Essay We Are Cool

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Jennifer Dinh’s Column on “The Big Bang Theory” TV Show
10/19/11
The Big Bang Theory television series, produced by Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady, has earned its viewer’s attention. Based on the lives of four genius scientists along with a single female lead, they learn how to live together despite their individual eccentricities. Sheldon Hofstadter, an experimental physicist, and Penny, the girl next door, have been dating for the majority of the show. Their comical relationship highlights Sheldon’s awkwardness to Penny’s natural social skills whenever the setting placed somewhere unfamiliar to the geeks. After some time, they broke up and there has been a lingering sense of sexual tension between them. The bond between Leonard and his roommate, Sheldon Cooper, can be immensely irritating. Jim Parsons, the actor who plays Sheldon Cooper, miraculously is able to turn Sheldon, a compulsive and nitpicky person, into an amiable character. No other television show can top the witty sense of humor and the skillful acting in The Big Bang Theory, produced. At first I thought who would want to watch a bunch of geeky, socially awkward characters sitting around and talking? Until I got a chance to sit down and take a look, I noticed how hilarious these characters are. Characters like Leonard Hofstadter, Sheldon Cooper, Rajesh Koothrappali, and Howard Wolowitz give viewers a burst of entertainment from their highly intellectual language to their blunt sexual innuendos. Out of

Summary Of The Poem 'We Real Cool'

not legally old enough. Not only is age an important factor but also their future health. Teenagers who drink a lot of alcohol could ruin their health cutting their lives short. The negative denotation of “we/ die soon” (7-8), foreshadows death among these young individuals. They could feel cool all they want and be rebellious all they want, but that fun life style won’t last forever. This evidence of possible tragedy provokes the idea that the teenagers’ freed-existence also won’t last forever. Teenagers…

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Gwendolyn Brooks We Real Cool

African-American author Gwendolyn Brooks wrote the poem “We Real cool” which challenges readers as they absorb her brief but powerful poem. Within the poem, Brooks expresses the fearless and invincible persona of the “Seven Pool Players”. These figures represent inner-city school kids on the brink of adulthood. They live their lives dangerously, which tends to bring their lives to a short abrupt end. Brooks illustrates this in “We Real Cool” by depicting the lives of these seven individuals using…

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We Real Cool Poem Analysis

The two poems that I have decided to write about are “Suicide Note” by Janice Mirikitani and “We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks. I have choosing these two poems because the topics that are discuss in the poems are very much relevant in today’s society. “Suicide Note” is a poem that Janice Mirikitani wrote about a female Asian- American college student who committed suicide. The college student’s suicide note was found and in it she was apologizing to her parents. The poem talks about how the Asian…

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Analysis Of We Real Cool By Gwendolyn Brooks

In "We Real Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks, we are given a lot of information and clues as to what she is trying to say using only 4 stanzas containing two lines per stanza. As you read the poem, the first thing that I noticed was the use of language that appears poor grammatically. I also notice how short the poem is and the fact that every word is a single syllable. It almost appears to be from somebody that is not very educated and has no English skills but I guess that is part of the effect the author…

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We Real Cool By Nikki Giovanni Essay

Brooks’ inspiration for the poem might come from a time when she was living on Chicago’s South Side amid the struggles of urban black life. The first stanza of the poem begins with, “We real cool. We left school” (1-2) and infers that the teenagers are not fond of attending school. The Supreme Court ruling in the 1954 case Brown v. Board of Education declared that it was unconstitutional to segregate schools. Desegregation was slow to happen…

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Fatherhood In Bell Hook's We Real Cool

“You shot me. You shot me. I got a daughter bruh.” Oscar Grant’s last words before he was shot and killed. Considering the reading in Bell Hook’s We Real Cool, in Fruitvale, Oscar Grant as a dad represents loving fatherhood instead of the corrosive effects of American Patriarchy. Grant is a good father because of multiple reasons, he decides to change from who he was, he continuously decided to do the right thing rather than the wrong, he never wanted Tatiana to see the lifestyle he was in, he…

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Poem Analysis: We Real Cool By Gwendolyn Brooks

“We Real Cool” was written by Gwendolyn Brooks in 1960, and starts with the prefix “The Pool Players. Seven at the Golden Shovel” (Meyer 827). This line sets the stage for me, looking at a group of young kids hanging out at a pool hall. My first impression of this kind of place in this time period, would be a group of kids having a good time not worrying about much outside of looking cool. The poet leads directly to a line that is shared with the title of the poem, “We real cool” (Meyer 827).…

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Response To Gwendolyn Brooks 'Poem We Real Cool'

I chose to respond to the poem “We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks for this week’s discussion post. The authors level of diction is somewhere between vulgate and colloquial. This level of diction is used to further convey the level of education of the speaker and back up “Left School. We” (2). After leaving school to stay out late and party much like what is described in this poem; one would not expect the best use of the English language. The words of Brooks poem are arranged in an order that is…

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Persuasive Essay On The Little Mermaid

Weird kids like art; cool kids like sports. It’s so accurate it may as well be a universal truth. Honestly. Even if you lived under a rock for a year, you’d never forget who’s “in” and who’s not. Art kids are strange because they randomly break out in song, never shut up, and always look like they’ve just rolled out of bed. But athletic kids, they’re cool because they listen to the dirtiest rap, never let their toned bodies tire, and always look ready for prom. Everyone knows who the football quarterback…

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NATS1740 QUIZ09 Essay

line spectrum. an emission line spectrum. The set of spectral lines that we see in a stars spectrum depends on the stars: atomic structure. chemical composition. rotation rate. Compared to the Sun, a star whose spectrum peaks in the infrared is: Cooler Hotter Larger A spectral line that appears at a wavelength of 321 nm in the laboratory appears at a wavelength of 328 nm in the spectrum of a distant object. We say that the object's spectrum is: Redshifted Blueshifted Skewed If you heat…

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