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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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20 Th Century Harper Lee
786 wordsIn, To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee refers to Oliver Optic, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and Victor Appleton as three authors whose works were enjoyed by Scout, Jem and Dill. These 19 th and 20 th century authors had similar writing styles and plot formulations. Adventure stories, which were the genre of the tales written by these particular authors, were extremely appealing to the young children in Harper Lees novel. Scout and her friends wove detailed imaginary dramas portraying characters discover...
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William Burroughs The Pusher And Pimp
350 wordsYaka Of 4 / 17 / 2000 Professor Julie Lewis English 1 William Burroughs: The Pusher and The Pimp Picture if you will, two street corners in a crime-riddled neighborhood. On one corner stands a Pimp with several of his employees parading around. On the other corner stands a Junk dealer selling his product. Both men frown upon each other for the others occupation. Little do they know they are doing basically the same thing; both men make a living off of degrading people, only difference is one doe...
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Allen Ginsberg Jack Kerouac
1,447 wordsBorn on March 12, 1922, the youngest of three children in a French-Canadian family that had established itself in Lowell, Massachusetts, Jack Kerouac was by the age of ten already aiming to become a writer. His father ran a print shop and published a local newsletter called the Spotlight. Before long he began writing and producing his own sport sheet, which he sold to friends and acquaintances in Lowell. He attended both Catholic and public schools, and won athletic scholarships to the Horace Ma...
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Salem Witch Trials Giles Corey
1,366 wordsThe Salem Witch Trials all began on January 20, 1692, with nine-year-old Elizabeth Betty Parris and eleven-year-old Abigail Williams, daughter and niece of the village reverend Samuel Parris, beginning to exhibit strange behavior, such as blasphemous screaming, convulsive seizures, trance-like states and mysterious spells. Within a short period of time, several other Salem girls began to illustrate similar behavior; physicians resolved that the girls were under the control of Satan. Reverend Par...
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Upper Middle Class Beat Generation
2,502 wordsThe Beat Generation According to Jack Kerouac, who originally named the Beat Generation (in a conversation with John Clellon Holmes in 1948) and who was its principal chronicler and representative, the Beat Generation had already begun to emerge during World War II. Kerouac recalled meeting hipsters in New York City in 1944 and feeling an affinity with them and sensing that some new consciousness was being born. Anyway, the hipsters, whose music was bop, they looked like criminals but they kept ...
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Booker T Washington Booker T One
634 wordsBooker T. Washington recalled his childhood in his autobiography, Up From Slavery. He was born in 1856 on the Burroughs tobacco farm which, despite its small size, he always referred to as a plantation. His mother was a cook, his father a white man from a nearby farm. The early years of my life, which were spent in the little cabin, he wrote, were not very different from those of other slaves. He went to school in Franklin County not as a student, but to carry books for one of James Burroughs da...
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Style Of Writing Jack Kerouac
1,947 wordsIn the beginning Jack Kerouac lived a wild and exciting life outside the realm of everyday " normal" American life. Though On the Road and The Dharma Bums were Kerouac's only commercial successes, he was a man who changed American literature and pop-culture. Kerouac virtually created a life-style devoted to life, art, literature, music, and poetry. When his movement grew out of his control, he came to despise it, and died lonely on the other side of what he once loved and cherished abo...
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Genital Mutilation Oxford Blackwell
2,928 words" Junk Drug Debate Drugs Debate " Junk yields a basic formula of " evil" virus: The Algebra of Need . The face of " evil" is always the face of total need. A dope fiend is a man in total need of dope. Beyond a certain frequency need knows absolutely no limit or control. In the words of total need: " Wouldnt you ? " Yes you would. You would lie, cheat, inform on your friends, steal, do anything to satisfy total need. Because you would be in a state of total...
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Genital Mutilation Oxford Blackwell
2,895 wordsJunk Drug Debate Drugs Debate Junk yields a basic formula of evil virus: The Algebra of Need . The face of evil is always the face of total need. A dope fiend is a man in total need of dope. Beyond a certain frequency need knows absolutely no limit or control. In the words of total need: Wouldnt you ? Yes you would. You would lie, cheat, inform on your friends, steal, do anything to satisfy total need. Because you would be in a state of total sickness, total possession, and not in a position to ...
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Women Were Basically George Burroughs Trials
471 wordsThe reading by Johnson starts out with a married lady by the name of Katherine Watkins complaining of rape by a black slave. Throughout the remainder of this section, depositions are given by other black slaves and people who claim to have witnessed the occurrence. Most of the accounts indicate that Mrs. Watkins seduced the slave into a sexual act and then blamed it on him in order to stay out of the trouble that her Quaker husband s beliefs would have brought on her. The other section in this b...
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First World War 20 Th Century
3,857 wordsPublishing's one-man band In the shabby back room of John Calder's bookshop on The Cut in south London, an intriguing literary event is about to begin. The shop itself is an anachronism, one of those tiny havens that once populated Charing Cross Road before the arrival of megawatts such as Waterstones and Borders. Where you might normally expect to see Man and Boy or White Teeth displayed are copies of Louis-Ferdinand Celine's Journey to the End of the Night, the collected works of Antonin Arthu...
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End Of Act Town Of Salem
922 wordsRevenges Evil Ways Arthur Miller uses the theme of revenge many times in the play The Crucible. The hysteria in Salem in 1692 was escalated by the element of revenge. The role of revenge intensified the feelings of the Salem people. Abigail Williams was an example of someone out for revenge in 1692. The Putnam's were another example of people setting out to settle vendettas of their own during the witch trials. Reverend Parris was another individual ready to settle is own feuds. Abigail Williams...
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Allen Ginsberg Ping Pong
1,149 wordsSocial Pressures Reflected in Ginsberg's Howl Post World War II America produced a number of images that will be forever imprinted on the minds of Americans. Such images as television shows like Leave It To Beaver and I Love Lucy, movies such as An Affair To Remember, and Brigadoon, are watched frequently even in todays society. But in this world of fairytale movies and the American Dream, what about those who didnt fit into the picture of perfection and prosperity? These men became the basis of...
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