Essays Tagged: "new yorker magazine"

Biography of George Saunders.

he 400-Pound CEO," in 1996 for "Bounty," and in 1999 for "The Barber's Unhappiness". He was awarded New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and was a PEN/Hemingway Award finalist, both in 1996, for C ... WarLand in Bad Decline. He was named one of the Twenty Best American Fiction Writers under Forty by New Yorker magazine in 1999. Pastoralia was chosen as New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 200 ...

(1 pages) 3594 4 2.5 Sep/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Biographies

Sperman

Hiroshima and Its Impact In 1946, the year following the bombing of Hiroshima, The New Yorker magazine hires John Hersey, a notable American author to relate the story about the event ...

(3 pages) 998 0 0.0 Oct/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Brain Physiology To Funny Situations & Under Stress

ring the brain and body's specific response to positive stimuli like humor and laughter may lead to new therapies.What do you get if you cross one of Dr. Greenberg's students with an alien? Something ... unique activity in the brain if you think this joke is funny, according to increasing evidence. The new investigations into how humor and laughter influence the brain are leading to:·A clearer ...

(7 pages) 0 0 0.0 Nov/2011

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Depression, Stress & Suicide