It Was A Dark And Monotonous Night

Lawrence Ferlinghetti is often regarded as one of the most influential American poets of the 20th century, and his writing covers a wide range of social topics regarding the status of American culture during the 1950s and 60s. Many of Ferlinghetti’s works focus on his vision of America and how that vision had not come to fruition because of the less than ideal situations surrounding American culture at the time. Consequently, Ferlinghetti was also an avid member of the Beat generation and used his ability to write as a platform for spreading the message of the Beatniks. As we have discussed in class, the Beatniks refer to the generation of young people during the 1950s and 1960s that rode the wave of counterculture that was sweeping the

As we continued to walk through the streets, the smell of crunchy peanuts, salted pretzels and greasy hotdogs filled up the air and made my mouth water. The smell was so appealing that it tempted me to stop and try some. My sister and I waited in the long crowded line for the world famous hotdogs. I looked around the city while then and tried to observe everything around me. I saw people scurrying to grab a taxi, talking on the phone, or even listening to their stereos around their shoulders and it seemed as if they were all lost in their own worlds. Most of the men were all dressed up in their bright black, Louis vitton suits with briefcases in their right arms and iphone 5’s on the other, while the women were walking in high black stiletto heels, and you could even hear their shoes striking the ground one after the other from miles away. The enormous sky-scrapers around me covered the blanket of grey clouds above us. The flat iron, empire state building and so many more world

The Holocaust was a massacre of over six million Jews that occurred during the Nazi Regime that has been regarded as one of the most significant events in history. However, multiple forms of media such as literary works and films have incorporated this horrid event into a lesson about an aspect far more common and greater in today’s society, indifference. Indifference is literally “the lack of interest, concern, or sympathy towards someone or something” (Holocaust). Night, by Elie Wiesel, is an excellent example of a literary work that depicts the theme of indifference through the main character, Eliezer. Night is not only a nonfiction novel about the Holocaust, but is written by a Jewish boy who was in an actual concentration camp. In

In this, the writer takes a common genre and presents it in a darker tone than it generally is. The era that bred the Naturalists and Realists could very well be seen as this. The nation of hope and opportunity brimmed with bigotry and hate, being held astride on the broken backs of Black slaves. The Manifest Destiny of the American people drove them to trample Indians underfoot and annihilate the culture poets once hailed as noble and beautiful in its simplicity. The nation that had withstood the greatest empire the world had ever known was riddled with dissent and discourse between men whose grandsires had forged it in the crucible of

After interviewing primarily night shift nurses, PCNAs, patients, patient families, the floor nursing manager and all five assistant nurse managers about “Quiet Night”, I was able to pick up on what was the root cause of the low score on Quiet Night on the HCAHPS survey score for the unit.

What makes Cool distinctive is its extreme variability as it is more affiliated with people rather than objects. Although Cool is meant to reflect what is inside, mainly the internal change and the revolutionary inclination from within, still one can not fail its manifestations on the outside. These are clearly demonstrated in the way the subcultures express their ideology through dressing and fashion. According to Pountain and Robinson, “Fashion has always been the key signifier of Cool.. It is the court in which Cool displays itself.”

The 1960’s was a remarkable decade summed up as a period of time when hundreds of average Americans gave new life to the nation’s democratic morals. It was an era of dramatic change, both socially and politically. As for novelists during this time, their novels tended to explore change of human consciousness, with some taking an internal journey to consider the very nature of understanding and creative form. American writer Kurt Vonnegut Jr. was well known for his understatedly novels regularly using postmodern techniques and elements of fantasy and science fiction highlighting the horrors of twentieth century civilization. Much of his work is stamped by a substantially hopeless worldview that embraces modern human philosophy.

A fabulous woman struts down the streets of New York. Her chin is angled skyward and she is garbed in a type of luminescent empowerment. Her heels click against the pavement, resounding a message of, no, not oppression, but instead an awareness of one’s value and strength. Her eyes don’t frantically scan the crush of people rushing to and from wherever in a daze of paranoia, her gaze is direct and fearless. She does not wonder who her next assailant is, she only seeks out fulfilment that in another time would be vehemently denied her. Weaving an untouched and unimpeded path, she stops at a gently-hipster building designed to appeal to a 21st century woman such as herself. “Now that’s new and certainly progressive” she thinks.

In our world, there are largely visible trends throughout many facets of our lives. Whether they occur in music, history, literature, or any other areas, these trends are a result of one movement reacting to the previous one. This reactionary movement can be equated to the swinging of a cultural pendulum; a movement which may be examined, and even predicted. In our society today that pendulum has swung from realism in literature to transrealism, and it is about to swing past towards hyperrealism.

When reflecting back on this quarter, I see a clear shift from more abstract short stories and poems to blunter, more symbolic novels. Poetry and short stories have a certain sense of fragmentation that allows the reader to slowly come to understand the meaning behind the work. Often times, a reader has to re-read a piece multiple times in order to grasp the intended effect. On the other hand, the novel often includes ideas derived from realism, and focuses on plot and place. In the postmodern novels we read, the rules of time have been broken and the ideas of what defines a novel have been bent in order to convey a particular message. I think the common theme across the works we have read this quarter is the irrelevance of time. When thinking back to Le Guin’s short story

The slightly built woman dreaded the advancing darkness of the night as she stood solemnly by the window, staring, but not actually seeing the rolling green hills of the Appalachian Mountains. Their peaks dominated the landscape, rising high above the treetops. How she would love to escape over their crests never to return.

The film Pulp Fiction was an immediate box office success when it was released in 1994 and it was also well received by the critics, and celebrated for the way it appeared to capture exactly a certain pre-millennial angst and dislocation in Western capitalist societies. The term post-modernist, often used to refer to art and architecture, was applied to this film. The pulp fiction refers to popular novels which are bought in large numbers by less well educated people and enjoyed for their entertainment value. The implication is that the film concerns topics of interest to this low culture, but as this essay will show, in fact, the title is ironic and the film is a very intellectual presentation of issues at the heart of contemporary

Chon (2013) states that the study of fashion involves a critical review regarding its role in creating a social phenomenon due to the interaction between the individual and society, which have an effect and influence on other individuals. Thus, the fashion experience and the embodiment of dress allows for the exchange of aesthetic values. However, the globalisation of the fashion industry resulted in the homogenisation of both trend and aesthetic standards, resulting in the disruption of both symbolic production and emotional experiences of the users. Functional and ornamental needs rely on tactile experiences in fashion. Fashion knowledge is developed through physical, conceptual and emotional interactions with products and creates a new code or visual language when it is rearranged on the body. This will induce emotional responses from its users and stimulate physical interactions that leads to fashion symbols as part of the social society. Tinjana et al. (2014) elaborates and explains that clothing is an inseparable part of the human body. Thus, linking art with clothing synthesises both the spiritual and social nature of human conduct. And as a result, it also creates symbols and figurative relationships in the anthropogenic environment. Our interior world, and not only our appearance is shown by clothing.

I’ve got the look down, I admit. It suits me, as it’s suited the many proclaimed artists before me. I own a Moleskine leather notebook, despite my being a strict vegetarian. I wear a raincoat I found for a dollar, a long gray one that makes me look the dreary sort. Occasionally I wear a hat, I am vocal in my dissent. I write in this notebook in a frenzy at the midnight hour, adapting my sleep schedule to that of an owl, not because of poor time management -- though this might have something to do with it, it is most likely just the sheer fact that this is my most productive hour; that unholy, dark, quiet hour, when it seems the whole world (with the exception of a few weary travelers speeding past my house) is lost in dreams, doing nothing with their minds or eyes or hands, that hour holds the most for me, my mind as busy as the streets of Times Square times fifty, with all its uncomfortable movement, blazing lights, fast paced blinks, and ‘lost to the world’ feeling --

This is a dystopian satire which is a warning on the societal changes focused around technology he observed around him in the 1950’s. The end of the Second World War sparked new cultural movements in American society. With the economic boom, and increases in consumer goods and new technology- the great American Dream arose. This sparked a movement of rampant consumerism, materialism, and in turn, cultural decline.