to help us improve not to allow us to reach perfection. To better understand how we relate ourselves to the technology we have nowadays and the technology that we have been exposed to in the past‚ we first analyze the book “Beyond Humanity” by Allen Buchanan. In this book‚ Buchanan explain enficices the idea that technological improvements are not new to us‚ he says “... to enhance human beings is to expand their capabilities- to enable them to do what normal human beings have hitherto not been
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California came onto the national stage in the summer of 1957 with the sudden arrest of Shigeyoshi Murao and surrendering of Lawrence Ferlinghetti in regards to the publishing and selling of Howl by Allen Ginsberg. Prosecuting Ferlinghetti was an advance in the broader crusade “to protect families by keeping controversial expression‚ like that in “Howl‚” out of newspapers and off airwaves.” The rise of juvenile delinquency encouraged radical conservatives to seek out contentious content and remove
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Allen Ginsberg’s "Howl" (2540-2547) explores American culture and presents the issues that creative minds‚ "the best minds" (line 1) of his generation face in a traditional conforming society. "Howl combined apocalyptic criticism of the dull‚ prosperous Eisenhower years with the exuberant celebration of an emerging counterculture." (2538). Ginsberg’s repetition serves as both stability and disruption as it takes the reader from thought to thought in the eccentric form of this poem. "who cut their
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The frequent shift of a dark‚ somber tone to a defeated‚ accepting tone in Edgar Allen Poe’s “Alone” asserts the overall meaning that one’s acceptance of their own personality‚ different or similar to people around them‚ ultimately results in their seclusion. At the start of the poem‚ the narrator declares his childhood isolation through an ominous tone as he affirms his dark feeling of loneliness when he compares himself to the children around him. He is an outcast‚ an outlier; “all [he] lov’d—[he]
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In Edgar Allen Poe’s poem “Alone”‚ Poe reveals that egocentrism can lead to loneliness because of an inability to see beyond oneself and truly know and understand others and experiences. In the poem‚ the persona speaks about how he has felt different ever since his childhood; he focuses on himself and his own problems instead of trying to have positive outlook on life. Excessive use of the words “I”‚ “my”‚ and “me” projects the idea of egocentrism and also portrays the inability to understand
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What thoughts I have of you tonight‚ Allen Ginsberg. The famous Beat writer haunts my own supermarket as Whitman does his. It is difficult to read Howl and Other Poems without succumbing to the vein of defeat running throughout its pages. It is difficult to stop yourself from throwing your hands up in surrender to Ginsberg’s “Moloch.” It is also difficult to read Ginsberg on an empty stomach. Throughout his poems Ginsberg references again and again the ideas of hunger‚ starvation‚ fruits‚ vegetables
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In “The Sphinx” by Edgar Allen Poe‚ the narrator accepts an invitation brought forth to him by his relative to stay at his cottage. He accepts the invitation and spends the summer with him. They enjoy the summer together but what got to them were the unpleasant signs of death from the cholera outbreak. Every morning‚ more and more people would die from the disease. Their best bet was to stay indoors secluded from the outside world. The relative was so shocked at what was going on‚ that he became
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the eminent return home? The article‚ “The Boomerang Effect” by Marni Jackson‚ discusses how the baby boom generation has affected their children. The Boomerang Effect is an adaption from the novel “Home Free: The Myth of the Empty Nest” by Thomas Allen. The narrative is about an apprehensive mother and her twenty-something audacious son who complicates matters by dropping out of school to travel the world‚ followed by returning home once again. The article discusses this “twenty-year-old son dropping
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Louis MacNeice’s and Thom Gun’s poems use the first voice to look at birth through babies’ eyes. They help us see that babies‚ unborn or newborn‚ are living but powerless beings. They can think and feel but cannot make decisions or changes in their lives. MacNeice’s piece is burdened with desperate pleas from the womb for a chance to live while Gunn’s poem takes on a lighter tone towards a newborn’s protest to leaving the comfortable and familiar womb. Written in the form of a prayer‚ the "Prayer
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socially‚ economically and culturally as individuals and as a nation. Throughout history America has adapted and progressed as a country through success and setbacks. Will Allen and colonists throughout history share many characteristics and experiences in success through failure. These movements and experiences developed America and Allen into what they are today. The king ruled over all of the colonists at a point in time when absolute monarchy occurred regularly. The colonists didn’t like having one
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