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New and Improved Beatniks
As I meander about through life I have come upon some interesting viewpoints that other individuals have regarding one’s appearance. ... This got me to thinking a bit and the next revelation I came to was that beatniks, like me, still exist but not in the form in which this, albeit unknowingly insightful, businessman was proclaiming in his two word phrase. ... Knowing these definitions make it fairly easy to recognize that beatniks still exist except society has renamed them. In a phrase, “Yesterday’s Beatniks are today’s Goths except Goths have a make-up fetish. ... According to John Clellon Holmes, a columnist of the beat days, “the urge to go, go, go, and burn, burn, burn was motivated by their spiritual seeking, not their adolescent flight,” he is explaining the ways in which the beatniks thought and the attitude upheld by the beat community. ... Like beatniks, Goths also have a deep-rooted philosophical/religious outlook. With beatniks it was the eastern religions of Hindu, Buddhism, and others. ... These religions give a bit of insight to the renaming of the beatniks. ... Undoubtedly the beatniks left a huge impression. Be it art work, literature, war protest, and many other angles, the times changed and it was with the beatniks help. ... I said to myself, “How on God’s green earth does drug abuse play a crucial role in defining beatniks and Goths.
Approximate Word count = 1094
Approximate Pages = 4.4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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