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The Dharma Bums Lesson Plan
35,766 words, approx. 119 pages
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The Dharma Bums Quotes
887 words, approx. 3 pages
 The Dharma Bums is a novel (1958) by Jack Kerouac When I was a little kid in Oregon I didn't feel that I was an American at all, with all that suburban ideal and sex repression and general dreary newspaper gray censorship of all our real human values...




| Name: |
Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac | | Variant Name: |
Jack Kerouac | | Birth Date: |
March 12, 1922 | | Death Date: |
October 21, 1969 | | Place of Birth: |
Lowell, Massachusetts, United States | | Place of Death: |
St. Petersburg, Florida, United States | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
writer |
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Biography of Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac
1075 words, approx. 3.6 pages
 Jean-Louis Lebris de (Jack) Kerouac (1922-1969), American writer, experimented with spontaneous autobiographical fiction chronicling his travels into the American West. He is known as the father of the Beat Generation. Rambling. Wandering. Overflowing. L...
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Biography of Jack Kerouac
17393 words, approx. 58 pages
 Jack Kerouac, once called "our most misunderstood and underestimated writer," is gradually emerging from that limbo, though much about him remains obscure. The obscurity results from a misreading of his books by critics who, borne along by Cold War preju...
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Biography of Jack Kerouac
5772 words, approx. 19.2 pages
 Jack Kerouac died, as he had spent much of his adult life, writing. The morning of October 20, 1969, he was sitting in front of his television at his home in St. Petersburg, Florida, jotting down notes when a vein in his stomach ruptured. A hard-drinking...



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The Dharma Bums Information
643 words, approx. 2 pages
 The Dharma Bums is a 1958 novel by Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac. The semi-fictional accounts in the novel are based upon events that occurred years after On the Road. The main characters are the narrator Ray Smith, based on Kerouac, and Japhy...



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 The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
Just another dharma bum: Buddhist teacher Caitriona Reed.
12/19/2006: 351 words, approx. 1 pages When you think of meditation, a few things might come to mind: peace, tranquility, struggling to sit cross-legged--but queer politics? For Buddhist teacher and male-to-female trans woman Caitriona Reed, it's all part of the dharma. And at Manzanita Village, a retreat center tucked...
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Dharma Bums
07/20/2003: 806 words, approx. 3 pages THE SEARCH FOR THE BUDDHA The Men Who Discovered India's Lost Religion By Charles Allen Carroll & Graf. 322 pp. $26 Buddhism is regarded as one of the five great religions of the world and at the moment is...


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