William Henry Harrison

John Lennon “If everyone demanded peace instead of a new television set, then there’d be peace.” John Lennon was one of the most profound and inspirational people in the world, even to this day. He was a leader for peace and was against war; he stood up for what he believed in and didn’t back down when people tried to attack his ways of thinking. He changed the world and people’s views, he got the attention of everyone and with it, he used it for good. John Lennon wasn’t just a singer in a…

Out of all the music I have heard recently, the one that I believe was the best exhibit source for this assignment was “Getting Better” by the Beatles. Unlike the other songs in the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album, this one has an indirect tension that is prevalent as the band explores some cheerful, hopeful reminiscences, strung together to create this musical piece. The main anecdote that this song embodies is that of the once hospitalized Ringo Star, who had tonsillitis and…

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…

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…