"Beat Generation" Essays and Research Papers

Sort By:
Satisfactory Essays
Good Essays
Better Essays
Powerful Essays
Best Essays
Page 7 of 50 - About 500 Essays
  • Better Essays

    Hippie Subculture

    • 1324 Words
    • 4 Pages

    Kayla DiMarco English 1A Dr. Small 28 April 2014 Hippie Subculture Punks‚ goths‚ metallers‚ soul sisters‚ hippies; there was a time when the young generation made it clear what tribe and music they were into by the way they dressed‚ but not anymore. The young subculture today has different definitions of these new young cultures‚ because of our society‚ rather than actually knowing who these people truly are. Call them freaks‚ the underground‚ the counter-culture‚ flower children‚ or hippies—they

    Premium Beat Generation Hippie Counterculture

    • 1324 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    documented in countless forms of literature‚ film and art. On the Road by Jack Kerouac was written and published at the outset of the counter-culture movement of the 1950s and 1960s. This novel provides a first-hand account of the beginnings of the Beat movement and acts as a harbinger for the major societal changes that would occur in the United States throughout the next two decades. On the contrary‚ Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas‚ a Hunter S. Thompson novel written in 1971 provides a commentary

    Premium Beat Generation Hunter S. Thompson

    • 1601 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Good Essays

    derives from “hipster” which was first coined by Harry Gibson in 1940 in a song titled “Harry the Hipster” (as Harry referred to himself). Hipsters were beatniks who had moved into New York City’s Greenwich Village. Beatniks were followers of the Beat Generation literary movement who through their writings‚ promoted anti-conformist attitudes and ideals. The first clearly used instance of the term “hippie” occurred on September 5‚ 1965 in the article “A New Haven for Beatniks” by San Francisco journalist

    Premium Hippie Beat Generation

    • 266 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    In “Howl”‚ by Allen Ginsberg‚ he talks about his generation and the way he feels about them. He describes his generation and says that he saw the best minds of his generation get destroyed by madness. These best minds he mentions are his friends‚ literary associates‚ and acquaintances. All of these will be associated with the Beat generation. His people are the protagonists in his poem. The poem focuses on the fractured lives of the best minds. Ginsberg uses the “who” to start many of the lines and

    Premium Allen Ginsberg Poetry Sociology

    • 464 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    The New Generation

    • 517 Words
    • 3 Pages

    generations come and go every generation owns it own particular values attitudes morals and goals that make them apart from the other generations. A generation gap has always been noticed between the past and the new generations. this barrier between generations has been created due to many different reasons such as - technological progress‚ social crisis and dilemma and the gifts from the modern science. the previous generations have played a tremendous role in moulding our newest generation

    Free Morality Sociology History of technology

    • 517 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    hospitals have started to use music therapy on some of their patients‚ who develop problems with depression‚ muscle tension‚ stress and to motivate them. Researchers have found that music beats send stimulating waves to the brain and by increasing and decreasing the beats they can control people’s emotions. A strong beat will keep you alert and a slow one will calm you down. Because music can control your heart rate‚ your body automatically experiences relief‚ and that’s why music and music therapy prevent

    Premium Psychology Depression Beat Generation

    • 477 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    Generation Gap

    • 1069 Words
    • 5 Pages

    differences between people of younger generations and their elders‚ especially between children and their parents.[1] Although some generational differences have existed throughout history‚ modern generational gaps have often been attributed to rapid cultural change in the postmodern period‚ particularly with respect to such matters as musical tastes‚ fashion‚ culture and politics. These changes are assumed to have been magnified by the unprecedented size of the young generation during the 1960s‚ which gave

    Premium Generation Y Mobile phone Communication

    • 1069 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Time and Generation

    • 631 Words
    • 3 Pages

    GENERATION Z A NAME GIVEN FOR THE PEOPLE BORN AFTER LATE 90’S SO WE ARE KNOWN IN A COHORT BY THIS NAME. PAST GENERATION WAS A GENERATION WHICH WAS A GENERATION IDENTIFIED AS THE RISING WORLD OR A DEVELOPING WORLD‚ WHILE AT PRESENT WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY WHICH IS THE KEY POINT IN OUR GENERATION. OUR PARENTS DID NOT HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY WHICH WE HAVE AT PRESENT WE CAN TAKE 100% ADVANTAGE OF IT IF WE DESIRE. AND EVEN IF THEY HAD‚ THEY WERE UNAWARE OF IT AS IT WAS A DEVELOPING ERA. TECHNOLOGY AND RELATIONSHIP

    Premium Time Present Future

    • 631 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Best Essays

    The Beat Generation: Vulnerable Victims or Inviolable Individuals? The Concept of Vulnerability in Memoirs of a Beatnik and On the Road Vulnerability is often one-dimensionally viewed as the degree to which mishaps‚ pain and shame are allowed to enter into one’s life. However it is also the birthplace of creativity and basis for a feeling of self-worthiness. Thereby vulnerability creates authenticity. There are various different definitions of vulnerability according to the field in which

    Premium Beat Generation

    • 3335 Words
    • 14 Pages
    Best Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    The Dumbest Generation

    • 271 Words
    • 2 Pages

    The Dumbest Generation- Summary **This generation is processing info----but only through digital devices** In The Dumbest Generation‚ Mark Bauerlein argues that the younger generation‚ also refered to as the “Dumbest Generation” is unbelievably ignorant due to the increase in technology and pop culture. He remarks that it almost takes effort to be THAT ignorant of what-should-be common facts. He goes on to reflect upon the fact that it is indeed these very people that are the “future of

    Premium Generation Y Popular culture Technology

    • 271 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
Page 1 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 50