MacArthur Fellows Program Essays

  • Lynsey Addario Research Paper

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    Biography of a Photographer: Lynsey Addario Josie Schmitz North Central University Who Is Lynsey? Early Life On November 13, 1973 in Norwalk, Connecticut, Lynsey Addario was born, and her parents were hairdressers by trade (Time, 2017). She spent her childhood years through graduating high school in Connecticut. After she received her diploma, she moved to Wisconsin where she attended University of Wisconsin. In 1995, she graduated with her BA in international relations and had absolutely no

  • Literature and Society

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    To what extent can literature have an affect on the way we judge society? Humans are naturally able to make a first impression on countries, religions, and people based upon their own beliefs. Writers are grown up in different societies and express their own beliefs on countries, religion and people through their own life experiences. Writers have enough power to change the reader’s preconceived ideas by the writers sharing of their own perspective on their beliefs. Through analyzing different forms

  • Junot Diaz's How To Date A Browngirl, Blackgirl

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    University in 1995” (MacArthur Fellow Program), and majored in “History and Literature” (Gradesaver). Junot became a writer because he had a passion to write from the “Lives lived between cultures” (MacArthur Fellow Program) and he wanted people to see how difficult it was for him to adjust living in the United States. Not only that, but the “Many challenges of the immigrant life” (MacArthur Fellow Program). Diaz writings are known to as a “Mix of Spanish and English” (MacArthur Fellow Program) in his texts

  • Commemorative Speech

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    Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I hope that you are all having a wonderful night so far, but it’s time that we get down to business. Tonight we are here to honor a guest who has not only contributed greatly to entertainment but also has a paved a new way of learning for many of the younger generation. Our of guest of honor, at only thirty-six years old, has achieved things that some of us could only dream of doing in a hundred years. At nineteen, our guest wrote the first draft of his first

  • Summary Of The Documentary Girl Trouble

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    discuss juvenile experiences of four young ladies over four-year time period and review some of the programs that were available to them. Are there programs and people that can help young women who feel they have no options. These young women will share some of the difficulties they had and their plans of escape from a system that is difficult to navigate. This paper will question if the programs available are effective and prudent for the girls. This paper will also question are girls put into

  • Henry Gates Research Paper

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    In 1995, he presented a program known as the Great railway Journeys in the BBC series. In addition, Gates has been the co-producer and host of the African American Lives in 2006 and the African American Lives 2 in 2008. In 2010, Henry hosted the Faces of America which got presented

  • Wild Bill Donovan Thesis

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    Major General William “Wild Bill” Donovan is a true American hero who has left a legacy behind that has withstood the tests of time. A man who began with a humble upbringing, Donovan dedicated his entire adult life in service to the United States. He was a man who upheld the law and fought for what was right, regardless of the opinions of others. Major General Donovan served in both World Wars, during which he earned the Nation’s four highest honors. He was a visionary who established the basic framework