-
Death Of A Salesman University Of Michigan
1,669 wordsWith The Death of a Salesman during the winter of 1949 on Broadway, Arthur Miller began to live as a playwright who has since been called one of this century's three great American dramatists by the people of America. The dramatist was born in Manhattan in October 17, 1915, to Isadore and Agusta Miller, a conventional, well to do Jewish couple. Young Arthur Miller was an intense athlete and a weak scholar. Throughout his youth he was molded into one of the most creative playwrights America has e...
Free research essays on topics related to: one of the greatest, death of a salesman, view from the bridge, arthur miller, university of michigan -
Pulitzer Prize Los Angeles
850 wordsTony Kushner was born in New York City, Manhattan, New York in 1956. He was raised in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Both of his parents were musicians, and they encouraged him to follow his dreams seeing that he took interest in theatre at a young age. Hes Jewish and practices the gay lifestyle. He was educated at both Columbia University and New York University. He received degrees in medieval studies and in theatre. Hes currently living in New York City. Kushner started writing his plays in the ear...
Free research essays on topics related to: york city, san francisco, los angeles, award, pulitzer prize -
Pulitzer Prize Attempted Suicide
796 wordsAnne Gray Harvey was born into an upper-middle class family in Newton, Massachusetts on November 9, 1928. She attended Rogers Preparatory School and a Boston finishing school known as The Garland School. In 1948, she eloped with Alfred Muller Sexton just a few months before her twentieth birthday. Anne Sexton received a scholarship from the Hart Agency in Boston, and worked there as a model for a brief time. Sexton later moved from Boston to Baltimore, back to Boston and then to San Francisco. I...
Free research essays on topics related to: boston university, pulitzer prize, attempted suicide, sexton, suicide attempt -
Thousand Five Hundred Washington D C
1,903 wordsTable of Contents Pg. 1 Thesis and Report Pg. 2 - 10 Appendix A (Definitions) Pg. 11 List of Works Cited Pg. 12 Five men wearing fingerprint concealing gloves, with an assortment of cameras, tools and intricate electronic bugging gear along with six thousand five hundred dollars in crisp new bills (most from the Democratic National Committee) were arrested on the early morning of June 17, 1972. During a burglary attempt in the Democratic National Headquarters office building, which is located in...
Free research essays on topics related to: thousand five hundred, watergate scandal, pulitzer prize, bob woodward, washington d c -
Pulitzer Prize Glass Menagerie
720 wordsTennessee Williams was born Thomas Lanier Williams on March 26, 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi. He was the second of three children of Cornelius Coffin and Edwina Dakin Williams. His early childhood was troubled with illnesses that left Tennessee a terminal hypochondriac throughout the rest of his life. He turned to writing as a method of escaping the unhappiness that surrounded him. His first published work was a response to an essay question that appeared in Smart Set magazine in 1927. In 1929,...
Free research essays on topics related to: tennessee, williams, glass menagerie, pulitzer prize, tennessee williams -
Detroit Michigan Gale Michigan Gale Research
1,385 wordsCarl August Sandburg was born in Galesburg, Illinois on January 6, 1878. His parents, August and Clara Johnson, were immigrants from Sweden. After he encountered many August Johnsons in his job with the railroad, Carl's father decided to rename the family. The Sandburg's were poor and as a result, Carl had to quit school at the age of thirteen to drive a milk truck and deliver milk to help support the family. At seventeen, Carl Sandburg went to Kansas as a hobo. During the eight months that he s...
Free research essays on topics related to: style of writing, gale research company, detroit michigan gale, michigan gale research, carl sandburg -
Salem Witch Trials Group Of People
1,032 wordsIn The Crucible, there was a lot of senseless behavior. The purpose of The Crucible is to educate the reader on the insanity that can form in a group of people who think they are judging fairly upon a group of people. Judge Hawthorne believes what he is told by certain people is the truth even if little evidence is to be shown. The young girls with Abigail convince Hawthorne of others being witches so that Abigail can get what she wants, John Proctor, also so that Abigail does not blackmail the ...
Free research essays on topics related to: pulitzer prize, group of people, arthur millers, salem witch trials, abigail williams -
Stopping By Woods Woods On A Snowy Evening
1,465 wordsRobert Lee Frost (born in San Francisco, March 26, 1874 and died in Boston, January 29, 1963) was one of America's leading 20 th-century poets and a four-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Although his verse forms are traditional, he was a pioneer in the interplay of rhythm and meter and in the poetic use of the vocabulary and inflections of everyday speech. His poetry is thus both traditional and experimental. After Frosts father died in 1885, the family left California and settled in Massachus...
Free research essays on topics related to: example of symbolism, fork in the road, woods on a snowy evening, pulitzer prize, stopping by woods -
Chicago The Legacy Of Carl Sandburg
1,097 wordsChicago: The Legacy of Carl Sandburg Carl Sandburg may be one of our most influential poets in American history, he knew the American working man and his necessities. Sandburg used his poetry to explicate to the economy how life is, can, and could be. Carl Sandburg was born in Galesburg, Illinois January 6, 1878 to Swedish immigrant parents with the names of August and Clara Johnson. His family was extremely poor. Carl left school at the age of thirteen to work odd jobs from bricklaying to dish ...
Free research essays on topics related to: carl sandburg, free verse, working man, carl, pulitzer prize -
Modern American Poetry First African American
1,571 wordsGwendolyn Brooks and Her Worth to the Literary Canon Gwendolyn Brooks (born in Kansas, 1917) is one of the most famous African American poets. She was the first African American writer to win a Pulitzer Prize and was best known for her amazing portrayal of urban black people, who face poverty and racism in their everyday lives. Despite the wide range of African American poets, Gwendolyn Brooks arguably made the greatest contribution into the Literary Canon not only in the United States, but beca...
Free research essays on topics related to: pulitzer prize, gwendolyn brooks, one of the most famous, first african american, modern american poetry -
Pulitzer Prize Cuban American
764 wordsComparison Between Life On The Hyphen And Next Year In Cuba by Gustavo Perez Firmat The fact that I am writing to you in English already falsifies what I wanted to tell you. My subject: how to explain to you that I don't belong to English though I belong nowhere else, if not here in English. Gustavo Perez Firmat, The Pulitzer Prize nominee was born in Havana, Cuba, and raised in Miami, Florida. A poet, fiction writer, and scholar is the author of ten books and over seventy essays and reviews. Th...
Free research essays on topics related to: cuban american, pulitzer prize, book award, love lucy, american culture -
Social And Political Gwendolyn Brooks
1,897 wordsGwendolyn Brooks, the Influence of Children in her Poetry Gwendolyn Brooks was one of the greatest black poets of the 20 th Century. Her outstanding works that deal with various issues of black community people are popular in contemporary curriculum study of poetry. Gwendolyn Brooks was incredibly devoted to children. After she was named Poet Laureate of Illinois, she created the Poet Laureate Awards, which she gave every year to children in kindergarten through 12 th grade. She also did close t...
Free research essays on topics related to: poet laureate, african american, social and political, pulitzer prize, gwendolyn brooks -
Pulitzer Prize York World
1,942 wordsJoseph Pulitzer Joseph Pulitzer is considered to be a father of principles upon which modern journalism is built. His name is now linked with Pulitzer's Award for outstanding achievements in the field of journalism. At the end of 19 century, Pulitzer stood as an embodiment of everything, that we associate American journalism with. It is known throughout the world for its most distinctive quality sensationalism. He was born in Hungary on April 10, 1847 in wealthy Jewish family. After receiving a ...
Free research essays on topics related to: york world, pulitzer prize, news coverage, pulitzer, journalism -
E B White Pulitzer Prize
2,798 wordsElwyn Brooks White By Outline: Biography of Elwyn Brooks White Elwyn Brooks White works Elements of Style STUART LITTLE TRUMPET OF THE SWAN 'About Myself' Charlotte's Web Critics about EB Whites works Elwyn Brooks White was born in Mount Vernon, New York, as the son of Samuel White, a prosperous piano manufacturer, and Jessie (Hart) White; she was forty-one and Samuel was forty-five. Elwyn was the youngest child of a large family, where parents really loved children. On Elwyn's twelfth birthday ...
Free research essays on topics related to: forty five, e b white, writing style, pulitzer prize, james thurber -
Point Of View Pulitzer Prize
1,837 wordsLahiri's Book Every once in a while there appears a new work of fiction with the power to remind us why we read in the first place. With this, a first collection of short stones, Jhumpa Lahiri electrified the literary world. By winning the Pulitzer Prize for 2000 she has assured herself a place of prominence on any book-shelf. Interpreter of Maladies is no idle choice for a title: it carries a subliminal message, both aural and symbolic, for an intense look at the immigrant (East Indian in Ameri...
Free research essays on topics related to: cultural identity, american culture, pulitzer prize, south asian, point of view -
Carl Sandburg Pulitzer Prize
771 wordsAuthor-poet Carl Sandburg was born in the three-room cottage at 313 East Third Street in Galesburg on January 6, 1878. The modest house reflects the typical living conditions of a late nineteenth century working-class family. Many of the furnishings once belonged to the Sandburg family are still in tact. Behind the house stands a small wooded park. Underneath Remembrance Rock, lie the ashes of Carl Sandburg, who died in 1967. Carl August Sandburg was born the son of Swedish immigrants August and...
Free research essays on topics related to: political views, carl sandburg, pulitzer prize, folk songs, abraham lincoln -
World War Ii Pulitzer Prize
1,135 wordsBy: Ernie Pyle Ernie Pyl By: Jenny Trembath March 20, 200 Ernie Pyle When a machine-gun bullet ended the life of Ernie Pyle in the final days of World War II, Americans spoke of him in the same breath as they had Franklin Roosevelt. To millions, the loss of him was as great as the loss of the wartime president. Since WWII correspondent Ernie Pyle was so famous, his death on the battlefront came as a shock to people around the world. Ernest Taylor Pyle was born August 3, 1900 to Will and Marie Py...
Free research essays on topics related to: world war ii, pulitzer prize, machine gun, dead men, america -
Thousand Five Hundred Washington D C
2,067 wordsTable of Contents Table of Contents Pg. 1 Thesis and Report Pg. 2 - 10 Appendix A (Definitions) Pg. 11 List of Sources Pg. 12 The Bugs at Watergate? Five men wearing fingerprint concealing gloves, with an assortment of cameras, tools and intricate electronic bugging gear along with six thousand five hundred dollars in crisp new bills (most from the Democratic National Committee) were arrested on the early morning of June 17, 1972. During a burglary attempt in the Democratic National Headquarters...
Free research essays on topics related to: warner bros, thousand five hundred, bob woodward, washington d c, watergate scandal -
Pulitzer Prize Grass Roots
2,197 wordsBook Reports: Copland: 1900 through 1942 and Copland: Since 1943 In their books: Copland: 1900 through 1942 and Copland: Since 1943, Aaron Copland and Vivian Perlis give a detailed account of the life of one of America? s most influential composers. The books are arranged similarly to the Shostakovich biography that our class reviewed earlier this semester. That is, through personal accounts by Copland himself along with accounts of Copland? s friends and acquaintances, the authors manage to pai...
Free research essays on topics related to: death, pulitzer prize, grass roots, academy award, mother
Customer center
