Robert Bly's Poetry When it comes to poetry, many think of rhymes and a nice quite peaceful setting. Many find it nice to read poetry and feel a great pleasure in the literature. However when it
Inevitable Grief in Not Yet, Jayette In the short story "Not Yet, Jayette" by William Boyd, Charlie, the narrator and main character, describes a day in his life, and tries to understand, what is going on with him, and where and when his life took a turn towards misery. He states: "It seems to me that everybody in their life is at least two people. Once when you're a child, and once when you're an adult. It's the saddest thing." We will now try to see how this statement relates to his life, and
online business, copy is used in marketing venues such as website and landing pages, sales letters, and ads. For example, when you write a tweet to promote your product on Twitter, you're writing copy. The book, The Copywriter's Handbook, by Robert Bly, is a good resource for learning about copywriting. The introduction starts off with a quote by Judith Charles, the president of her own retail advertising agency, which gets to the heart of what a copy writer does. "A copywriter is a salesperson
Investigative Report Nellie Bly Throughout history, individuals such as Benjamin Franklin, Joseph Pulitzer and Robert Novak have all made their prominent mark on the history of journalism. Journalist Nellie Bly, however, pioneered a new type of investigative journalism that would impact future reporters internationally and that emphasized the benefits of using journalistic power to “comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.” Born Elizabeth Cochran on May 5, 1964, Nellie Bly was raised in Cochran's
This is what a mental asylum was like before Nellie Bly stood up for the mentally ill. An upstander is someone who stands up for what they believe in. According to PBS, a world renown educational television channel, Nellie Bly was born Elizabeth Jane Cochran and took on the alias Nellie Bly when she began her journalistic career (Nellie Bly). Her father died when she was just six years old throwing her family into a large amount of debt (Nellie Bly). Thinking it would help her family, she attended
The Influences of Nellie Bly on Journalism The field of mass media and journalism was built by the people to spread news across the globe in hopes of having a broader idea of government, conflicts and life as a whole. Since 59 B.C. when the first newspaper, Acta Diurna, was published in Rome, the field has been dominated by males. Men were considered to be fit for reporting because they were allowed to have an education and through social standards, seen as the only dominating factor when broached
maintained mostly by religious factions whose main goal was to purify the patient (Hartford 1). By the 1870’s, the conditions of these public insane asylums were very unhealthy due to a lack of funding. The actions of Elizabeth J. Cochrane (pen name Nellie Bly), during her book “Ten Days in a Mad-House,” significantly heightened the conditions of these mental asylums during the late 1800s. At that time, sick people were usually treated at home. A hospital was a place of last resort where the patient usually
Today, not many Americans will recognize the name Nellie Bly when heard, but things were much different 100 years ago. It would have been very difficult to find any American that had not heard of the famous Nellie Bly. Nellie Bly burst on the scene at the turn of the century when journalism was considered only a man's world. Nellie Bly helped to launch a new kind of investigative journalism into the world. Elizabeth Jane Cochran was born on May 5, 1864 in Cochran Mills, Pennsylvania. She was
To read of Nellie Bly, one would come to think the woman a pioneer in journalism; a hero for women's rights; and an American icon. These beliefs would be true if not for the fact that Bly was so much more. She was much more a woman, much more a writer, much more a hero and much more than most could ever be. Bly not only took on a world of injustice and stereotypes, but conquered it and changed the way the field of journalism works today. Elizabeth Cochran, a.k.a. Nellie Bly was the first known
A: Research Question What impact did Nellie Bly have as a muckraker and feminist in the progressive era? In order to determine the impact Nellie Bly had as a muckraker, the publicity she received from the press is going to be examined. In addition, her accomplishments in reforming mental asylums as a journalist and her strides towards feminism are going to be examined. First hand accounts of the conditions in mental asylums at the time, from Nellie Bly and other reformers, are going to be examined
Gertrude Ederle was a famous American swimmer who was born on October 23, 1906 in New York City, New York. Ederle loved the sport of swimming ever since she was a child, and she held 29 national and world amateur swimming records between 1921 and 1925. She also broke seven swimming records on afternoon at Brighton Beach, New York. With a time of seven hours and eleven minute, Gertrude Ederle broke the old men’s record of swimming from New York Battery to Sandy Hook, New Jersey. In the 1924 Olympic
becomes increasingly hard to procure. Nellie Bly, however, is dedicated to reporting facts and uses writing to raise awareness for the welfare of those who are oppressed by society’s ignorance and indifference. She is an admirable woman because of several traits, including her intense passion and strong determination, and she proves her will-power in her renowned statement, “Energy rightly applied and directed will accomplish anything.” Not only does Bly accomplish and succeed in most everything she
efforts of the staff and how the majority of the patients returned to the facility. However, some patients actually were cured. Some of the patients were drugged up and locked into solitary within the Bellevue facility, which only made them worse. Nellie Bly went undercover Blackwell Island, which she called the “human rat trap.” The location was mostly a warehouse, they did not provide much care. The City of the Sick documentary does not correlate with Nellie Bly’s experience, it actually attempts to advertise
Nellie Bly was an intrepid female journalist in a time when the idea of having women in the workplace was still a questionable and controversial matter. This especially pertains to positions that have long since been male dominated and controlled. If women were to have occupation at all, they usually filled more respectable and passive jobs, such as being a teacher, governess, or a secretary. Nellie Bly surpassed the menial gender specific roles, and became one of the very first female investigative
were treated because of the harsh conditions in which they withstood. The victims in these institutions would The dirty, unkept admitted patients would be only be provided a bath once a week (Bly 81) Patients had to share almost everything in the asylum such as towels, combs and even murky bath water (Bly 81). The towels would be handed from one person to the next with all different types. Women with acne would use the same towel as a woman with beautiful clear skin. Using the same comb on multiple
as a peppermint bottles and fruit (these examples taken from his painting, ‘Still Life with a Peppermint Bottle’), which symbolized the private part of man’s nature. Jane Roberts supports this idea in stating that, “ … man will gladly surround himself with beloved knick knacks with which he can be isolated with and alone…” (Roberts 213). She goes on to say that these objects are contemplative in nature, allowing man to sit and ponder their meaning. When I speak of contemplation, I mean that every
History, Race, and Violence in the Arena of Reproduction Enslavement. In 1997, Dorothy Roberts wrote a salient book titled Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty. Roberts explicates the crusade to punish Black women—especially the destitute—for having children. The exploitation of Black women in the U.S. began in the days of slavery and, appropriately enough, Roberts introduces her first chapter with an illustrative story: When Rose Williams was sixteen years
The three main characters are typical men of that era. Chopin shows the diversity in each of those three characters. Roberts awakening, and the struggle to do what is the right thing. Alcee and how he is carefree and not concerned with society’s expectations of him, and so has a reputation. Mr. Pontiller, a business man first and foremost, with little left for wife and family. Robert did the right and noble thing by leaving to go to Mexico so as to not have to see the object of his forbidden love.
Robert leaves from London to Waterloo where he rides by train and reaches a town called Magdalene Wood. It is here when he realizes that he has been separated with his bag. Robert is now left without rations, clean clothing, and his gun. Magdalene Wood lies about 12 miles from Bailleul. Robert decides he wants to make it before sunrise so he must walk the remainder of the way. Soon Robert joined two horsemen and rode the remainder of the way. When Robert reaches Bailleul and stays the first night
fleet sailed into St. Ann’s Bay on his second voyage of discovery to the New World in 1494. He described Jamaica as, “the fairest island eyes have beheld; mountainous and the land seems to touch the sky....and full of valleys and fields and plains” (Roberts, 141). Although founded by a Spaniard, Jamaica was eventually sold to England. Today, Jamaica is the largest of the English speaking West Indian islands. The tropical island of Jamaica, called Xamayca by the Arawaks, is situated in the heart