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    Gwendolyn Brooks

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    Gwendolyn Brooks was one of the most renowned poets of her time. Brooks is acknowledged as the first black author who won a Pulitzer Prize; she was also the first black woman to hold a position in the Library of Congress. Many of Brooks’ poems reflected on the civil rights activism of her day. With these poems she connected racial identity, equality and politics into her works, but she “has also managed to bridge the gap between the academic poets of her generation in the 1940s and the young black

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    Mel Brooks Essay

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    Biography [edit] Early life Born Melvin Kaminsky in Brooklyn, New York, U.S., to Polish-Jewish parents Maximillian Kaminsky and Kate "Kittie" Brookman. Brooks' grandfather, Abraham Kaminsky, was a herring dealer who immigrated in 1893. He and his wife Bertha raised their ten children on Henry Street on the Lower East Side of New York City. His father died of kidney disease at age 34. A year later, in 1930, Kittie Kaminsky and her sons Irving, Leonard, Bernard and Melvin were living at 365

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    Garth Brooks Essay

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    Gath Brooks Troyal Garth Brooks (also know as Garth Brooks) is the world’s greatest country singer of all time. He was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma on February 7, 1962. He was raised in the small town of Yukon with country music in his blood. He was the youngest child in his family that consisted of six children. His Mother, Colleen Carroll, was a Professional country singer while she raised Garth and his five other siblings with her husband, Troyal Carroll. Troyal worked as a engineer for Unocal

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    is on Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks born on June 7, 1917, in Topeka, Kansas. Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks and her family later moved to Chicago at an early age, by that time she was 11 years old Gwendolyn Brooks was keeping a poetry notebook, and as a teenger her poems were published frequently in several magazines. Her mother, Keziah (Wims) Brooks and her father David Anderson Brooks encouraged their daughter to read and write poetry and also to attend poetry readings.. Brooks explores themes in her works

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    the transcendental movement, was the founder of Brook Farm, also known as The Brook Farm of Institute of Agriculture and Education. It was a Utopian experiment for communal living in 1841, located in Massachusetts. The goal was to establish social coherence between the thinker and the worker and to achieve individual mental freedom. Brook Farm was inspired by transcendentalism and was created to promote the beliefs of Fourierism. From day one, Brook Farm was bound to fail due to its inefficient social

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    Gwendolyn Brooks was born in Topeka, Kansas on June 7, 1917, to her parents David and Keziah Brooks, after her birth, the Brooks’ decided to move the family to the South Side of Chicago. Where Brooks grew up and lived the rest of her life there, there Brooks would experience racial prejudice in school. The young poet found comfort in reading and writing, which her parents actively encouraged Brooks’ mother declared to her, that she is going to be a poet. Brooks published her first poem Eventide

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    stop?” (“Gwendolyn” BrainyQuote.com) Gwendolyn Brooks, born in 1917 in Kansas grew up with her father, David Anderson Brooks and her mother, Keziah Wims Brooks. Although born in Kansas, Gwendolyn was raised in Illinois (Shor). Throughout her life she dealt with real issues and confronted them within her writing. Her thoughts and poetry would continue to be relevant for decades, even as time goes on, the world still remains a broken place. “The Brooks household was a happy one, and Gwendolyn thrived

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    Louise Brooks Louise Brooks started her career as a dancer, but soon had a change of occupation. Her rising popularity in the dancing world threatened the job of the dancing company’s co-founder. She was let go to save the co-founder’s reputation. Though to Brooks, at the moment, she may have thought she had been thrown in a desperate situation, her dismissal was a blessing in disguise. Louise was signed by Paramount Pictures which launched her into stardom. Brooks’ new profession as an actress

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    Gwendolyn Brooks was a well renowned poet of the 1900s. She earned the honor of being the first Black author to win a Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Brooks was also the first Black woman to hold the position of poetry consultant for the Library of Congress. Her works portray a political consciousness, reflecting the civil rights activism of the 1960s. While expressing her commitment to racial identity as well as equality, Gwendolyn managed to bridge the gap between academic poets of her generation and

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    pond skater like depth ,my musings on the alchemist , anti guru, rebel, theatrical royalist and acknowledged genius of modern theatre Peter Brook’s fabled hand grenade of a 60’s essay The Holy Theatre The concept of the Holy Theatre comes from Peter Brook 's the Empty Space, in which he separates theatre into four testaments: Deadly, Holy, Rough, and Immediate Though these lines between said factions blur, overlap and interplay at any given time. Still held up by many to be The holy grail of theatre

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