... University, classical Chinese at the University of California at Berkeley, and Zen Buddhism in Japan. Gary was a teacher of English at the University of California, Davis. He helped launch the San Francisco renaissance and is considered a leader of the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s. Much of his writing demonstrates the influence of the respected American poets, Walt Whitman and Ezra ... and Selected Poems (1992). Beat generation refers to the men and women poets, writers, thinkers, and philosophers who emerged on the hip scene in the 1940s and ballooned into the San Francis...

• Word Count: 974
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• Grade Level: High School

... life style founded both on jazz and drug-induced vision" (amazon.com-#2). The first stage is about his first trip leaving New York to get to San Francisco to meet his friend Dean Moriarty. He starts hitchhiking for awhile, but he gets frustrated and decides to travel by bus to Chicago, later he arrives ... and to be independent. He is always asking her aunt to send him money, or he gets very insignificant jobs, like when he lives in San Francisco with his friend Remi Boncoeur, they work as guards in the barracks they live in and they steal food. The story keeps you wondering what will ......

• Word Count: 3797
• Approx Pages: 15
• Grade Level: High School

... dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do."(Ferlinghetti, http://www.sanfranciscoreader.com/interviews/ferlinghetti%20interview.html) "From 1951 to 1953, when he settled in San Francisco, he taught French in an adult education program, painted, wrote art criticism, and met Peter Martin. In 1953 they founded City Lights Bookstore, the first all-paperbound bookshop in the ... House. Together they started a magazine where Ferlinghetti would soon become popular for his poetry. The magazine was called City Lights. It was meant to highlight the cultural restlessness ...

• Word Count: 2368
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do."(Ferlinghetti, http://www.sanfranciscoreader.com/interviews/ferlinghetti%20interview.html) "From 1951 to 1953, when he settled in San Francisco, he taught French in an adult education program, painted, wrote art criticism, and met Peter Martin. In 1953 they founded City Lights Bookstore, the first all-paperbound bookshop in the ... House. Together they started a magazine where Ferlinghetti would soon become popular for his poetry. The magazine was called City Lights. It was meant to highlight the cultural restlessness ...

• Word Count: 2242
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

"The best method of censorship is by the people as self guardians of public opinion and not by government " -Judge Clayton Horn, San Francisco, 1957 Prolific, provocative, and revealing of its time. A shot rang out and America's counter culture came running. The shot was fired by Allen Ginsberg, a poet and a prophet of his time ... expressionistic freedom that we experience at present. Its words and their meanings sparked immense discussion ranging from disdain to total envelopment. In the Fall, of 1955 at a coffee house in San Francisco called the Six Galler,. Allen Ginsberg had organized a...

• Word Count: 2637
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

... Ginsberg's first reaction to reading the manuscript of Part one of Howl. This letter was sent a a mere 2 months after the first public reading of Howl in December of 1955 in San Francisco. The reaction of Louis Ginsberg appears to be supportive but it was not the reaction Ginsberg had anticipated: In a in 1966 interview Ginsberg gave in Lawrence, Kansas, Ginsberg explained the ... of a narcotic and the voice of the section reflects the effects of mescal on Ginsberg. "Howl part 2 is written under peyote It's a vision of the St Francis Drake Hotel in San Francisco" (Ginsberg, Allen, Inter...

• Word Count: 4095
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... many poems called: "all watched over by machines of loving grace." In 1950, Richard Brautigan was part of a movement started in San Francisco, called "The Beat Generation". In a book published in 2003 called "The Beat generation in San Francisco, a literary tour" by Bill Morgan, the people from these movements are described as "Stone Age hippies, in that they ... ...

• Word Count: 1519
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... means of escape through out the novel and through out his life. His first means of escape was his constant travel. He traveled from east to west, New York to San Francisco and stopped everywhere in between. He made this trip over and over, constantly on the road. The simple title of the novel exemplifies Kerouac's ongoing need to travel. When he ... ...

• Word Count: 1014
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... in the backyard of his home. Ginsberg invited Snyder, along with many other influential members of the counterculture (such as McClure, Whalen, Ginsberg, and Kerouac) to read his poetry in a San Francisco club. This is considered by many to be the beginning of the "Beat Generation-. The Beat Generation was a group of writers and freethinkers who felt they were finally free of ... ...

• Word Count: 2488
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• Grade Level: High School

... last home, he lived modestly, enjoying the visits of those who came to honor him. He died on March 26, 1892. Robert Frost was born on March 26 1874, in San Francisco. His father, a newspaper editor, died when Robert was 10. The boy and his mother went to live with his grandfather in Lawrence, Mass. In high school, he decided to become ... ...

• Word Count: 3004
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School