literature
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Muckrakers the super heroes of journalism
Muckrakers were investigative reporters and writers during what is known as the Progressive Era which lasted from 1890–1920. These individuals wrote about injustice and corruption in order to bring much needed changes in society. You could call them whistleblowers who published articles in magazines like Cosmopolitan and McClure's and also in books. The January 1903 issue of McClure's is considered to be the official debut for muckraking journalism.
By Cheryl E Preston5 years ago in The Swamp
Book Review: "The Red Prince" by Helen Carr
I have read many books on history in my life and honestly, some of them are far better than others. I find that there is a technique to writing a book of historical nonfiction that is set on exploring person and personality simultaneously with politics and contextual items. Be that as it may, many books often fail to provide the former for the hope that the over-explanatory of the latter may compensate as a ‘I bet you did not know this [insert ideology here]…’. But, it can make the book dry and insensitive and often, we as readers have a hard time enough imagining that these people who lived in the distant past were real at all so that just adds to it. The reader would be far more interested if the book was more personal, had more character and made us really think that we knew this person from the distant past properly as we do our own friends. Context, character and plot must go hand-in-hand to make a great nonfiction history book and in the book “The Red Prince” by Helen Carr, I can say that they definitely do. They fuse together perfectly to not only give us a personal portrait of John of Gaunt, but also plays on various things that the reader may have already seen such as the portrayal of John of Gaunt in Richard II and his own child and grandchild getting their own plays with “Henry IV” and “Henry V”.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in The Swamp
Racism, Homophobia, Violence and Literature
Édouard Louis, the 28-year-old French writer, is considered the new "enfant terrible" of French literature. One Saturday last August, we were talking animatedly in a busy restaurant on the island of Aegina. He had chosen this Greek island near the capital Athens to spend his summer vacation. Even at our first meeting there, I recognized a kind of contradiction when I unconsciously compared his gentle and calm current aura with his fierce and angry literary writing.
By George Karouzakis 5 years ago in The Swamp
Mr. President
Mr. President Published by Nadira Grey Copyright ©2021 NADIRA GREY. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems without permission in writing from the publisher/author, except by a reviewer who may quote passages in a review.
By Nadira Grey6 years ago in The Swamp
The Diary
I never thought my nosing around would get me anywhere. I had been searching for answers about my birth since the beginning. As soon as I was old enough, I began asking my mother questions. My name is Nicholas Pennington and the year was 1876. By that time, I had waited almost twenty years for the answers about my birth.
By Amberly Henning6 years ago in The Swamp
The right to bear one less arm.
Sam Gregor was loved by everyone and known by no one. The year started on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. It was 1989. Two years before the fall of the Berlin wall and two years after The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed for the first time above 2,000, gaining 8.30 to close at 2,002.25. It had been a long year in a busier decade. It was the year U.S. President George H. W. Bush banned the importation of certain guns in the United States. The guns banned were classified as assault weapons. Semi-automatic rifles. George H W Bush had given the people the right to bear one less arm.
By Briana Charles6 years ago in The Swamp
Everybody Can't Stop Laughing at the CBN's 2 Grammatical Blunders in New Letter.
Wait for it. *********************************************************************** WEAR A MASK. SAVE A LIFE. I hope you enjoy reading today's story. But before you go ahead and read the story, here are some important tips from the World Health Organization that we must all comply with in an effort to minimize the spread of the novel COVID-19. Please do these to make sure that you and your family are as safe and healthy as can possibly be throughout the entirety of this new year.
By Jide Okonjo6 years ago in The Swamp
Resistance Literature is Blooming in Kashmir
A poet famously wrote of Kashmir, “if there is a heaven on earth, it’s here, it’s here, it’s here.” The steep, icy slopes of Sonmarg or the soaring Himalayan views are the sights that inspire poets and tourism magazines alike, but Kashmir is having a surge in a different kind of writing: passionate resistance literature against Indian occupation.
By Raisa Nastukova6 years ago in The Swamp
“The French Revolution” by Thomas Carlyle
The various texts that are available on the French Revolution are very informative, but few are as close to a first-hand experience as Thomas Carlyle’s account of Edmund Burke’s Reflections. Within my readings of Thomas Carlyle’s “French Revolution” I have found a number of new philosophical questions that I had not before considered when reading it in parts previously. These philosophical questions include not only the main existential crises of life and death, memory and existence - but they also include the question of worth, requirement for living standards and the question of whether the new and changing world really needs feudalism. The royalist argument that spans quite a majority of the text seems to be focused on their requirement, their greed and the way in which their systems are in place to oppress the poor. There is a massive section purely on the aristocratic conspiracy to keep the poor fighting each other instead of fighting them and it is clear that through the storming of the Bastille that this is not working. The analysis of the newspapers during this time seem to change as well, through the death of Louis XV we get the aristocratic opinion and yet, after the storming of the Bastille the newspapers turn more towards those by Jean Paul Marat.
By Annie Kapur6 years ago in The Swamp
Jonathan and The Emperor
I relate to you the story of Jonathan and the Emperor. Indeed the Emperor exalted himself in the land and made his people into different groups. The Emperor killed all the newborn baby boys and let the girls live on every other year. Indeed he was from amongst the evil ones. Surely one day the Emperor will be overthrown and the same people he oppressed would inherit the land. The Emperor feared such an uprising and that is why he killed all the baby boys every other year in order to control the population of slaves he had. Then one day a baby boy, named Jonathan, was born during the year the Emperor had ordered to kill all the newborn baby boys. The mother feared for her child, then immediately she began to feed her child. The soldiers did not hear the child crying and walk past her house. The mother then decided to put her baby in a basket and throw the basket into the sea hoping that her baby would live on and be brought back to her. The basket ends up at the palace of the Emperor and the Emperor’s wife picks up the child. The Emperor’s wife brings the child to her husband and says he is the coolness of my eyes, can we keep him and adopt him as our own? The Emperor looks at the child and a love for the child fills his heart and his face changes. They decide to keep the baby. The baby then cries because he is hungry. They bring all the wet nurses but the child refuses to drink the milk. The sister of the child was following her brother and suggests should I take you to some house that will take care of the child. They agreed and the girl takes her brother to her own home without anyone noticing. The mother is then reunited with her child. The heart of the mother of the child now becomes calm and relieved. Years later when the child is mature he is given wisdom and strength. He uses his wisdom and strength to help his people who are enslaved by the emperor in a time when the guards are not looking at him. Then one day Jonathan sees two men fighting, one from his nation and another from his enemy. The one from his nation called out to him and said O Jonathan come and help me. Jonathan goes over punches the one from his enemy and he dies with that punch. Jonathan realizes what he has done and feels remorseful of his evil deed. The next morning Jonathan enters the city in a state of fear and caution. Then he bumps into the same guy who asked for his help the previous day. Jonathan offers to help but this time he will be smart and he will hold back the guard trying to be beat him. The man who asked for his help thought Jonathan was coming over to kill him and saved himself by saying wait Jonathan stop are you coming to kill me like you killed someone yesterday…yesterday. There is silence everywhere and Jonathan goes into hiding. The guards make a plan to kill Jonathan. Then a friend of Jonathan’s from amongst the guards advise Jonathan to run away because the guards are trying to kill him. Jonathan takes heed of his friend’s warning and runs away. After some time Jonathan reaches a well of water and sees two girls tugging at their sheep. Jonathan goes up to the two girls and says what is your problem? The two girls respond we will not feed our sheep until the men leave the wells. Jonathan takes the sheep from the girls and offers to feed the sheep for them. Jonathan returns the sheep to the girls and goes back under the shade without expecting any thank you. The girls go back to their father who realizes that they returned early. Their father asked why they are so early. The girls reply that a man helped them feed the sheep. The father asks one of the girls to go and get the man so he can thank him. As Jonathan is resting under a tree one of the girls comes to him walking with shyness saying my father invites you and wants to thank you for the good you have done. Jonathan meets with the girl’s father and tells him everything that happened to him. The girl calls the father and tells him to hire Jonathan. Then the father says to Jonathan I like to marry one of my two girls to you in condition that you serve me for eight to ten years. Jonathan agrees. After eight or ten years Jonathan gathers a group of men and decides to go back to the Emperor to face him and free his own people who are enslaved. After some battles Jonathan and his men are victorious and they inherit the land from the Emperor. Jonathan and his people are finally free from the clutches of the Emperor.
By Muhammad Abdullah6 years ago in The Swamp
