Glenn Greenwald, Edward Snowden, and Laura Poitras took up arms against the oppressing secrets of the National Security Agency by releasing a series of revealing news reports beginning in 2013. Greenwald tells the story of his whistleblowing adventure clearly in his non-fiction book, No Place to Hide, which was published in 2014 by Henry Holt and Company. Glenn Greenwald, along with the inspiration of Edward Snowden, expresses his fears of an impending Orwellian society and wants American citizens
politically-driven and shameless. Atwood has spent the overwhelming majority of her life invested in both poetry and prose alike. She has been reading since she was a small child, wrote for her high school newspaper, and has even received prestigious awards for her works. Inspired by family and years spent in various schools, renowned poet and novelist Margaret Atwood has created many works revolving around sexism and other political affairs of modern society. Born Margaret Eleanor Atwood on November
Ta- Nehisi Coates lives in New York with his wife and son. He is a national correspondent for The Atlantic and received the George Polk Award for his cover story, “The Case for Reparations” in The Atlantic. He also received the National Magazine Award, the Hillman Prize for Opinion and Analysis Journalism. Coates is the author of the memoir The Beautiful Struggle and Between the World and Me. Between the World and Me was written by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote the book as a letter to
27 Years of Influential 60 Minutes Since 1968 America has been better enlightened than previously concerning current events and happenings around the world. A considerable factor for this occurrence is the television program 60 Minutes which debuted on the air in September of 1968. Many other television newsmagazines have been produced since its creation, however none have possessed the longevity nor the influence of 60 Minutes. Infact, 60 Minutes, which is owned by CBS News, was the first regular
Poisoned syrup has caused at least eight mass poisonings in the world in the last twenty years. Thousands of people have died in these poisonings. It turns out that 3 out of the four most recent cases the syrup was made in China, a humongous source of counterfeit drugs (Hooker et al). Muckraking does still exist in 2016 in newspaper as demonstrated by Jake Hooker and Walt Bogdanich of the New York Times series. Jake Hooker is an investigative journalist for the NY Times. Hooker went to China for
My Lai On March 16, 1968, "Charlie Company" was sent into a small Viet Cong village called (by the U.S.) My Lai 4. Their instructions by commanding officers were: "... kill every man, woman, child and animal in the village. Burn all the homes .... nothing should be walking, growing or crawling." Orders were followed, and as I read the first 65 pages of this book, I was exposed to the detailed death of 306 civilians, mostly women, small children, and old people. There was no threat to any American
range of literary gems. He is an educator, an American literary critic, a writer, a scholar, as well as an editor. Henry was the first black person to be offered a fellowship by the Mellon Foundation. On top of that, he has received several honorary awards and degrees for his research, development, and teaching of academic institutions to learn the black culture (Dorman 135). Gates was chosen, in 2012, to offer the Jefferson Lecture. In addition, this was done for the purpose
Introduction Informative, historical, and detailed are three words that describe “The Case for Reparations” by Ta-Nehisi Coates from Rereading America. “The Case for Reparations” contains a monster that is described by one of Cohen’s theses in “Monster Culture (7 Theses), which largely deals with “monsters” in culture in which he describes them in his seven theses. The particular thesis that is discussed in the article “The Case for Reparations” is thesis four, “The Monster Dwells at the Gates