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Carl Sandburg Pulitzer Prize
1,159 wordsCarl Sandburg was an American poet born in 1878 in Galesburg, IL. He was a great poet as his work showed great emotion and feeling. People have been enjoying Sandburg's wonderful poetry for some time now. He has written over 150 poems in his time, and all are considered to be well written (Ronsen, 32). Carl Sandburg was an average man who became an outstanding poet. Carl Sandburg parents were Swedish immigrants who were very hard working. His father was a blacksmith helper for the nearby Chicago...
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Yellow Journalism And Mass Media
601 wordsYellow Journalism and Mass Media It is the news that informs us of the events that change our lives and entertains us when we are seeking something to do. Journalism has been the staple of American life for quite some time and will probably keep the same effect for years to come. Journalism has also changed many lives in American History. Furthermore, I leave you with my essay on the the hype of the early nineteen hundreds; the infamous Yellow Press. Basically, Yellow Journalism was the given na...
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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...
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The Accidental Crusade Spanish American War Part 1
1,662 wordsThe accidental crusade: The Spanish American War The Spanish-American War was brief, but it became the beginning of the American overseas empire, formal and informal. For Several centuries Spain remained the World's empire and its colonies were spread worldwide. But by the end of the nineteenth century only few Spanish possessions remained in the Pacific, Africa and West India. Most part of the former Spanish possessions gained independence or fell into other hands. The remained colonies struggl...
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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 ...
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Devil And Daniel Webster Stephen Vincent
1,412 wordsStephen Vincent Benet Only in a time when the pressure of the world amounts to angst and the fight for freedom can a world advance in its literary achievements. A writer, just like an artist, builds his creations from the mood and settings of the surrounding atmosphere. In the first half of the twentieth century, the atmosphere was filled with resources to stimulate literary creativity, such as the second World War and the Great Depression (Roache 102: 14). The social genre of the time gave way ...
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Spanish Civil War Kansas City Star
2,660 wordsI. Ernest Hemingway? s tough, Terse prose and short, declarative sentences did more to change the style of written English that any other writing in the twentieth century. II. Ernest Hemingway has had many great accomplishments in his historical life but just one event has hardly sticks out from the rest. The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingway? s most enduring works. Told in Language of great simplicity and power, it is the story of an old Cuban fisherman, agonizing battle with a giant marl...
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Harper Amp Row Quot Quot
2,475 wordsN. Scott Momadays: Biographical, Literary, And Multicultural N. Scott Momadays: Biographical, Literary, And Multicultural Contexts Kenneth M. Roemer Momaday's Major Works The Journey of Tai-me. Santa Barbara: Privately Printed, 1967. House Made of Dawn. New York: Harper & Row, 1968. The Way to Rainy Mountain. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1969. Angle of Geese and Other Poems. Boston: Going, 1974. The Gourd Dancer. New York: Harper & Row, 1976. The Names: A Memoir. New York...
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Life In General Grover Corners
1,885 wordsIn a New York Times review of Thorton Wilder s play, Our Town, reviewer Brooks Atkinson proclaimed that Mr. Wilder has transmuted the simple events of human life into universal reveries (Atkinson 119). Our Town can certainly be considered an example of the universality of time, social history, and religious ideals. Thorton Wilder was born in 1897. He was interested in the theater since his childhood. By the time he entered Oberlin College in 1915 he had already written three short plays, or thre...
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Booker Prize Pulitzer Prize
2,123 wordsPrize fighters You can see what the publicity people at the Man Group, the stockbroking company that now finances what was once the Booker Prize, have been thinking. We have this brand: high recognition, cheap at the price. But isnt it small beer? Hasnt the label been used to mean arty-but-little, elegant-but-genteel? Why not be bolder? Why not make the competition a kind of world title? Think of Wimbledon. Think of the Open Golf Championship. Classy, very British, but also the worlds top events...
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Pulitzer Prize Civil War
1,010 wordsRobert Penn Warren, born in Guthrie, Kentucky in 1905, was one of the twentieth century's most eminent American writers. He was a distinguished novelist and poet, literary critic, essayist, short story writer, and creditor of numerous textbooks. He also a founding editor of The Southern Review, a journal of literary criticism and political thought. The primary influences on Robert Warrens career as a poet were probably his Kentucky boyhood, and his relationships with his father and his maternal ...
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