William Burrough Essay Examples

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An Introduction to the Beat Culture and Movement in America (621 words, 2 pages)

Beat Culture America RevisionedThere is a benign image of the cool hipster, dressed in black, playing bongo drums, and chanting poetry to a jazz backup or the more sinister image of a rebellious, sociopathic, drug-using dropout. Both images conveyed an irreverence for authority and prevailing social norms, (Phillips 24). This ... Read More

A Look at the Social Pressure Reflected in Ginsberg’s “Howl” (1152 words, 2 pages)

Social Pressures Reflected in Ginsbergs HowlPost World War II America produced a number of images that will be forever imprinted on the minds of Americans. Such images as television shows like Leave It To Beaver and I Love Lucy, movies such as An Affair To Remember, and Brigadoon, are watched ... Read More

A Review of William Borough’s “The Pusher and The Pimp” (345 words, 1 pages)

Yaka Oyo 4172000Professor Julie Lewis English 1William Burroughs The Pusher and The PimpPicture if you will, two street corners in a crime-riddled neighborhood. On one corner stands a Pimp with several of his employees parading around. On the other corner stands a Junk dealer selling his product. Both men frown ... Read More

A Review of the Movie “Blade Runner” (1899 words, 3 pages)

Michael TschappatPatricia StullEnglish 102112596Dicks' Androids and Scotts' ReplicantsPhilip K. Dick has written over fifty novels, and is considered among some of the greatest experimental writers of the 1950s and 60s, such as William Burroughs, J.G. Ballard, and Thomas Pynchon.(Star 34) He has written science-fiction and regular fiction. His fiction usually ... Read More

A Review of Philip Dick’s Award Winning Novel “The Man in the High Castle” (1901 words, 6 pages)

Philip K. Dick has written over fifty novels, and is considered among some of the greatest experimental writers of the 1950s and '60s, such as William Burroughs, J.G. Ballard, and Thomas Pynchon.(Star 34) He has written science- fiction and regular fiction. His fiction usually spoke of people trying to figure ... Read More

An Introduction to the Life and Work by William Burroughs (345 words, 1 pages)

Yaka Oyo 4172000Professor Julie Lewis English 1 William Burroughs The Pusher and The Pimp Picture if you will, two street corners in a crime-riddled neighborhood. On one corner stands a Pimp with several of his employees parading around. On the other corner stands a Junk dealer selling his product. Both ... Read More

An Analysis of the Topic of Peter Barry Chowka (10810 words, 41 pages)

Peter Barry ChowkaPeter Barry Chowka Allen, since we're in this automobile setting, I want to askyou much of your poetry, especially in The Fall of America, was composed in carson your various travels. In so many of the poems which came out of automobiles in thesixties you really captured the ... Read More

An Introduction to the Life of John Calder (3937 words, 4 pages)

Publishing's one-man bandIn the shabby back room of John Calder's bookshop on The Cut in south London, an intriguing literary event is about to begin. The shop itself is an anachronism, one of those tiny havens that once populated Charing Cross Road before the arrival of megamarts such as Waterstone's ... Read More

Allen Ginsberg and HOWL: Analysis and Response (2827 words, 5 pages)

Allen Ginsberg and HOWL Analysis and ResponseThroughout the ages of poetry, there is a poet who stands alone, a prominent figure who represents the beliefs and mor s of the time. During the 1950's and 1960's, the Beatnik era in America brought forth poets who wrote vivid, realistic poetry in ... Read More

An Analysis of the Movie The Blade Runner (1899 words, 3 pages)

Michael TschappatPatricia StullEnglish 102112596Dicks' Androids and Scotts' Replicants Philip K. Dick has written over fifty novels, and is considered among some of the greatest experimental writers of the 1950s and 60s, such as William Burroughs, J.G. Ballard, and Thomas Pynchon.(Star 34) He has written science-fiction and regular fiction. His fiction ... Read More

An Introduction to the Themes of Jazz, Buddhism and Drugs in the Literature by Ginsberg, Burroughs and Kerouac (1449 words, 3 pages)

was a generation of beat, down wanderers, who traveled the continent trying to find the answer to why we are here and what here is. Some of the founders, of this movement were Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, who then was under the name of William Lee, and Allen Ginsberg. The ... Read More

An Introduction to the History of Second World War (1308 words, 2 pages)

Near the end of the Second World War, a movement was formed by Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs as well as a group of other writers and artists. This movement found its voice during the fifties and became especially influential during the sixties. Ginsberg, Kerouac, and Burroughs formed a ... Read More

An Analysis and Response of Allen Ginsberg and HOWL (2826 words, 4 pages)

Allen Ginsberg and HOWL Analysis and ResponseThroughout the ages of poetry, there is a poet who stands alone, a prominent figure who represents the beliefs and mors of the time. During the 1950's and 1960's, the Beatnik era in America brought forth poets who wrote vivid, realistic poetry in response ... Read More

The Election of Barack Obama in America (301 words, 1 pages)

Barack Obama's election is a milestone in more than his pigmentation. the second most remarkable thing about his election is that american voters have just picked a president who is an open, out-of-the-closet, practicing intellectual. Maybe, just maybe, the result will be a step away from the anti-intellectual that has ... Read More

A Review of the Life and Works of Allen Ginsberg (1617 words, 3 pages)

Allen Ginsberg was born on June 3, 1927. While in high school, he discovered and fell in love with the poetry of Walt Whitman. But despite his interest in poetry his father wanted him to become a lawyer. So Ginsberg studied law at Columbia University, where he met many of ... Read More

A Biography of Philip K. Dick, a Science Fiction and Fiction Writer of the 1950’s and the 1960’s (1891 words, 5 pages)

Philip K. Dick has written over fifty novels, and is considered among someof the greatest experimental writers of the 1950s and '60s, such as WilliamBurroughs, J.G. Ballard, and Thomas Pynchon.(Star 34) He has written science-fiction and regular fiction. His fiction usually spoke of people trying tofigure out who they are, ... Read More

A Summary of Junkie by William Burroughs (343 words, 1 pages)

Yaka Oyo 4172000Professor Julie Lewis English 1 William Burroughs The Pusher and The Pimp Picture if you will, two street corners in a crime-riddled neighborhood. On one corner stands a Pimp with several of his employees parading around. On the other corner stands a Junk dealer selling his product. Both ... Read More

The Intense Influence of Beat Generation on Literature and American Culture (4101 words, 6 pages)

The Rolling Stone Book of the Beats is aN in-depth and complete collection of several essays about the Beat generation and its intense influence on literature and American culture. The list of contributors to the book is amazing. Writers, musicians, actors, and even some of the Beats themselves contributed essays, ... Read More

An Analysis of the Album of the Beatles (1241 words, 5 pages)

Who and What is on the Front Cover of The Beatles' Album Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band? 1.Sri Yukestawar Giri (Guru) 2. Aleister Crowley (Dabbler in Sex, Drugs and Magic) 3. Mae West (Actress) 4. Lenny Bruce (Comic) 5. Karlheinz Stockhausen (Composer) 6. W.C.(William Claude) Fields (ActorComic) 7. Carl ... Read More

An Analysis of the Theme of Neighborhood in the Poem by Tom Waits (993 words, 2 pages)

Most of us have had a time where we let our imagination run away with us. This poem by Tom Waits describes an nosy neighbor who is constantly wondering what a man in his shed is building, but only has rumors to go by, which sends him in a frenzy. ... Read More

Trent Reznor and the Nine Inch Nails (1360 words, 2 pages)

TRENT REZNOR THE MAN BEHIND NINE INCH NAILS Trent Reznor (b. 17 May 1965, Mercer, Pennsylvania, USA), is the multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, and creative force behind Nine Inch Nails.Reznor trained as a classical pianist during his small-town Pennsylvania childhood, but his discovery of rock and early industrial bands, despite his dislike ... Read More

Biography and Life lessons of Jack Kerouac (1853 words, 3 pages)

It was considered sinful and morally wrong to do anything in the 50's that didn't fit into the mold of a typical American family. The media condemned people who spoke up against the government, the people who didn't have typical jobs, the people who experimented with drugs, the people who ... Read More

A Biography of Allen Ginsberg (2826 words, 4 pages)

Allen Ginsberg and HOWL Analysis and Response Throughout the ages of poetry, there is a poet who stands alone, a prominent figure who represents the beliefs and mors of the time. During the 1950's and 1960's, the Beatnik era in America brought forth poets who wrote vivid, realistic poetry in ... Read More

The Portrayal of Heroin Addiction in James Baldwin’s Sonny’s Blues and William Burrough’s Junkie (1531 words, 2 pages)

In James Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues", Sonny was addicted to heroin. He states "I can't get anything straight in my head down here and I try not to think what's going to happen to me when I get outside again. Sometimes I think I'm going to flip and never get outside ... Read More