Hooks

Bell Hooks, “Gangsta Culture” In the excerpt "Gangsta Culture" from Bell Hooks' We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity (2004). Her purpose is to inform us about the lure of the streets and why such a variety of dark men fall salve to it. As an expert and distinguished professor of English, Hook structures her text in a very effective manner. The general structure delineates that it is a concept of activities of dark men, mind state and reasoning for those activities. Hook…

not only providing a safe haven for victims of sexual assault and interpersonal violence but also an establishment for students to speak out and to prevent violence for occurring on our college campus. Unfortunately, we live in a society were “The Hook up Culture” is on the rise; the notion where consent is no longer understood and…

Tiffin makes a comparative study of the use of colonial motifs in The Cat and Shakespeare and The Double Hook. In her comments on Rao’s book, she says that both the title and the concerns of the novel points at a political purpose is jumbled up with a philosophical theme. Further in the course of her article, she asks whether the book can be called a postcolonial text. Because it displays that “the community, its beliefs and rituals are in no sense disrupted by the history of British colonialism…

“Talking Back,” by Bell Hooks she declares that “talking back” means speaking as an equal to an authority figure. “It meant daring to disagree and sometimes it just meant having an opinion,” (Hooks 152). Hooks states that she apprehends that women of different races should be able to express their opinions, not just inside the household but also out. She then reveals some of her early trials as a writer and the complications with being a female, African American child (Hooks). In my opinion,…

University of North Alabama Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook Review Clint Brown October 21, 2015 Gary Vaynerchuk’s book will help you reconsider how we promote and sell to consumers. He expounds how you need to continuously lend significance to others prior to asking them to purchase your merchandise and services. The book is called Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World and it was published by HarperBusiness. In the book, Vaynerchuk provides copious instances of…

due to the way society has politically and economically constructed categories or groups (hooks, b). According to bell hooks, black women are in a “double bind,” meaning that regardless of whether they stand for sexism or racism they will still be oppressed in some way. Because of the way history has been written, black women have not been accounted for.…

this are Sandy Hook shooting, and the two shootings in Texas. These had more deaths then this one. The two in Texas are one of George Hennard driving his pickup truck into a school lunch room and then shooting 24 people to death. The other shooting is of former marine Joseph Whitman killing sixteen and wounding thirty more by shooting them from a tower at the University of Texas. The cops had to kill Joseph while George killed himself. This event was not far off in years from Sandy hook.…

Tinder, Hook-Ups and Feminism In the age of my great grandmother, women were a priority. Men would have to treat the women in their life with respect, give them gifts and flowers and take them on romantic dates. Sex was not a near-future possibility, so both parties did not count on it. Now, what was once the priority has turned into an option, while romantic dates have become “Netflix and Chill.” A first date does not involve a man giving a woman flowers, but a woman giving a man a blowjob. Of…

The program implemented by the Red Hook Justice Center in Brooklyn, NY., was designed to address positive perceptions of crime held by many young people in the apartment houses where these youths lived (Swaner, R., & White, E., 2009). The intent of the program that funded the study was to change behaviors among young people in the Red Hook Houses becoming more social and to change their attitudes toward crime through an effective marketing campaign (Swaner, R., & White, E., 2009). The study used…

bell hooks describes how slavery and apartheid have effected how African Americans deal with self-care and expressing love, she states, “Slave narratives often emphasize time and time again that black people's survival was often determined by their capacity to repress feelings" (hooks, 1993, p.251). This repression of emotion has been passed down from slave generations to generations of African…