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In the essay, "People Like us" by the author, David Brooks, the main focus is the diversity in America. The United states has a label as being a country that is very diverse. Our country has many different types of ethnic groups, religions, personalities, interest, etc. so in that case, you really can justify the United states as diverse. Brooks mostly uses logic in his essay to prove that, once you look at the United States with a more magnified view, you might realize that technicalities come

Historian and author, Van Wyck Brooks, wrote: “Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us” (1958). Family Systems Theory forefather, Murray Bowen, would contend that soothing or otherwise, in the absence of systemic reorganization, such “bad traits” are surely doomed to reappear in future generations. Bowen’s Family Systems Theory (BFST) is based on the assumption that family patterns traverse generations (Curtis, 1999). Referred to

being accepted by family. Viewing a gay relationship on the TV could possibly effect some peoples opinions in a positive way. Since it can provide the outlook that they are normal human beings that only love a different sex. In “People like Us” David Brooks speaks a lot on people with closed minds. He proclaims, “ It is appalling that many of us are so narrow-minded that we can’t tolerate a few people with ideas significantly different from our own.” (318) Many people have closed minds due to ignorance

In Gwendolyn Brooks poem “We Real Cool,” she uses alliteration and rhymes to make the poem sound jazzy and sassy, however, there is a much more powerful meaning to this poem. Gwendolyn illustrates in the poem that troubled teenagers who live fast will die young. Gwendolyn sets the scene with the subtitle of the poem “The pool players. Seven at the Golden Shovel.” Gwendolyn paints this poem through the voice of seven young boys at a pool room during the school day. The first line of the poem is “We

paper, success is viewed in many different ways, but that doesn't mean there is a proper way to describe success. To different people, success can be described in different ways. New York Times Columnist and author of The Road to Character, David Brooks, talks about how society has slowly shifted their views from morally content to self conceited. From Psychologist and author of Grit, Angela Duckworth explains what it means to have a purpose and described it in three different sections. Dr. Gina

Making Waves In the poem Riot by Gwendolyn Brooks, the point of view is in third person but seems to be primarily focused on John Cabot. It depicts what John Cabot’s views are towards blacks in the midst of a riot, “Because the Poor were sweaty and unpretty and they were coming toward him in rough ranks. In seas. In windsweep. They were black and loud” (Rowell 9). Cabot himself is portrayed as a self-righteous white man who sees himself as superior to blacks and even shows signs of a holier than

"We Real Cool" is a poem written by Gwendolyn Brooks. This poem is short and sweet, but gets a stupendous message across to the audience. "We Real Cool" depicts a group of people who live carelessly. The people talked about in the poem stay out late, drink alcohol, ditch school and party. To me this poem shows one path of life, and that is the road to an early grave. But I look past the path shown in the poem, and look towards the opposite path, which is the path I want for myself. I have used this

Blessings Hidden in the Grey How much of the real world can a person really experience within the first 19 years of their life? In this life, I have gone through plenty stressful experiences and seen many things I never thought I would by this age. Ranging from depression, the death of a close friend, and drug abuse. I never thought life could throw so much in the way of my path to be a successful human being. Out of my experiences the worst I faced was losing my close friend James Robbins. Dealing

The Cascade mountain air scented of fresh pine in the mild 55 degree weather as we made the short walk from our cars to the trailhead. We had worked for months previous to this, hiking our local trails every Tuesday and Thursday with an expansive hikes every Saturday. We knew that all the training had led up to the moments would soon follow, this was it . We checked and double checked our overly packed gear as we were Boy Scouts and began on our long trek ahead. The initial portion of the hike included

Civil rights were a big deal during 1954 to 1968. Some famos people included in the Civil Rights were Rosa Parks, Jackie Robinson, and Martin Luther King Jr. An individual Event or person can change society because if someone gave a speech (Martin Luther) about how something needs to stop and people treat others fairly, then people will see/hear this and tell other people and end the problem. In the article “The Many and the Few” by J. Patrick Lewis, he talks about how one woman changed history