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Elvis presley
Elvis presley is known as the king of rock n roll for his music and dance moves which were extremely contriversal.
while elvis stayed at forrest house forrest heard him playing a guitar and forrest like what he heard and started dancing. Elvis liked forrest dance moves so forrest taught his moves to elvis which elvis used to use while preforming -
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civil rights movement
The civil rights movement was a time peroide in which african americans fought and struggled against discrimination and segregation. This lead to many protest forms and orginazations to fight against segregation.
forrest gump did not discriminate based on race. At the begining of the movie forest sat by the black lady as they were speaking she told him her feet hurt. This can probably be used to say she was walking because of the discrimination on buses -
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vietnam war
The vietnam war was a big and long war fought by north and south vietnam. The war was caused by the spread of communism. The south was supported by the USA who were trying to prevent the spread of communism.
During the war forrest saw the hardships and casualties of the war. Forrest also saw that during the war everyone was working together whites and blacks showing the intergration of black men into the war this also helped him find a friend. -
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hippie culture
he hippie cultured during forrest time called for peace from war with vietnam. They used non violent methods to show they hated war and would rather be peaceful.
forrest involvment has to do with jenny. Jenny was a hippie and did not want to go to war which made her a dove. Doves prefered peacful methods that didnt lead to war -
detente
Detente is a french word referring to the general easing of geo political tensions between the soviet union and the united states this was caused by treaties to cool down tensions.
forrest gump story is being told through a peroide of detente with russia so there is much interferance of russia -
apple computers
Forrest gump bought a stock at apple computers which allowed him to be very ricch with alot of money and instead of keeping it to him self he helped others. Forrest bought the stock without knowing what it was or what it would lead him to and it lead him to money -
ping pong diplomacy
The ping pong diplomacy was cuased when china invited champions to play ping pong peacefully without any tensions of communism which help bond USA and china.
forrest who was amazing at ping pong got invited to play in a chinese tournament in china. On his return forrest talked about the chinese having no possesions which inspired jhon lennon to right the song imagine -
imagine by jhon lennon
Imagine was a song written by jhon lennon to advicate peace and protest agianst war.
after forrest gump returned from china and told his story about china and the people thier jhon lennon was inspired to right a song that advicated peace. -
hurricane carmen
Hurricane carmen devistated new orleans louisiana and texas. At the time of the hurrican the area of the states where devistated with destruction which caused a bad economy for the area but forrest worked catching shrimp and his boat was the only one that survived in the area allowing him to catch many shrimp and starting a a famous shrimp company -
watergate
The watergate scandal was caused when men tryed to bug the DNC headquarters amd when discovered nixons administration tryed to cover it up creating a scandal which ultimatly led to nixon resigning from presidency.
forrest was invited by nixon to stay at the watergate hotel, forrest say people with flashlights in another room so forrest believed thier lights had gone out and he called to have it repaired but in reality these guys where the buggers and forrest led them to get caught. -
station nightclub fire
Forrest was having a walk with ssome friends and having fun when he notices a nightclub is on fire. Forrest knew he had to help becuase the firemen would not get there in time so one by one forrest pulled men and womenout of the fire saving many lives unfortunately it wasnt enough 100 people died in the fire. -
2004 atlantic hurricane season
during the hurricane season hurricanes impacted florida killing 100 people and 50 billion worth of damage forest wanted to help the devastated community by give back and helping people who had lost their home find new ones. -
boston marathon bombing
Forrest gump enjoys running so on this day he decided to run in the marathon. Forrest was very fast and finished in first place so he watched the rest of the event till a bomb went off forrest didnt know what happen but he knew he needed to help.