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    Virtue Title Page Virtue: Comparing the Views of Confucius and Aristotle: Bernadette C. Townsend Humanities 101‚ {019016} Fall 2005 – Mini Session Strayer University Instructor: Professor David Allen Outline Virtue: Comparing the Views of Confucius and Aristotle; Confucius Social Philosophy This paper will explore and discuss the social and political philosophy of Confucius and Aristotle‚ the views on virtue. The paper will examine the craft and artistic accomplishments

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    "We Real Cool"‚ by Gwendolyn Brooks can be regarded as one of the most influential poems for the black community in the 1960’s. Brooks displays intense passion within the poem. If the reader does not feel the black struggle within the poem‚ they should read it again. Brooks wrote this poem at the peak of the black oppression in America. Blacks in America were not giving voting rights‚ and basically were second class citizens. Many blacks felt as though school could not help them in a system that

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    writers voiced the views and thoughts in this way. Gwendolyn Brooks and James Brooks are to examples of just that. Brooks was one to give the reader a story‚ however‚ they needed to dig into her life to discover the true meaning. James Brooks did the same through his short stories. In 1950‚ Gwendolyn Brooks‚ who lived most of her life in Chicago‚ Illinois‚ was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in part because of her social concerns. Brooks herself said that she attempted to "feature people

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    Death in “We Real Cool” In Gwendolyn Brooks poem “We Real Cool” Seven African-American high school dropouts want everyone to admire them. These teenagers explain how they stay out late playing pool‚ fighting‚ sinning and drinking. Though they believe they have everybody else fooled‚ they know themselves that the destructive behavior they are taking part in will lead to their death. “The sluggard’s carving will be the death of him‚ because his hands refuse to work” (Proverbs 21:25) The Bible makes

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    Both Gwendolyn Brooks’ “the mother” and Emily Dickinson’s “Because I Could Not Stop For Death” portray a sense of responsibility and coming to terms with the past‚ but in different situations and with different consequences. Brooks’ poem examines the complicated feelings of having numerous abortions‚ despite the pain and guilt‚ but at the same time embraces what has happened. Dickinson’s poem reflects on the acceptance of death and acknowledging that it’ll come. Despite these differences‚ the onus

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    Literary Terms in “The Bean Eaters” Did you know Gwendolyn Brooks was the first African-American‚ male or female‚ to win the Pulitzer Prize (eNotes.com)? Brooks was born on June 7‚ 1917 and began to have an interest in poem early in her life. Her first poem was published at the age of thirteen in the American Childhood Magazine in 1930. Today she is known for having more than twenty books of poems published like “The Children Coming Home” (“Gwendolyn Brooks‚”PoetsPath.com). In many of Brooks’s poems she

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    “A Sunset of the City” Gwendolyn Brooks‚ “A Sunset of the City” is presents a depressing and mournful viewpoint of growing old. The poem begins as the narrator describes her appearance‚ as she is no longer viewed as beautiful or lovable. She goes on to describe that she is not in denial of her old age‚ though she is unhappy about it. Toward the end of the poem‚ the narrator discusses that she no longer feels needed‚ and contemplates whether to fade away slowly and miserably or to die. Old age is

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    We Real Cool English 125 We Real Cool In this paper the topic that will be written about is the poem entitled “We Real Cool”. This poem was written in 1960 by a woman named Gwendolyn Brooks. In this paper three topics have been selected so that this poem will be able to be analyzed. With each element‚ it will de discussed how those elements affected and interested me while reading. The three elements that have been written about are form‚ language‚ and content. Form‚ in poetry‚ can be

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    Setting the way for Characters In the story‚ “Home” by Gwendolyn Brooks and the story “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury the authors both write about a house or home. In “The Veldt‚” a family lives in a house that does everything for them and have a nursery that puts what ever you imagine onto the walls. Later on the kids trap the parents in the room with lions who end up eating the parents. In the story‚ “Home‚” a family is in need of a loan to keep their house‚ so there dad goes out one day to try and

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    Anymore Thesis: Mrs. Brooks wrote a poem in 1960 mostly suggesting the type of outcome life will take if one takes the choice the teenagers in her poem took. I) Alliteration A) Words that have the same consonant B) Perfect examples coming from the poem C) Great style to make the reading fun II) Diction D) The word choice of the poet E) “We Real Cool” makes the reader think the poem is something else than what it really is. F) Mrs. Brooks uses “Slang” vocabulary

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