Abstract This paper is all about prosody. The poem, Countee Cullen's "Incident" is the analyzed work. In this paper, the author looks at the rhythm of the poem, likening it to cinematic scores.
From the Paper "Countee Cullen was an African-American poet born in New York, and a contributor to the Harlem Renaissance. He wrote of the black experience as he lived it, writing lyrically and imaginatively. His Incident is a short poem describing a brief incident in the speaker's life. While told in retrospect, and with few carefully chosen words, the relation of the experience speaks volumes about racism and how one must deal with it even from a young age. The format of the poem provides meaty contrast to the poem's subject matter, staying at one tempo even when the mood of the poem changes dramatically."
Abstract The paper focuses on the diversity of cultural and race issues within the poetic works of Countee Cullen. The paper looks at the poems "Heritage" and "Yet Do I Marvel" and discusses how Cullen is able to convey a sense of awareness of his own cultural background without the monolithic view of race issues in his work. The paper highlights Cullen's broad sense of poetic universality across cultural and racial lines during the Harlem Renaissance.
From the Paper "For Countee Cullen, poetry was often deemed "raceless" due to the way that he interpreted human relationships within the big city. New York City was a massive "melting pot" of immigrants and people of differing races, which became manifest during the Harlem Renaissance. Cullen lived in this section of the city where African Americans were indeed marginalized, yet they were able to have greater freedoms that what was allowed at the time in the South. Cullen is aware of cultural roots going back to Africa in this urban milieu, which helps to dictate his ideas about the limitations of African American identity in the poem "Heritage"."
The paper examines the failure of the medical system to detect the activities of Charles Cullen, a nurse responsible for the deaths of at least 40 people.
Abstract This paper contends that the combination of negative factors impacting the state of American healthcare is clearly conducive to a diminished level of quality in medicine. The paper continues and states that a shortage of nursing professionals, resources, facilities and centralized standard control have collectively conspired to endanger the health and lives of patients. The paper illustrates this contention by examining and discussing the case of Charles Cullen, who, during his fifteen years as a nurse in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, murdered some 40 patients, between 1988 and 2003, without essentially alerting any attention to the fact that there was a serial killer in the healthcare system.
From the Paper "We can also see by the manner in which Cullen was finally apprehended that a clear pattern existed that, if illuminated under the lens of a proper accountability standard in any of the hospitals where he worked prior to the Somerset Medical Center, his actions might have been easily spotted. It as at Somerset where an effective internal accountability system would ultimately show Cullen to be something worse than just an incompetent healthcare practitioner. His clearly intentional acts of drug overdosing for patients could be traced with a quick review of some suspicious computer system transactions. Particularly, "the state-of-the-art computerized care system at SMC, called Cerner, allowed nurses to check patients' medical history at a terminal, according to Max Alexander, in the Reader's Digest. Another system tracked all drugs that were used and opened a drawer that allowed workers to get them. So the procedure for accessing and dispensing meds had become much easier." (Ramsland, 1) This would be inconsistent with Cullen's prior experiences, where individuals were alerted to suspicious but where this could never be reinforced by discernible physical evidence. With the Cerner system, there existed the capacity to time-stamp many of the actions that would distinguish Cullen as connected to the suspicious deaths that, retrospect would soon show, accompanied all of his prior shifts."
Abstract This paper shows how Hughes and Cullen follow Du Bois? prescription in their creations of black art. The author focuses on Hughes? poem "Ballad of the Landlord" and Cullen's poem ?From the Dark Tower,? and derives his definition of Du Bois? artistic prescription from his essay ?Criteria of Negro Art.?
From the paper:
"Amidst the prevailing racial injustice during the Harlem Renaissance, W.E.B. Du Bois charges black artists to use their art to send a message to society: a message of unity to the blacks, and a message rejecting their so-called inferiority to the whites. Black art, Du Bois insisted, should be used as a weapon against racism, demonstrating blacks? worthiness of American status and their ability to conceive Beauty in their art. Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes, whether intentionally or not, followed the artistic specifications set forth by W.E.B. Du Bois in their respective creations "From the Dark Tower" and ?Ballad of the Landlord.?
Abstract The certainty of death causes many people to feel many types of emotions and to ask some of the most probing questions we will ever encounter. William Cullen Bryant, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Edgar Allan Poe give us very different interpretations of death and how it relates to life. This paper examines how these poets perceive the universality of death and how they choose to find some sort of resolution to the unanswerable question: What happens to us after death?
From the Paper "William Cullen Bryant's Thanatopsis is a such a meditation. In fact, the title means "a meditation on death" (Webster). This narrator of this poem speaks to us in a gentle and reassuring voice, telling us that instead of fearing death, we should instead consider it a natural progression of life. Death is not something to anguish over and the narrator urges us to look to nature for a elevated perspective on the process of dying. Lessons can be learned from ?Earth and her waters, and the depth of the air--? (16). The poem is speaking to the one who is troubled by mortality, knowing that one day he or she will die and no longer see the "all-beholding" sun (18) and the "Earth that nourished thee, shall claim/They growth, to be resolved to earth again" (22-3). By consoling nature, the distressed individual can discover three consolations to inevitable death. (Magill) "
Abstract This paper examines how the theme of death is depicted in William Cullen Bryant's poem "Thanatopsis" and Emily Dickinson's poem "I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died."
From the Paper "William Cullen Bryant's "Thanatopsis" is a meditation about death. In this poem, the narrator uses a gentle voice and tells us that we should not fear death but rather consider it path to better things. Instead if wasting time worrying about death we should look to nature and discover a positive outlook about it. The poet tells us that we can learn from "Earth and her waters, and the depth of the air" (Bryant 16). The poet is addressing those who are particularly troubled by death, knowing and fearing that one day they will see the "all-beholding" sun (18) and the "Earth that nourished thee, shall claim/They growth, to be resolved to earth again" (22-3). The poet is suggesting that when we look to nature, we can find consolations to death. "
Abstract This paper presents an application of the criminological theories of Glueck, Shaw, Mckay, Cullen, and Marx to a real world criminological issue facing a police department. The paper concludes there are a variety of approaches to understanding the manifestations of crime.
From the Paper "This paper will attempt to solve a real-world problem facing a police department by analyzing it through the spectrum of some of the seminal minds in the field of criminology. The problem that will be analyzed is as ..."
Tags: criminology, cullen, glueck, shaw, mckay, marx, theory
A review of "Saturday's Child" by Countee Cullen, "The Boy and the Bank Officer" by Philip Ross and an essay on corporate culture, all of which discuss and reflect issues pertaining to the workplace environment.
Abstract This paper takes a look at the theme of workplace environment in three different types of literary work - a poem, an essay and a fictional story.
The work reviewed is "Saturday's Child" by Countee Cullen, "The Boy and the Bank Officer" by Philip Ross and an essay on corporate culture.
From the Paper "One other important theme within the story has to do with how those outside a business often misunderstand it. This theme is revealed when the narrator realizes that his initial distrust of banks was misplaced. Initially, he based this distrust upon his friend's belief that banks did not care to look out for their customers' best interests. His witnessing of the argument between the boy and banking officer further fueled his distrust. However, the distrust dissipated as soon as the narrator discovered that the bank did indeed have its customers' best interests at heart when it attempted to protect the boy from the bully."
Abstract This paper discusses how a number of American writers and poets contributed to the American ethos in the early years of colonial life and after independence. It explores the issues, ideas, themes and concerns expressed by writers such as Cotton Mather, Abraham Lincoln, Emily Dickinson, William Cullen Bryant, Thoreau and Mark Twain.
From the Paper "One of the functions of literature and of nonfiction writing is to identify important ideas, issues, themes and concerns that are integral to a society at any point in its history. Many American writers from Cotton Mather to Mark Twain, Abraham Lincoln and Emily Dickinson have addressed this issue focusing on those aspects of American life and ideas that seemed to them to be most compelling or significant. This brief essay will examine works by an assortment of writers whose contributions ..."
Tags: American history, American literature, politics
Abstract This paper analyzes the Harlem Renaissance that concentrates on the artistic expression of various African American artists in their search to redefine black identity. The paper explains the long term influence of artistic output.
From the Paper "Harlem Renaissance: Introduction: Two developments led to a mass movement of African Americans to Harlem, New York during the period when more African Americans relocated to this area of New York in what was known as the Great Migration. The first development that led to this migration was the growing dissatisfaction with many African Americans in the Southern states. The second development was the construction of New York's new subway system connecting for the first time Harlem and the city's downtown area A."
Tags: Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, James Baldwin, Nella Larson, James A. Porter, racism, prejudice, literature, poetry, oppression, jazz, blues
Abstract This paper explains that Edwin Sutherland's theory of differential association suggests that individuals learn criminal behaviors by imitating behavior and ideas about criminality from people with whom they routinely associate. The author points out that the R.L. Peralta and J.M. Cruz article, "Conferring Meaning onto Alcohol-Related Violence: An Analysis of Alcohol Use and Gender in a Sample of College Youth", emphasizes that many college males "learn" (1) to demonstrate violent or aggressive tendencies as "macho" behavior and (2) to abuse alcohol as a socially acceptable form of entertainment. The paper relates that the study by B.S. Fisher, F.T. Cullen and M.G. Turner, "The Sexual Victimization Of College Women", suggests that people "learn" to engage in acts of sexual violence by discovering (1) that violence can be used to overpower other people, especially women, and (2) that sexual violence can be a mechanism for alleviating their own chronic problems including stress or guilt associated with a history of sexual violence as a child.
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From the Paper "I shared the information and insights gathered from this study with a friend of mine who works as a paramedic with an emergency medical team. Having witnessed many acts of violence and treated many women for sexual assault, the individual agreed that violence and substance abuse patterns often seem to be "learned" behaviors. He also felt that he could distinguish patterns of behavior among certain populations in particularly, including among those with low socioeconomic backgrounds or education."
Abstract The paper looks at the works of poets such as Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Leopold Senghor and Aime Cesaire and also examines Haile Gerima and Shirikiana Aina's 1993 film "Sankofa". The paper highlights how both the poems and the film develop themes related to the rediscovery of a Black culture and a new identity.
From the Paper "The Black population coming from the continent was constantly perceived as an inferior race and was subjected to intense racial discrimination in the societies it came in contact with. In response to such attitudes, there were numerous movements which advocated an emancipation of the Black race and a rediscovery of their heritage. At the same time, initiatives such as the Harlem Renaissance and the Negritude constantly tried to reach out to the roots of the Black culture and promote a new vision of Africa and its people. Poets such as Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, and Countee Cullen were representative for the literary segment of the Harlem Renaissance, while Leopold Senghor and Aime Cesaire were strong voices for the Negritude movement."
