farm of some fifty acres in County Derry in Northern Ireland" (Nobel eMuseum)‚ Seamus Heaney’s childhood was spent primarily in the company of nature and the local wildlife. His father‚ a man by the name of Patrick Heaney‚ had a penchant for farming and working the land. Seamus’ mother Margaret‚ in contrast‚ was a woman born into a family called McCann‚ who’s major dealings were with business dealings‚ trade and "the modern world" (Nobel eMuseum). Patrick Heaney was a man of few words‚ and preferred
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Barack Obama is the 44th President of the United States of America. He is also the winner of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. He made history in 2008 when he won the U.S. presidential election. He is the first African American to be President. Obama’s charisma‚ intelligence‚ and powerful speeches have made him extremely popular with many Americans. He has been very successful with his message for change. Obama was born in Hawaii in 1961 to a black Kenyan father and white American mother. His parents
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Doris Lessing’s On Not Winning the Nobel Prize (2007) and Margaret Atwood’s Spotty-Handed Villainesses (1994) are both worthy speeches because they evoke a personal response in their intended audience and offer solutions to complex global issues. These issues are complex because they do not have a clear answer and hence‚ remains a controversial topic and reverberates across time. Therefore‚ the solutions offered by these speeches also resonates beyond the contextual audience and holds value for the
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Barack has achieved are abundant. Barack graduated from Harvard with a magna cum laude honor. Winning the presidential election in 2008‚ he became the first African-American President of the United States. In 2009‚ Barack won the Nobel Peace Prize. After receiving the Nobel Peace Prize‚ Obama stated‚ “I receive this honor
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Sir J.J.THOMSOM is to physics what electron is to an atom. He charged the world of physics with his discoveries and gave momentum to atomic physics. Physics is what today because of this British scientist who is regarded as the greatest experimental physicists of this century. A bookseller’s son‚ Thomsom studied at the Owens College and later at the Manchester University. He wanted to become an engineer‚ but his father’s death in 1872 forced him to study Mathematics‚ Physics and Chemistry as he
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Alexander Fleming. Science and Its Times‚ 6()‚ 373-374. JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=ffec8e49&AN= Sir Alexander Fleming. (2004). Encyclopedia of World Biography‚ 5(2nd edition)‚ 483-485. 3404702188&&docId=GALE|CX3404702188&docType=GALE&role= The Nobel Foundation. (2010). Nobelprize.org. Retrieved From http://nobelprize.org nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1945/ Todar‚ PhD‚ K. (2008). Todar ’s Online Textbook of Bacteriology. Retrieved from http://www.textbookofbacteriology.net/staph_2.html
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Parks known as the “mother of the civil rights movement” put the wheels of change in motion by refusing to give up her seat for a white man. That is what ignited the eternal spark of anti racism. No 2. Marie Curie was the first women to receive the Nobel Prize and the first person to win it for 2 separate categories. Her first award was for research into radioactivity (Physics 1903). Her
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This defines the current Dalai Lama(Lhamo Dondrub) perfectly in my opinion‚ for several reasons. He exemplifies all characteristics of an Epic hero‚ better yet he’s an Ultimate Hero. He has fought against communism for years peacefully and won a Nobel Peace Prize because of those noble actions. He continued to aim for a peaceful resolution through grave adversity and hardship‚ making him one of the strongest mental leaders of this age. A certain cluster would like to say he’s no warrior because
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"A Beautiful Mind" relates the story of John Forbes Nash‚ Jr.‚ a gifted mathematicianwho overcomes the inner conflict of schizophrenia to achieve the prestigious Nobel Prize. It isa story of tremendous sadness and confusion‚ as one watches Nash and those dear to himcome to terms with his mental illness.The story opens in the late 1940’s at a reception for incoming students at the prestigious Princeton University. John Nash has arrived on a Princeton fellowship‚ much tothe amusement of his fellow
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Aung San Suu Kyi MP AC (Burmese: ; born 19 June 1945) is a Burmese opposition politician and General Secretary of the National League for Democracy (NLD) in Burma. In the 1990 general election‚ the NLD won 59% of the national votes and 81% (392 of 485) of the seats in Parliament. She had‚ however‚ already been detained under house arrest before the elections. She remained under house arrest in Burma for almost 15 of the 21 years from 20 July 1989 until her most recent release on 13 November 2010
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