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    the 1962 Nobel Prize Winner and in his speech he had many connections to one of his famous books‚ Of Mice and Men. He talked about the hard times that humanity had faced such as the Great Depression‚ World War 2‚ Korean war‚ and Civil Rights movements. In these times humans started to do non human like things to survive. Steinbeck has lived through both the highs and lows of humanity‚ and the time between the publishment of the book Of Mice and Men to the acceptance of his Nobel Prize‚ was a miserable

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    Malala Yousafzai Should Not Win the Nobel Peace Prize Malala Yousafzai is a girl from Pakistan who was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize because she called for female education. She should not win the Nobel Peace Prize because she did not make the world more peaceful and the other nominee‚ OPCW‚ is more suitable for the prize. First‚ Malala Yousafzai ’s actions did not make the world more peaceful. Young girls in Pakistan are still fearful when they attend school (Maza 2013). Malala was attacked

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    his schizophrenia. He culminates up back at Princeton and convinces his old friend‚ Martin Henson to give him a job. His goal at this time is to get out in the real world and later on to be a teacher/Professor. He culminates up winning the Nobel Prize for his game theory. John defiantly has lots of obstacles and problems to confront. His first was when he was asked to play that board game with a schoolmate‚ Martin Henson. I feel he was asked by Martin to prove to the other men that John wasn’t

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    adults having the same personality‚ you would have a strong argument for the nature theory as well. On the other hand‚ the twin that was raised in a bad home turns out to be a serial killer and the one raised in a loving home turns out to be a Nobel Prize winner‚ you’d have a strong "nurture" argument. For large populations of people who live in diverse environments‚ such as children in the United States‚ saying the environment affects heredity levels is meaningless. The environment can

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    German‚ Swedish‚ Italian‚ Danish‚ Hebrew‚ Hungarian‚ Czech‚ Slovakian‚ Serbo-Croatian‚ Romanian‚ Bulgarian and other languages. They have also been published in many foreign anthologies of Polish poetry. Wislawa Szymborska is the Goethe Prize winner (1991) and Herder Prize winner (1995). She has a degree of Honorary Doctor of Letters of Poznan University

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    A prize for Roll of thunder‚ hear my cry. In the twentieth century a British academic writer Nicholas tucker‚ traced the changes that the First World War during six-years did on the children’s books; he came out with many social and political changes. During the war comics and a few numbers of novels toke the theme of the war‚ even though there was no political talk in children’s books or social issues. Children’s books shared many values of the past‚ rather than looking forward‚ also a problem

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    Louis de Broglie

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    Louis De Broglie A FRENCH PHYSICIST * Prince Louis-Victor-Pierre-Raymond‚ 7th Duc de Broglie‚ otherwise known as Louis De Broglie‚ was a French physicist that came from a well grounded family‚ went to pursue his dreams‚ earned a Nobel prize‚ took time to go into the army‚ and discovered the wave nature of matter all in his life time. Louis De Broglie was the son of Pauline D’Armille and Louis Alphonse Victor de Broglie. De Broglie was the youngest of his family‚ including two older sisters

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    Capital Market Of Bangladesh

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    Capital market Of Bangladesh: Capital market is a market for securities (debt or equity)‚ where business enterprises (companies) and governments can raise long-term funds. The capital market includes the stock market (equity securities) and the bond market (debt). Bangladesh capital market is one of the smallest in Asia but the third largest in the south Asia region. It has two full-fledged automated stock exchanges namely - Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) and Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE). It also

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    misery as a wife who had to submit to her husband whom she found repulsive‚ and with whom she had no emotional contact at all. She has won many prizes for her work . some of them being the P. E. N. Asian Poetry Prize‚ Kerala Sahitya Academy Award for fiction‚ Asian World Prize for literature‚ Kendra Sahitya Academy Award etc. She was short listed for the Nobel Prize along with Marguerite Yourcenar‚ Doris Lessing and Nadine Gordimer. On 31 May 2009‚ aged 75‚ she died at a hospital in Pune‚ but has earned

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    Her career has spanned over 35 years‚ and yet readers still love her collections. Her ability to be recognized with such an important prize with only short stories shows that short stories are not simply stepping stones to novels; they are literary works all by themselves. Her works remain in circulation today‚ as her short stories cover topics still relevant‚ like the relationships between

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