¶ … integrity -- a principle as important to design, as moral integrity is in general human existence!
When distilling the core concept his theory about design, Brooks states that it is better to omit unnecessary although interesting design elements, than it is to cram a design full of the best ideas that comes to the developers' collective heads. Brooks' cautions may seem obvious -- until one finds one's self at a table, brainstorming with a group of intelligent people. Then, one may falls prey to the temptation to include all of these ideas, as they all seem strong. It also may be the best way to ensure no egos are bruised. Thus, in collaborative work especially, and disciplines such as design often necessitate working with a diverse group of people, the excitement and collective generosity created when generating ideas can subsume the need to complete a focused task and to achieve a particular concept that is clear to an outsider, rather than someone who has been involved in the project from the outset.
For instance, consider a complicated drama with many plot lines -- how many times has one left a theater, saying that the acting was excellent, the dialogue well-written, but -- what was the work about? One remembers the beautiful set or the strange special effects but the organizing idea behind the construction is vague or absent, and the effect of the work is transient. The elements, while all splendid did not gel because a final and resounding impact was not achieved by deploying these elements to a specific purpose. This is even more so when a functional objective is the key, as in design. A meandering design, filled with independent but ultimately uncoordinated ideas may be a noble failure, and an instructive project for its developers. But a teaching tool for designers is not the purpose of most projects. The real objective is to achieve a comprehensible design that is conceptually coherent and more important practically useful to an outsider.
Brooks Investigate aspect David Brooks NY Times article "Let's All Feel Superior" Normalcy Bias Investigation of Aspects of David Brooks NY Times Article "Let's All Feel Superior," The recent sexual scandal and alleged atrocities among well-known and respected members of the sporting community at Penn State has led to a great deal of social dismay and outrage. This refers to the accusation that Penn State's ex-football assistant coach Jerry Sandusky, is guilty of numerous
Brook Thomas: Preserving and Keeping Order by Killing Time in Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" Brook Thomas is fairly more complex in redefining lies in Preserving and Keeping Order by Killing Time in Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness'," even though he himself does it in a paragraph. Thomas aims on leading his readers from a restatement of the hatred of lies that Marlow had to an affirmation that Marlow trounces that
Wes Sechrest and Thomas M. Brooks and published in the National Academy of Sciences reveals the results of a study they conducted investigating the varying levels of biodiversity distributed throughout the world. The authors employ a fairly novel approach in their measurements of biodiversity, specifically, relying upon two methods approximating the levels of evolutionary history endemic to twenty-five terrestrial "hotspots." The significance of evolutionary history as a measuring stick
Healthcare Spending The United States Health Care System is probably the worst organized system. It expends double than other developed countries on health care system but face worse outcomes. The Government is running healthcare programs but still lagging behind the rest of industrial world. The healthcare expenditures are rising year by year with no significant outcomes. Current National Health Expenditures The national health care expenditures of United States have increased at an alarming
Decreasing United States Unemployement Unemployment How to Decrease Unemployment in the United States Unemployment in the United States has reached an extended peak that it has not seen since the end of the 1930's. People are worried that this could be the new norm, even though the rate seems to be trending down again. Unfortunately, too many people also realize that much of the downward trend comes from the federal government constantly readjusting
Mother, by Gwendolyn Brooks. Specifically, it will look critically at the poem, and what other critics have to say about it. THE MOTHER Set in Chicago in the 1930s and 1940s, Gwendolyn Brooks fashioned one of the earliest portraits of urban, working-class Black womanhood published in the United States" (Aptheker 61). Brook's poem "The Mother," written in 1945, is a lament to a woman's unborn babies who never lived because of