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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Pulitzer"”.
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Argument quality in Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting
… quality of arguments presented by journalists in Pulitzer Prize-winning stories. Journalists strive to inform citizens about the way their world is, was, and will be. These claims about the world are descriptive arguments, which can be accepted or rejected based on the quality of their reasons and …
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Some things never change : myth and structure in Pulitzer Prize feature stories, 1997-2012
… myth was used in 15 of the most recent winning Pulitzer Prize features by examining patterns in structural elements and cultural messages communicated in each story. This study found myth is inseparable from the feature story and subjective writing. In these narratives, myth was observed to …
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Music for Solo Bassoon and Bassoon Quartet by Pulitzer Prize Winners: A Guide to Performance
The Pulitzer Prize in Music has been associated with excellence in American composition since 1943, when it first honored William Schuman for his Secular Cantata No. 2: A Free Song. In the years that followed, this award has recognized America’s most eminent composers, placing many of their works …
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Dialogue at the Threshold: The Artist Between Museum and Community
… specifically The Brooklyn Museum and the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts in St. Louis, capitalize on the methods of artists such as Lacy and Hamilton, respectively, to create authentic communicative exchanges with neighboring communities. The Brooklyn Museum and The Pulitzer Foundation …
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The Evolution of AIDS as Subject Matter in Select American Dramas
… the loss of a loved one to AIDS. Tony Kushner's Pulitzer Prize-winning Angels in America epic represents living beyond AIDS as a powerful force. Without change and progress, Angels warns, life stagnates. Angels also introduces the powerful drugs that help alleviate the symptoms of AIDS. AIDS is …
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Hazel Brannon Smith: an Examination of Her Editorials on Three Pivotal Civil Rights Events
… a champion for civil rights, she won the 1964 Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing.
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Reaping What You Sow: Southern Cultures, Black Traditions, and Black Women
… Drawing upon the works of Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize-winning African American woman, novelist, and master storyteller, Toni Morrison (1970, 1973, 1976, 1987, 1988, 1993, 2003, & 2008); activist and Black feminist protest thinker and writer, bell hooks (1981, 1984, 1995, & 2000); the …
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Midwestern Americanism: Fiction of the 'Middle Border,' 1900-1930
… of his home state evolved—he won the Pulitzer prize in 1919 and 1922—the chapter demonstrates how he attempted to present the Midwest in an increasingly national context. Chapter 2 focuses on another neglected writer, Ruth Suckow, and considers her fiction alongside H.L. Mencken’s The …
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The Carnivalesque and the Grotesque in Elizabeth Bishop's Poetry
Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) was a Pulitzer-prize winning American poet who did not produce much published work in her career. This was partly due to her low confidence, depression, alcoholism, and difficult personal life, but it was also due to her meticulousness as a poet. Colleagues and critics …
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Tracing the Development of Willie Stark and Its Place in American Opera
… score was based upon Robert Penn Warren’s Pulitzer Prize-Winning novel All The King’s Men. Despite the vast amount of publicity it received at the premiere, this opera has only occasionally been performed in the last 35 years. Chapter One discusses Carlisle Floyd’s creation of Willie Stark. …
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Columbus' Combative Editor: Julian LaRose Harris versus The Klan in Georgia, 1921-1929
… term while Julian LaRose Harris received the Pulitzer Prize for his fight against the Klan.</p>
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A Gathering of Voices: Storytelling with Nilo Cruz and Students in the Urban Core
… Two focuses on the text analysis of Cruz’s Pulitzer Prize winning play Anna in the Tropics and how storytelling can change the lives of all characters involved as a lector reads aloud Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina to a group of cigar workers in 1920s Tampa, Florida. Chapter Three provides …
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The Greek Pastures: A Modern Mystery
… is evidenced by the fact that it was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for 1929-30.
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Urban rage in Bronzeville: Social commentary in the poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks, 1945-1960
… Illinois, earned fame when she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize (1950) for her second book of poetry, Annie Allen (1949). Brooks used the poetic language and the traditional prosodic devices of the English poets and earned wide acclaim for her poetic expertise. However, by doing so, she also …
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Octatonic Pitch Structure and Motivic Organization in George Walker's Canvas for Wind Ensemble, Voices, and Chorus
… substantial and profound three-movement work is Pulitzer Prize winning composer George Walker's first work for wind ensemble and is a milestone in wind composition at the turn of the millennium. This analysis considers Walker's sophisticated use of octatonic collections and their subsets. Walker …
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COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS OF MOVEMENT ONE OF JENNIFER HIGDON’S VIOLIN CONCERTO
… with several major European orchestras. As a Pulitzer Prize and multiple Grammy winner, she writes exclusively for commissions and her music is an audience favorite among concertgoers. The primary focus of this research is to investigate the first movement of Jennifer Higdon's Violin Concerto, …
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Be loved from the other side: Amy Denver's influence in Toni Morrison's Beloved
… while often dismissed by the scholars of this Pulitzer Prize winning novel, deserves more attention. Dismissing the importance of Amy Denver's narrative in the novel presents a danger; the opening epigraph of Beloved, in fact, defines the importance of Amy's role implicitly. It reads: "I will …
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The 1986 National Endowment for the Arts Commission: An Introspective Analysis of Two Marimba Works
… Leigh Howard Stevens and Gordon Stout. Three Pulitzer Prize winners were brought together to compose three new works for the marimba. The resulting pieces were: Reflections on the Nature of Water by Jacob Druckman, Velocities by Joseph Schwantner, and Islands from Archipelago: Autumn Island by …
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Buried Alive: Gothic Oppression in the Novels of Edith Wharton'
… most celebrated novel and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, shows the haunting effects of following social rules and rituals. Each of the main characters is buried prematurely by the suffocating society in which they reside. I will show that both novels, despite their differences, offer …
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Facing God: Contemporary American Devotional Poetry
… Dead Men's Praise; Louise Glück's 1992 Pulitzer Prize-winning collection The Wild Iris; and Morri Creech's "The Testament of Judas" from his 2001 collection Paper Cathedrals. Each of these texts investigates the metaphor "Man is like God"—a metaphor which Allen Grossman argues is the …
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