Brooks

This week, I had the privilege to read and respond to Tori’s response to Brooks’ essay. She mainly discussed how she believes that the students in the writing consultations should be doing most of, if not all of the work. Tori discussed the importance of the environment created in the Writing Center, as well as the power of student-centered work. While her essay was very strong in the points she brought out of his essay and analyzed thoroughly, I believe that she could have gone more into depth…

what every circumstances they are in, aborting a child does not mean that woman is happy with her decisions or feels no guilt. In the poem “the mother” by Gwendolyn brooks tell a story of just that , all though she aborted her children this doesn’t mean she is not a mother or not to have loved her unborn children. As Gwendolyn Brooks wrote this poem decades ago the messages she Intel 's still touches many women close to the heart, to think that abortions are still so popular but today society…

must first live it." The first black author to win the Pulitzer prize, Gwendolyn Brooks, is among the most distinguished African-American poets. Already in love with writing poetry, she first published her poem at the age of 13. Many of her life experiences influenced her work greatly. First of all, Gwendolyn Brooks uses important elements from her childhood and weaves them into her poetry. In Bronzeville, Brooks lived in a kitchenette and, "Only one who has actually lived and suffered in a…

Through Brook’ Vermeer’s Hat: the Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World, Brook claims that the “dawn of globalization” took place during the 17th century, and was the beginning of the start of the modern world due to the growing alliances, trade and production of goods. Brook backs up his claim by using the several pieces of art included in his book, that were created during the seventeenth century. He focuses on specific parts of each work, and uses it as a door to the past and…

1. According to the article, who is Gwendolyn Brooks? According to the article, Gwendolyn Brooks is a poet who had grown up during the migration, she had moved from Kansas to Chicago as an infant. Her first collection of poetry was based on her neighborhood in Bronzeville. 2. According to the article, who is Langston Hughes? Langston Hughes is a famous poet and was a part of the Harlem Renaissance. He spent some time living in Chicago, in 1949, he went to the University of Chicago…

To pull a Kaepernick is to kneel instead of stand during a football game national anthem, in order to protest racism in our country. David Brooks’ believes that standing is the only correct way to pledge patriotism, and is important to our society because it unifies us. In other words, the act of “pulling a Kaepernick” is setting us back further and further from becoming a truly unified nation. I challenge this idea completely. There is no one way to support a country, and there is no one way to…

Obtaining my undergraduate degree was one of the highlights of my life. By day I attended classes, studied hard and completed my student observation and student teaching requirements. On nights and weekends I worked at a country club working as many shifts as I could to pay for my courses at St. John Fisher College. When I graduated in the spring of 2005 with my Bachelor of Arts in History and my initial teaching certification in hand, I was excited to teach and challenge the young minds of our…

Every decision is followed by consequences. These consequences can be good or bad and lead to a happy or sad feeling. In Gwendolyn Brooks’ poem, “The Mother”, there is both a feeling of happiness and guilt to a decision that is made. The author tells about how you cannot forget the consequences that are a result to a decision that you make. Gwendolyn Brooks uses literary devices such as imagery, personification, rhyme, and repetition to show how one person feels about a decision that they made.…

In the poem “The Mother” by Gwendolyn Brook, the theme is guilt, by the speaker is feeling guilty because of the abortions she has had in her lifetime. The speaker refers to the abortions as crimes by saying “Whine that the crime was other than mine?” (I. 23). Gwendolyn Brooks also uses symbolism, tone, and personification throughout this poem. The symbolism in this poem is simply about abortion and how if the mother has an abortion she has to live with the fact that she has had one like…

Everything written in this essay has been taken from “The Mother”, by Gwendolyn Brooks. Abortions. It is the first word of the poem, and the first word of this essay. Used as an attempt to grab the reader, and keep them hooked, “Abortions will not let you forget.” (L. 1). Forget what? Forget the feeling of a doctor extracting a dead fetus from a womb? Or, forgetting that a one-night fling, turned into getting pregnant unintentionally? It might not have been just a one time thing, it could…