My image is of the famous rock and roll band The Beatles. The Beatles were a revolutionary guitar and pop vocal group from the 1960s. In my image you can see three different sets of bullets lying on the ground scattered in different places to show how violent the war in Vietnam was, and how devastating the cost of war is. Next, you can see a poster of former U.S. President Richard Nixon who helped lead the nation to end the Vietnam War and to help relations with communist China. There is also a poster of "make art not war" and that represents all the hippies and anti-war sentiment that existed at the time of The Beatles and in their actual music. There is a sticker on the guitar that has a black fist that says "strike," which signifies the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s where black people fought to gain rights to equal opportunities and privileges that white Americans had. Also, there is a burning American flag in the background, which shows the hatred that existed amongst Americans for their own country because of the unending Vietnam War and thousands of soldiers who died fighting in combat. In the background, there is a Klu Klux Klan member who was dominant at the time of The Beatles; they were racist terrorists who sought to destroy African Americans and institute white supremacy. Lastly, there is a rocket missile being launched into the sky, which symbolizes the Cuban Missile Crisis and the strife that existed between JFK's United States, Castro's Cuba, and Khrushchev's Russia.
The Beatles played a major platform in world history and were witness to some of the world's most climactic events, those good and those bad.
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