A Bautiful Mind © 2002 by Raymond Weschler Major Characters John Nash……………………………………………………………….Russell Crowe One of the greatest mathematical geniuses of the 20th century‚ who won the Nobel Prize in 1994‚ studied and taught at Princeton University‚ and suffered from the mental disease of schizophrenia for most of his adult life (See note on schizophrenia below). Alicia…………………………………………………………….…………….Jennifer Connelly John’s beautiful‚ intelligent and loving wife who stayed with him through
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Hannah Campos Professor Gibbons English 2 February 25‚ 2013 The Future of Language is in Our Hands Toni Morrison’s is a leading figure in American literature who won the Nobel Prize in 1993. She is good at giving different points of views or metaphors in order to show her purpose of writing and produce the tension of beauty. Black history plays a huge role in Morrison’s writing. In her lecture she tells a story happening between a blind woman and a few young men. The young men question
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towering intellectual achievement across the world. Every year‚ the 1998 winner of the Nobel Prize for economics returns to Santiniketan‚ the tiny university town 100-odd miles from Calcutta. In Santiniketan‚ the former Master of Trinity College‚ Cambridge‚ can be seen on a bicycle‚ friendly and unassuming‚ chatting with the locals and working for a trust he has set up with the money from his Nobel Prize. One of the most influential public thinkers of our times is strongly rooted in the country in
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Clocky Invented by Gauri Nanda‚ for an industrial design class‚ then a graduate student at MIT Media Lab‚ Clocky won the 2005 Ig Nobel Prize in Economics. Clocky is a brand of alarm clock with wheels‚ allowing it to move around in order to force you to awake in an attempt to find it. After earning her Masters Degree from MIT‚Gauri Nanda founded a company‚ Nanda Home‚ to commercialize this product Cloky‚ and other home products. The market for watches and clocks was bigger than $7 billion in the
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the news and the truth grew greater and investigative journalists noticed that. It was because of this that in 1963‚ television networks doubled their evening news shows and began airing prime-time investigative documentaries . In 1964‚ the Pulitzer Prize board created an annual award for investigative reporting. Also‚ the 1964 Supreme Court decision in New York Times v. Sullivan made it much more difficult for public officials being scrutinized by the press to sue successfully for libel ‚ and the Freedom
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(born October 19‚ 1899‚ Guatemala City‚ Guatemala—died June 9‚ 1974‚ Madrid‚ Spain) Guatemalan poet‚ novelist‚ and diplomat‚ winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1967 (&see; Nobel Lecture: “The Latin American Novel: Testimony of an Epoch”) and the Soviet Union ’s Lenin Peace Prize in 1966. His writings‚ which combine the mysticism of the Maya with an epic impulse toward social protest‚ are seen as summing up the social and moral aspirations of his people. In 1923‚ after receiving his degree
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Prof. Mary Helen O’Connor ENGL 2112 Rabindranath Tagore The first Asian Nobel Prize winner for Literature‚ a cultural hero‚ and an international figure‚ Rabindranath Tagore was born on 7th May 1861 in Calcutta‚ India. Tagore speaks to an optimistic assortment of the ripened Indian custom and the new European awareness. Globally‚ Gitanjali is Tagore ’s best-known accumulation of poetry and Tagore was granted the Nobel Prize in 1913 for his book "Gitanjali"‚ which contains the essence of an Indian artistic
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Leaning over a microscope wearing a crisp white lab coat is a biochemist developing the cure for cancer. Wearing faded blue jeans and a red polo shirt is the company information technologist fixing the company security system. An engineer designs a reusable space shuttle powered by interstellar radiation. Human computers calculate the moon landing to assure the safe arrival of the first men on the moon. Imagine a person in these positions. What did they look like? What color was their skin? Was it
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"No man’s genius‚ however shining‚ can raise him from obscurity unless he has industry‚ opportunity and also a patron to recommend him." —PLINY‚ the Younger The term ’Brain-drain’ has recently come into vogue for describing the flight of talent from our country to another. Often‚ it is loosely employed to describe all migration of educated and talented persons to countries abroad in search of better careers even though their services may be badly needed in their native land‚ and thus‚ this exodus
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Winfrey – Celebrity/Philanthropist • Florence Nightingale - Nursing • Mother Theresa - Charity • Jonas Salk - Scientist • J. Edgar Hoover – Criminal Justice • Hillary Clinton – Secretary of State‚ former First Lady • Aung San Suu Kyi – Nobel Peace Prize • Gabrielle Douglas – Olympic Gymnast • Martin Luther King Jr.- Civil Rights Activist • Ernesto “Che” Guevara- Revolutionary • Andy Warhol/Jackson Pollack/Norman
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