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The creature is continuously reborn, death and rebirth are celebated as successful and desirable, immediately contrasting the view of death as scary and unknown, as it is in the original films and in post-Romantic literature. Brooks also places emphasis on other romantic elements in the movie that aren't present in the original (1930 something) Frankenstein, particularly sex. Sexual awakening and the celebration of sex is clear, as the film is not tacit about its characters'

modern era and the poem of my choice is “We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks. The poem was published in 1960, amidst the African-American Civil Rights Movement which ran from about 1954-68. This period was a tough time for the African-Americans due to violence and racial segregation. But even during this calamity, this period was able to produce some wonderful African-American poets, and one of them as such was Gwendolyn Brooks. Brooks began writing at an early age. She published her first poem at the

One of the most well-known episode in The Simpsons is definitely “The Secret to Successful Marriage”, not only it is one of the highest-rated show on the Fox network the week it aired, it also receives several positive reviews from critics. So what is the secret that makes this episode so successful compare to others? The answer is this episode essentially answered the questions of how Homer Simpsons deal with real world situations when people stop putting up with his idiocy and what makes people

In “Why Men Fail”, author David Brooks argues that the financial rewards to education have increased over the past few decades, but men failed to get the memo. The article appeared in The New York Times on September 10, 2012. David Brooks is a bi-weekly conservative Op-Ed columnist for the NY Times, a regular analyst on PBS NewsHour and NPR’s All Things Considered, as well as the author of The Road to Character and The Social Animal. In the article, Brooks argues that men are failing educationally

In the poem “We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks (1959), the author speaks for the group of teenagers who, perhaps, are skipping the school in the pool. Possibly, the “Seven Pool Players” are represented the Carpe Diem ideology. They are the people who live their lives day to day without any confidence about the future. Their future is unclear, together with their identity. As Brooks puts it in one of her interviews, “These are people who are essentially saying, ‘Kilroy is here. We are.’ But they're

An Analysis of Brooks' First Fight.Then Fiddle   Gwendolyn Brooks' "First fight. Then Fiddle." initially seems to argue for the necessity of brutal war in order to create a space for the pursuit of beautiful art. The poem is more complex, however, because it also implies both that war cannot protect art and that art should not justify war. Yet if Brooks seems, paradoxically, to argue against art within a work of art, she does so in order create an artwork that by its very recognition of art's

is there a choice? In her poem, “kitchenette building”, Gwendolyn Brooks invites us to reflect upon the American Dream and how it may be disregarded when one’s environment and situation is acknowledged. The speaker of this poem occupies a kitchenette building; a kitchenette building was a tiny apartment with terrible living conditions. The people housing these apartments were mostly African-Americans in the 1930s in Chicago. Brooks recognizes all the struggles the speaker is going through; it’s these

In the book by Timothy Brook, Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World, the author analysis several paintings of the Dutch painter, Johannes Vermeer. In these several paintings, Vermeer, beautifully depicts scenes from daily life. His paintings are from the Dutch Golden Age and are incredibly realistic and the way he shows light and color are strikingly gorgeous. Although Vermeer’s painting skills are developed the subject of his paintings illustrate quite simple subjects

(1999). Brooks demonstrated talent at an early age, and was publishing works in a children’s magazine at the age of thirteen. She didn’t stop there and rose to the top of her industry with poems that reflected inner city life, one that she was accustomed to, and

writers are Gwendolyn Brooks and Langston Hughes. Throughout their works, they clearly expressed what it truly meant to be an African American during this time period. They outlined the struggles that an African American had to face against racism, and they talked about their race and how they were proud of it. They also talked about how every African American was “one of their own”, meaning that they would stick together no matter how tough the challenges got. In Gwendolyn Brooks’ “Primer for Blacks”