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Short answer Being you is always the best The text “Why it’s super cool to be yourself at school” is about being yourself and the benefits of being yourself. Sabrina Yates is the author of this text. She starts with explaining how to be yourself. A lot of people, especially teens, may find it hard to know who they really are and who they want to be. They can find it hard to make friends and maybe make friends that are not good for them. The author says that the fastest way to figure out who you…

Kathy Mitchel is a charming fifty nine year old detective , her visible dyed blonde hair covers her snow white grays . Her blue eyes are used to charm any person who gets in her way . The story begins in a hovel shot gun house in Westwego , a small city outside of New Orleans. Kathy is investigating a break in murder of a thirty seven year old lady. Kathy interrogates the victim's husband Michael with questions about the happenings of that evening . Michael is a thirty nine year old…

for the work, but whoever is telling the poem, could hear cold splinters breaking. The father calls the narrator to get ready. The narrator’s shoes were polished. From how the story is told, the narrator is the son of the father. The poems “We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks, and “We Old Dudes” by Joan Murray, have two significant occurrences…

In Gwendolyn Brooks’ poem “We Real Cool” there are several aspects of the poem that work together to present an interesting scene. The most outstanding characteristic I found was how the two beginning lines of the poem “THE POOL PLAYERS,” and “SEVEN AT THE GOLDEN SHOVEL” are written to look like stage directions as they are the only two lines that are written entirely in capital letters and there is a large amount of space separating those lines from the rest of the poem as we would see in a…

Facebook Beacon: Cool Feature or an Invasion of Privacy? Facebook launched Beacon, “a new and innovative approach to advertising” (O’Rourke, 2013, p 215) on November 6, 2007. This software has the ability to post a user’s online purchases to their Facebook pages, in essence creating advertising directed to their network of friends for the products purchased. By November 19, 2007 the group MoveOn, a political and civic organization, started a public campaign in an effort to stop Beacon citing it…

Gwendolyn Brooks poem, We Real Cool, was written in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement and racial tensions that existed during the 1960s. During this time period many African Americans were constantly rejected from possessing basic human rights and becoming sufficient members of society. Brooks poem reflects how while facing constant scrutiny and prejudice from their white counterparts, much of the African-American youth struggled to discover their identity, questioning their roles in…

"Cool People Only Break The Rules -- But Only The Right Rules “Begin Breaking the rules might seem like a corrupt thing to do, but breaking the rules the right way is always a respectable idea. Many people see breaking the rules as getting in trouble and looking like a bully, but there are different ways to break the rules and still look cool. The article "Cool People Only Break The Rules -- But Only The Right Rules" explains in many ways that breaking the rules aren’t always a terrible thing.…

Written in 1959 Gwendolyn Brooks' poem "We Real Cool", was during the height of Civil Rights Movement. It took a long time for desegregation to fully integrate and caused many youths to doubt their life purpose. It epitomizes what many youths faced if they chose to forgo school. Many youths gave up on any hope for the future. Why try when they are constantly told they have no future. The start of the poem there are seven boys at a pool hall named the Golden Shovel. Seven is the number normally…

dominant culture says not to do, the counterculture will do in order to be different from the dominant culture. When the seven say “We real cool” at the beginning of the poem, they are trying to show that their identity is separate from the dominant and uncool culture. The rest of the poem becomes a list of the acts that demonstrates what they perceive to be cool. When the seven say they have “Left school,” they have expressed their rejection of the…

poem “Richard Cory” An extremely wealthy man who was admired and envied by those who knew him little and consider themselves less fortunate, commits suicide. Both the poem “We Cool” (1960) and “Richard Cory” (1897) use symbolism,…