the effervescent new generation to spring into action.

• In other words, America was torn apart by a strife of governmental power and the emerging counter-power trying either to offset, or to firmly oppose the decision of the government.

• Therefore, powerful figures seems to be generating social unrest, conversely to its original duty to improve the people's lives.