American History 1968
An Indignant Generation." With all its disruptions and rage, the idea of black revolution was something many white Americans could at least comprehend, if not agree with. When rebellion seized their own children, however they were almost completely at a loss. A product of the posts war "Baby Boom," nurtured in affluence and concentrated in increasing numbers on college and university campuses. It was a generation marked by an unusual degree of political awareness and cultural alienation. Some shared with the beat writers and poets of the late fifties, a deep disillusionment with this status quo, a restless yearning for something more than a "realistic" conformity. Others had been aroused by the southern sit-in movement, "The first hint," wore a contemporary, "That there was a world beyond the campus that demanded some kind of personal response. "Not so much ideological as moral, in Jessica Mitford's words, "An Indignant Generation."Although an image of arrogance, even ruthlessness, had followed him from his early days as counsel to a Senate committee investigating labor racketeering, Robert Kennedy had shown a remarkable capacity to understand the suffering of others. More than this, he had demonstrated an untiring commitment
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Some common words found in the essay are:
Kennedy Appealed, Corps Delta, Baby Boom, America's History, South Vietnam, Hugh Thompson, Indignant Generation, Paul Simon, Vietnamese American, War II, ho chi, chi minh, ho chi minh, world war, war ii, world war ii, vietnam war, ngo din diem, ngo din, din diem, south vietnamese, william westmoreland, richard nixon, drugs love peace, indochina communist party,
Approximate Word count = 2112
Approximate Pages = 8 (250 words per page double spaced)
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