Robert Bly

and Robert Bly’s poem, “Driving Through Minnesota During the Hanoi Bombings.” Both of these poems present vivid images of the battle, show the devastating feelings towards war and provide the psychological impact on those involved in war. It is as if the “War Photographer” has captured similar destructive scenes that are described throughout “Driving Through Minnesota During the Hanoi Bombings.” By examining Carol Ann Duffy’s poem, “War Photographer,” and Robert Bly’s poem, “Driving Through Minnesota During the Hanoi Bombings,” I will compare and…

Nellie Bly: Standing Up and Standing Out Despite resounding doubt in all of her ventures, Nellie Bly worked to become one of the most important developers of Stunt Reporting and Investigative Journalism. Living in the late 1800s, a time when women were encouraged to stay behind the scenes, she tested the limits of journalism and put everything she had on the line to give the public deep and meaningful stories they had interest in. From reflecting on the world to reporting in The World, Nellie…

Seeing You Carry The Plants In by Robert Bly are two different poems that execute the relationships of couples and the different ways and fashions that they show that they love each other. Both poems demonstrate the unconditional expression of love of their significant others’ personality and identity as well as the admiration of their partner’s beauty. This Can Happen When You’re Married demonstrates these aspects of love relationships in a more positive and healthy way than Seeing You Carry…

and decayed. Poverty was rampant everywhere and death infested the cities. The Progressive Era served as a time in which the wrongs of the Industrial Revolution were righted. Journalists, politicians, suffragists, and more rallied to clean the filthy and corrupt machine the US had become. Nellie Bly was a member of the Progressive journalists, a muckraker, and made a great impact in reforms. Because of her defiant nature, experiences, and her achievements, Nellie Bly deserves a place as a key…

American journalist Nellie Bly exposed a harrowing truth about Blackwell’s Island asylum for the mentally disturbed, “The insane asylum on Blackwell’s Island is a human rat-trap. It is easy to get in, but once there it is impossible to get out.” This in turn, led to a massive investigation, that would eventually cause Blackwell’s Island to rise from its trenches. However, if it weren’t for Bly’s courageous act to admit herself in such an inferno, no one would ever be aware of what happened…

Around the World with Nellie Bly Women in journalism owe their career path to Nellie Bly. Bly was a famous journalist who traveled the world in 72 days, prompted social reforms and was the first women in her field. She pioneered investigative journalism which is a branch of journalism. Investigative journalism is gathering many sources and going very in depth on a subject that is a current issue or to prompt social reform. Bly chose current social issues of her time and was able to get her…

sent to a madhouse was considered a horrible death sentence. Simply being in one could make a perfectly sane person go crazy in the short span of a week. A women Bly met in the institution said to her, "Criminals are given every chance to prove their innocence. These poor, overworked girls are convicted after a few trifling questions" (Ehrlich 63). Women were thrown into asylums simply because they cheated on their husbands, were physically sick or overworked, or because they could not speaking…

Bleachers was written by John Grisham. This novel was published in 2003. John Grisham was born on the eighth of February in 1955 in the town of Jonesboro, Arkansas. Grisham really wanted to be a professional baseball player but later in life he realized he didn't have the kind of talent to make it with that career so it decided to attend Mississippi State University where he would major in accounting and later on would graduate from law school to become a lawyer. He was not done after this…

Nellie Bly, was once just an American woman with a dream to pursue a career in journalism, until opportunity came knocking at her door. While trying to come up with new ideas for her groundbreaking news column, Bly found herself wondering if she could travel the world in less than eighty days. Traveling the entire globe in under eighty days was no small feat, but it was also difficult to even get the trip approved by her editors for a number of reasons. After months of being denied because of…

According to the article Molly Brown, it says, “Margaret Tobin, better known as Molly Brown, was born on July 18, 1867, in Hannibal, Missouri. Sometimes referred to as “the Unsinkable Molly Brown.” Molly Brown was an American human-rights activist, philanthropist, and actress who survive the sinking of the RMS Titanic.”(“Molly Brown”) In the article Who is Molly Brown? Everything you need to know, it states that, “Molly was born to Irish Catholic immigrants John Tobin and Johanna Collins in…