Countercultural Reading Response

Please respond to the following essays:

1. From Scratching the Beat Surface by Michael McClure

2. From Hippies: A Study of Their Drug Habits and Sexual Customs byTribhuwan Kapur

3. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson 

With the countercultural background in preface, please write each of the essay a response towards the issue addressed. You may talk beyond the text. 

The total length of the paper should be between two to three pages,
single spaced, which works out to about half a page on each essay.

The object is to see the develop of your ideas and also bring to fruition your own previously acquired knowledge of history, culture, the art, music, media, sociology, philosophy, politics and religions from the 60s. Critically examined the values lived and espoused by the generation of late 60s and early 70s.