Teacher:In this task, you are given product reviews about dvds. The goal is to classify the review as "POS" if the overall sentiment of the review is positive(the reviewer is satisfied) or as "NEG" if the overall sentiment of the review is negative(the reviewer is not satisfied).
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: humanity of jack . Nothing happened to Jack Kerouac. He died like the rest of us eventually will. Jack Kerouac was a regular human being. Now you're problably saying "yea I already knew that, so what?". But what you problably didn't know is that Jack used literature to show how beautiful and ugly human beings can be. Kerouac was a man equally feminine as he was masculine (read Charter's biography about his relationships with Ginzy, N.C., as well as the women of his life.) All of this is touched on in the video documentary, which thrives off the somber emotion,and that sort of "grey sky comtemplation" of things, which seems to pervade all of Jack's work. The video moves through Jack's life in a fairly straightforward manner. We see him as a shy french speaking Mass. adolescent, a cleft chinned Columbia undergraduate, a rucksack wanderer,a chanting buddhist,an aloof catholic, who loved his mother and drank much too much Johnnie Walker. In "What happnened to Jack?" we see Jack as who he really was, a confused, tortured, disenfranchised,happy, unhappy writer who was very good at putting words together, which gave an honest glimpse of what was going on in his heart and his mind. There are many great moments in the video. Any beat "junkie" will love the footage of Jack and Allen coolin' it near Columbia, smoking cigarettes and shootin' pool. There's a clip of Bird and Diz blowing hot jazz, the beats in S.F. at the debut of Ginzy's "Howl", Mike McClure, Jack, Snyder and Ferlinghetti at Big Sur recitin' and writin' smooth synapses of the happenings there and around. There are countless anecdotes and picturs of all your "beat heroes", which portray them as strikingly regular and very un-heroic. The video as a complete work is very delicious, but the tastiest bits come when Jack reads "October in the Railroad Earth" to a montage of San Francisco images. When a debonair Jack reads "On the Road" to Steve Allen's bluesy piano in perfect phrasing and time. And last but not least there is the comical and strangely serious Greg Corso explaining genious, fame, and why he thinks the "Beat Generation" was a phenomenon. Kerouac would problably want you to see this video because it shows that he was not a fad, an icon, nor a saviour for a generation. He was simply a regular man trying to find answers to very un-regular questions and he used his writing talent to unravel those mysteries
Student:
POS