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Horace Mann Beat Generation
1,337 wordsJack Kerouac was the spark that started the flame of the Beat Generation though, through his own eyes, he felt like a failure. Jack keyed the term beat generation in a conversation with John Clellon Holmes, another of the beat generation poets, in 1948 (). The Beat Generation might not have happened without the help of Jack. What formed him into the blunt writer that he was, was his loving family, the death of his brother, movies, college, and newfound friends. Jack Kerouac, baptized Jean Louis ...
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Middle Class Families Rap Music
3,729 words... t lifting. Clive did not like the name Hercules so he shortened it to Herc. When Herc became a graffiti writer he took the tag name Kool Herc. Kool Herc began to DJ in 1973 once he had amassed a great sound system. The Jamaican influence of having a large sound system was not lost on Herc. Herc realized that in order for large crowds to dance to his music they needed to hear the beat. Kool Herc seldom played an entire song. He knew which part of the record sent his audience into a frenzy. It...
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Greco Roman Gold Medal
1,243 wordsSYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- Rulon Gardner did the unthinkable. He beat the unbeatable. He proved that Alexander Karelin isn't perfect -- and he won a gold medal that virtually nobody in the world thought he could win. Gardner, never an NCAA champion, never a world medalist, ended Karelin's string of three Olympic gold medals and 13 -year unbeaten streak by winning the Olympic super heavyweight wrestling gold medal 1 - 0 Wednesday. Miracle on ice? This was the miracle on the mat. ''When did I think...
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Hip Hop Grandmaster Flash
914 wordsRahzel M. Brown was born in Queens, New York and recalls that not having was never an excuse for not doing. Just as in its most organic state the essence of hip hop is making something out of nothing, Rahzel learned how to feed his need to be creative. We didnt have the turntables inside the locker room and we couldnt bring our boom box in there. Either we were banging on the locker, or somebody was (making music) with their mouth. I was the one who made the beats with my mouth. I worked hard so...
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Frumpalump ' 'frumpalump ' Frumpalump ' 'frumpalump Tommy
1,299 words"Ringggggg Ringggggggg Ringggggggggg!"That is the bell kids, get in line for class!" Tommy was a little third grader that could not wait until he was older. He was just waiting for that moment when he could be a 4 th grader. 'Hey Tommy, ' Billy, a 4 th grader, said, 'I'm gonna tell you the neatest word in the whole world, but, you can NEVER tell anyone what it is. ' Tommy was obviously so excited, he didn't notice his class had already gone into the school, ran over to Billy to hear the word. To...
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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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World War Ii Beat Generation
912 wordsBorn To the Beat What better way is there to capture history or to sum up a generation of thought, than through literature? To look back into the past to see what events took place and what the mood of the people was, people look to literature. It displays the lifestyles of the time and an intimate peek into the lives of the past. The Beat Generation captures the attitude of kids that had lived through World War II and their perspective on everything from politics to personal philosophy. But the...
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Hip Hop Music Pop Art
2,076 wordsPop Art and Sampling In Pop art, reproduction and repetition are the main aspects that distinguish it from other art movements. Andy Warhols Marilyn is a perfect example of reproduction of image already familiar to the audience, and is repeated once, four times, or twenty times. Pop art takes from commercial art and makes it the elite art as well. That is why Pop art is so special, because it can be distinguished by the mainstream, not just the elite art world. Reproductions provide references t...
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Form Of Music Style Of Writing
1,180 wordsThe Relationship of Jazz Music and Jack Kerouac There is a distinct relationship between jazz music and the Beat Generation, particularly Jack Kerouac. The writings of the beat generation were often influenced by the different styles of jazz. One certain style of jazz known as bop and bebop were the most influential of all forms on the beat generation. They were an improvised form of jazz that has been traced back to originating in Harlem in the early forties and fifties. A harmonically and rhyt...
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Nba Finals Magic Johnson
2,802 wordsThe L. A. Lakers in the 1980 s were a basketball powerhouse with household names such as James Worthy, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Kurt Rambis who would doubt it. They had class and displayed it on the court. Kareem could pull up for his patented sky hook, they could dish to Worthy for the dunk and Rambis could pull down a rebound, but without a certain Magic there would be no showtime in L. A. A certain young player who had it all, a flashy smile and a great no look pass. That certain player was a ...
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Clockwork Orange Ultra Violent
2,930 wordsMany of us like to think that humanity as a whole is progressing to a better future where we will live united and in peace with one another, a time of a more enlightened society. But there are those among us that do not share these beliefs. In A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess, the futuristic world is displayed as a world turned upside down and in shambles. This 1962 classic is a frightful depiction of what our society could become and possibly what it already is. Drugs almost seem to be le...
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Roles Of Women Treatment Of Women
1,376 wordsThroughout the world, from the beginning of time to today, women have been thought of as inferior, mens possessions and only there to serve mans every need. As far back as the nomadic civilizations, women were considered the nurtures and homemakers. They were supposed to stay home, take of the children and cook all of the family's meals. Today women, in some places, are still not treated as equals and have little if any rights. As well as having unequal rights, women have been treated harshly. T...
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Beat Generation Jack Kerouac
1,780 wordsThe Beat Generatio The Twentieth Century has witnessed several moments which have helped to shape the face of American culture. Each movement has in some way altered the way we, as Americans, think and act. One of the most influential literary movements of this century has been that of the Beat movement. The Beats were initially a small group of individuals situated in New York. The Beat writers were a small group of friends at first, and a movement later. The Beat Generation in literature consi...
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Sexually Transmitted Punk Music
10,925 wordsIntroduction: Often when people think of punk music they still think of the eighties down with government beat the hell out of your neighbor get wasted stereotype. It oge's without saying that punk music has earned its reputation for being high impact, loud, energetic and intense. However people often associate the message of all punk music as containing nothing more then violent anti-government statements and messages of alienation. Many people share the view that it has nothing to say and has ...
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Baking Soda Citric Acid
4,121 wordsTitle: ITALIAN COCONUT CREAM CAKE Yield: 12 To 16 2 c Sugar 1 / 2 lb Butter; divided 5 Egg yolks 1 / 2 c Shortening 2 c All-purpose flour 1 ts Baking soda 1 c Buttermilk 1 / 2 c Pecans; chopped 2 ts Vanilla; divided 5 Eggs whites; stiffly beaten 8 oz Cream cheese 1 lb Powdered sugar Cream together sugar, 1 / 4 lb. butter, egg yolks and shortening. Add flour, baking soda, buttermilk, pecans, coconut, and 1 tsp. vanilla. Stir to blend well. Fold into beaten egg whites. Pour into 3 cake pans that h...
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Influenced Greatly Allen Ginsberg
1,326 wordsBeat Poets By: James Degree The Beat Movement in modern literature has become an important period in the history of literature and society in America. Incorporating influences such as jazz, art, literature, philosophy and religion, the beat writers created a new and prophetic vision of modern life and changed the way a generation of people sees the world. That generation is mow aging and its representative voices are becoming lost to eternity, but the message is alive and well. The Beats have fo...
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