Jerry Garcia and The Grateful Dead Jerome John Garcia was born in 1942‚ in San Francisco’s Mission District. His father‚ a spanish immigrant named Jose "Joe" Garcia‚ had been a jazz clarinetist and Dixieland bandleader in the thirties‚ and he named his new son after his favorite Broadway composer‚ Jerome Kern. In the spring of 1948‚ while on a fishing trip‚ Garcia saw his father swept to his death by a California river. After his father’s death‚ Garcia spent a few years living with his mother’s
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Formed in 1960 amid the rise of the counterculture of the century in Palo Alto‚ California‚ The Grateful Dead was one of the most illustrious American Rock bands of the century. Making #57 on Rolling Stone magazines “Greatest Artists of All Time” issue and being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame‚ the band is acclaimed for it’s unique and expansive style. Ranging from blues‚ reggae‚ country‚ jazz‚ folk‚ and rock‚ the band had music that was unheard of and has sold more than 35 million albums
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relevance of class as a social category has recently become widely debated amongst sociologists. Some theorists have reached the conclusion that in contemporary Britain ‘class is dead’; they deem it archaic and useless when seeking to explain the inequalities present in British society. My argument seeks to dispute the reasons presented for seeing class as dead. It will also attempt to highlight how there should be a ‘class renaissance’‚ where class is reconceptualised as a category considering more
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In “Generation Why?” article from The New York Review of Books‚ Zade Smith pointed out the software are changing our humanities. Facebook is providing the “weak‚ superficial connections” (650). On the social networking software‚ “Gay kids became un-gay‚ partiers took down their party photos‚ political firebrands put out their fire” (651)‚ users can hide themselves by editing their information and utilizing the privacy setting. The Generation Facebook is obsessed with “the vision of good life” (648)
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of the most intense music enthusiasts I know. My parents used to tell me about the musicians of their time‚ of which their favorite was The Grateful Dead. The Grateful Dead’s dedicated fan base‚ which included my mother and father‚ often travelled across the country following the band on tour. Before CDs and records were even highly popular‚ The Grateful Dead was able to make a profit off of the loyalty of their fans. Being a musician is hard‚ whether considering the artists of today or of decades
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Generation Snowflake as defined by Collins Dictionary is the generation of people who became adults in the 2010s‚ viewed as being less resilient and more prone to taking offence. Since Generation Snowflake takes offense to literally everything this has ushered in the dreaded age of “Political Correctness”. For instance‚ “last year‚ students at the University of East Anglia banned a Mexican restaurant from giving out sombreros because of racist stereotyping” (Crowder). In my opinion this is going
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The question‚ “Are we the dumbest generation?” has been asked by many and we all have different point of view on it. There’s no wrong or right answer when it comes to it‚ but I‚ for one think that we are not the dumbest generation. Because technology has upgraded since it has been introduced to us all and technology has affected us in marvelous ways. Bauerlein stated‚ “The advantages of twenty-first century teen life keep expanding‚ the eighties and nineties economy and the digital revolution providing
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The question‚ “Are we the dumbest generation?” has been asked by many and we all have different point of view on it. There’s no wrong or right answer when it comes to it‚ but I‚ for one think that we are not the dumbest generation. Because technology has upgraded since it has been introduced to us all and technology has affected us in marvelous ways. Bauerlein stated‚ “The advantages of twenty-first century teen life keep expanding‚ the eighties and nineties economy and the digital revolution providing
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Egalitarianism‚ “Relating to or believing in the principle that all people are equal and deserve equal rights and opportunities”. This is the basis of what people believe the American Dream is all about‚ but in fact‚ everyone truly has their own sight of the American Dream. That leads into the talk about how the American Dream is dead. That the sight of the American Dream in America is no longer clear. Some areas of America have lost all hope in the dream‚ and some are completely oblivious to
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Shrimpton at 91 Heigham Road David Bailey 1961 The New Generation of Models in the 1960s “Jean Shrimpton was the first iconic model of the 1960s. The photos she and Bailey took in New York broke the mould and still inspire fashion today.” (We’ll Take Manhattan‚ 2012) This essay will consider how the ‘supermodels’ of the 1960s‚ concentrating on Jean Shrimpton and Leslie Hornby (Twiggy) helped to change the style of fashion and photography at this time. The essay will discuss the intimacy in the
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