Essays Tagged: "american journalist"

Blitzkrieg.

European HistoryTHE BLITZKRIEG'Blitzkrieg', meaning 'Lightning War' was a term coined by an American Journalist when they were describing the method of war that The Germans, under Adolf Hitler ... f war brought a quick conclusion with a relatively low casualty rate amongst both the Iraqi and the American forces.

(3 pages) 63 1 4.8 May/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Muckraker

Muckraker, name applied to American Journalist, novelists, and critics who in the first decade of the 20th century, attempted t ... 0th century. Michael Moore is also a muckraker who has helped people see the violence and fear that Americans face by producing the movie Bowling for Columbine. But the real question is whether it rea ... the movie Bowling for Columbine. But the real question is whether it really made a difference on an American society after watching that movie.Ida Tarbell, Journalist who was born on November 5, 1857. ...

(3 pages) 24 0 0.0 Feb/2007

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Riis, Jacob

of others and his unselfish acts convinced others that he's a hero with heart. Jacob A. Riis was an American journalist, photographer, and social reformer. He helped improve the living conditions in N ... ons in which they lived." According to Theodore Roosevelt in the introduction of Making of An American, he says, "He was one of my truest and closest friends. I have not only admired and respect ...

(2 pages) 1925 0 0.0 Nov/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

William lloyd garrison

m Lloyd Garrison: Uncompromise During Times of Compromise William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879) was an American journalist and adamant abolitionist. Garrison became famous in the 1830s for his uncompromi ... ocate-I will not excuse-I will not retreat a single inch-and I will be heard." Garrison enlightened Americans with his altruistic sensibilities, but his motives were not altruistic. He wanted people t ...

(1 pages) 1403 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Nellie Bly

chran's Mills, Pennsylvania in the home of Mary Jane and Judge Michael Cochran. She was an author, American journalist, charity worker, and industrialist. Nellie focused her journalistic attention o ... to send her instead.On November 14, 1889, Nellie Bly began her world-wide journey on the Hamburg-American Company liner Augusta Victoria, from the Hoboken Pier at exactly 9:40:30 a.m. Bly's travel ...

(4 pages) 1346 0 0.0 Nov/2008

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Do Aliens Really Exists ?

n UFO and aliens is more common than we think. Surveys show that between 70 and 75 percent of North Americans believe in extraterrestrials and UFOs. Moreover, a much smaller, but growing number of peo ... of the first "flying saucer", interest in UFOs has been closely tied to matters of spirituality.The American journalist Charles Fort (1874-1932) first suggested that extraterrestrials regularly visit ...

(5 pages) 81 0 5.0 Mar/2010

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies