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...?Full We Real Cool The poem by Gwendolyn Brooks en d “We Real Cool” was inspired by a group of seven young people playing pool who portray the life of several young people these days who hang around in like places instead of being in school. It pictures those who think they are cool by playing life ‘cooly’ by not getting serious of their studies or other concerns and responsibilities in life. Rather they left school and spent their days playing while they sneak out late in the night for whatever activities they plan to, being bold in doing so. Night life is not far away from them and they are not ignorant about it rather is a part of their everyday life...
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...July 20 Love in Hamlet, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall, and “We Real Cool” In the twenty-first century, we assume that love has been a driving factor in literature as well as in life for all of human history. The desire to be in a relationship, and the struggles one must overcome to be with a partner, are indeed major themes which can be traced back hundreds, if not thousands, of years in various texts from all over the world. However, the theme of love is not as simple as all that: The Epic of Gilgamesh, for example, is one of the earliest known pieces of literature, and the main relationship in it is the presumably non-sexual one of Gilgamesh and his male companion Enkidu; in other...
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... to convey in their poems. The poems We Real Cool and I died for beauty will be analyzed, both have a melancholy tone and both show the current state of our society. We Real Cool is a tragic story of young children who have started enjoying committing crimes on the contrary I died for beauty is a poem which represents how we isolate a few people from our society and how it impacts them. It leaves them completely alone making life a burden and a worthless journey. I Died for Beauty I died for beauty was written by Emily Dickenson; she was an American poet who was born in the year 1830. She preferred a very reclusive life, she was also an introvert. She wrote nearly eighteen hundred poems in her lifespan but to her dismay only a few... was a...
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...? Merchants of Cool-Movie Review The Merchants of Cool: Movie Review The Merchant of Cool is a documentary film produced by Rachel Dretzin and Barak Goodman. The program basically interviews media executives, marketers, and cultural/media critics and discusses the symbiotic connection between today’s teens and media, as each look for the other for identity. The documentary depicts how big corporations nowadays use mass media to manipulate their audience, especially the teenagers. The movie shows that what do appears as teenage whims arising from the teens themselves are not real but are just mass media gimmicks engineered by company advertisers who choose prominent and influential boys...
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...because even making cool, playing cool and selling is cool. To be intelligent and creative is cool and does have to be a huge thing, it could just be intelligent and creative to your own life, career or anything. It’s now the time that one becomes the cool maker in other words 'The Merchants of cool', such as Mark Zuckerberg who is the creator of Facebook, Steve Jobs who is the creator of Apple or Marc Jacobs etc. It is now the time to change the cool and the mentality of people especially teenagers so that we can have new people like Steve Jobs and Zuckerberg rising; now this is going to be...
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...Rosalia M. Vidanes Order # 210799 A Comparative Analysis of Poetry: Gwendolyn Brooks' "We Real Cool" & Maya Angelou's "Phenomenal Woman" Thesis:Men Are Cool, Women Phenomenal: Camouflage of Inner Struggles Opposed as Depicted in Gwendolyn Brooks' "We Real Cool" & Maya Angelou's "Phenomenal Women"
Men are always portrayed as the stronger sex, the point of comparison, the source of argument. They are considered significant and supreme; powerful and relevant. Women, even after women's liberation and her rights to suffrage acknowledged, still echo their inner desire for significance and acceptance. Being "cool", which connotes men's...
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...We Real Cool WE REAL COOL Titus Rock Manickam Order No. 268617 19 January 2009
WE REAL COOL
Thesis
This poem by Gwendolyn Brooks is the miniature model of the contrasts of life in exquisite finesse.
Introduction
Of all poems ever written, We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks appears to be the most succinct and slick. The poet has minced words to the extent of losing out without being noticed. For some, the feeling is that the poem is unfinished. The carefully chosen words, however, strike deep impression. There is the unmistakable joie de vivre that leaves one rereading the...
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...Cool for Sale – Has the heavy-handed corporate notion of “cool” destroyed any kind of independent street/subculture, or is there still space for young people to develop their own style beyond the reach of the brand?
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When marketing to youth audiences, it is important to identify, first, with their personal needs and lifestyle activities in order to effectively sell a product or service. This is the foundational understanding of successful promotion in order to differentiate the company or brand and also to link a company’s product offerings with psychological youth consumer needs. In recent years,...
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..., the Stoic philosophers supported the vision of coolness in a turbulent world. Their supreme principle of coolness can be seen from the stoic indifference to fate. This is visible in the African American culture. The credibility of the style used by Jazz musician Lester Young was because he was neither proud nor ashamed. Hip Hop culture is likened to a philosophical spirit by Richard Shusterman, this is also implicit in Stoicism. A “strict difference between those things that depend on us and those things that do not depend on us” (Bornstein par 7) as posited by Epictetus the Stoic, has advocated an attitude on the things that we can not change as unimportant. The things that depend on...
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