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On The Road By Jack Kerouac Sara Levinson Brooke Norling Kyle Stewart Melinda Gravitt Ben Stillinger

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Book Summary

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SESSION 30

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The Beat Generation

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ENGLISH LITERATURE & CULTURE

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Through the Picture Window: Society and Culture

1945-1960. Through the Picture Window: Society and Culture. Unprecedented prosperity The GNP soared from $200 billion in 1945 to $500 billion in 1960

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YOUTH SUBCULTURES

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The Beat Generation

The Beat Generation. (1944-1960). The Beat Generation began in 1944 in New York City when Jack Kerouac (22) and Allen Ginsberg (18), both students at Columbia University, and Harvard graduate William S. Burroughs (30) all met through mutual friends.

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1950s American Culture

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Chapter 22 & 23

Chapter 22 & 23. G. I. Bill. Taft-Hartley Act. The Taft Hartley Act was passed to try to limit the power of labor unions. This act instituted the idea of the Open Shop which meant that a worker did not have to join the union to work at a company.

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Lawrence F erlinghetti

Lawrence F erlinghetti. Who is Lawrence Ferlinghetti ? .

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Poetic Movements

Poetic Movements. The schools of poetry defined by grouping poets who share similar styles of writing poetry. They can be described in a very approximate, chronological sequence, however it is not exact. Some poets belong to two or more schools of poetry. Here are just a few.

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Citing Sources in MLA Style

Citing Sources in MLA Style. The University Learning Center Florida International University Developed by Sam McCool. Citations of Books (MLA).

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Big, Bigger Biggest

Big, Bigger Biggest. Large scale issues: Phrase queries and common words OCR. Tom Burton West Hathi Trust Project. Hathi Trust Large Scale Search Challenges. Goal: Design a system for full-text search that will scale to 5 million to 20 million volumes (at a reasonable cost.)

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Allen Ginsberg &

Allen Ginsberg &. The Beat Generation. Beat Generation. Beat writers (Beat Generation): A group of Ame r ica n poets and novelists who were active and in fl uential in the late 1950s. Beat writers rejected the prevailing social mores.

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The Beat Generation

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The Hippie

The Hippie. By Devin Mollander. Outline. Origins Context Drugs Music How To Spot A Hippie. Famous Hippies How they changed the world. Origins.

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American Literature (from 1945 to present)

American Literature (from 1945 to present). An Overview. An outline. Historical, social, cultural, political background

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