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    To look at art, you need time. Looking at art is just as difficult as making it; to fully know what an art piece can give you, you have to take the time to let it talk to you. As if you tell someone a story and tell them to tell someone else, but that someone else walks away mid-story. You are that someone else, the artist is giving a story to a canvas, and if you don’t give the canvas the same amount of time that the artist gave it, you won’t hear the whole story. Paintings that are…

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    Allen Ginsberg Howl Essay

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    Allen Ginsberg's Howl was exactly as the title suggested; a howl. His protest against capitalism and conformity called into question what it truly meant to be normal. His explicit images of sex, drugs, and violence appalled societies' average readers. Through the chaos, however, something about Howl spoke to me. Today, we live in a world where we scrutinize mental health and, in this state, I found myself empathizing with young Ginsberg and the horror of his experiences. Ginsberg broke Howl up…

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    Beat Meeting Reflection

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    on the 3rd floor of Magnuson center. As we were going upstairs there was a meeting going on in the building and my professor decided to check it out and had a conversation with the people involved. The meeting that was taking place in the room was a Beat meeting or CAPS and its purpose is to have people around the neighborhood attend to state any sort of crime or unlawful acts going on in their community. The meeting is a great place for the community and law enforcement officers to interact.…

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    1926 to Louis and Naomi Levy Ginsberg (poetry 1) from having a rough life from childhood to adulthood it had an impact on his writings and poetry. Therefore having a rough life he had different sexual preferences that made him different during the beat movement in 1950’s. Hence when someone who has been scarred from their childhood to adulthood; someone like Allen Ginsberg who expressed himself with his feelings and ideas in his poems. Poetry is an expression of your feeling and ideas using…

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    troubled American society after World War II. Allen Ginsberg was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1926 and died in 1997. In the 1940’s, Ginsberg attended Columbia University where he met other inspiring writers who later called themselves the Beats. The Beats was a combination of post-World War II writers that developed a reputation of phenomenal literature style through drug experimentation, sexual exploits, and religious spirituality. In the 1950’s, Allen Ginsberg wrote Howl for Carl Solomon,…

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    Beat The Clock Analysis

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    Having working parents can benefit a family, but it can also split one. Working long hours of different shifts takes its toll on a person, and can also affect the people involved in the person’s life. In Marilyn Gardner More Working Parents Play “Beat the Clock”, she goes into extensive detail on…

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    Adriana Ramirez March 17, 2017 English 146 March 14 & 16 Assignment 1. As an experiment to understand the aesthetic of the Beats, choose a long passage in On the Road and a dozen lines from Allen Ginsberg’s “A Supermarket in California.” Compare the sound and pace of both passages. Describe the similarities you hear. What might account for these similarities? In which ways might Howl and On the Road celebrate life? A passage adapted from On the Road reads: “My first impression of Dean was of…

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    together wrote a song talking about friendship. It was a very interesting experience. This workshop helped me notice the importance of integration of nature as well as how music can make a change of one’s mind. At first, we were asked to follow the beats given by professor with our hands. It is so surprising that we made the sound so harmonic. It is the first time that I met most people in workshop, however, we successfully perform the symphony together in the first trial. After that,…

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    Business Unit 9 P5

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    The task in which I was given was to create a presentation, using Microsoft PowerPoint 2013, to advertise The Redhill Academy. The information given to us was that the presentation was for an adult audience, and that we could not use any of the pre-set templates in the software. To begin with, I decided to create a design for my presentation. I did this as I wanted my presentation to look consistent and professional. I used the Slide Master feature in PowerPoint to create the design as it meant…

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    To some extent, the pursuit of hopes and dreams is a method of escaping the realities of everyday life for characters from both texts. In Kerouac’s novel, the dreams of where the road might take them provide an escape for both Sal and Dean from a mundane East Coast lifestyle, and a way to forget the mistakes of the past. Similarly in Thompson’s piece, a voyage of revelation fueled by an underlying desire to understand the American Dream offers a chance to escape for Raoul and his attorney using…

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