Pulitzer Prize for Drama

Growing up we are susceptible to a multitude of inappropriate visual stimulates located on channels made specifically for our age group. I am now twenty years old, and can still sit in front of the television and feel entertained by these so-called “children” shows. There is crude humor plastered throughout each and every episode even though five year olds are capable of soaking in all of this negative culture, just like a sponge soaks up water. Ironically, the worst of them all has to be…

Over 1000 Jewish laborers were spared during the horrors of the Holocaust by an undeniable hero, Oskar Schindler. In Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus Finch is a tired lawyer who defends Tom Robinson, a falsely accused African American man. Atticus lives in a small town in Alabama dominated by traditional views and unspoken bitterness towards African Americans. Oskar Schindler lived in a postwar Germany where the Jewish population were defamed as the root of the nation’s…

What is felt when reading a novel? Love or Hate? Agreement or Disagreement? In To Kill a Mockingbird, that was the question the whole book revolves around. While reading this essay, the same questions will be asked. But this time just think about, “I’d rather you shoot at tin cans in the back yard, but I know you’ll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays if you want, if you can hit'em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”(119) Mockingbirds do nothing but sing and make music for…

During the morally challenging novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, by the incredibly creative Harper Lee, Charles Baker Harris (Dill) represents his place as the most important character through his repetitive instances of curiosity and how that influences the children to desire to interact with Arthur (Boo) Radley. To commence, Dill's curiosity first makes its appearance when Dill first discovered the Radley house. This is established early in the book when Scout and Jem, children in the neighborhood…

A. Attention Getter: I know the majority of the class are thinking, “Oh no, is that a cricket ball? Anything, but that lame sport.” I bet everyone would rather watch the Cleveland Browns lose to a high school football team or even watch Donald Trump play golf for the whole day than watch a single boring cricket game. B. Reason to Listen: It has become a meme to insult the sport of cricket, and rightfully so. Cricket is not popular sport in America, and it will never be accepted as a major…

Growing Up Scout, an immature six-year-old. Jem, a childish ten-year-old. They learn many valuable lessons in this book and mature while doing so. Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird shows how the kids, especially Jem, grow and mature during the course of the whole novel by their childishness in the beginning, then seeing them grow over the three years in which this novel takes place, which leads to Jem protecting his sister in the fight and Scout learning that Boo isn’t as scary as he seemed.…

The tone of the story Snow by Ann Beattie was very miscellaneous. Why I find this story miscellaneous is because there were different perspective put in each paragraph which not only made it complex but a little jumbled. The story talks about a house in which they lived in and tells us how big of an impact it was on their lives. We start off the story at house where they just start re decorating and tells us about how people would visit them and try and tell them about their memories while…

I have always heard good things about the film “My Cousin Vinny”, but never got around to watching it. The film follows the experiences of two young men mistaken for murderers in fictional Beechum County, Alabama. When the boys, Bill Gambini (Ralph Macchio) and Stan Rothenstein (Mitchell Whitfield), discover that they weren’t being held for theft of a tuna can, but instead for murder, they anxiously call their families for help. The family employs Bill’s cousin, Vinny (Joe Peschi), a New York…

Racial Perception When looking at the first chapter of The Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll, Alice is trying to make the cat see the looking glass using the same perception that Alice is using. The same thing can be seen when looking at how certain races will create their own perception for other races and then force them on the children of their own race. They will pass the perceptions from generation to generation this can cause people to have perceptions about different races like African…

Atticus Finch, a distinctive character in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. The setting of this book takes place during the 1930s in Maycomb County, Alabama; In this period of time, the Jim Crow Laws still existed, especially in the South. The Jim Crow Laws were regulations that enforced the racial segregation between the blacks and whites. Besides this, the country was going through the Great Depression. This was the worst economic downturn in America. About 15 million Americans were…