William Henry Harrison

“Nobody was smarter… nobody was better looking… nobody was stronger or quicker,”(Vonnegut 1) everyone was equal. All of this is achieved in the short science fiction, “Harrison Bergeron,” by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. The story is about a 14 year old boy named Harrison Bergeron who is beyond “normal” and how everyone who ever ‘above average’ have to wear handicaps. Handicaps prevent them from using certain abilities, it made people’s strongest abilities weaker. But, Bergeron is considered dangerous…

kind of spiritual love. During the song he describes an encounter he had with a women who killed his old dreary world as Lynne sings “Now my old world is gone for dead 'cos I can't get it out of my head, no no. Bank job in the city. Robin Hood and William Tell and Ivanhoe and Lancelot, they don't envy me. Sitting till the sun goes down”. Within these lyrics we can see how dreary his life was before he met this woman. Lynne character of the song worked a typical office, this job isn’t something…

The common theme between Harrison Bergeron and Fahrenheit 451 is that in order for a society to succeed people need to be aware. In both books it shows throughout that the society's would be much better off if people were aware. In the first book Harrison Bergeron shows his society how beautiful the world can be if people are allowed to perform to their fullest ability. The first quote is one example of how beautiful a society can be "Harrison plucked the mental handicap from her ear, snapped…

Kurt Vonnegut helps create a futuristic idea of what the world could be like, and portrays it through his dystopian short story, “Harrison Bergeron”. Using Irony, simile and personification, Vonnegut enlightens readers about how power isn’t always used properly and to spread a better idea and to show that misusing power with therefore leave society worse off. Several examples of this can be found in the short story, in an effort to create a “perfect society” they blindly follow certain practices…

A world where the substantive equality is used in an exaggerated way, is similar to a world controlled by fascist, furthermore, it will be a universe without free will. Likewise, the book “Harrison Bergeron” which says “The year was 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than nobody else; nobody was better looking than anybody else; nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else.”*3 You…

Rock and Roll in Cleveland The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a famous museum that is located in Cleveland, Ohio. This museum teaches, engages, and inspires through the power of rock and roll. The museum was opened to celebrate rock music because it became so popular in the 1950s. People pass the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland every day without knowing it is an important historical landmark in Ohio. In the polls, Cleveland was ranked first for where the Hall of Fame museum should be…

Despite this, there are societies that do not tolerate differences and only view them as threatening to authority. In the short story Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut, people in positions of power employ the notion of inclusion…

The incessant, ear-piercing screams of the fans echo through the arena. The music pours out of the speakers with a beat that shakes the stadium. A socio-cultural revolution is underway, and it has a soundtrack. Records fly left and right off the shelves, and the band skyrockets to the top of the charts. However, fame, fortune, and stress soon engulf them as they orchestrate seventeen hit singles and sell an estimated 600 million records worldwide. This legendary band entered the world at a time…

The Beatles: a band so popular that it was compared with Jesus Christ himself. This band like many others had a shaky start, and for many lived for too little. But during its prime the Beatles created some of the world’s favorite music, and influenced an entire generation of it. Firstly the purpose of this essay is to explain the ways that “The Beatles” and its members shaped music around the world. While doing this this essay is going to tell the story of the Beatles. This will include how…

Rock’s first mixed gender and race band: Sly And The Family Stone. Known largely for their sound in the late sixties with as much mixture in their sound as in their band, playing a fusion of soul, rhythm and blues, funk, psychedelia, gospel, and all around high energy music. The band formed in 1967 and had a major hit on Pop and R&B charts in 1968 “Dance To The Music”, but got a much greater fan base after their amazing performance at Woodstock. They played at 3:30 am Sunday morning August 17,…