...said to be written as the truth. When writing yellow you take factual information and changing facts to keep readers interested. Yellow journalism could also be used to establish fear, concern and even in certain cases sympathy to readers to keep them enriched in the article. Where did Yellow Journalism come from? William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer are considered to be the father of Yellow Journalism. Yellow journalism was born during the industrial revolution period, which was famous for the invention of the printing press, which aloud for mass production of mass media. During the late 1890’s Joseph Pulitzer owned New York’s most popular news paper, the New York World. Soon after Pulitzer’s paper became number one, William Randolph created his own paper, New York World, which became his largest competitor. So where did the term Yellow Journalism come from, it originated between two rival paper companies in the early 1900’s, over a comic strip called the “Yellow Man “ . Really the whole competition started because of the ink they used for printing the comic and because Hearst stole Pulitzer’s cartoonist. So after Pulitzer lost his cartoonist he was forced to hire another one and duplicate his original design which caused the conflict. Michael Jackson’s overdosed in May of 2009 caused quite a fuss when they suspected his personal physician of murder. Conrad Murray was suspected of over dosing Michael Jackson on Demerol. Demerol is synthetic narcotic drug that...
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...the next seven years attending a Catholic school and then a private school. By the time he entered college he was introduced to an alternative lifestyle. He dropped out of Princeton in the first year and then enrolled at Harvard for one class of playwright. This was the end of his formal education. He married in 1909 and was divorced within two years. He then went to sea in 1910. At the onset of tuberculosis he spent six months in a sanitarium. It was at this point in his life that he decided to become a playwright and began writing plays. O’Neill spent the next five years working on one-act plays. In 1918 he married his second wife. In 1920 he wrote “Beyond the Horizon” which the audience loved and took notice. His play won a Pulitzer Prize. O’Neill’s poetic dialogue and insightful views into the lives of the characters held his work apart from the less sober playwrighting of the day. (American Masters, February 2004). His two plays, “The Emperor Jones” and “The Harry Ape” follows the lives of two men and their personal struggles with life. These two plays established O’Neill as a master of the art. O’Neill’s first real box office success was “Anna Christie” (1928). This play made O’Neill’s name known far and wide. (Theatre History, 2002). In 1935 he began to...
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...Brian Grazer’s Curiosity Conversations: A List Since the late 1970s, Brian Grazer has been meeting with people from diverse backgrounds to have open-ended conversations about their lives and work. Below, in alphabetical order, is a list of many of the people Brian has had curiosity conversations with. It is as comprehensive as memory and records permit; please forgive any omissions. Brian has spoken to so many people over thirty-five years and explored so many topics that it would be impossible to have included accounts of all of them. But each of the conversations provided the inspiration for the discussions of creativity and storytelling in this book, and in rian’s work. B 50 Cent: musician, actor, entrepreneur Joan Abrahamson: president of the research and education nonprofit Jefferson Institute, MacArthur Fellowship recipient Paul Neal “Red” Adair: oil-well firefighter, innovator in extinguishing oil-well blowouts in Kuwait 1 Roger Ailes: president of Fox News Channel Doug Aitken: multimedia artist Muhammad Ali: professional heavyweight boxer, three-time World Heavyweight Champion John Allman: neuroscientist, expert on human cognition Gloria Allred: civil rights attorney Brad Anderson: former CEO of Best Buy Chris Anderson: curator of TED conferences Philip Anschutz: entrepreneur, cofounder of Major League Soccer, investor in multiple professional sports teams David Ansen: former senior entertainment editor at Newsweek ...
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...Founding Brothers Vs. Hamilton The Musical Many years ago the Founding Fathers worked to make a strong independant country. Now the legacy of their hardships is forever carved into our history, through not only books but now through a musical as well. A theme in the book Founding Brother by Joseph J. Ellis is posterity. Throughout the book Ellis tries to understand what these men hoped posterity would say about them. I find that the musical Hamilton reflects the posterity of the Founding Fathers in modern day through the eyes of the modern day creators. I will highlight how both of these Pulitzer Prize winners are similar in theme however present in different but effective ways. Ellis illustrates beautifully how he tried to think through...
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...rest of the state. c. Activists with different reasons for opposing Disney’s America united behind the single, common cause of fighting suburban sprawl. The defeat of a developer’s plans to construct a shopping mall in the 1980s was testament to their grassroots capabilities. d. The Piedmont Environmental Council spearheaded efforts to protect the site from development. e. The Manassas Battlefield Park had long been a point of controversy involving those who wish to preserve its historic integrity. Preservationists in the 1980s were already successful in preventing the development of a similar Marriott Co. theme-park near Manassas. f. Vocal opponents included prominent historians, namely David McCullough (a Pulitzer Prize winning biographer and narrator of a public television series on the Civil War), Shelby Foote (a Civil War scholar), and members of the American Historical and Southern Historical Associations. The above reveals the number of business, community activist, and political stakeholders involved in this this project, and the necessity for Disney to develop relationships with all parties represented. In evaluating all the perspectives represented, this project would be a...
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...Literary Analysis of Gone with the Wind Literary Analysis of Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell Gone With the Wind is the only novel written by Margaret Mitchell for which she won the Pulitzer Prize in 1937. The novel follows Scarlett O’Hara, a spoiled sixteen year old just before the start of the Civil War through the war and Reconstruction (1861-1870). Major themes throughout the novel are: The importance of land; love of money; survival; wanting what you cannot have; and the change of a culture (Mitchell, 1936). Scarlett’s life revolved around the parties she would attend at neighboring plantations, flirting with the young men of the county and pursuing her childhood crush, Ashley Wilkes. Scarlett was a spoiled. In 1860 sixteen year old Scarlett O’Hara lived on Tara, her father’s plantation in Georgia. She is self-centered girl who seemed to care little for the feelings of others and who was used to getting everything she wanted. Her father, Gerald was an Irish immigrant who had prospered in his new land. Her mother, Ellen was from an aristocratic French family. Scarlett had two sisters, Suellen and Careen to whom she paid little mind. Mammy was Ellen’s house servant and the girl’s nanny. Mammy was always concerned that the girls be proper ladies like their mother. The O’Hara plantation had many slaves and was prosperous (Mitchell, 1936). In the spring of 1860 Scarlett was looking forward to the barbeque the Wilkes’s family would be having at Twin Oaks, when...
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...Your Elusive Creative Genius Ernest Tyler PHL\458 October 20, 2014 Mr. Charles Crenshaw Your Elusive Creative Genius In February 2009 Elizabeth Gilbert presented a speech to a TED Talk audience in Long Beach California (Elizabeth Gilbert: Your elusive creative genius, 2009). Elizabeth Gilbert is an American author from Waterbury, Connecticut. She has wrote several articles for magazines such as Spin, GQ and The New York Times Magazine. She has also wrote several books and she is best known for writing “Eat, Pray, Love” in 2006 (River Net Computers, 2013). The speech was titled “Your Elusive Creative Genius” (Elizabeth Gilbert: Your elusive creative genius, 2009). Elizabeth talked about how artist and entertainers (creative people) are prone to suicide and the stereotype that is associated with them (Elizabeth Gilbert: Your elusive creative genius, 2009). In ancient Greece and ancient Rome creative people were not actually considered to be creative, but instead had divine attendant spirits (Elizabeth Gilbert: Your elusive creative genius, 2009). Eventually, society stopped looking at creativity as a divine spirit and instead started looking at the individual as the creative entity (Elizabeth Gilbert: Your elusive creative genius, 2009). Elizabeth states how she believes this to be the worst thing to ever happen to creative people, because now their egos and expectations will be over inflated (Elizabeth Gilbert: Your elusive creative genius, 2009)....
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...Nicholas Carr AKASH GOUD GUNDLAPALLI Wilmington University Nicholas Carr is a technology writer whose acclaimed works have led him to be a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2011 and also have been bestsellers. His writings examine the fusion of both culture and technology genres. Some of his works include The Glass Cage: How Our Computers Are Changing us (2011), The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google (2008), Does IT Matter? (2004). Many of which most have been translated into more than 25 languages. Does IT Matter is considered as a book that changes the thoughts of a individual about technology and its strategies. It details how innovative, monetary, and aggressive powers are joining to change the information technology and the innovation it plays in business, with significant ramifications for information technology administration and speculation and additionally system and association. IT is seen as the most recent in a progression of extensively embraced advancements that have reshaped industry in the course of recent hundreds of years from the flow to the broadcast and the phone to the electric generator and the interior ignition motor. For a brief period, as they were being incorporated with the framework of business, every one of these advancements opened open doors for forward-looking organizations to increase genuine points of interest. Be that as it may, their accessibility expanded and their cost diminished as they got to be pervasive. From...
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...Courtney McClure – Carr Mrs. Mann English III H February 18, 2012 Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway is the man that did it all; known as an American author, adventurist, and reporter, he is also known to have had quite the relationship with a fellow writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Hemingway was exceptionally intelligent and yet he was cursed by his poor eye sight, preventing his hopes for becoming a war hero – his father’s male dominant teachings. Feeling obligated to follow his father’s methods, yet unable too, he moved to his mother’s love of culture and began writing. In the midst of his first novel he married a woman named Elizabeth but his travels lead to affairs, which lead to more wives, and more to cope with. Writing was his ‘way out’ so to speak, the only way he could deal. Though he wasn’t yet known by many, or what one would say all that successful, he continued his pursuit of writing; soon luck would find him. While on a trip to Paris, in 1925, he found himself at the Dingo where he met F. Scott Fitzgerald who had just published his newest novel The Great Gatsby, and was now interrogating Ernest about his sex life and whether or not he and his most recent wife ‘saved it for marriage’. Obviously uncomfortable, but impressed by such conversation, Hemingway answered and gave Fitzgerald advice on ‘love’ and wrote a chapter about it in his writing The Moveable Feast. He opens the chapter with the following passage "His talent was as natural as the pattern that...
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...particularly interesting from the perspective that both of the movies carry practically the same title. Both Death Race 2000 and Death Race focus on the devastating and bloody dystopian future. However, it needs to be said that the title along with the blood and car competition theme result to be the most significant similarities between the two films otherwise these films are to be perceived as two creation of entirely different matter. As the race itself presented in both films is extremely different from one another. In Death Race 2000 it is associated with a cross-country race that identifies its winner in accordance with the number of pedestrians the driver kills, it exposes the audience to an extensive violence show. According to the Pulitzer Prize winner Roger Ebert, the original Death Race 2000 demonstrates excessive aggression with nurses parking their patients in wheelchairs in the middle of the road to be hit by the race car and the drivers pursuing the nurses to kill them as well, is off its limits (1975). Moreover, each of the races gets a set amount of point from the hit pedestrians: hundred points for patients in wheelchairs, seventy...
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...With four pulitzer prize awards, Robert Frost, though criticised of being monothematic, has held a message that has stood the test of time. Much of his success is credited towards the blank verse style of writing, within which he addresses the basic compound and detriment of human nature, a particular poem entitled, ‘The Wood-Pile’, showcases these themes. A single story is often told by his assorted works; to consciously move away from modernized society in order to find something worth understanding. That what can be sought in nature, away from the roles or responsibilities infringed upon man while immersed in a modern society, are of more depth and personal importance than otherwise found. In ‘The Wood-Pile’, Frost uses visual imagery to explore the themes of nature, death, and limitations, showing that man is responsible for his own constraints. The concept of nature within ‘The Wood-Pile’ takes on a separate reality of the subject’s mind. The speaker is able to both influence and react to the nature within the frozen swamp and understand that nature is a separate yet equal force which is actively syncopated with humans. This concept is demonstrated in lines 32, 33, and 34, where Frost writes, “What held it though on one side was a tree / Still growing, and on one a stake and prop / These latter about to fall.” The visual imagery of the stake close to uselessness can be seen as a reflection of nature’s natural tendency to undo what man has impressed upon it. Man...
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...(NJ Star Ledger) 1. Qualify source- history, ownership, bias, measures of impact, awards received, quality of news and opinion. The NJ Star Ledger is the oldest and largest circulated paper in U.S state of New Jersey and it’s headquarters is located right here in Newark, NJ. A man named S. I. Newhouse purchased what was then called the “Newark Ledger” in the year 1935 and merged the paper with the “Star Eagle” in the year 1939 which became “The Star Ledger.” The Ledger is owned by Advanced Publications, it has a reputation for being objective and accurate and has won 3 Pulitzer prize awards for public service. 2. Content of the material summarized Title of article: “It’s time to update our drug policy” By: Debra L. Wentz In this article Governor Chris Christie proposed a transformation on NJ’s drug policy so that non violent offenders with substance use disorders would be treated instead of incarcerated. Christie feels that “everyone will benefit when state policy enables them to live the lives they want and deserve.” He addressed the rising costs of warehousing non violent drug offenders in jail and prison. This particular population of offenders has jumped up 43% nationally in the past 10 years. Christie wants to take advantage of the public sentiment, compassion and good policy that has the potential to change lives and solve the states fiscal crisis. He emphasizes the importance of the state sufficiently ...
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...ABOUT THE AUTHOR Thomas Loren Friedman was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on July 20, 1953, and grew up in the middle-class Minneapolis suburb of St. Louis Park. He is the son of Harold and Margaret Friedman. From an early age, Friedman, whose father often brought him to the golf course for a round after work, wanted to be a professional golfer. He was captain of the St. Louis Park High golf team; at the 1970 U.S. Open at Hazeltine National Golf Club, he caddied for Chi Chi Rodriquez, who came in 27th. That, alas, was as close as Friedman would get to professional golf. In high school, however, he developed two other passions that would define his life from then on: the Middle East and journalism. It was a visit to Israel with his parents during Christmas vacation in 1968–69 that stirred his interest in the Middle East, and it was his high school journalism teacher, Hattie Steinberg, who inspired in him a love of reporting and newspapers. After graduating from high school in 1971, Friedman attended the University of Minnesota and Brandeis University, and graduated summa cum laude in 1975 with a degree in Mediterranean studies. During his undergraduate years, he spent semesters abroad at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the American University in Cairo. Following his graduation from Brandeis, Friedman attended St. Antony's College, Oxford University, on a Marshall Scholarship. In 1978, he received an M.Phil. degree in modern Middle East studies from Oxford. That summer...
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...“Playing Dead” by Andrew Hidgins Andrew Hudgins was born in Killeen, Texas in 1951. He was born into a military family and spent his early childhood moving from base to base. After graduating from Huntingdon College with a Bachelor Degree in English and History, Hudgins taught for one year in Montgomery public school systems. To fulfill his desire for writing, he attended the University of Alabama, where he earned his Master’s Degree in English. Hudgins was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for his first book of poems, Saints and Strangers. “Playing Dead” is a twenty-eight line poem in a ballad form. In this poem, the speaker is describing his or her experience as a child, playing a game with their father. “Playing Dead” started out as having a sense of humor with the father playing dead with his children. At the end of the poem, when the father did not wake up, the speaker, for a split moment, come to realize a strong sense of loss. “Playing Dead” begins with a fun game between the father and his children. In the poem, Hudgins writes, “He took his thick glasses off / and stretched out on the bed” (3-4). This suggests that the father is probably tired and wants to take a nap. The poem continues on by describing the features of how the father is sleeping: “wouldn’t twitch,” “didn’t snore,” and “didn’t seem to breathe” (5-7). The writer ends the second stanza of the poem with the question, “Are you okay?” This shows that the speaker is having a sense of worry about the...
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...“Figure it out. Work a lifetime to pay for a house. You finally own it, and there’s no one to live in it.” This line was from the 1949 play Death of a Salesman. In his early years Miller wrote plays, but none of them were produced. Death of a Salesman was not his first success, but was still widely admired. He grew to become one of the century’s greatest American dramatists. However this title was not easily achieved. After growing up in Harlem and working the Brooklyn Navy Yard to becoming a Pulitzer Prize winner, Arthur Miller is held with high respect. Miller had a lifelong dream. That dream was to become a famous playwright. With a lot of hard times and struggles, he reached his goal. Miller went through college with many failed and unpublished plays. Still, he never gave up hope. Finally he hit one success which kept him on the Broadway stage for several decades to come. Arthur Miller is a New York born American playwright who developed a reputation by dealing with political and moral issues through his plays. However, this is just the tip of the iceberg with it comes to the story of Arthur Miller. Arthur Miller was a good man, and with a good man comes character strengths. He always put forth the effort to judge a man by his rightful position and his fair play. He also attempted to judge a man by his moral sanity and his welfare of the community (Foner and Garraty, 1). Miller never judged someone based upon a first impression. He made great attempts to know people...
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