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William Carlos Williams Allen Ginsberg
1,601 wordsIrwin Allen Ginsberg was born on June 3, 1926 in Newark, New Jersey. Louis Ginsberg, Allens dad, was a published poet, a high school teacher and a Jewish Socialist. His wife, Naomi, was a radical Communist and nudist who went tragically insane in early adulthood. A shy and complicated child growing up in Paterson, New Jersey, Allen's home life was dominated by his mother's bizarre and frightening episodes. A severe paranoid, she trusted Allen when she was convinced the rest of the family and the...
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Ordinary Man San Francisco
1,057 wordsRobert Frost was born on March 26, 1874 in San Francisco. His father was William Frost, a Harvard graduate who was on his way westward when he stopped to teach at Bucknell Academy in Pennsylvania for extra money. His mother, Isabelle Moodie began teaching math at Bucknell while William was there, and they got married and moved to San Francisco. They were constantly changing houses, and William went from job to job as a journalist. About a year after moving to San Francisco, they had Robert. They...
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Kung Fu Yin Yang
1,321 wordsChristian Estrada March 22, 1996 Literature- 07 Biography Report Bruce Lee Introduction Bruce Lee was born in the Chinese year of the dragon, in the hour of the dragon on November 27, 1940. From the beginning, it was obvious he was a remarkable and unique child with tremendous energy. His mother named him Lee Jun Fan, which meant "return again. " She felt he would return to the United States where he was born while his parents were on tour with the Cantonese opera. A nurse suggested he be called...
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Shrinking Buying Power Of The Middle Class
1,763 wordsThe Shrinking Buying Power of the Middle Class According to the Merriam-Websters Online Dictionary, the middle class is a class occupying a position between the upper class and the lower class; especially: a fluid heterogeneous socioeconomic grouping composed principally of business and professional people, bureaucrats, and some farmers and skilled workers sharing common social characteristics and values (Merriam-Webster). In the United States, their family incomes would generally range from $ 2...
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Haight Ashbury Golden Gate
1,093 wordsThrough out history many generations have gone by that have made an impact on more than all of its ancestors. The decade from 1960 to 1970 was definitely one of those eras. The people didn't follow the teachings of its elders, but rejected them for an alternative culture, which was their very own (Harris 14). People no longer had content to be figures of the generation that pursued them, instead young people longed for change. The changes affected lifestyles, values, laws, education, and enterta...
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Machine Guns San Francisco
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Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep
1,070 wordsDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep Philip K. Dick, the author of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, was born in 1928 in Chicago, but he lived most of his life in California. During 1952 - 1982, Philip wrote 36 novels and 5 short story collections. Philip K. Dick died in 1982 in Santa Monica, California. Philip had a rocky emotional life. He was involved in many bad marriages and was addicted to drugs. He would go through times of great creativity, then fall into times when he wouldn't write a...
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Helen Hunt Jackson United States Government
500 wordsHelen Hunt Jackson is famous for being a profound American novelist. Helen's most famous for her novels A Century of Dishoner and Ramona. Born as Helen Fiske in Amherst, Massachusetts on October 15, 1830 died as Helen Hunt Jackson in San Francisco, Helen married Edward Bissel Hunt in 1852. Together they had two sons whom both passed away at young ages. Edward also died in 1865. Already having a traumatizing childhood and having only written a few short stories, poems, and childrens stories by th...
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Woman With The Hat By Henri Matisse
1,512 wordsHenri Matisse Woman With the Hat, 1905 Oil on Canvas 31 x 23. 5 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Henri Matisse's Woman with a Hat (1905, is on display at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Woman with a Hat is a classic fauve extravaganza of wild color. It is oil on canvas; 31. 75 by 35. 5 inches. The first thing one notices about the painting is the color, its everywhere. The painting looks like a splattering of garish color. Green stands out instantly, as it dominates a good deal of the ...
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San Francisco Science Fiction
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1,398 wordsOn Saturday October 16, 1999, the Market auditorium played host to the San Francisco Opera and their production of, Don Giovanni. The San Francisco Opera features the world s major operatic talents in its annual season. The San Francisco Opera Center represents a new era in which young artists of major operatic potential can develop through intensive training and performance. Fortunately, for the people of Southern California, these professionals came to us. Don Giovanni, a classic opera created...
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Alice San Francisco
1,642 wordsGo Ask Alice Imagine you are a young teen in high school. Your best friend is your diary, and your dream in life is to make some real friends and go on a date with the most popular guy in school. Go Ask Alice starts out just like that description. Alice never really had friends and was thought of as an outcast. One day Alice began to try and make some friends by talking to a girl from her school named Jill. Jill was popular, but was looking to meet some new friends. Suddenly, Alice was calling J...
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Joe Dimaggio Baseball Players
674 wordsWhere have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you. Whats that you say, Mrs. Robinson? Joltin Joe has left and gone away. (Mrs. Robinson, Simon and Garfunkel). On March 8, 1999 with the passing of Joe DiMaggio America may have lost one of the great baseball players and American symbols of our time. Baseball has produced many icons, but it has only produced one Joe DiMaggio. I would like to take the great DiMaggio fishing. They say his father was a fisherman. Maybe he was ...
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York William Morrow Super Bowl
1,482 words12. Anderson, Dave, The Football Story, New York, William Morrow and Company, Inc. 1985. THEY CALL IT COACHING, VINCE LOMBARDI ONCE SAID, BUT IT IS TEACHING. Coaching is not only showing a team what to do, but explaining to them why it is so. Each game, the coach is accountable for getting all 11 players on the field working as one unit. Hes responsible for preparing his team for battle each week and for making sure his game-time decisions are flawless. The coach is not only the head of the team...
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Chinese Exclusion Act Standard Of Living
1,214 wordsWhat caused our country to choose racism over open-mindedness, to choose exclusion over inclusion? Why could we not accept the Chinese immigrant in a country of foreigners? Could it have been jealousy? The thought of someone being better than the American people was something that was unacceptable so in turn we passed laws forbidding those of another race entry into our country. I suppose when the national anthem states the land of the free it wasnt pertaining to the Chinese. There were two main...
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San Francisco Open Field
1,580 wordsLets begin with the thought that Duncan, in his poetics, embodies a series of paradoxes that at once reflect and reflect upon the antecedent poetics of what he called his " modernist masters. " Such paradoxes were what struck me when I first encountered Duncan at the Vancouver Poetry Conference, staged at the University of British Columbia in 1963. I had come to know Duncan's work initially through Donald Allens pathbreaking anthology, The New American Poetry, then through The Opening ...
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Society Has Changed Sal And Dean
2,289 wordsThe more things Prison Journey The more things change, the more they stay the same. Society is continually evolving, yet human nature remains constant. Over time, new technologies have served to dramatically alter society, but the needs and desires of individuals within that society have remained the same. The most basic of these needs is the compulsion to find one s place within society. There comes a time in everyone s life at which it becomes necessary to define their role in the world. To de...
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Affirmative Action Policies United States Supreme Court
1,305 wordsRacism Racism is the notion that some ethnic groups or races are naturally superior to others. One specific aspect of racism is segregation. The Latin word segregation get means flock. From it comes the word segregation, which basically means, to separate from the flock. When applied to human beings it means the separation of some people within a society from others. This separation may be traditional: in some religion men and women occupy different parts of a temple or mosque during worship ser...
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Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou
2,054 wordsRacism in Angelou's I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou, the current poet laureate of the United States, has become for many people an exemplary role model. She read an original poem at the inauguration of President Clinton; she has also appeared on the television show Touched by an Angel, and there read another poem of her own composition; she lectures widely, inspiring young people to aim high in life. Yet this is an unlikely beginning for a woman who, by the age of thirty, had been S...
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