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    Genius

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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 Essay

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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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    Environment

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    Think back to the first time you ever heard of nature. At one stage or another‚ every man woman or child will be faced with the issue of nature. Remarkably nature is heralded by shopkeepers and investment bankers alike‚ leading many to state that it is impossible to overestimate its impact on modern thought. The juxtaposition of nature with fundamental economic‚ social and political strategic conflict draws criticism from global commercial enterprises‚ many of whom blame the influence of television

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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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    the USA-financed security forces‚ and became too much of a threat to the government. * 1980 He was shot dead while celebrating mass. His last words were: ’May God have mercy on the assassin.’ * 1981 Oscar Romero was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (having been

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    colleague Maurice Wilkens felt threatened by Franklin’s avid approach to research and refusal to share said research before she had made a conclusion. Wilkens approached the of the director of King’s College‚ Sir Lawrence Brag (who was the youngest Nobel Prize winner at the time)‚ several times requesting that Franklin be dismissed due to the fact that he ‘hadn’t completed any research since her arrival‚ because he felt she thwarted his research.’ Franklin was also barred from meeting in the ‘men only’ parlor

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    General Knowledge

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    * China 17. India’s first 700mw nuclear power plant which is expected to be comissioned in 2015 is at * Kakrapar ( gujrat) 18. Most powerful person of the year 2010 according to forbes * Hu jintao 19. First women to win nobel prize in economics * Elinor ostrom ( America)

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    British Literature

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    British Literature 1. the Middle Ages the oldest literature monument of the Anglo – Saxon period is the old Germanic legend called BEOWULF. This heroic poem is about the strong and courageous pagan hero Beowulf John Wycliffe – is a professor of Oxford University. With his students he translated the whole Bible into English - he influenced Master Jan Hus and our Hussite movement very much 2. the renaissance and humanism Geoffrey Chaucer – Canterbury Tales – brilliant portrait of 30 pilgrims

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    Sartre

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    outside of a group. But this does not mean that everyone should be anti-social‚ Sartre himself was a pop icon. Sartre believed in this so much that he did not accept the Nobel Prize in Literature because‚ it would mean he would be part of that group. He knew that his work was good and he didn’t need anybody to give him a prize to know so. Sartre’s ideas were looked upon as a popular belief to some during the 60’s and 70’s. When the thought of free will and humans is brought up‚ Sartre would say

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