What Were the Political, Social, Economic, And/or Cultural Consequences of This

question 7

Essay

What were the political, social, economic, and/or cultural consequences of this item: Beat writers?
Instructions:
-Identify each item. Give an explanation or description of the item. Answer the questions who, what, where, and when.
-Explain the historical significance of each item. Establish the historical context in which the item exists. Establish the item as the result of or as the cause of other factors existing in the society under study.

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Definitions:

Pessimism

The tendency to see the worst aspect of things or believe that the worst will happen; a lack of hope or confidence in the future.

Pessimistic Explanatory

A tendency to interpret and explain negative events as being widespread, permanent, and uncontrollable.

State-Dependent Memory

The effect in which a person's memory recall improves when they are in the same mental state as the time the memory was created.

Learned Helplessness

A condition in which an individual becomes passive and unable to avoid negative situations due to previous experiences of powerlessness.