Does this Beat Movement research paper introduction need to have more added to it?

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Our research paper has to be 8-12 pages long, and I was just wondering if this introduction sounds all right or if it needs work. I can't decide.


The Beat Movement was an American social and literary movement that originated in the 1950’s in the bohemian-artist districts of San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York City. Movement members, also known as “beatniks,” or just “beats,” for short, rejected mainstream, conventional, American values and morals. Beats, instead, invented new fashion trends, a “hip” vocabulary which included many new slang words, and a new style of literature which was much more unrestricted than typical published American works of the time. The motivation behind the movement consisted of many beat principles such as non-conformity, Eastern religions, mind-expansion, and sexual freedom. The Beatnik Movement created an era of social influence and change because of the persistent, willpower of the beat authors, artists, and poets, including Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs.

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The facts are correct, but the feeling is mainstream. I can't put my finger on it (and if I could, I'd probably smoke it). I wouldn't change it if I were you. To make it evocative of the times you probably had to have lived through them.

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