the mass media for degrading the quality of American life. Ginsberg also states in his poem as a liberal Are you going to let your emotional life be run by Time Magazine? So he believes the same things. Both the liberals and the conservatives did not want the people to believe was the mass media told them.Even thought these two men were raised in completely different atmospheres and there beliefs are an the far right and the far left they still come together with wanting the same things for their country and the mass people in it. They want piece and for people to believe what is true not what they see through the mass media's eyes.These two documents are similar in the ways that they are both pleading for peace Dwight D. Eisenhower states in his farewell address that as a private citizen he would never stop trying to help America advance along the road to peace. Allen Ginsberg states in his poem America, America you dont really want to go to war. America its them damn Russians. Alan Ginsberg also states in his poem There must be some other way to settle this argument meaning some way other than war.Eisenhower was born in Texas and raised in a conservative military family. He excelled in sports and many other things. Eisenhower was a war hero and a commanding general of victorious forces in Europe during world war 2. During his two terms he worked to obtain a truce in Korea and worked to ease the tensions in the cold war.Alan Ginsberg was born in Newark N.J. and attended the Columbia University and was expelled. Ginsberg was brought up in an immigrant Jewish family. His father was a teacher and a poet and his mother had a history of mental problems. He started experimenting with mind altering drugs at a young age and began writing poems about using them. He was a leading figure in the Beet generation. His poems celebrated drugs and homosexuality. Many of his poems were thought to be obscene and some were even confiscated ...
