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1. What do you think of Carter's decision to pardon Nixon? Is this a power that should be awarded to the president?

2. Did the emergence of post-modernism coincide with the decline of religious practices? Did it arise because people of the 1960's were left feeling unfulfilled spiritually and so sought other means to grasp onto any glimmer of truth?

3. "We write songs; we know what we mean by them. But in a week someone else says something about it, says that it means that as well, and you can't deny it. Things take on millions of meanings. I don't understand it."

-Paul McCartney interview, ca. 1967-68

Does only pop music fit this code of open interpretation? Is this an innate characteristic of pop that allows it to appeal to the masses? Or can other types of music fit this description as well, such as Folk, if the lyrics and musical signifiers are more abstract?

Questions

1. Did Wallace's backlash politics focus on the Civil Rights Movement, counterculture, or simply all progressive leftist concepts

2. Is there any connection between new journalism and the coverage of Watergate? Were the practices of new journalism used in this coverage?

3. Is protest music only attributed to psychedelic and folk music, or music affiliated with counterculture? Or could funk music and other black power promoting music be considered a type of protest music?

questions

1. why was the 60s a prime stage for all of the protests that it had? was there any relation to the growing sense of individuality that many people felt in this time?

2. the fiddler on the roof was a great example of the white ethnic's desire to reflect on the old country and how things used to be and was a key to its success. are there any less obvious instances in famous movies where the plot refers in some way to the white ethnic movement?

3.Did any major traditional signifiers of music change genres in the 60s and did the meaning of those signifiers change with the genre shift?

Questions

1) Why was Kennedy so good at re-shaping conflicts during his campaign? Was it that he was able to scare Americans enough to follow his ideas regarding communism and our education standards, or that he was just a good advertiser?

2) Why were the news coverages of the Vietnam allowed to be so graphic and then why did the brutal truth in news fade off of the general news program, even into today?

3) Soul music wasn't really protest music the way Bob Dylan's music was until James Brown, but was there any black protest music in between that we just didn't cover?

Questions

(1)

In the American National Election Study from 1964 to 1972, how were respondents chosen? Does today's system today represent people of all races and backgrounds in the studies?

(2)

In Philip K Dick's Time Out of Joint, what was the meaning of the soft-drink stand disappearing? Did this have something to do with the knowledge we talked about in discussion? What did the soft-drink exactly signify, what was it's point?

(3)

When rock artists cover songs, such as the Quicksilver Messenger Service with Bo Diddley's Who Do You Love?, is it considered to be participating in the folk process?

the 2000's

In my paper I am comparing the people's trust in the government and/or faith in humanity and finding a parallel in A Clockwork Orange (the movie). Do you think there's a specific media example that embodies a political feeling of the 2000's??

From September 11, 2001 to oil prices to Obama's inauguration and everything inbetween

Not from 1960s America, but please read if you have the time.

Korean Comfort Women

Starting around 1937, the Japanese started taking away innocent Koreans. There was conscription of Korean men into the Japanese military, to increase the number count of military in the Second World War. But what most of the world does not know is that 60,000 to 200,000 Korean women were taken as well. These women were known as the Comfort Corps--as a euphemism. These women were hardly women; the Korean women taken ranged in age from 11 to 24. Little girls were taken from their families to serve Japanese military men in SEXUAL SLAVERY. These young girls lived in horrid conditions, serving up to 20 men a day.

After 1945, these women were torn apart. Many had already died from either disease, malnourishment, or war causes. Many committed suicide so that they would not have to return to their families and bring shame to them because of what happened to them. Many were killed so that they could not tell their stories. To this day, the women who have survived have not received any apology from the Japanese government. The Japanese continuously deny that any of this happened, or claim that Comfort Corps had nothing to do with the government. These women have faced so many traumatizing events and adversities, all they want is an acknowledgement from the Japanese Government that their sexual slavery really happened.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Xs4sORagrw&feature=related

(note: some of the claims in this video are a little misleading...the young girls were not just willingly sold into sexual slavery)