Website The Pulitzer Prizes archival website(www.pulitzer.org) explains everything about the Pulitzer Prize‚ which was established by Joseph Pulitzer‚ a Hungarian-American journalist and newspaper publisher‚ who left money to Columbia University in 1911. A portion of his money was used to found the School of Journalism in 1912 and establish the Pulitzer Prize‚ which was first awarded to Pulitzer in 1917. The main category of Pulitzer Prizes are two; A Prize in Journalism and A Letters and
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of recognizing excellence. In the world of writing‚ this award is the Pulitzer Prize. The Pulitzer Prize originated in 1917 by Joseph Pulitzer. In his will‚ he left two million dollars to Columbia University to create a school of journalism. Pulitzer was a proud‚ self-made man‚ but wanted to make it easier for future journalists to be successful in the industry he loved. One fourth of this money was to be "applied to prizes or scholarships for the encouragement of public service‚ public morals
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Joe thought he heard a mysterious sound.MMMMMMMMMM‚though Joe just thought it was just the heater.However there was a strange smell of rot flowing through the house as it soon started to sicken Him.All of the sudden‚the humming stopped all at once‚however the smell got closer. “What is that?” Joe thought. Soon joe Started to get frightened‚and he remembered that old movie “the grudge” and got up from his bed.Joe Stared and walked slowly and quietly towards the door.Scared‚Joe Creaked open the door
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Franklin Reyes Professor Neeley Gossett English 1102 1 October 2014 Fences In the play “Fences” by August Wilson‚ the main characters Cory and Troy are building a fence that Rose their wife/mom has asked them to built. August Wilson did not name his play‚ Fences‚ simply because the dramatic action depends strongly on the building of a fence in the Maxson’s backyard. Rather‚ the characters lives change around the fence-building project that serves as both a literal and a figurative device‚ representing
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Philip Schultz in Collin College- spring Creek Philip Schultz is a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and the founder/director of The Writers Studio‚ a private school for fiction and poetry writing based in New York City. He wrote several books including the Pulitzer Prize winning collection of poems called Failure. He was invited to Collin College to present his recent book called My Dyslexia. He is a famous writer and poet who had realized he had dyslexia at the age of 58 when his own son was diagnosed
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Alice Walker February 9th 1944 in Eatonton Georgia a great author was born‚ who is Known by the name Alice Walker . Alice Walker Is a African American who is the eighth and youngest child of Minnie Talulah and Willie Lee. In Alice years of being a child she became blind in her right eye from being scarred with a BB gun by her brother Bill. Getting teased by her classmates and the misunderstood from her family made Alice Shy. Six years later Alice got her scar removed and this helped
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Walker is most known for her novel‚ The Color Purple. This novel has won many awards including the Pulitzer Prize‚ and it has also became a film. Although she is known for her works of fictions‚ Walker strived in writing poetry as well. Her poetry ranges from many topics. Many of the themes relate to successes and failures‚ social and political issues‚ and African-American heritage. Walker claims
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English 11 period 5B Kieghley Bridger October 2‚ 2012 Mini research paper To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee was published on July 11‚ 1960 and was an immediate bestseller. It won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1961 and was voted “best novel of the century” by the Library Journal. With more than thirty million copies in print‚ To Kill a Mockingbird remains a bestseller. Regardless of all the praise‚ this novel has been banned and challenged in many different areas due to profanity
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segregated high school in 1965 as valedictorian. After graduating she worked as a social worker and continued to write stories and having a few published‚ but her break came with the publication of "The Color Purple" which won her a pulitzer prize and a national book award for fiction. Although Walker enjoys writing she claims for her real purpose to be activism. Alice met and marched with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for civil rights in the 1960s. In 2003 she was arrested with two other authors for
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It has won the Pulitzer prize and American book award for fiction in 1983. Celie (Whoopi Goldberg) was sold to her husband Albert (Danny Glover) who was a sharecropper and also very hurtful to Celie. He hid letters that were responses to Celie from her sister Nettie (Akousa Busia). This made
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