Brooks

to “give name to the nameless” and “answer the received cultural imagination of the subject with something utterly different.” Sylvia Plath and Gwendolyn Brooks do it exceptionally well. Their poetry tackles subject matter vital to the task of complicating cultural imagined archetypes for women. Almost immediately, first line Gwendolyn Brooks’ poem “The Mother” fulfills its responsibility of meeting culturally imagined standards with something utterly different through the poem’s conception of…

In “The Mother” by Gwendolyn Brooks, there is an underlying story of sorrow and urgency. It talks of unborn children dying from unnatural causes. A lot of people believe she is writing as if she was the mother of an aborted baby (or multiple), but if one digs deeper into the poem, they will find that the writer may be talking as if she is the abortionist. There are several sources that suggests that she was the doctor that performed abortions. Not only is she apologizing for taking the life of…

Gwendolyn Brooks was one of the few poets able to move between the academic poets of the 1940’s and militant writers in the 1960’s, creating a fresh style of poetry that reflected the philosophic struggle each African American woman dealt with during this time. Her words spoke of the pain which comes with trying to better one’s life, especially in the face of extreme poverty and racial inequality. Upon initial reading one may see a theme of the stereotypical African American female, often…

different schools they are interested in. Personally, I am interested in factors like location and school size. In this essay, I will examine three schools: University of South Florida (USF), University of Central Florida (UCF), and SUNY at Stony Brook University—SUNY. USF is located in Tampa, Florida, which is only about one hour away from my home. While it would be nice to be close to my family, I do not like the weather in Florida. It is too hot in the summer and it is not cold for very long…

ways. Arthur C. Brooks concludes that a person should “Love people, use things” and Aristotle counters this mindset by believing that “happiness is an activity of the soul” and while both persons consider that happiness is achieved, each individual has a different conclusion as to how to attain happiness. Although both Brooks and Aristotle agree that life is not about pleasure and physical monetary objects, they differ in the way to achieve happiness and how to apply it to life as Brooks…

Brook trout have needs in order to survive and become fully grown fish. Brook trout have many needs in order to survive. When brook trout are in their eggs they can’t be in the light. In order to survive the hatching egg stage, they can’t be in the light too much or they can die. In order to survive, brook trout need fresh clean water. Brook trout are very sensitive, they need to live in clean water in order to survive. They are good with a few bacteria but, if you clean the tank every day they…

language barrier stands as a major challenge. 300 out of 1700 undergraduate international students at Stony Brook University are from Chinese speaking country according to the International admission office, language barrier is the first challenge for them when they step on campus. Mariana Catalano, a 10 years coordinator of the undergraduate English as Second Language Program (ESL) at Stony Brook, explained during her term, she has designed and developed the writing placement for all…

Gwendolyn Brooks wrote “The Crazy Women” as a quatrain. This quatrain consisted of many Stanzas. This arrangement of words and lines turned into important meaning that a reader or writer could understand. Each stanza is written in four different lines. Brooks does use repetition in her writing. “I’ll wait until November” line is both mention in the first and second stanza. These four line combined with the repetition turned in a beautiful masterpiece. “The Crazy Women” poem sound can be heard…

Readers can draw many connections from two great poems. Gwendolyn Brooks is a writer that focusses on the uprooting and the inability to make a living in black communities. In the poem “The Explorer” by Gwendolyn Brooks, talks about the needs of every human being. The needs and wants that everyone desires. Robert Hayden faced a difficult childhood that he used to fuel his fire. In “Frederick Douglass” by Robert Hayden, he describes a burning passion we all have inside of us. Both of…

character Mr. Brooks is, personality theory, he seemed to have a personality disturbance or alter ego that fueled his compulsions to committing murder. Mr. Brooks seemed to be a well known successful businessman amongst his peers, but nothing other than psychopath who indulged in his pleasurable addiction of killing. “ The Personality theory is built on the area of cognitive science, including personality disturbances, the process of moral development, and disease of the mind. ”p. (82) Mr.…