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Tuesday, October 11, 2011
The Beatles Vs. The Beach Boys
Alan Wood
Mr. Benton
ENG 102
10/12/11
The Beatles Vs. The Beach Boys
During the sixties music affected the world probably more than it ever has before and since. The sixties produced some of the greatest and most iconic bands that we still love today, bands such as the Rolling Stones, the Monkees, Janis Joplin, Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix. But there were two bands in particular that seemed to have a widespread effect on America and even the world, the Beatles and the Beach Boys. These two groups were arguably the two most popular bands of the sixties; because of their popularity they had a huge impact and influence over millions of people. The question is though, who was the better, more popular and influential band, the Beatles or the Beach Boys.
The Beatles were an English rock band during 1960s and one of the most successful and popular bands in the history of music. The Beatles formed in Liverpool, by 1962 after several lineup changes the group consisted of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. The band was rooted in skiffle and 1950s rock and roll, the group later worked in many genres ranging from pop ballads to psychedelic rock often incorporating classical music. The nature of their enormous popularity, which first emerged as Beatle mania transformed as their songwriting grew in sophistication. They came to be perceived as the embodiment of ideals of the social and cultural revolutions of the 1960’s (Unterberger).
They built their reputation playing clubs in Liverpool and Hamburg over a three-year period from 1960. They achieved mainstream success in the United Kingdom in late 1962, with their first single, “Love Me Do". Gaining international popularity and getting the nickname "Fab Four" the following year, they toured extensively until 1966. During their studio years, they produced what critics consider some of their finest material including the album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band in 1967 (Unterberger).
The Beatles are the best-selling band in history, and over four decades after their break-up, their recordings are still in demand. They have had more number one albums on the UK charts and have held the top spot longer than any other musical act. According to the RIAA they have sold more albums in the United States than any other artist, and they headed Billboard magazine's list of all-time top Hot 100 artists in 2008. They have received 7 Grammy Awards from the American National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences and 15 Ivor Novello Awards from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors. They were collectively included in Time magazine's compilation of the 20th century’s 100 most influential people (Unterberger).
The Beach Boys are an American rock band, formed in 1961 in Hawthorne, California. The group was initially composed of brothers Brian, Dennis and Carl Wilson their cousin Mike Love and their friend Al Jardine. They were managed by the Wilsons' father Murry Wilson. The Beach Boys signed to Capitol Records in 1962. The band's early music gained popularity across the United States for its close vocal harmonies and lyrics reflecting a Southern Californian youth culture of surfing, cars, and romance. By the mid-1960s, leader Brian Wilson's growing creative ambition and songwriting ability would dominate the group's musical direction (De Forest).
However, Brian Wilson would soon lose control of the band because of mental-health and substance-abuse issues. Although they released a number of highly artistic albums during 1967-1973, the group never managed to reclaim its mid-1960s peak when The Beach Boys briefly challenged The Beatles in terms of commercial and critical appeal (De Forest).
The Beatles released their first album in March 1963, just over four months after The Beach Boys debuted with Surfin' Safari in October 1962. Both bands produced many pop songs with their early releases, mainly singles with the rest of the record filled up with covers. With each album, both bands developed. In 1964, A Hard Day’s Night was released, featuring a track listing entirely written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney. The next year, Brian Wilson composed a side of complex love songs for The Beach Boys Today! Both their albums and singles were selling in huge numbers, and with Rubber Soul the Beatles upped the ante again (Keely).
The Beatles continued to write their own material and now featuring George Harrison tracks as well, Rubber Soul featured the sitar and more intellectual lyrics. Brian Wilson was inspired by the album, claiming it had no poor tracks, and was inspired to improve on this with his next project, the legendary Pet Sounds. Brian Wilson had bridged the gap between Pet Sounds and the intended follow-up Smile with the single 'Good Vibrations', a million-seller in the United States. The track was intended for Pet Sounds but was not finished in time. But Smile fell apart due to Brian Wilson's health issues. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band arrived in 1967 and spent fifteen weeks on top of the Billboard chart. As expansive and inventive as Pet Sounds, the Beatles took in eastern sounds, LSD-influenced ideas and production-laden narratives to create an advanced record (Keely).
With each Beach Boys record Wilson's influence faded, and so did the band's sales. The Beatles became increasingly embroiled in personal disputes and their albums, such as White Album and Let It Be. By 1970 they were no more, bringing to an end forever the friendly competition between the Beatles and the Beach Boys, which had lifted the pop album to heights it would rarely reach again (De Forest)
During the middle of the 1960s, the competition between the Beatles and the Beach Boys was largely a creation of fan magazines. American publishers knew they could put Paul-vs.-Brian on the cover and watch the copies fly, even if the story inside turned out to be nonsense. But there was a grain of truth to the rivalry, Brian Wilson heard Rubber Soul and was inspired to write Pet Sounds, then tried to outdo Sgt. Pepper with Smile, Paul McCartney was widely quoted as admiring Wilson's song God Only Knows (Preiss).
The Beach Boys have often been called "America's Band", and Allmusic has stated that "the band's unerring ability made them America's first, best rock band. The group has had 36 United States Top 40 hits (the most by an American rock band) and 56 Hot 100 hits, including four number-one singles. Rolling Stone magazine listed The Beach Boys at number 12 on their 2004 list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time," the highest ranking for an American Rock & Roll band. Brian Wilson, Carl Wilson, Mike Love and Al Jardine were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988. The group is also one of America's highest-selling acts, having sold over 100 million albums worldwide since their debut in 1961. Though no official figure exists, it is estimated at present to be between 110 million and 120 million. This makes them one of the best-selling groups in America (Bush).
The Beatles and the Beach Boys frequently faced off on the American singles chart. Between 1963 and the end of 1966, the Beatles had 20 top-10 hits and the Beach Boys had 13. That means that they were frequently in the top 10 at the same time. In the summer of 1976, the Beach Boys released 15 Big Ones, their first studio album in three years, and the first one Brian Wilson had produced since Pet Sounds. The lead single from the album was not a Wilson original, however it was a cover of the Chuck Berry song Rock and Roll Music, featuring Mike Love on lead vocals. It became the first Beach Boys song to reach the Billboard Top 10 in a decade (Bush).
EMI Records had released a two-disc compilation of rockers by the Beatles covering their entire career, from Twist and Shout to Get Back. The label released a single from the album: Got to Get You Into My Life backed with Helter Skelter. Got to Get You Into My Life became the Fab Four's first Top-10 hit since 1970. For four weeks in 1976, the Beatles and the Beach Boys were in the Top 10 together, just as they had been so many times before. This time, however, the Beach Boys got the better of the competition. Rock and Roll Music made it to #5, while Got to Get You Into My Life could only make #7 (Bush).
The Beach Boys wrote incredibly catchy songs, the majority of their career was spent as a real-life version of The Monkees. Their songs were about surfing, hanging out, checking out girls at the beach and sunshine. It wasn’t the most profound subject matter but it was all they really knew and what they knew the best. The music of The Beach Boys definitely had a greater impact on the early punk sound, such as the Ramones. Brian Wilson was a great songwriter and the true genius behind the Beach Boys, but the rest of the band faltered on the verge of releasing what would have been their greatest album, Smile. (Selm)
However the Beatles never seemed to falter as the Beach Boys did. The Beach Boys were constantly having issues within the band and went through several periods of time without even having a hit. The Beatles never did that, the Beatles were constantly touring or recording music and always had a hit song playing. When you ask people today who they’re favorite band is, they will tell you that the Beatles are their favorite band. A lot of people today haven’t even heard of The Beach Boys and some that have, have never heard they’re music, yet everyone’s heard of the Beatles.
Today the Beatles continue to sell their records and continue to have their songs as popular as ever. And most of the famous bands that we have today, when asked who their influences are, they will tell you the Beatles were. So because of their popularity at the time and today, their ridiculous amount of hits, and their influences on modern music, I’d say that the Beatles are the most popular and influential band compared to The Beach Boys and any other band in history.
Works Cited
Bush, John. "The Beach Boys." AllMusic. n. page. Web. 7 Oct. 2011. <http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p3640>.
De Forest, G.A. BEACH BOYS vs BEATLEMANIA: Rediscovering Sixties Music. 2008. 448. Print.
Keely, Karl. "The Beatles And The Beach Boys." (2011): n. pag. Web. 13 Sep 2011. <http://www.suite101.com/content/the-beatles-and-the-beach-boys-a67634>.
Preiss, Bryan. The Beach Boys: The Authorized Biography of America's Greatest Rock and Roll Band. St. Martins Press, 1979. 96. Print.
Selm, Nick. "Beatles vs Beach Boys ." (2011): n. pag. Web. 13 Sep 2011. <http://www.nuvo.net/MusicBlog/archives/2010/10/27/beatles-vs-beach-boys>.
Unterberger, Richie. "The Beatles." AllMusic. n. page. Web. 7 Oct. 2011. <http://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-beatles-p3644/biography>.
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Proposal
Alan Wood
ENG 102
The Beach Boys Vs. The Beatles
During the sixties music affected the world probably more than it ever has before and since. The sixties produced some of the greatest and most iconic bands that we still love today, bands such as the Rolling Stones, the Monkees, Janis Joplin, Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix. But there were two bands in particular that seemed to have a widespread effect on America and even the world, the Beatles and the Beach Boys. These two groups were arguably the two most popular bands of the sixties; because of their popularity they had a huge impact and influence over millions of people. The question is though, who was the more popular and influential band, the Beatles or the Beach Boys
The Beach Boys wrote incredibly catchy songs, the majority of their career was spent as a real-life version of The Monkees. Their songs were about surfing, hanging out, checking out girls at the beach and sunshine. It wasn’t the most profound subject matter but it was all they really knew and what they knew the best. The music of The Beach Boys definitely had a greater impact on the early punk sound. Brian Wilson was a great songwriter and the true genius behind the Beach Boys, but the rest of the band faltered on the verge of releasing what would have been their greatest album, Smile. (Selm) The Beatles released their first album in March 1963, just over four months after The Beach Boys debuted with their album Surfin’ Safari in October 1962. Both bands tried to stick with the general pop sound that was so popular.
In 1964, A Hard Day’s Night was released by the Beatles, with songs entirely written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney. The next year, Brian Wilson composed a side of dense, mature, and musically complex love songs for The Beach Boys Today! Both their albums and singles were selling in huge numbers, and with Rubber Soul the Beatles upped the ante again. The Beatles continuing to write their own material, and now featuring George Harrison tracks, Rubber Soul featured new instruments and sounds such as the sitar, a fuzz bass and more intellectual lyrics. Brian Wilson was inspired by the album, claiming it had no poor tracks, and was inspired to improve on this with his next project, the legendary Pet Sounds (Keely).
During the middle of the 1960s, the competition between the Beatles and the Beach Boys was mainly a creation of fan magazines. People knew they could put Paul vs. Brian on the cover and know that it would sell even if the story inside turned out to be completely false. The Beatles and the Beach Boys constantly faced off on the American singles chart. Between 1963 and the end of 1966, the Beatles had 20 top-10 hits and the Beach Boys had 13. That means that they were frequently in the top 10 at the same time (Preiss).
With each Beach Boys record, Brian Wilson's influence faded, and so did the band's sales. At the same time the Beatles became increasingly involved with personal disputes and their next few albums lost some of its popularity like previous albums (De Forest). By 1970 the Beatles had broken up bringing an end to the competition between the Beatles and the Beach Boys and possibly even the popularity and influence of the Beatles on the world while the Beach Boys kept going on strong.
Works Cited
Selm, Nick. "Beatles vs Beach Boys ." (2011): n. pag. Web. 13 Sep 2011. <http://www.nuvo.net/MusicBlog/archives/2010/10/27/beatles-vs-beach-boys>.
Keely, Karl. "The Beatles And The Beach Boys." (2011): n. pag. Web. 13 Sep 2011. <http://www.suite101.com/content/the-beatles-and-the-beach-boys-a67634>.
De Forest, G.A. BEACH BOYS vs BEATLEMANIA: Rediscovering Sixties Music. 2008. 448. Print.
Preiss, Bryan. The Beach Boys: The Authorized Biography of America's Greatest Rock and Roll Band. St. Martins Press, 1979. 96. Print.
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Response # 5
Alan Wood
ENG 102
9/7/11
Obsessive Parenting: Response # 5
A lot of parents throughout history and even today have been very obsessed and engrossed in the lives of their children, attempting to control every aspect of their lives. Parents believe that if they are in charge that they can live a good life for their children, they won’t misbehave and everything will go according to plan. Now this kind of parenting is understandable because it just shows that these parents care about the well-being of their children, but no matter what the justification is for the matter it is still quite ridiculous.
There have been many times that parents have caused their own children to develop phobias due to their obsessive parenting. Parents trying to protect their children almost through scaring their children out of doing things. Through this though, it can cause children to become a little too scared, hence the development of phobias. Obviously parents do not understand the harm that these kinds of things can do, because they are the one doing it and not the one receiving it. Children need to be able to prepare for the outside world and its actively advancing society. This kind of behavior is just hindering their abilities, and when one day these children have to deal with the outside world, they won’t know what to do or how to act. So these parents attempt at protecting their children ultimately become vain.
According to the movie Dogtooth, the home of the kids in the movie becomes like a domestic fortress barricaded against modern world. Inside, the few indications that the media world exists at all have been manipulated. The house contains a tape recorder which the children use to learn new vocabulary, such as a telephone, is a salt cellar, a highway is a weather phenomenon, and a zombie is a small flower. There is a TV, on which the family only ever watches home movies, and a record player which father uses to play a song written by a man who he refers to as grandfather, which turns out to be Frank Sinatra singing the song Come Fly With. It’s a kind of postmodern paternalistic protection where toys of aircraft replace real aircraft; where home movies replace real movies, where faked song lyrics replace real lyrics (Williamson). Because of these attempts to protect their children, the children basically develop Technophobia, or a fear of technology, so due to the parents attempts to protect their children they have ended up hurting their children causing them to develop a mental defect.
The movie Dogtooth depicts what is called as the paranoid style. Which is characterized by heated exaggeration, suspiciousness, and conspiratorial fantasy. The parents of Dogtooth represent a paranoid parenting style which detects amoral conspiracies in popular media, household consumables, and even in the very vocabulary of modern culture. Dogtooth’s parents construct for their children a simulated or fabricated fantasy of domestic simplicity and family love, free of the supposed contaminants of culture (Williamson). To some degree this is what the majority of parents are like today.
But in Dogtooth the significance is amplified because it is the movies which are the source of the father’s paranoia and conspiratorial imagination. In the paranoid style the father in Dogtooth views the media suspiciously through a conspiratorial imagination. The children’s access to media throughout the movie is closely controlled and regulated, even manipulated or fabricated so as to conform with the domestic ideal of filial acquiescence. The parental paranoia is unsettling because of what it suggests about the control of children’s learning and their development of understanding and meaning (Williamson).
This type of paranoid parenting is good for nothing and for no one, as children, they need to be able to go out into the world and do what they need to do. They need to be able to make their own mistakes and learn valuable life lessons. When parents try to shelter their kids from life, they are undoubtedly preparing them for a hard life once they have to actually go out into it. Now it is very understandable that parents would want to protect their kids, which is a great thing. However, it is the kind of things where you need to pick your battles. Parents cannot always protect your kids and there are times where parents shouldn’t protect their kids because every now and then kids need to be able to protect themselves without any help from mommy and daddy. Even though this kind of behavior by parents is understandable, that does not make it something that’s good or something that should be done, because nothing can justify that kind of behavior.
Works Cited
Williamson, Ben. " AboutMissionIn the NewsMedia ReleasesPeopleHub StaffBloggersPartnersSummer 2011 FellowsResourcesOnline LearningParticipatory MediaNew Media LiteraciesGames and LearningDesignMedia ProductionCivic EngagementLearning Institutions & OrganizationsEquityAssessmentProjectsResearch NetworksIndividual GrantsCompetition WinnersWorking GroupsWorkshopsEventsFuture EventsPast EventsOn Parenting, Media, Education and Phobias." DMLcentral (2011): n. pag. Web. 3 Sep 2011. <http://dmlcentral.net/blog/ben-williamson/parenting-media-education-and-phobias>.
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Respnse # 4
Alan Wood
8/31/11
Education: Response # 4
When you think of teachers today, you automatically think that they are caring people. This is most often true, because in order for someone to choose to go into that line of work, they would generally have to care about children or care about educating children. But like everything else, it is not always completely true. Everybody always ends up with a mean teacher who they don’t like. These teachers are sometimes very mean and have no place whatsoever teaching young children. But these types of teachers are a very small percentage of the overall number of teachers today who genuinely care about their students.
Most teachers try and develop personal relationships with their students, because having a relationship with your kids might as well be in the job description. When a teacher decides that what they want to do with their lives is teach, it is because of one of two reasons. They either want to mold the minds of children or because they just love kids and want to work with them. So teachers already begin caring about their students before they even have them.
Students never really bother to think about things from a teachers perspective, all we see is a mean teacher who punishes us or a push over who is cool. Students will always end up liking the push over type of teacher better than anyone else because we can do what we want and get away with whatever. Students don’t live the other type of teacher, the mean one who punishes us, because it’s the exact opposite, we don’t get we want and don’t get away with whatever. All we can think is “they hate me”, which is completely untrue. Sometimes it takes someone who really does care about you in order to do make the tough decisions in life, like punishing. Not to say that a push over type of teacher doesn’t care, it’s just that they care about you and want you to like them, so they decide to be the cool teacher and not the mean one. But as students we never see that, we never see who really cares about us and who doesn’t. We are never able to see anything from the other person’s perspective.
Occasionally there are those teachers who are just straight up cruel people and have no place at all teaching kids. I once had a teacher who was so mean; he threw a math text book at me just because I had to stand up from my desk to see the white board because I was too short to see over the kid sitting in front of me. People like that, who unleash their anger on innocent students have no place in that line of work, but yet we have them and there will always be the select few who are like that. This however does not depict all teachers or even the majority of teachers today. Because most teachers today are truly caring people who care about their students.
Works Cited
Noddings, Nell. "Caring In Education." Encyclopedia of Informal Education (2005): n. pag. Web. 30 Aug 2011. <http://www.infed.org/biblio/noddings_caring_in_education.htm>.
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Response # 3
Alan Wood
8/29/11
Response # 3
When reading the forward and introduction to Someplace Like America it talked about the plight of Americas homeless. The beginning of the introduction spoke of a thirty-five year old hobo named Kenneth Burr being murdered in 1984 in Santa Barbara, California. Then someone who was unrelated to the murder of Kenneth Burr, posted a note to capitalize on the murder. The note depicted that the homeless are the scum of the Earth and that they have no place in Santa Barbara. These kinds of acts show us what kind of world we live I today, a world that is bound to hate anyone who is not somewhat like ourselves. Isn’t America supposed to be the land of the free and aren’t all men created equal. Evidently not, evidently America is the land of the oppressed and those who think they’re better than everyone else.
People today think that the homeless are bad and are the scum of America. Most homeless people however are people who were just like us that befell some type of financial tragedy. The author speaks of a woman who had fallen from upper class privileges and a frugal white collar mom, who is raising her children on her own, who works two jobs year around and is barely able to survive. He talks of a waitress in her sixties whose tips are so down she will never be able to retire and will probably work till she dies. Or a Latino man who is citizen of the United States, who fears being beaten by the cops who believe that he is undocumented just because of the color of his skin. All of these people are no different than ourselves, everyday hard working people who have just fallen down on their luck. But yet every day we persecute them for being a little different, a little less rich then us, a little less fortunate.
Someplace Like America helped open my eyes to the plight of the poor and the homeless in America. These people live as if they are in a third world country, but they aren’t living in a third world country instead they are living in the richest country in the world. But clearly we are too rich too share with those who are in need. Clearly we think that because we are richer and that other people are poorer that they shouldn’t be around. It is supposed to be that all men are equal to one another, but it’s not that way. There will always be those people who feel like they are better or those who feel the need to oppress those they don’t like or don’t approve of. These people are oppressing people who are just like themselves. People who are everyday working class people. People come to America because they believe it to be a free land full of accepting people, which is the way it should be. But books such as Someplace Like America may just help open people’s eyes to make America a better place.
Response # 2
Alan Wood
Mr. Benton
ENG 102
8/24/11
Government Aid: Response # 2
Government assistance was a great idea to help Americans in need of money. But like most things today, it is taken for granted quite often by a majority of those who use government aid. Most people can’t even tell you if they are on any type of government aid because they don’t even know they are on it or they don’t know what constitutes as government aid. Despite the few though that try and cheat and abuse the system, the majority do not. For those people government assistance is the deciding factor between life and death.
Government aid first started in the late 1800's. The U.S. government was very important in the development of business in America. The government worked with the concept of Laissez Faire, this concept meant that the government wouldn't control business. During the Civil War, the government still followed this approach Laissez Faire but they were starting to be more involved in business. The U.S. government in the post-Civil War period both aided business as well as attempted to regulate it (Rolfe).When you think of government aid today you generally think of welfare. The United States did not have an organized welfare system until the Great Depression, when emergency relief plans were introduced by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Even then, Roosevelt's New Deal focused mainly on a program of providing work and stimulating the economy through public spending, rather than on cash payment (Schram).
The purpose of welfare was to assist people in need. The ultimate goal of welfare is to lift welfare recipients out of poverty and make them able to take care of themselves without any help from the government. Welfare is a form of social protection, because it deals with overcoming adverse situations that affect people who are needy. Although social protection was made to assist the working classes and to address the poverty problems in America, it has ended up involving a much larger variety of issues surrounding poverty.
A recent study shows the majority of Welfare recipients are white and live in suburbs or rural areas. The findings are contrary to the popular belief that most welfare recipients are unemployed, inner-city minorities whose families have gotten public assistance for generations. Because TANF, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, gave individual states flexibility in making time-limited welfare policies, the new reforms vary from state to state. Under TANF, people were required to actively seek employment while receiving aid and they could only receive aid for a limited amount of time. However, states can choose the amount of resources they will devote to the program. Some people believe this is how we should reform every form of government aid such as Medicare and Medicaid.
Recent studies have found a relationship between the racial makeup of a state’s welfare population and whether the state has strict welfare policies. Essentially, as the percentage of whites and other ethnicities in the welfare population rises, the probability that the state will adopt full-family sanctions increases from 54 to 97 percent; the probability that the state will adopt a family cap increases from 5 percent to 96 percent; and the probability that the state will adopt a shorter time limit than five years increases from 10 to 88 percent (Schram).
Many people believe that government assistance is a bad thing. Those people think that it is just another excuse for the unemployed and the lazy to not work. Though that is partially true because some people do attempt to abuse the system, a majority of people who are on welfare and other government aid programs do not choose to be on them. It is usually just due to a series of unfortunate events and the majority of government aid recipients try to get off of the government aid programs. It has become a common stereotype today that those who are on welfare and other forms of government aid, that they are lazy bums who do not want to work. This stereotype however is not true, more often than not; recipients of government aid are very hard working.
Welfare is provided directly by the government. Welfare is funded by governments out of general revenue, generally through redistributive taxation, or in other words, our taxes pay for their welfare (Schram). Because of this it usually turns people away from the idea of welfare because people don’t want to pay for someone, especially when half the population believes that welfare recipients are lazy. Some opponents of welfare argue that welfare affects work incentives as well as the taxes given to welfare recipients. They also think that their incentives to work decrease because for every dollar the recipient earns, the monthly amount of welfare given is decreased by an equivalent amount (Schram).
Half of the people getting government aid don't think they've ever been a part of any type of government aid. Most people who receive some type of government assistance can’t even tell you what kind of assistance they are receiving, if they even know that they are receiving it. Half of the population couldn’t even tell you what the different forms of government aid are. But forty percent of Medicare recipients have no idea their health insurance is funded by the state. Given the fact that one in six Americans use anti-poverty programs alone, there are a lot of people who don’t even know how much the government helps them out (Arnowitz).
Government assistance is a great idea to help American citizens in need of government assistance. Throughout history government aid programs have always been taken for granted. Half of the time government aid goes to waste on people who do not even know that they are on it. Some people believe that because of these reasons government aid is a bad thing, and that it is just raising our population to be lazy. On the contrary, it is raising our population to be hard working and self-sufficient. Because no one really wants to be on government aid, it is not the kind of thing that people brag about. But no one sees the truth in this, all that people see is what they want to see, which is just something else that they can put the blame on. Once you can work past the overlapping lies surrounding government aid programs, you will see that it is a good thing.
Works Cited
Arnowitz, Nona. "Half of Americans Getting Government Aid Swear They've Never Used It." 09-12-2011. Web. 23 Aug 2011. <http://www.good.is/post/half-of-americans-getting-government-aid- swear-they-ve-never-used-government-programs/>.
Rolfe, Andrew. "Homework Help: Social Studies: U.S. History: Governmental Aid to Businesses in the Late 1800's." 22-8-2011. Web. 23 Aug 2011. <http://www.good.is/post/half-of-americans-getting-government-aid-swear-they-ve-never-used-government-programs/>.
Schram, Sanford. Contextualizing Racial Disparities in American Welfare Reform: Toward a New Poverty Research. (2005). 253-268. Print.
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