Pulitzer Prize

Published in the year of 1960, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee was one of the few American novels to be awarded with the Pulitzer Prize. The racism in To Kill a Mockingbird is brought to life with reflective imagery. It also shows how predominant racism was in southern states in the 1930s. There happens to be several important characters in the book, yet the character that played a key role in the novel happens to be Atticus Finch. Atticus is a man of great integrity and intellect. In more ways

The picture above won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Photography. As shown, this picture is very depressing, sad, heartbreaking, and unfortunate. Any sorrowful word that can think, will describe this photo. The first time I saw it at the Newseum last year, I cried because it touches my heart to see a young starving child yearning for food to eat at the middle of nowhere, but can’t find one. Just looking at this photo explains the emotions. I’ll just begin by describing the story behind this particular

When executives at 5-Hour Energy learned that investigations from attorneys general into allegations of deceptive advertising were being opened in more than thirty states, they moved quickly to stop these investigations. Success in stopping the investigations did not come at negotiating tables, though, but it came at the Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel (Lipton). The Democratic Attorneys General Association gathered there, and a lawyer for 5-Hour Energy from the firm, Dickstein Shapiro, was roaming

memories, values, and emotions”.(Adams) August Wilson the author of the play Fences(1983) was a very well known author who wrote playwrights in 1980s. August Wilson won three awards for the play Fences, which were the Outer Critics, Tony, and Pulitzer Prize Award. The play Fences is a brief play about a 53 year old African American man who struggles to provide for his family. Next, Chinua Achebe (Albert Chinualumogu Achebe) is a Nigerian author from Africa who writes novels and teaches as a professor

The Namesake The Namesake, a winner of the Pulitzer prize, is a novel by Jhumpa Lahiri published in the year 2003. In the year 2007, The Namesake became a significant motion picture. The novel and film, both convey the theme of culture clash between American and Indian tradition. As the story transitions, the theme is exhibit by the struggles the Ganguli family went through in America such as Gogol’s name, influence Indian traditions into the Gangulis lives of the children, and the failures in the

When looking at some images, humans have a strong emotional response. This response is most evident when looking at Kevin Carter’s Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of a starving Sudanese child and a vulture is a drought-ridden field. The picture was even a factor in Carter’s suicide. The picture has many different features like the vulture and the child that make it particularly melancholy and hard to bear. The vulture is sitting behind the child looking and waiting to attack when the child dies

Winning the Pulitzer Prize is like winning the Heisman Trophy. In that regard, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings is comparable to Nile Kinnick. Kinnick won the Heisman in 1939 for his hard work, dedication, and ability to play football. Rawlings won the Pulitzer Prize in 1939 for her novel, The Yearling, for her deliberate use of sensory details, figurative language, and artful syntax. The appliance of sensory details throughout the novel enhance the story by depicting a vivid image of the characters and

American composer, Wayne Peterson, won the Pulitzer Prize in music in 1992. In addition to winning the Pulitzer Prize, Peterson has been honored with fellowships and commissions from many Foundations, as well as an award of distinction from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. He has received awards from the Minnesota Centennial Composition Contest, the American Society of Harpists and the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Needless to say Wayne Peterson has been

Robert Frost      Robert Lee Frost, was one of America’s leading 20th Century poets, and a four time winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Frost did not receive these recognitions until his later years when his poetic brilliance was finally recognized. “Frost was a pioneer in the interplay of rhythm and meter”( Waggoner 1). Frost’s brilliance was contributed by many things; including his life, career, and literary works.      Robert Frost was born on March

the Shoutin' by Rick Bragg is an autobiography that starts from Mr. Bragg's impoverished childhood in a family that included an abusive, alcoholic father, an incredibly powerful angel of a mother and his two brothers, and follows him through his Pulitzer Prize-winning journalistic career at the New York Times. The author states at the beginning of the book that readers will laugh and cry reading it. He was right on the money with both of these points. The Bragg family grew up with virtually nothing