Free Essays on The Dead

The word  ¡Ã‚ ®deadhead ¡Ã‚ ¯ was made famous by the group of people that followed the music of the Grateful Dead around the country. The term actually entered the United States in the 1850 ¡Ã‚ ¯s and means, a person using a free ticket to get into a show, ride a train, etc. The deadhead subculture was an offspring of the music of the Grateful Dead, that started in the mid to late sixties. This subculture is not unlike any other subculture in the United States in that there is a common bond between the members of the group, they feel a collective identity and they have there own set of norms and values. The deadhead phenomenon is a hard group to study simply because people did not begin to look at the group empirically until the mid to late eighties, so the subculture had already been in effect for nearly twenty years. It is hard to get a clear number in the amount of deadheads there actually are simply because they are all over the country and not every deadhead goes to every Grateful Dead concert and even if they did there would not be nearly enough seats in any concert venue to hold the amount of deadheads there actually are. The Grateful Dead organization distributes information to about 290,000 deadheads, but it is thought that there is more than that. In 1998 half of the deadheads that were in attendance during the Other Ones concerts, a band consisting of the remaining members of the Grateful Dead plus three more members, said that they do not receive any information from the Grateful Dead organization. So this tells us that there could be over half a million deadheads i n the country today. (Adams 2000) These numbers tell us that this group is large enough to be considered a subculture in the United States today. The people that reside within the deadhead subculture range from many different ages, families, economic backgrounds, and have a wide Varity of educational backgrounds. The age distribution of the deadhead range... Free Essays on THE DEAD Free Essays on THE DEAD The word  ¡Ã‚ ®deadhead ¡Ã‚ ¯ was made famous by the group of people that followed the music of the Grateful Dead around the country. The term actually entered the United States in the 1850 ¡Ã‚ ¯s and means, a person using a free ticket to get into a show, ride a train, etc. The deadhead subculture was an offspring of the music of the Grateful Dead, that started in the mid to late sixties. This subculture is not unlike any other subculture in the United States in that there is a common bond between the members of the group, they feel a collective identity and they have there own set of norms and values. The deadhead phenomenon is a hard group to study simply because people did not begin to look at the group empirically until the mid to late eighties, so the subculture had already been in effect for nearly twenty years. It is hard to get a clear number in the amount of deadheads there actually are simply because they are all over the country and not every deadhead goes to every Grateful Dead concert and even if they did there would not be nearly enough seats in any concert venue to hold the amount of deadheads there actually are. The Grateful Dead organization distributes information to about 290,000 deadheads, but it is thought that there is more than that. In 1998 half of the deadheads that were in attendance during the Other Ones concerts, a band consisting of the remaining members of the Grateful Dead plus three more members, said that they do not receive any information from the Grateful Dead organization. So this tells us that there could be over half a million deadheads i n the country today. (Adams 2000) These numbers tell us that this group is large enough to be considered a subculture in the United States today. The people that reside within the deadhead subculture range from many different ages, families, economic backgrounds, and have a wide Varity of educational backgrounds. The age distribution of the deadhead range... Free Essays on The Dead â€Å"The Dead† by James Joyce is a short story of a New Year’s Eve party held by two sisters, Miss Kate and Miss Julia. Friends and Family attend the party. They have dinner and dance and sing and share memories with each other. Some memories bringing out the good emotions in people, and others bring out the bad. All things that are emotionally attached to memories don’t always bring back pleasant memories. If someone was involved in a red car hit a car accident and him or her. Every red car that person saw could bring back painful memories. Or if it was raining when the accident happened then every time it rained it could bring back unpleasant memories. People attach things to memories to help them remember even if those memories are painful. Shortly after that Miss Kate started to speak of a singer whom she thought had the greatest voice she had ever heard. â€Å"His name, said Aunt Kate, â€Å"was Parkinson. I heard him when he was his prime and I think he had the purest tenor voice that was ever put into a man’s throat.† (136) Miss Kate attached when she heard his voice and what emotions his voice made her feel with her opinion on â€Å"Parkinson’s† voice. When Miss Kate thought of the tenors voice it brought back pleasant memories because it reminded her of how she felt when she heard it. Through experiences people make memories. People attach things to those memories emotionally that lets them remember how pleasant or painful those memories where. Some people attach such things as songs, sounds, pictures, sights or even the weather to memories. If someone was to fall in love while being at the beach then the sound of the waves crashing against the sand could bring back pleasant memories. If a couple was voted king and queen of there senior prom then the song that they danced to would bring back pleasant memories. Gretta seemed to be troubled by something and when Gabriel asked her what she was thinking abo... Free Essays on The Dead October 8, 2002 An Awakening in â€Å"The Dead† by James Joyce Through a sequence of events that take place one evening, Gabriel Conroy, the protagonist in James Joyce’s â€Å"The Dead†, is transformed from a man on the verge of suffocation, due to his self inflicted ignorance, to a man awakened by the realization of his own mortality. As Rapp states â€Å"throughout most of the story it is clear that Gabriel is trapped in his own self-consciousness [†¦]† (1). Gabriel and Gretta attend a Christmas dinner given by his wealthy aunts. Gabriel arrives wearing his snow covered galoshes. The symbolism of the snow in â€Å"The Dead† differs from one critic to another. â€Å"To some it is seen as the symbol of death. Others see the snow as symbolizing Gabriel’s escape from his own ego to a vision of all humanity [†¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦]† (Billigheimer 473). After all the guest’s have had their dinner, Gabriel gives a speech to honor the accomplishments of his deceased family members. While the guests are enjoying themselves, Gabriel is looking out the window, wanting to be back in the refreshing snow. It is ironic that Gabriel is struggling with feelings of paralysis over his mortality when the name Gabriel, of Hebrew origin, means â€Å"God is my strength.† â€Å"In ‘The Dead’ Joyce examines an issue common among twentieth-century writers: the need to live with an awareness of one’s own death [†¦.]† (Rapp 4). For the first time, Gabriel is starting to look at his life. As the party is coming to an end, Mr. D’Arcy is singing â€Å"The Lass of Aughrim.† Gabriel sees a woman standing in the darkness at the top of the stairs. Billigheimer writes, â€Å"from the moment Gretta hears the song, she becomes an object of grace, beauty, and mystery to Gabriel.† (476). Gabriel is unaware of the transition that has taken place inside Gretta. Finney asks, â€Å"How long does it take Gabriel to recognize that the woman on the stairs is Gretta?ï ¿ ½...