Category Archives: passion

Revolts

Most people recognize the term “flower power” from the 1960s when hippies chose to make a stand and protest against the government. There were actually a couple riots taken place at Berkeley, some were for freedom of speech and towards … Continue reading

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Fashion

For some reason I have always been attracted to the hippie sense of style. I’ve also realized how a lot of those trends have come back over the past couple of years. For this week’s blog I decided to talk … Continue reading

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Similarities in two different cultures

Last semester my passion blog was on Buddhism, not necessarily expressing the views of Buddhism as a religion but in fact I wrote more on the ways of a Buddhist and their philosophy.  I’ve come to realize that the Buddhist … Continue reading

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Hippie symbol

I think most people recognized the hippie symbol as the peace sign symbol. But did you guys ever wonder to think how this symbol came about?  The symbol was designed by a British artist in 1958 named Gerald Holtom. His intention for … Continue reading

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Some thoughts…

This week during our first mock deliberation a lot of students made referenced to “hippie” ways of thinking. I wasn’t sure if these were positive or negative comments, I guess it all depends on how you view things in life. … Continue reading

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Vegetarianism

A lot of times people who are vegetarian get asked if they’re a hippie. My best friend is vegan and I’m vegetarian and we both automatically get asked if we’re doing it for the animals. I guess to some extent … Continue reading

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Woodstock 1969

For this week’s blog I am going to talk about the most famous music event of all history.  In 1969, Woodstock took place at a farm outside of White Lake, New York. What was originally supposed to be a 3day … Continue reading

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The Haight

Over the summer I went to San Francisco for the first time ever. I actually fell in love with that city, I did not want to leave whatsoever, except for the fact that for it being summer it was quite … Continue reading

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Hippies

My passion blog for this semester will be about HIPPIES! Yay to some maybe nay to others. The reason why I decided this as my topic is probably because I consider myself a hippie at heart. Hippies in my opinion … Continue reading

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Praying wheel

Most people are aware that meditation is one of the most important things to do in all forms of Buddhism. But there are also other practices that most people are not that familiar with like Mantras which can be defined … Continue reading

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