... aligned to what Tom Brokaw would later refer to as "the greatest generation." (allanginsberg.com) He lived through the great depression and the Second World War. As Ginsberg grew older, he became dismayed by what he saw in America, it had become a place of industrialization and steel towns, a symbol of the pains of ... souls who had given their lives to the American dream only to discover that they could never have it. (Scheurer) At about the same time as Ginsberg wrote the famous poem "America," rock-n-roll music was becoming the music of the lost myths of America. Rock-n-roll was not ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... 's book; the prejudice is also economic. The poor black girls covet the lives of the "Brown girls", who they feel come from wonderful homes in idyllic sounding towns like Mobile, Aiken and Meridian. "Like hollyhocks they are narrow, tall and still. Their roots are deep, their stalks are firm and only the top blossom nods in the wind. They have the ... ...

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... Cold War culture is the harder its guardians tried to suppress alternatives, the more popular the alternatives became. The lesson was learned in 1955 when a little known poet named Alan Ginsberg was scheduled to read his poem HOWL at City Lights bookstore in San Francisco. Captain William Hanrahan of the SFPD busted up the reading, confiscated copies of the poem and ... ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate