Nobel Laureate Mo Yan’s The Garlic Ballads: Saga of Suffering and Solitude (The Swedish Academy has unanimously chosen Mo Yan to be the Nobel Laureate in Literature for the year 2012. With more Chinese writers like Mo‚ the world could learn a more real China. The country faces a yawning gap between the rich and the poor‚ worsening environment pollution and an aging population. Paying more attention to such issues‚ Chinese writers may create more works that record the nation’s
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"A Beautiful Mind" lays out the story of mathematical genius John Forbes Nash Jr. as he enters Princeton and his lifelong struggles with his mental illness. He was so different compared to his colleagues. He doesn’t try to fit in with his fellow Princeton colleagues‚ and he understands he isn’t much liked. He is a loner and is not a social type of person. But one connection he made with was with his roommate‚ Charles. On the first part of the movie‚ it shows the mathematical life of John Nash
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What becomes apparent from researching Thomas Hardy’s life is the multitude of experiences and influences that may have had some bearing on how he wrote and the content of these works. Obviously‚ his early life in Dorset and the bearing upon which this had on his early works is apparent through vivid descriptions and the recounting of certain episodes - so much so that it is impossible to ignore the inspiration that he derived from his birthplace. For example‚ the portrayal of the heath in ’The Return
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Dead animals‚ elephant dung‚ unmade beds and rice all seem like everyday objects but should we be calling them art? When we were growing up we were taught that art was a beautiful painting - like Van Gogh’s Sunflowers‚ or a perfect sculpture of a human - like Michelangelo’s David‚ but we were never really taught that conceptual and contemporary art were ’proper’ forms of art‚ even though it was established in the sixties. It made us think and challenge our own assumptions of what art should really
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Handsome young janitors who are secretly math geniuses‚ and the homeless guy from with honors. My name is Andy Samberg and I am as honored to be here as I am unqualified. There is a storied history of incredible Class Day speakers here at Harvard. Nobel Prize laureate Mother Teresa‚ former U.S. President Bill Clinton and now me the fake-rap-wiener-songs guy. So. Here we go. Class of 2012. You are graduating from college. That means this is the first day of the last day of your life – no that’s wrong
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Jonah-Lyn S. Buscaino DIFFERENT TYPES OF SPEECH What is speech according to its purpose? People have gathered to hear you speak on a specific issue‚ and they expect to get something out of it immediately. And you‚ the speaker‚ hope to have an immediate effect on your audience. The purpose of your speech is to get the response you want. 4 types of speech according to purpose A Informative Speech- An Informative Speech is like teaching. The purpose of an informative speech is to try to teach something
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2011 had been officially declared “The International Year of Chemistry” t o commemorate the achievements of chemistry and its contributions to mankind. It is so fitting that 2011 is the centenary year for the award of Nobel Prize to Marie Curie for her discovery of Radium and Polonium. Also this is the 150th birth anniversary of Dr. P .C Roy. All living things in this beautiful world are nothing but chemical industries. Variety of chemical reactions and out
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THE GREATEST INVENTIONS What is the greatest invention of all time? . There are many different possible world’s greatest inventions because they have all helped out humankind in some way‚ some more than others. I think that the greatest invention of all time is Harnessed Electricity. Some may argue that this was not an invention it was a discovery but although electricity itself was a discovery there was still the invention of had to use it and what it could be used for. I think that electricity
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the 1880’s and 1890’s‚ college football and prize fighting began to ascend into the American limelight. The two sports went from being available to only certain social classes to being made available to all of them. The lower and middle social class would slowly begin to attend college football games and the upper class would start to make their way out to watch prize fighting matchups; two things that appeared as rarities earlier in the decade. With prize fighting originating in areas populated dominantly
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Brooklynn Giancaterino Rhetorical Analysis David McCullough Jr.‚ the son of a Pulitzer Prize winning historian‚ was a teacher at Wellesley High School. In June of 2012‚ he made a speech at the commencement ceremony for the graduating class of Wellesley High School. On this day‚ he gave these teenagers a very unexpected reality check. The argument of this speech is that each and every one of them students is pretty much just another statistic in our harsh real world. Throughout this speech‚ he gives
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