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    Text analysis John Galsworthy (1867 –1933) was an English novelist. Notable works include The Forsyte Saga (1906–1921) and its sequels‚ A Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932. In this extract the building of house continues and Soames has some financial problems with it. He had an argument with Bosinney because of money. Soames starts to remember his courtship and suddenly remembers that he gave a swear to Irene and forgot about it in a few days

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    Nadine Gordimer’s nobel prize speech To sum up the speech‚ Nadine Gordimer is saying that humans as a species are natturally inquisitive and are constantly advancing. We always want the answer to all the questions. That we have evolved to communicate to find these answers quicker. Yet we may not be able to find these answers. This is where fantasy and myth can gives us the answers to compincate for the lack of the truth. They combine what is known and what we want to know. That writing and life

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    money in many cases can not bring either health‚ happiness and success itself. A more precise‚ contemporaneous definition of success means doing the things one perceives are valuable to themselves and beneficial for others. The winner of the Nobel prize for peace may think he has achieved success although he is rewarded little financial benefit. A person who makes an effort to save animals on the edge of extinction may also think he has gained success even though he may have expended all of his money

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    It is hard not to enjoy this author. Richard Feynman is an extremely curious character with a lot of time on his hands. He obviously loved to explore the science world as an art. He won the Nobel Prize in 1965 for physics and was one of the greatest physicists of all time. Within the few chapters and pages that I have read‚ Richard Feynman was definitely a man with a huge sense of adventure and a very high intelligence. In the first chapter that I read (Testing Bloodhounds)‚ I thought that

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    1. This place has attracted visitors from around the Mediterranean basin for thousands of years. In the Bible‚ it was the place of refuge for King David. It was one of the world’s first health resorts - for Herod the Great. It had been the supplier of a wide variety of products‚ from asphalt for Egyptian mummification to potash for fertilizers. Which place are we talking about? 2. What was formed primarily as a result of defeat of West Germany by Yugoslavia (0–1) in a 1962 World Cup football quarter-final

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    harm‚ and I will give arguments to support my opinion. My first argument on when to lie‚ is when you want to protect someone from being emotionally harmed. Article one paragraph eleven gives the example of a fictional spouse about to accept a Nobel Prize and they ask if they look fat. “If you’re on your way to the ceremony‚ you say‚ `You look fabulous‚’” Randy Cohen instructs. This example shows how you might want to respond to keep your spouse from getting their feelings hurt before a positive moment

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    In the poignant movie A Beautiful Mind‚ I was taken through John Nash’s experiences‚ a mathematical genius whose schizophrenia slowly begins to take over his life. Even after suffering the humiliation of being detained during one of his lectures and sent to a mental hospital to be deemed as crazy‚ John Nash refuses to take his medication because it interferes with the top secret mission Parcher‚ one of his hallucinations‚ forces him to undertake throughout the movie. Just when Alicia‚ John’s wife

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    similar search engines by “researching” rather than just “searching” data. Stephen Wolfram‚ the new search engine creator gives an example; for a question like "How many Nobel Prize winners were born under a full moon?" Google would find the answer only if someone had previously gone through the whole list of Nobel Prize winners‚ matched the birthplace of each laureate with a table of lunar phases‚ and posted the results. Wolfram says his engine would have no problem doing this on the fly. "Alpha

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    in a sparsely furnished apartment because she hated housework. While the couple did their research in a leaky shed‚ they had little money and would cheer themselves up by sitting next to the stove with a cup of hot tea. She later received two Nobel prizes. Paul Erdos‚ one of the 20th century’s

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    The Hours The film “The Hours” is Stephen Daldry’s adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Michael Cunningham. The movie analyses the universality of existential human issues such as love‚ sexuality‚ sadness‚ hope‚ daily routine‚ loneliness and depression. The storyline unfolds these issues through showing three women of three different generations facing the same similar problems in different times and contexts. The negative tone of the movie reflects the mental states of the main characters

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