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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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Kung Fu Hip Hop
997 wordsBreak Dancing or B-being is a form of hip-hop dancing, which is popularly known as breaking. It consists of top or up rock, footwork, spinning moves (power moves), and freeze. B-being came from Bronx, NY. The term "B-boy" or "B-being" was created by Kool Herc who was a DJ spinning at block parties in Bronx back in the days. B-Boys means break boys and they were called so because they dance to the break part of music. Later, by repeating this break part done by DJ, "breakbeat's" was born. Althoug...
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Underlying Meaning Peoples Lives
1,126 wordsWhen a country is at war it is the common people who suffer. In Walt Whitman's poem, Beat! Beat! Drums, the speaker signifies the sounds of war. The speaker, listening to the banging of war drums and shrill sounds of bugles, relates the interruption these war sounds have on the harmony of peoples lives. Whitman uses the sounds of drums as an audible image to show its effects on the common people. Whitman uses two types of imagery to express the cold indirect and direct effects of war. Whitman us...
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1,193 words"Nothing to be done, " is one of the many phrases that is repeated again and again throughout Samuel Beckett's Waiting For Godot. Godot is an existentialist play that reads like somewhat of a language poem. That is to say, Beckett is not interested in the reader interpreting his words, but simply listening to the words and viewing the actions of his perfectly mismatched characters. Beckett uses the standard Vaudevillian style to present a play that savors of the human condition. He repeats phras...
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Clockwork Orange Ultra Violent
1,460 words... ck work Orange. The boys thought it was an odd title and Alex started to really beat the man, he beat him until he was bloody and lifeless. This time his friends thought that he had gone too far and betrays him by telling the police. Alex is convicted of murder and sentenced to fourteen years in prison at the age of only fifteen years old. He goes to jail and still goes about his violent ways, and eventually kills another prisoner. After this he is chosen as a subject for a new experimental ...
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Grateful Dead Uncle Johns
3,012 wordster> Fear and Loathing in a Clockwork Age Ah! The noble search for identity. That intangible achievement that all artists lust after and lay in torment over. And during the post war era that struggle reached incredible magnitudes. The world cried out for legions of anti-heroes, who were only virtuous in their unapologetic and brutally honest lack of virtue. And the art world provided as many counter culture messiahs as was needed to "Damn the Man." The Beats, hippies, and punks are evi...
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Dean Moriarty Sal Paradise
830 wordsOn the Road, by Jack Kerouac is a book about the need to wander and the rejection of authority and tradition in post World War II American youth. It illustrates the ethos of the American Beat Generation of the 1950 s: freedom, mysticism, and individuality. Kerouac most likely wrote this book in order to provide a semi-autobiographical account of his own adventures hitchhiking around the United States as well as to provide an account and a rationalization for his wanderings and attempt to explain...
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Life Or Death Child Abuse
1,209 wordsSources of information vary, but it is estimated that one in five children are physically, emotionally or sexually abused in our country. There are many who believe, most abuse is nothing more than parents exerting their right to discipline their children and letting it get a little out of hand. People are tragically missed informed thinking beating children is a moral choice, which then makes it their decision. If one thinks its morally right to hit a child, then when the day comes where they b...
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Beats Per Minute Back And Forth
1,232 wordsWhat is a rave? Raving is a highly subjective experience. One person's best rave is another person's worst. Any attempt to analyze rave culture must recognize the highly personal factor of the experience. Author Daniel Martin defines a rave as "a long period of constant energetic and stylistic dancing exhibited by a large group of people in a hot, crowded facility providing continuous loud House music and an accompanying strobe lit psychedelic light show" (78). But what effect does the rave scen...
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Beat And Beat Golding Shows
1,293 words... mp, he fiercely says "Eat! Damn You! ... Take it! ... I got you meat" (pg 74) His disappointment is clearly about not being able to be above all. He thinks of himself as the "Great one" as Golding describes. He clearly has more problems making others think so instead of actually proving what he has to. Not pride that speaks but the feeling of greatness that mankind always seeks out for. Powerful leaders down the pages of history controlling everything under them, even thoughts that linger be...
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Coronary Artery Disease High Blood Pressure
2,644 wordsAneurysm-This term refers to a localized dilation of an artery or chamber of the heart. The behavior and prognosis for aneurysms varies, depending on their size and location. Aneurysms of the heart are usually the result of a prior heart attack. They generally don't require surgical resection. They may result in congestive heart failure and arrhythmias. Aneurysms of the main artery of the body, the aorta, generally require resection once they reach a certain size-anywhere from 4. 5 to 6. 0 centi...
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Low Blood Pressure Beats Per Minute
2,499 words... when they occur in the cardiac cycle as well as by echocardiography and cardiac catheterization. MVP-see Mitral Valve Prolapse. Myocardial Infarction-Death of a region of the muscle supplied by an occluded coronary artery. This is commonly referred to as a 'heart attack. ' A previously stable atherosclerotic plaque in a coronary artery-one that was only partially occluding the artery and producing either a stable anginal pattern or no symptoms at all-ruptures its surface due to shear stress ...
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Matter How Hard Commit Suicide
2,309 wordsBlow Up The Outside World-Soundgarden lyrics Nothing seems to kill me no matter how hard I try Nothing is closing my eyes Nothing can beat me down for your pain or delight And nothing seems to break me No matter how hard I fall nothing can break me at all Not one for giving up though not invincible I know Ive given everything I need Id give you everything I own Id give in if it could at least be ours alone Ive given everything I could To blow it to hell and gone Burrow down in and blow up the ou...
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Shug Avery Alice Walkers
4,988 wordsWhat Makes The Color Purple a Southern Novel? Southern Literature can be defined as writing about the South written by southern authors. However, novels like Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man display characteristics linked to the southern imagination, but written by a non-southerner whose work considered part of the literary genre. Southern writing can also concern a southerners experience elsewhere, but it can also include a southerners writing on a non-southern topic from a non-southern point of v...
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Fatty Acids Petri Dish
4,956 wordsPlan The initial variable to be considered will be the effect that caffeine and temperature has on the heart beat and if it has a direct or indirect effect on the daphnia's lifespan. If there is enough time to consider a second variable however, the effects of a temperature or alcohol on the daphnia's body system will also be considered alongside the initial variable of caffeine. These will then be slotted into the same graph which will show us how the figure correspond to the results. In order ...
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Author Unknown Bushido Code
1,653 words&# 9; During Miyamoto Musashi I. Introduction &# 9; During the ancient period of Japan there existed a time of war and power struggles. There were many people who followed the Bushido code or way of the warrior. These people were called samurai. Of the countless men who devoted their lives to the Bushido code there were none greater than Miyamoto Musashi. Musashi was one of if not the most famous samurai to ever walk the lands of medieval Japan. He was a legend in his own time. II. The Life and ...
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Author Unknown Bushido Code
1,611 wordsI. Miyamoto Musashi Miyamoto Musashi I. Introduction During the ancient period of Japan there existed a time of war and power struggles. There were many people who followed the Bushido code or way of the warrior. These people were called samurai. Of the countless men who devoted their lives to the Bushido code there were none greater than Miyamoto Musashi. Musashi was one of if not the most famous samurai to ever walk the lands of medieval Japan. He was a legend in his own time. II. The Life and...
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Hip Hop Culture Men And Women
988 wordsRunning Head: MUSICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF RAP Musical Characteristics of Rap Paper 1 Jesse Lipscomb e Morehouse College Musical Characteristics of Rap Hip-hop culture, once confined to the streets has broken into the commercial realm with force. Hip hop records top the charts week after week, rap videos have taken control of MTV, BET and the BOX, and there are dozens of hip hop magazines on the newsstands. A stroll on any city street in the United States reveals the proliferation of hip-hop style...
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Man And The Sea Beginning Of The Book
2,070 wordsThe Old Man And The Sea: Man Defeated Reading through the novel The Old Man and the Sea one, as a reader, can perceive several themes in the book. Hemingway suggests certain subjects for discussion which built up the whole plot, therefore giving us options to choose the one we believe is the main one. In the past weeks we have been discussing, in a debate, which is that main theme. My groups theme was Man Defeated and although it is hard to affirm that this theme was the prevailing one of the bo...
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Nobel Prize For Literature Pulitzer Prize
4,183 wordsERNEST HEMINGWAY: THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA BIOGRAPHY Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois, and was educated there in the public schools. Rather than attend college, Hemingway decided to work for the Kansas City Star newspaper. In World War I Hemingway served as a Red Cross ambulance driver until he was severely wounded in action. After recuperating in Italy, he settled in Paris, where he began his serious writing career while spending time with other American ex...
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