Harrison Ford

The relationship between McCartney, Lennon, and Dylan is something that changed the way of music for good. Besides the fact they were all good songwriters apart, when Lennon met McCartney, they were the start of a song writing movement in the industry that changed how people saw artists and song writers – because for once they were one and the same. I think what made their songs so innovated for the time, was how they mixed opinions and sounds through their separate lives, and came together to…

In the 1960’s, Beatlemania swept across North America and Europe, causing the Beatles to receive immense popularity. Their work has become immortalized across the decades because of their melodic tunes and the meanings behind them. Without a doubt, the Beatles are the most recognizable music act of all time. They inspired an entire generation of musicians and united people together for the love of music. Throughout the Beatles’ careers, they have become a symbol of love because of the way…

Civilizations Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. is a science fiction story that communicates lessons of new technological advances that could be developed in the future and some of the outcomes these advancements can cause. The passage Harrison Bergeron is a story of the future that tells about several people who live in a civilization that is affected with an invention that is known as the handicap. George is a human that acceptingly has a mental handicap, but others, such as Harrison,…

Just average is good enough. No one should be smarter, faster, stronger or more attractive than the next. This is the extremist view that the author, Kurt Vonnegut, was trying to portray in his short story “Harrison Bergeron.” The year is 2081; the United States has elected a “Handicapper General” (or HG) to dole out restrictions on the general population to restrict free thinking, beauty, and athleticism. It’s not addressed however one could assume the HG does not have any handicaps; this…

we’ve been taught to follow the rules, but what happens when we don’t? In Greek mythology Icarus dares to face the sun and as a result fails to follow the rules of flying. Examples of the Icarus tales are Ovid’s “Metamorphoses” and the short story “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut. These authors tell the story of boys who pushed the limit which resulted in their deaths. By comparing the two stories, we can see how the plot, character, and message change from story to story and create new…

In 2009, three brothers decided to form an alternative rock band in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, but they needed a name. The band’s drummer, Michael Douglas Jeffery, suggested the name, which he said came to him in a dream. Michael’s brother, Keith William Hamilton Jeffery, serves as the lead vocalist and guitarist, and his other brother, Steven Roger Jeffery, is the band’s bass guitarist. The brothers took on a fourth member, keyboardist Darren Norman Sell, shortly after the band’s…

else can see them can be interpreted as the human spirit.. In “Harrison Bergeron” the entire community is equal to each other in every single way. “The Rocking-Horse Winner” is a story about a young boy who becomes obsessed with betting on horses to satisfy that never-ending desire of greed. “Young Goodman Brown” shows a discussion between the character Goodman Brown and his companion or otherwise known as the Devil. Throughout “Harrison Bergeron,” “The Rocking-Horse Winner,” and “Young Goodman…

In Kurt Vonnegut’s, “Harrison Bergeron,” the author gives the reader a look into how being part of an equivalent society like that of 2081, is not a quintessential future that should be worth striving for and that the concept of equality itself is just a mistaken goal that is dangerous in the way it could be implemented and the consequences it could potentially have. Vonnegut describes a society in which everyone is equal to one another in every aspect. No one is better looking or smarter than…

The Rolling Stones have become one of the most influential bands of all time. Many bands from the sixties are long gone, but the Rolling Stones continue to perform rock music fifty years later to this day. They have far exceeded the normal career span of any other rock band ever and continue to be very successful. The Rolling Stones are a rock band from London that formed in 1962 and are one of the bands that were part of the British Invasion. The Rolling Stones became known for their style…

Society is constantly questioning what the future will hold with numerous interpretations. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr, in the short story “Harrison Bergeron”, anticipates the future of humankind to comprise of complete equality; ultimately, resulting in the absence of individuality. The citizens are obliged to be uncompetitive in all means. After a television announcer stutters, a masked ballerina volunteers herself to speak on behalf of him, a “warm, luminous, timeless melody” blossomed out of her lips,…