Cool Essay

The lives of gang people are dangerous, sneaky, and painful. In both “What's it Like to be a Gang Member?” by Bill Lee, and “We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks, portray the experience on being a gang member is portrayed. They both show and illustrate, what it's like to be a gang member, and it is not worth it. They do this by using descriptive words, and directly telling us what happened. “What's it Like to be a Gang Member?” by Bill Lee, portrays how gang life works, and his own struggles

for them, stick together, make like brothers, it isn't a gang any more. It's a pack. A snarling, distrustful. bickering pack like the Socs in their social clubs or the street gangs in New York or the wolves in the timber. "[Dally's] tough, but he's a cool guy." this is a example of the way pony boy doesn't want to be a soc "Dally's okay," Johnny said defensively, and I nodded. You take up for your buddies, no matter what they do. When you're a gang, you stick up for your members. If you don't stick

“Cool” can be expressed through the courage that people have to experience new things, including taking risks. What makes skydiving cool is that it presents a new thrilling experience that not many get to have. Combined with the potential risks and the overall experience, skydiving has many appeals that can be considered as “cool” to the functional aesthetics of a person. Skydiving embodies this concept of “cool” because it takes nerve to overcome the perceived risk of death to jump out a moving

lots of cool things to do there. This is good because who doesn’t want to have fun? You can go on a boat and paddle around in all the water, play around, swim, and

analysis looks at ,“Tornado Child” by Kwame Dawes, “We Real Cool” By Gwendolyn Brooks and “The Kid” by Ai through a cognitive eye. Kwame Dawes is an African born in Ghana, on July 28th 1962, but later resided in Jamaica. His powerful poem “Tornado Child,” written in 2003, was dedicated to a woman named Roseline Richardson. He wrote this poem based on her wild eccentric way of living, which she expressed to the famous poet . “We really Cool” was written by 20th century poet and first black woman to

African art forms. The aesthetic of the cool is one of five Africanist Aesthetics. It embraces the principle of a contrast between bodily movements and facial presentation and expression. This aesthetic also has a large component of visual values; dancers are confident of their performance and offer themselves as such. Three moments within the collection of pieces presented in Trolley Dances excellently embody the Africanist Aesthetic of the aesthetic of the cool, in the penumbras of potential danger

reflection. As the reflection talks to the boy through the mirror, he begins trying to change the boy’s personality. It’s human nature to want to fit in with the “popular crowd”, and although the boy wouldn’t fit into this crowd, that doesn’t mean he isn’t cool in his own way. In a conflicted position, the boy doesn’t know what to do. The evil conscience yells through the mirror,

good in all evil. And in this day in age it's dangerous to think that. Men: stop treating women like pets. We dont exist to stand in the kitchen and make sandwiches. We also aren't sex toys. You cannot just jump from one woman to another. It's not "cool" it's not "funny". No it fucking hurts.

was no part of the “Cool” group, so when she got the chance to “Fit in,” she grabbed it. Adina, a cool girl, called Elisheva one night for homework help. Elisheva wanting to fit in said sure and helped. Adina and Elisheva formed a friendship based on the fact that Adina was “Cool” and Elisheva was “Smart.” This friend ship did not last long, just until the end of the year and Adina did not need the help any longer. Did this friendship make Elisheva truly happy? No! The “Cool” girls never accepted

intelligence to keep her cool every time she encounters the German soldiers. She has the courage to talk to Uncle Henrik about him and Mama lying to her. Her Mama trusts her to take the basket to Uncle Henrik. She begins acting like the young woman she is becoming. One way that Annemarie expresses her intelligence is keeping her cool every time she encounters the German soldiers. When she encountered the German soldiers on the road when she was racing Ellen, she kept her cool. She did not run away