Compare And Contrast Essay On The 1960's

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Many events took place in the 1960’s, but is this time period better than today’s society. The 60’s consist of love, peace, and war. The sixties include the Space Race and colorful clothing. People may say that it is safer or easier to live in the sixties, but it isn’t really , living in a society where that the time a male becomes an adult would be drafted to the Vietnam War or women not having basic rights such as having equality in the workspace . In the sixties President Kennedy and civic activist Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. These are only the few of the negative things that happened throughout the 1960’s. Today’s society is much better.
Moreover in the 1960’s African Americans were fighting for equal rights as other Americans already have. From the text it states “African Americans fight for equality. People like Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa …show more content…

In the document it says “Women were excluded from educational programs, school activities, and everything else that was federally funded”(Falcon 2nd side). Now these days, women can do as much as men and even more then men can do in the present day society.
In addition the technology of the 1960’s was very minimal. For instance, “Life was way harder and to say society was better when people did not half of the things they have in today’s society, would be crazy. Back then, it was work, work, work!”(Falcon 2nd side). All work was based off manual labor and it took a long period of time to do things compared today.
Many events took place in the 1960’s, but is this time period better than today’s society. The sixties consist of death and war and many people have died throughout the 1960’s and African Americans didn’t have basic rights that all Americans have and women weren’t treated the same as men were. Hopefully all the readers who would read this would believe that today’s society is much better than the

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