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The Urban Experince: Brooks and Komunyakaa

"Slam, Dunk, and Hook" it can well be assumed the sport is basketball, a powerful favorite of urban youth today. There is a yout...

Factors Leading to Urban Sprawl

This 8 page paper discusses some of the factors that lead to urban sprawl. The writer argues that urban sprawl can have a negative...

Yusef Komunyakaa's Poetry

loss and redemption. If one were to move deeper into the meanings of both poems, or on an emotional, cognitive tour of the poem, ...

Yusef Komunyakaa's Poem 'Facing It'

Im flesh" ((Komunyakaa 3-5). These lines illustrate that no matter how much time has passed since the Vietnam War this narrator ca...

Urban Planning & Participation by the Public

associated with collaboration. This paper will provide a brief overview of the process, in addition to identifying lessons and val...

Urban Planning, the Role of the Public

PG). Those buildings collectively comprise cities, in which increasing numbers of people live. By 2015, the United Nations (UN) ...

Urban Art as a Reflection of Urban Culture

This 5 page paper examines the concept of urban art. The writer argues that the term is ambiguous, but is usually understood to me...

Analysis of Selected Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks

In five pages this paper analyzes Gwendolyn Brooks' poems including 'We Real Cool' and 'Kitchenette Building' in a consideration o...

Black Youth of America and Gwendolyn Brooks

In three pages the challenges of American black youth as represented in the Gwendolyn Brooks' poems 'Children of the Poor,' 'The B...

Growing Up in Gwendolyn Brooks' Poetry

In six pages this paper examines how the growing up experience is presented in an explication of Gwendolyn Brooks' poems 'The Ball...

Gwendolyn Brooks - Truth

to extract the universal truth from this poem, it would have to be that human condition which asks mankind to be quite careful wha...

The Bean Eater vs. Old Couple, Comparison

is stating the most depressing facts that seem obvious to them. However, as the poem ends we see an understanding of the gentle an...

Success of Children and Parental Influence

In five pages this paper discusses how parental understanding is crucial to children's success in a consideration of Gwendolyn Bro...

Modern Film and the Impact of 1960s' Social Realism

In eight pages this paper examines how 1960s' social realism influenced such films as Loach's Poor Cow, and Brooks' The Profession...

Symbolism Analysis of Gwendolyn Brooks' 'The Life of Lincoln'

In three pages this paper analyzes the symbolism of Gwendolyn Brooks' poem 'The Life of Lincoln.' One source is cited in the bibl...

David Brooks's Bobos in Paradise

In three pages the reader's reaction to Brooks' book after reading Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich is considered. Three so...

Gwendolyn Brooks' 'We Real Cool'

pool one day. She thought about their lives and how they felt and realized they were victims of a society and also young me who de...

Elinor in Year of Wonders

of creamy silk. A few fine pearls gleamed in her pale hair. But more than her delicate beauty, Colonel Bradford appreciated her su...

Geraldine Brooks and the Lessons of History

that the flight attendant had "one of those big, perfect German smiles" and referring to her a few lines later as Fraulein Smiley-...

Dunbar and Brooks: Poems

reached/ was you" (Brooks 2-8). In this the reader is subtly illustrating how society, white American society perhaps, has control...

Brooks' "To Be in Love" - Biographical Connections

through his yes" (Brooks, 2003). These lines use metaphor to strongly suggest the intimacy and interpersonal warmth experienced wh...

Film Review, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

This film reviews pertains to director Richard Brooks' 1958 film "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof." The writer discusses the film in terms o...

Urban Outfitters

2008). Other stores opened in the interim, however. The company established its Free People wholesale division in 1984 and...

Herbert Gans/Urban Villagers

slum" and while its residents had their own problems, these difficulties did not evolve from living in this neighborhood (Gans xiv...

Politics of Development in 3 Cities

pivoting around issues concerning one Petersons key areas, that is, the politics of development. A principal point of DeLeons anal...

The Way in Which Technology and Telecommunications Have Transformed Urban Spaces

This 14 page paper discusses the way in which technology and telecommunications have transformed the urban environment, which is w...

Legendary Hockey Coach Herb Brooks' Styles of Leadership

with players that were aggressive players and had scoring capability. This was a type of puck-possession style, too, which basical...

Family Structure and James L. Brooks' Film Terms of Endearment

In eight pages this paper examines the 1983 movie in order to gain better insights into the family unit as a social group. There ...

Leisure and Work in 1900 to 1920 Urban US

This paper discusses early 20th century leisure and work as conceptualized in urban America in a consideration of Kathy Peiss' 'Le...

Richard Brooks' Film The Blackboard Jungle

In eight pages this film by director Richard Brooks is examines in an overview that considers its portrayal of youth problems. Th...