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Gwendolyn Brooks, a female black author. She had written many poems, but to everyone there is one that sticks out the most.“We Real Cool.” She wishes that wasn 't the only poem that she is well-known for but that will do for her. Her poem is very short yet it is good enough to set an image and makes someone think about what era this was at and how it can trigger something. It is based on of the young adults and what they do as an everyday life instead of what they should be doing to better…

Has Baseball Lost It’s Cool? “Take me out to the ball game” also known as “The Seventh Inning Stretch” is a classic american song. That Song was made famous by the Legendary Harry Caray. Harry was the Chicago Cubs announcer. Now let me ask you a question. What do these three things have in common? If you said the coolest sport in American history also known as Baseball, then you are correct. Why is it the coolest sport you may ask? Well it, for one, is a very old american tradition. There is…

I watched the "Cool hand Luke". When I watched this movie, I admired the rebellious spirit mind that Luke is a main character had. Especially, it is the scene where he breaks out of prison many times. He didn't lose the authority of prison guards and society. A web site says, "the parking meter of the beginning of the movie was a symbol of absurd authority." If you park on the road, it is the parking violation. However, If you pay money, it isn't violation. I think so too. After checking…

To be cool or not is everything to a kid growing up. Everyone wants to be liked and no one wants to be an outcast. Everyone wants to have friends and no one wants to be the weird kid. People will do anything to be cool, including breaking rules. I have chosen to write my essay on “Cool People Only Break the Rules, But Only the Right Rules. Are you considered cool? Do you set your own style and hope you are cool enough or do you go extreme and become the outcast? Being cool has a fine line…

LL Cool J LL Cool J can be imitated but cannot be duplicated. I want to know how he did achieve such a feat of reinventing himself from the 80’s B-boying and MCing into an actor and fashion icon when most of his peers from back in the day are still stuck on that same talent they discovered. LL Cool J which is the short for Ladies Love Cool James was born January 14, 1968 with the name James Todd Smith. He is an American hip hop recording artist and actor from Queens, New York. LL Cool J is…

In “Film as Art and Psychology: Cool Hand Luke as Exemplar," Frank Barron employs a metaphorical comparison between religion and movies to claim that Cool Hand Luke is “about the Passion and Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ” (102). He substantiates his claim with in-depth mise-en- scène analysis, which does make Barron’s argument convincing, but to a certain extent. Barron highlights how Lucas Jackson’s figure movement and expressions symbolize that of Jesus Christ. For example, when he…

Raymond Johnson Intro into literature Mr. McDonald 11/9/14 We Are Cool Gwendolyn Brooks' poem "We Real Cool" was written in 1959, which was in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement. The poem sums up the reality that many adolescences faced at that time whether they chose to drop out of school. Within this era in American history the case of Brown v. Board of Education, in 1954, the Supreme Court legislated that it was unconstitutional to segregate schools based on race; nevertheless,…

In both “What It’s Like to be a Gang Member” by Bill Lee and “We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks gang life is portrayed as dangerous, hard, and useless demonstrating that joining one is not worth it or good. In “What It’s Like to be a Gang Member” by Bill Lee. Lee quotes “the gang I was in was responsible for the golden dragon massacre.” Because of gang life Lee was part of a mass killing and has to deal with the trauma of being in a event like that also there were lots of weapons and he could…

Poetic Explication: “We Real Cool” We Real Cool, is a rather short poem written by Gwendolyn Brooks in 1960, right in the middle of the Civil Rights Movement. Near the beginning of the poem it sounds like everything is quite alright with everyone, with “We real cool,” but by the end of the poem, everything is not ok, and the poem ends with “We / die soon,” which means that death will soon occur, if change does not happen (Brooks 3, 9-10). Through the use several literary techniques, Brooks…

a “herd mentality” in society which dictates how people act and what they do in a certain society. In the poem, the speaker’s voice is the collective group of boys saying “We real cool. We left School. We die soon”. Brooks uses the young boy’s voices as a group to convey the attitude of most young men. Young men are cool and casual, they go with the group. Brooks uses the collective voice of the young boys because the poem is about how the boys do everything together; there is no one decision or…