Many people might wonder what a typical person might feel about winning the biggest prize in their profession. Something like that for many becomes a life changing event. The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper, online journalism, literature, and musical composition. The Pulitzer Prize was first created by Joseph Pulitzer in 1917. Fourteen titles have been given every year in journalism. Awards have been given out every year since 1917. Pulitzer was the founder of the Pulitzer Prize, the most prestigious award in American Journalism. No person has ever won both a prize for arts and letters and a prize for journalism. In his will, he left two million dollars for Columbia University to create a school of journalism. Each winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Photography represents a great impact on the field of photography.
Jeffrey Eugenides said,
“The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind. The Pulitzer isn't a physical object. You can't hold it in your hand. You get some money ($7,500 in my d...
Jim Valvano was the head coach for the North Carolina State Wolfpack in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). In 1992, he was diagnosed with terminal cancer and as a result he created the V Foundation, whose raises money for cancer research. In 1993, Valvano won the Arthur Ashe Award for Courage at the ESPY’s. In his acceptance speech, Valvano effectively incorporates the three appeals of speech writing, but uses a strong ethos appeal to capture the audience. Through such a strong ethos appeal, Valvano makes himself worthy for the award he is receiving, which is the goal for any acceptance speech. Valvano’s speech is also effective because he uses four of the six parts of a speech, found in the Ad Herenium. In Valvano’s speech, exordium, narration, proof, and peroration are present. Since the purpose of this speech is not to get the hearers to donate, division (showing the difference between you and your opponent) and refutation (lowering your opponent’s arguments) are not needed. So let us go through Valvano’s speech to see the different parts where he makes his ethos appeal.
Russo won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel, Empire Falls. The paragraph above emphasizes the main reason that I find for the novel being such a success. The manner in which Russo is able to actually weave this concept of ‘waiting’ into his story by creating a feeling of time moving slowly, of anticipation.
The Liberator, by William Garrison, and Frederick douglass, a black slave, during the 19th century were things that had provoked the minds of America to become aware of the need to abolish slavery. Frederick Douglass had been known for his leadership in the abolishment of slavery; and The Liberator, a weekly newspaper founded by William Garrison, was known for sending this message about promoting the freedom of the enslaved blacks of America. Having subscribed to this newspaper, it gave him reasons to do the things that he was known for (Russell). It impacted him by making him become more aware of the terrible acts of slavery; it made him have the urge to contribute by helping other’s who were blinded by propaganda to understand the immorality of slavery; and, one of the most important reasons of all of all, it caused him to become one of the most commonly known activists of slavery’s abolition.
Levine, Philip. ”What Work Is.” Making Literature Matter: An Anthology for Readers and Writers. Ed. John Schilb and John Clifford. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2012. Print.
Kennedy, David M., Lizabeth Cohen, and Thomas A. Bailey. The American Pageant, 14e. Boston: Wadsworth, 2010. Print.
Yellow journalism is a type of journalism that focuses on writing pretty much anything in an effort to make big sales instead of writing from an impartial standpoint. It wasn’t until the final days leading up to the Spanish-American War that yellow journalism reared its ugly head. The idea of yellow journalism started with a comic strip printed by Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World, in which there was a little yellow man nicknamed “The Yellow Boy”. William Randolph Hearst, owner of the New York Journal, hired out the cartoonist who designed the “Yellow Boy” comic strip, thus causing hostility between the two owners and their newspapers. They were always at competition with each other when it came to selling big headlines. Their headlines would always contain human interest columns, dramatic crime stories and a heavy dose of cartoons that would make the paper sell well, not to mention the decrease of the price of a paper to one cent. In 1895, a revolt broke out in Cuba against the Spanish government, with America coming in to help Cuba soon after. During the war, America built the U.S.S. Maine, a ninety-nine meter battleship that had been built and sent to Cuban waters to match the growing Brazilian navy as well as to protect American assets. The two men saw this war in Cuba as an opportunity to write emotionally stirring stories. They both wrote horrific tales concerning the condition of the people in Cuba. Suddenly, on February 15, 1898, the Maine suddenly exploded, killing two hundred sixty one sailors and wounding nineteen others. Both Hearst and Pulitzer, among other newspapers, saw this catastrophic event as a chance to make it big in the media world. Without any concrete evidence, they wrote up headlines declaring that Spain ...
Beatty, reviewer of the book The Soiling of Old Glory, said it was shortly after the release of Forman’s shocking photo that made the public well aware of who Forman was for quite a while afterwards (Beatty). Moreover, without using any words, Forman was able to express these societal conflicts through his photograph as well as stir American emotions regarding the event (Belisle). At one point, photographer Forman said, “I don’t want to say I was lucky to get it because I knew what I was doing, but I was lucky to get it.” He ended up winning his second Pulitzer Prize within two years
Etheleen Renee Shipp, 62, is an American journalist and columnist who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1996. She won it after her Daily News column of March 15, 1995, about “both the blessing and the curse of affirmative action” said in Pulitzer.org.
Based on what you see, why do you think this writing was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize?
valuable. However, the lottery in Jackson’s writing symbolizes a different meaning contrast to the real
Jackson, Shirley. “The Lottery.” Literature and Its Writers: A Compact Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. 5th Ed. Ann Charters and Samuel Charters. Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martins, 2010. Book.
Despite the novel being a recipient of a few different awards it is not without criticism. One rather
The Spanish art curator Rafael Doctor once wrote that London-based German-born photographer Wolfgang Tillmans had an amazing ability to see the whole in something small and mundane. Last year the judges of Britain's Turner Prize acknowledged this gift, making hTillmans the first photographer ever to win the Prize.
And now, presenting the twenty-two time winner of the annual “Ultimate Gratitude” Competition, in which we determine who is truly the most deserving of our thanks: Mom! For your incredible feats of stamina, wisdom, and patience, the “Award of Ultimate Gratitude” is yours. Thanks Mom!
I stepped up to the stage when my name was called over the microphone. I walked over to the man that was handing out the certificates and letters. I smiled at the audience that was clapping politely. My mind rushed back to a couple months before when I was writing my piece for the Scholastic Writing awards. I always hid my writing from someone if they walked by while I was writing, in fear of someone judging my writing and not liking it. I remember the countless nights I stayed up writing and deleting and rewriting work on the memoir I wrote trying to get it edited welI enough to submit for the writing contest. I wouldn’t of never thought of myself as a good writer until one time my teacher asked to talk to me after class and talked to me about how well my memoir was written, and that I should think of entering my work into writing contests. After that, I forgot about what he said for a couple months until a week before the deadline of the Scholastic Writing awards. I remembered what my teacher told me a couple months ago, and after that I worked harder than I ever had on my memoir to submit it for the contest. After submitting to the contest, entering completely slipped my mind, and I forgot about the