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- 2911: The Beat Poets and Movement
- ... 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 forever altered the nature of American consciousness. The Beat Generation of writers offered the world a new attitude. They brought to society a consciousness of life worth living. They offered a method of escape from the stultifying, unimaginative world we live in, through the exploration of one's intellect. Beat has had many different contemporary implications in music, poetry and literature. Literature has been liberated considerably. The poetic form has been changed to ...
- 2912: The Red Badge Of Courage 3
- Stephen Crane has written many remarkable poems, short stories, and novels throughout his short life (He lived only to the age of 29). The Red Badge of Courage is a tale of war, life, responsibility, and duty. It has been considered the first ^great modern novel of war^(Alfred Kazin). It traces the effects of war on Henry Fleming, a Union soldier, through his dreams of battle, his enlistment, and his experience through serveral battles of the Civil War. Henry, ^the youth^, was a young man who lived on a ...
- 2913: Ceremony
- Knowing Oneself, Knows the World The colonization of civilizations has changed the worlds history forever. From the French, Spaniard, and down to the English, have changed cultures, traditions, religions, and livelihoods of other societies. The Native Americans, for example, were one of the many civilizations that were ... only a small amount of Native American nations or tribes exist in remote areas surviving following their traditions. In the book Ceremony, a story of a man named Tayo, did not know himself and the world around him but in the end found out and opened his eyes to the truth. However the Ceremonys main message is related not only to one man but also to everything and everyone ...
- 2914: Character Analysis Of Falconer
- In the novel Falconer, by John Cheever, the main character, Farragut, is motivated by the wish to escape from an unpleasant world. In the "Overview" of John Cheever, it says, "Cheever's world commonly portrays individuals in conflict with their communities and often with themselves." In this novel, Farragut is sent to Falconer prison for murdering his brother, and has to deal with the confinement and withdrawal of ... his drug addictions. In addition, Cheever expresses emotional tension arising from the gap between the peaceful environment, individual passion, and discontent ("Overview" N. Pag.). Farragut, also, has to deal with his loneliness from the outside world. He tries to solve this problem by engaging in a homosexual relationship. Even though Cheever does not judge his characters, he treats them with understanding and compassion. Cheever's characters are uncertain in their ...
- 2915: Red Badge Of Courage
- Article Review on "Red Badge of Courage" The book Red Badge of Courage, is about a physical and emotional pain that a solider of the Civil War might of went through. The soldiers pain comes from all of the horrible things associated with war. The main character, Henery Fleming, joins the Union army dreaming of the heroic things he will accomplish. During the war he discovers that war is not so great and becomes real unsure of himself. Henry then meets up with his friend Jim Then halfway through the book he confronts his cowardice and gains a ...
- 2916: The History Of Corvettes
- ... 1953. It was displayed at the GM Motorama show at New York's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. In May the first Corvette advertisement was unleased. It was a stylish two-seat convertible, designed to show the world that GM could produce a sports car to compete with the other European cars. All three hundred of 1953 Corvettes were built by hand and appeared identical to the Motorama car. Everyone of them were ... 8 was modified with fuel injection to produce an unprecedented 283 horsepower, and a new 4-speed manual transmission was offered as a $188 option, making the Corvette one of the first cars in the world to mate a fuel injected V-8 engine with a 4-speed manual gearbox. This was the first year that vented gas tanks were used in the production of the Corvette. More model options were ... Corvettes, the ZR-1 was given quad rectangular headlights. A team of near-stock ZR-1 Corvettes set dozens of records, near Fort Stockton, TX, for speed and endurance. It set a new 5000 km World Endurance Record of 175.71 mph, 5000 mile World Record of 173.791 mph, and a 24-hour World Endurance Record of 175.885 mph. The ZR-1 engine package alone costed $27,000. ...
- 2917: Analysis of A Cartoon Regarding the Vietnam War
- Analysis of A Cartoon Regarding the Vietnam War Throughout the Vietnam War, many significant terms evolved . This cartoon illustrates some of them. The first thing noticed is the sign: "The Old Myths Home", as the place of gathering. The different myths are some of the policies and ... Vietnam. This was represented as a group of monolithic communists. Another myth present was "Peace with Honor". This was President Richard Nixon's slogan while negotiating with North Vietnam to withdraw their troops. As the war went on and we continued to lose more and more men, the American public wondered why we didn't just withdraw our men. The American public saw this war going nowhere. An explanation given ...
- 2918: The Street of Crocodiles
- ... as providing a bridge between the past and the present by McBurney and Wheatley in their notes on the script. His input continued to illuminate not only the character of his uncle but also the world in which he wrote and lived. There is often a lyrical, often somewhat pastoral quality to much of Bruno Schulzs writing. The external reality so closely associated with the subjects and settings of his work are widely regarded as bleak and burnished. The world he represents in his stories is not necessarily in keeping with the images often associated with Poland during his lifetime. Given this, the help offered by Jacob seems likely to have been invaluable. The younger ... itself and says much about the man who gives it voice. Jacobs personal experience of his uncle can only have helped to add depth and texture to the figure of the man and his world. I believe the single most brilliant aspect of the original writings of Bruno Schulz is this. The beauty with which he sees and experiences his world seems fully contained within the writer himself. Without ...
- 2919: Roman Mythology
- ... Grolier) In Greek mythology She was all and the same. She was forced into marrying Zeus(Jupiter) because he raped her. To hide her shame she married him.(www. hunt) Mars was the god of war, agriculture, and of the state. He appeared in three different ways: Mars Sylvanus, the god of vegetation; Mars Gradivus, the god of war; and Mars Quirinius, the god of state. (Grolier) In Greek mythology he was also considered the god of war, but not of the others. He was disliked by his parents and was a coward. Apollo was the god of music, healing and truth. He was the player of the golden lyre, shooter of ...
- 2920: A Brief Overview Of Psychedelics
- Introduction: Throughout human history people have sought experiences that somehow transcend every day life. Some sort of wisdom that might progress their knowledge of self and of the world that they live in. For some reason they believed that the tangible world just could not be all there is to life. Some believed in a greater force that controlled them, some believed of invisible beings that influenced their lives, some of an actual other world that paralleled their own. Many of these people also believed that it was possible to catch a glimpse of these forces, beings, or worlds through a variety of means that propel individuals into altered ...
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