Maureen Dowd Maureen Bridgid Dowd was born in Washington, D.C. on January 14, 1952. She was born to Mike Dowd and Peggy Dowd, she is the youngest of five children. Maureen graduated from Immaculata High School in 1969. She obtained her Degree in English at the Catholic University of America. Maureen Dowd is one of the most well-known columnists in America. During her career obtained many awards(.) Her career in journalism took birth after she became an editorial assistant with the newspaper, the 'Washington Star', where she rose up the ladder to become a sports reporter,a feature writer, and a metropolitan reporter. She later worked for the ‘Times’ magazine for a brief period, before joining the 'The New York Times' Washington bureau as a …show more content…
In 1999, Maureen won the Pulitzer Prize for ‘distinguished commentary.’ In 2000, she won the award ‘The Damon Runyon Award’ for outstanding contribution to journalism. She ranked at number thirty-seven out of one hundred on most influential liberals in America. Unfortunately, not everything has been good, in 2009, one of her articles was accused of plagiarism. Maureen Dowd’s husband is known to be non-other than her work. She is a busy woman. Maureen Dowd has not married till date. She also cites her work for not being married. Maureen was in a brief relationship with actor Michael Douglas in 1998.She then was seen with Aaron Sorkin in 2005. Both of her relationships did not work so well. She is currently single and living happily. Maureen is currently sixty-four years old and has achieved a lot in life till date. Maureen Dowd’s net worth has not been estimated to date but it is known that she has a huge salary coming out of her active career as a columnist and author. () Maureen Dowd is a good example of being a successful woman. Maureen started from the bottom, to get where she is now. She has created many articles, written a few books, and received awards. One of my favorite quote from Maureen Down which inspires me to succeed “The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settle for.” Maureen
Hashtag MeToo. Does that sound familiar? The MeToo movement is one of the most influential movements of our time. According to cbsnews.com a movement that reached over 12 million posts on Facebook in just 24 hours. Most of you know the power of Me Too and some participants in it, such as Ashley Judd, Angelina Jolie, Gwyneth Paltrow, Cara Delevingne, Lupita Nyong’o, Lindsay Lohan, and many more according to CNN. However, you probably do not know who began this powerful movement. Her name is Tarana Burke. Tarana Burke is a sexual assault survivor herself and began the Me Too Movement in 2006 when she was having trouble with comforting a young girl, who had confided in Burke about her sexual assault experience according to brown.edu.
Natalie Wood, who born in San Francisco, was an American film and television actress. Wood is married from Robert Wagner, and they have three children. Natalie Wood died on November 29, 1981, and no one knows how exactly she died. In addition, Wood was with her husband and their friend in the boat, and she argued with Wagner before living the boat. Also, Wood afraid of water her whole life, and she died by drowning on a weekend trip.
An old friend of hers from college became editor of Texas Monthly Magazine. He remembered how fabulous a writer Mackintosh was from their college years. Their first meeting was in a poetry class when he laughed at her name.
She was never again officially remarried but spent the rest of her life with American artist Robert Brady after exchanging marriage vows in a church in Acapulco,
Jill Stacey Moreland(born Itabari Njeri) was born in Brooklyn, New York. She started off as being a singer/actress; but she found a calling in journalism. She obtained her B.S. from Boston University, and then later on she received her M.S. form Columbia University. She worked as a writer for numerous projects, and then was the author of three books. She wrote “Family Portraits and Personal Escapades,” “The Challenge of Diversity”, and “Reflections of a New World Black.” Currently Jill Stacey does public speaking at Universities about memoir, multiculturalism, and ethnic conflict.
The prestige of writing a best-selling, critically lauded a book brought assignments from the New York Times Magazine, which she wrote both light-hearted and serious commentary. In a December 1943 piece called “Why Brooklyn is that Way,” Smith shown the core of her childhood borough’s unofficial champion.
Diane Sawyer is an American television journalist who started her career after attending college. Her career started small, at a local news station in Kentucky then took off as she picked up jobs at the White House and more. Sawyer’s has been named one of the most influential women for journalism for her many accomplishments.
The lights shine down and the cheerleaders cheer as his eyes scan the field for an open receiver. Students explode with school pride as he throws a bullet to wide receiver Mark Vergara that sent the rivalry game against Granada High School into overtime. It's almost the end of just another intense football game for teenager Zach Fraade. At seventeen, the Cleveland High School football star is on the verge of getting recruited by a prominent Division 1 University where he can continue working towards his dream of one day playing in the NFL. Standing at 6’3” with a great running prowess and powerful arm, Fraade has been watched closely by scouts since his freshman year. He walks with a swagger in his stride with his broad shoulders; chiseled
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While attending the institution Laura composed essays and poetry on subjects such as religion, politics, nature and her own deafness. For her class graduation Laura wrote a farewell poem and gave a speech at commencement which was both published in the American Annals of the Deaf. Her first professional work was done for a church in St. Louis. Her work impressed the editors at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch so much that they hired her. When the Civil War began the newspaper sent her to Washington D.C as its war correspondent. To avoid offending other readers who thought that journalism was “man’s work,” all of her writing was published under the name Howard Glyndon. But it was not very effective. It was largely known that Howard Glyndon was a woman and it was accepted.
In 1945, Flannery O’Connor transferred to the University of Iowa after receiving a scholarship for journalism. After a few months, she realized journalism was not her dream. She talked t...
Sophie Treadwell was born on October 3, 1885 in Stockton, California. She is known mostly as a playwright, but wrote in various other genres also. Her written works not only include plays, but also books and novels, fiction and non-fiction. Her journalism career was quite successful. Her commentaries and articles were always captivating to the public eye. Sophie frequently followed sensational stories in the news, some of which gained much acclaim, one being her interview with Pancho Villa.
Toni Morrison has held many jobs as a writer, teacher, and an editor. As a teacher, she taught general composition and literature classes at Howard University. Some of her students at Howard were Houston Baker and Claude Brown. At Yale University, Toni Morrison taught creative writing and African-American literature. As an editor, she worked as senior editor at Random House in New York City. She worked her way up to that position from...
Gloria Steinem travels widely as a feminist activist, organizer, writer and lecturer. Her books include the bestsellers Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem, Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions, Moving Beyond Words, and Marilyn: Norma Jean, on the life of Marilyn Monroe. She was an editor of The Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History. Steinem co-founded New York Magazine and Ms. Magazine where she continues to serve as a consulting editor. She has been published in many magazines and newspapers here and in other countries, and is also a frequent guest commentator on radio and