Beatnik

Allen Ginsberg’s electric “Footnote” to Howl situates itself comfortably within his bigger poem, or just plain Howl, a well-known and admired epic by Allen Ginsberg for his generation of lost and disaffected youths. Ginsberg’s epic entirety closely resembles Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass published in 1855, which marked an era of upheaval in politics, society, and social conventions. Now getting to Ginsberg’s infamous “Footnote,” which stirred up and presented a new literary style approaching…

In the essay; “Two Years Are Better Than Four” by Liz Addison, was published in the New York Times Magazine’s College Essay Contest. Throughout this essay, the author follows a fictional, yet symbolic character; Rick Perlstein. Through this character, Addison expresses her thoughts on the American Higher Education System. Consequently, she manages to highlight the importance of community colleges and the stark contrasts community colleges and universities share with each other all through the…

embrace the unknown. This mentality was greatly adopted by Transcendentalists, who argued that society was corrupting one’s mentality, and that one should focus on nature and self-reliance. This group of individuals had the same spirit as the Beats and Beatniks; live one’s life to its fullest extent and pursue one’s dreams. Henry David Thoreau captures this set of ideals in his quote “If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has…

from the bookstore where he once worked. He reminisces briefly about his life in the city. He had been a dropout, and it is implied that he lived in some level of poverty. In his own words, “I was literary, but not very literate, a late-arriving beatnik with a taste mainly for getting wasted” (Banks 8). He lost his job at the bookstore after having a nervous…

Whimsical, Wild and Weird Jack Kerouac is a writer known for his different view of everyday life. It was different back when he started writing books, in the forties, and it still is different, or at least uncommon. Jack didn’t really want a regular life; it just didn’t suit him. He gave it a try, according to Biography.com Editors, in “Jack Kerouac.” From April 2017, he was forced out of football after an injury, so he quit college, and was discharged 10 days into being a marine, so I don’t…

Journal and likened to Steve Jobs by Buzzfeed, is the acknowledged Pater Patriae of North American CBDs. Prior to his entrepreneurial enterprises, Clark came of age in and around California’s 1960s counter-culture movements. For him, hippies, aging beatniks, and renegade motorcyclists were the norm. And so were the drugs. Buying, selling, and using cannabis was likely as normal as a kid’s corner lemonade stand in bourgeois America. Today, for Clark, normalizing, indeed analyzing, legalizing,…

to American rock’n’roll. According to the Dick Hebdige the originators of the Mod subculture have devoted from the Italianate stylish that appear in working class bandies, but according to Simon Frith the Mod style and movement had originally from Beatnik Coffee Bar culture from Art school students in London. In the Mod history style, the Mod shows had been declined from in the Mod scene and the popularity during that time was psychedelic rock and the hippie in the United Kingdom. The history…

Allen Ginsberg was born in Jewish family in New Jersey. His father Louis Ginsberg was a published poet and a high school teacher. Ginsberg's mother, Naomi Livergant Ginsberg, was suffered from mental illness which often manifested as paranoid delusions. His experiences with his mother’s mental illness are also frequently referred to in Howl. For example, “Pilgrim State, Rockland, and Grey Stone's foetid halls” is a reference to institutions frequented by his mother and Carl Solomon, ostensibly…

The idea of ethical and unethical is simply morality. Being able to distinguish right from wrong forms every single relationship in the world, whether it’s company to company, people to people, people to company, etc, it has a great impact in the world. Ugg Boots practices many unethical ways of running their business. Ugg boots has unfair pay to workers, creates pollution, and is high in animal testing and cruelty. To begin with, the company, they practice unfair pay to workers that make…

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…