Gwendolyn Brooks We Real Cool

During the 1900’s, society limited the rights of African Americans. Gwendolyn Brooks was a writer who experienced discrimination from the white population, and even African Americans who were fairer in complexion. She originally wrote about the oppression of African Americans, and their day-to-day struggles. Later on, she expanded her writings to include the struggles of African Americans everywhere. By the end of her life, she inspired thousands of young writers to write about things they’re passionate about. The impact Gwendolyn Brooks has on my life is incomparable to any other important figure I've studied. It's the steps that she took that made her a global leader and will impact my development as a global leader.

     Gwendolyn Brooks is the female poet who has been most responsive to changes in the black community, particularly in the community’s vision of itself. The first African American to be awarded a Pulitzer Prize; she was considered one of America’s most distinguished poets well before the age of fifty. Known for her technical artistry, she has succeeded in forms as disparate as Italian terza rima and the blues. She has been praised for her wisdom and insight into the African Experience in America. Her works reflect both the paradises and the hells of the black people of the world. Her writing is objective, but her characters speak for themselves. Although the

Also this rhetorical question is not meant for an answer but for the audience to think and emphasize the point that businessmen and woman are missing out significantly on the peacefulness and beauty of the outdoors. Finally, in the last line of the song Grandaddy concludes the songs just how he began it, when he includes, “They were the group who couldn't say.” This concludes the song by explaining how these business men and women were speechless after going on their excursion and witnessing the beauty of the outdoors and escaping the anxiety of life. This song provided many example of how the outdoors can change a person's life and how many people in the world are cooped up in a office working day and night not experiencing what the world has to offer, Grandaddy reinforces this by the uses of rhetorical devices such as Juxtaposition, rhetorical question, and

Brooks continues the poem saying, “We / Left school”. Making the hopelessness of this scenario even more obvious. Brooks not only arranges the wording in this poem to show a desperate need, but she speaks of one as well. The fact that these seven young men have no education shows exactly how unpromising their futures are or are going to be if they continue down a path trying to impress each other

“We Real Cool," by Gwendolyn Brooks is a fervent short poem that tells a story of teenage rebellion. This poem is a formal verse ballad which uses simple sentences that create a steady meter giving the poem a catchy jazz like quality. Although the poem is short, it packs a powerful message about youth. Gwendolyn Brooks centered her works predominately around the African American consciousness. During the 1960’s when the poem was written, many teens especially young African-American men felt misunderstood and like the world was set up for them to fail. On the surface, it appears this poem is a mere description of young adults that are misjudged. The deeper message of this poem addresses the dangers of peer pressure, and its detrimental effects to self-identity because of the disconnect between society and youth of that time.

The diversity of Brooks’s poetry leaves a reader who first encounters her work to draw, as Bolton argues in Gwendolyn Brooks and the Epic Tradition, “overly hasty conclusions about the natures of her subject and verse form” (56). Brooks’s mastery is found in her extended lyric voice characterized in her various poems. From colloquial language in “We Real Cool” to her tense and complex style in the “Anniad”, Brooks’s audience is just as diverse as her anthology. Hovarth identifies the significance of form in relationship to her

Brooks makes great use of rhyme throughout the poem. She uses words such as "cool", "school", "sin", and "gin." These are external rhymes which appear at the end of lines. The rhyme scheme used compliments the theme, since it is the directed towards a young audience. The reason we know that Brooks is trying to attract a young crowd is because she is talking about youth who are suppose to be attending school. The poem is given an up tempo beat, almost like a rap. This rap like sound may also help attract young readers.

Since it does, when reading each line, there is a resilient connection that allows the reader to put together and feel for what the narrator is speaking of. As each line is metrically linked, the words are further recited in a durable voice and the poem is virtually put together, musically. In the first and second lines of the third stanza, an apostrophe, a figure of speech that directly addresses an absent person or entity, is presented, “We smile, but O great Christ, our cries to thee from tortured souls arise.”

Born Gwendoline Nessie Foster on 8 June 1920 into a self-sufficient family that was full of music, philosophy, religion and language, Gwen had many early influences in her childhood that were clearly going to have an effect on her later life. Gwen's family had strong connections with music and it became a very important part of her life, causing her to aspire to become a musician. Gwen's grandmother introduced her to poetry and she began to write her own in the 1950's. Soon after, she learnt the German language to establish a wider reading of poetry and involve the language in her own works. Gwen married a linguist named William Harwood in 1945 and then moved around the Southern parts of Tasmania where she lived until her death in December

The morning of December 7, 1942 is when the role of Rosie the Riveter all began. The surprise attack caused a devastating loss of lives and the destruction of several U.S. warships and airplanes. That is when President Roosevelt made the courageous decision and called the United States to war. With American men enlisting in the war effort, the work force instantaneously diminished. Then, the question was brought up, “Who would “man” the assembly lines in the factories to produce the necessities for war?” With a shortage of manpower, through the factory doors flooded an army of womanpower. Women from all around the area were ready to take the responsibilities of the factory duties that the men had left behind.

Marilyn Lee Cross began as a naive waif of a girl, 18-years old, who defied the rules without imaging the fatal consequence of her action. Marilyn stowed away aboard an EDS to see her brother, whom she hadn't seen in 10 years. In the end, Marilyn's naivete faded away as she accepted the consequence, her death, for the rule she defied.

Notice how Brooks ties together “we” and “things” therefore suggesting that the speaker considers herself and the others living with her as objects opposed to humans. Contrary to the segregation occurring within diverse races at the time, the speaker integrates all those whom she shares a home with, creating a sense of community. The speaker of the poem doesn’t exclude anyone but it is known that they are all African-American. Gwendolyn Brooks includes a hidden repetition in this poem as well, that is the idea of a “dream”. The word “dream” is presented in the first stanza, in the second line, “‘Dream’ makes a giddy sound”, there is a reference back to this dream throughout the rest of the poem such as in the third stanza, “ Even if we were willing to let it in, Had time to warm it, keep it very clean” (8-9). It was intended for the reader to recognize the emphasis on the “dream” which would allow the reader to become aware of the unjust treatment African-Americans were going through. Recognizing that these people didn’t even want to allow themselves to “let in” their dreams and hopes only raised the concern and recognition of the dreadful reality African-Americans had to endure at this time.

Julia Stewart in my opinion is an excellent role model of generating employee engagement and motivating the employees in her company’s restaurants. In the case study she used goal setting to achieve the performance outcome goal. She recognized how one employee perfect proportioned a taco and set that example as the targeted goal for all employees to follow (Kreitner & Kinicki, 2013). By asking another member of the prep line, “Did you see how well this was done” (Kreitner & Kinicki, 2013)? Another role model example, she illustrates is when she stand in the middle of the kitchen and ask “Who did the walk-in here today” (Kreitner & Kinicki, 2013)? And she would give the employee who performed the exceptional good a compliment and gather the

Robyn Hood: Outlaw Princess by John Reynolds is a fresh take on the classic Robin Hood but with a fun twist. This is a quick, fun, young adult novel but one everyone is sure to enjoy.

The first stanza calls for everybody to gather together and for them to unite in this time of change. In lines 3-6, Dylan wants people to admit that times are changing and stop denying it before it overwhelms them.