-Allan Ginsberg, "America" (1956) Allan Ginsberg was not part of the baby boomer generation that made rock-n-roll famous. ... (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 an original creation; it drew heavily on what came before it. ... In the book Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock "n" Roll Music, Greil Marcus discusses country music prior to the birth of rock. ... That all changed with the dawn of rock-n-roll in the middle of the 1950s. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Thunder tore its way through the silence of the room. Vivian jumped, she didn't like being alone in the dark, musty house, especially during a thunder storm. ... Another crash of thunder sent her diving childishly to the safety of the king size, four post bed where she pulled the lavish wine colored duvet up over her head. ... Slowly the figure bent down until what was left of his face rested only inches from hers, the smell invading every pore of her body causing waves of dizzying nausea to roll through her. ...

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When hit by the truck, it "flipped the turtle like a tiddly-wink, spun it like a coin, and rolled it off the highway". ... They "puttered while they stood idle; they thundered when they moved, and then settled down to a droning roar" (Steinbeck, 47) and were driven by a "man sitting in the iron seat [He] did not look like a man he was a part of the monster [the bank]" (Steinbeck, 48) The bank informs the men that "a man can hold land if he can just eat and pay taxes" (Steinbeck, 43) However, the bank "isn't like a man" (Steinbeck, 45), rather, it is the monster that drives people from ...

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• Grade Level: High School