Go Ask Alice:
Length: 503 words (1.8 pages)
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The 1970s was a time of change. A time of revolution. War was the topic of nearly all conversations and sex and drugs were on everyone?s minds. While boogie fever swept dance floors, young men were sent off to die in a war that they could never win. Richard Nixon was in office and his scandal was to influence politics for years to come. The bright blue bell-bottom pants with the pink and orange flowers sewed on were the coolest thing?oh excuse me, I mean the ?grooviest? thing to have. Big cars were the big thing and inflation was as ?high? as the teenagers smoking pot and shooting heroin.
This was the 1970s. Alice of ?Go Ask Alice? would have been greatly influenced by this era of time. Although she had cleaned up her act, Alice most likely would have had trouble resisting the temptation provided by her peers to smoke, make love, and have the time of her life. Although one cannot say that for sure. Counseling also became much more readily available to people afflicted with addictions. So, maybe Alice would have been okay. There?s no way to really tell. One can be certain though that with her steadfast and determined way of thinking, she probably would have been protesting the Vietnam War from the very start and the right of nuclear power plants to be in operative mode. She probably would have thought President Nixon to be one of the biggest moron ever to live, and she most likely would have been out on the streets. Not living the life of an addicted druggie though, but rather counseling others on how to clean up their acts and get on with their lives. I think Alice would have made a really good life for herself.
Of course, these weren?t the only things going on during the seventies. Everyone always thinks of the above mentioned obvious events. I mean, the 70s were the Sex Revolution, and the Drug Revolution, and the Protest Revolution era of time. Everyone knows that. But other things occurred during this troublesome decade that would have affected and even re-molded many lives, including Alice. For example, many other wars were breaking out and many others were beginning to cool off. The Yom Kippur War began in 1973 while the Cold War was ceasing between the US, the Soviet Union and China. The terrorist act at the 1972 Munich Olympics shocked many people and the OPEC oil embargo in 1973 had a great impact on society. Financially, many were a mess. The cost of living was excruciatingly high as inflation just kept rising.
All of these events would have had a large impact on the life of Alice of ?Go Ask Alice?. As a young adult, she would have been exposed to so many different ways to head her life, things would have been confusing. Yet, as many would probably agree, I think Alice would have been headed down a safe road. A stable road to a stable life.
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