Preview

Nicholas Kristof Biography

Satisfactory Essays
Open Document
Open Document
337 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
Nicholas Kristof Biography
Nicholas Kristof is a columnist for the well known newspaper The New York Times. His main focus for his column is Human rights, women’s rights, health, and global affairs. He has written his column for the NY Times since 2001. Kristof grew up in Oregon and graduated from Harvard University. He went on to study law at Oxford. He is fluent in more than 3 languages and was a foreign correspondent for the NY Times for many years. He won two pulitzer prizes and received many humanitarian awards. One humanitarian award that Kristof received was the Anne Frank award. Nicholas Kristof has lived on four continents and traveled to 150 countries. He was the first official blogger for The New York Times. I chose to follow Nicholas Kristof because I

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Good Essays

    He comes to England for the newspaper, Daily Express. He extended the idea that people could you could engineer society by forcing people to adapt. The Soviets really liked this idea.…

    • 826 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    author, professor, historian and activist. His life work focused on issues of race, class and…

    • 580 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    First thing’s first, anyone who encounters this wonderfully constructed book, What They Fought For, by James M. McPherson, must acknowledge his great work. McPherson is one of the few historians worth reading; this is coming from a Kinesiology major who wants little to nothing to do with historians. I strongly believe that this marvelous piece of art work has no flaws or weaknesses, yet has many strong points.…

    • 497 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Until recently I was an uninformed individual who did not take the time out to delve into reading articles from news columnists. That was until I was given the task to select a columnist and carefully analyze their rhetorical strategy methods used to convey their column’s central argument. As a result of this, my task began of pragmatically analyzing six consecutive articles written by, The Dallas Morning News (DMN) Columnist, Sharon Grigsby began. Grigsby is well-known among the DMN circuit as the journalist dubbed “dog reporter,” and as the director of the “Bridging Dallas” and “North-South Gap” projects- which she earned of Pulitzer Prize for in 2010 for her selection of work. Since the start of her career at the DMN Grigsby has devoted…

    • 1115 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Marcus’s writing, you will notice that her ethos is easily revealed. Her reference to current events and important world issues show that she is very knowledgeable on the subject matter at hand. She seems to have done her research and provides the reader with important issues and situations that have happened during President Obama’s presidency. By showing her knowledge of the subject matter she is more likely to convince the reader to side with her stance as most people will believe someone with knowledge on a subject more than someone who does not know the subject matter.…

    • 489 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    He comparably measures people’s sacrifices to a bigger cause on saving kid’s life. Like when he argued, what’s is one month’s dining out, compared to a child’s life. He claimed that the money donated to charitable agencies could mean the difference between life and death for children in…

    • 496 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    his use of first person throughout the article, engage the reader and creates a mutual…

    • 552 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Better Essays

    Gabriel Orozco Research

    • 1669 Words
    • 7 Pages

    Schjeldahl, Peter. "Man of the World." The New Yorker. The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2009. Web. 08 May 2013.…

    • 1669 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    been respected as a publisher in many ways. He won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National…

    • 2847 Words
    • 12 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Although the author is not known, the New York Times is a well-known newspaper that has been known for its credibility and expertise, so it can be safe to assume that the writer’s points are valid.…

    • 470 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Jeremy Rifkin is an American writer, public speaker and activist who wrote an article for…

    • 907 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Social Class in America

    • 12194 Words
    • 49 Pages

    BILL BEAR is a plumbing contractor in southern Ohio. MICHAEL BIRDWELL is a historian at Tennessee Tech University and is an editor of the Encyclopedia of Appalachia. DAVID BROOKS is the editor of The Weekly Standard, a political magazine, and the author of Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There. DAVID PATRICK COLUMBIA is a social chronicler who runs newyorksocialdiary.com. TAMMY CRABTREE lives in Pike County, in southern Ohio, where she works at a Burger King. She has four children ages 12 to 22. STANLEY CROUCH is a noted jazz critic, novelist, and newspaper columnist. JOHN DIIULIO is a criminologist at the University of Pennsylvania who now serves as the head of the White House Office of Faith Based Initiatives. BARBARA EHRENREICH is an author and columnist. Her latest book is called Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America and features her experiences working at minimum wage jobs. DANA FELTY hails from Morgantown, Kentucky (pop 2,544). She attended Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio and now works in Washington DC for a journalism foundation. PAUL FUSSELL is a professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Class: A Guide Through the American Status System. LAWRENCE OTIS GRAHAM is the author of Our Kind of People: Inside America’s Black Upper Class. PAT GULDEN runs the Eastern Seaboard’s largest retail outlet for concrete lawn ornaments, located in suburban Baltimore. R. COURI HAY is a publicist and society columnist in New York City. BENILDE LITTLE is a novelist who wrote the bestseller Good Hair. CARLOTTA MILES is a psychiatrist in Washington DC. LANG PHIPPS is a musician and writer from New York City.…

    • 12194 Words
    • 49 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Kristof

    • 684 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Nicholas D. Kristof’s “The Educated Giant” makes an ineffective argument, incorporating too much pathos and not enough ethos, making the article bias.…

    • 684 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Andrew Sullivan was brought in to this world in South Godstone, Surrey, England in 1963. He attended different colleges obtaining his B.A, Master’s, and Ph.D. in history and Government. Andrew started a wonderful career as a Journalist writing for New Republic. Later on he was accepted to write for New York Times Magazine. A gay, Catholic, conservative, and often controversial commentator, Sullivan made history as a blogger. After roughly 5 years he decided to take a break from journalism. Sullivan started writing several books from 1995 to 2006.…

    • 381 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Writing and Racial Profiling

    • 28569 Words
    • 115 Pages

    columnist for the New York Times. He has also been a national correspondent for NBC and a…

    • 28569 Words
    • 115 Pages
    Good Essays