Objectivity – A fact or merely a word? Ladies and Gents, I give you my pride and joy… My one and only English dissertation. If you’re interested in THE TRUTH behind Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann’s criminal trial, and, more importantly, whether or not journalists are objectively truthful when reporting crimes against humanity, then this is the piece for you.
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Creative Piece based on Norman Mailer’s New Journalism
Here is one of my very rare creative pieces, based on the style of Norman Mailer. My intention here is to make you feel what the protagonist is feeling.
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John Howard Griffin’s Black Like Me (1961)
On October 2, 1959, John Howard Griffin made his first diary entry, the first of many that would then go on to form the content of his book Black Like Me. These recounted Griffin’s experience as a white American novelist, going undercover in the Deep South to “authentically” report what it was like to “experience discrimination based on skin color, something over which one has no control”. Continue reading “John Howard Griffin’s Black Like Me (1961)”
Richard Wright’s 12 Million Black Voices
Wright once asked: “Could words be weapons?” 12 Million Black Voices shows that they definitely could. It is, in fact, a work about the unsung stories and living conditions more hardly felt by the African American communities that suffered extensively during the Great Depression. Continue reading “Richard Wright’s 12 Million Black Voices”