a member and founder of the Settlement House Movement. Along with her companion Ellen Starr‚ Addams founded the Hull House‚ which is located in Chicago. If that is not enough‚ she was also the first woman from America to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. You may wonder how this woman was able to fulfill all of her achievements‚ being a girl from a small community in Illinois. She was from a large family; her father was a well-to-do gentleman; her mother was very kind‚ she also had five brothers and
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they were all critically injured. This assassination attempt sparked an international support for Malala and her family.Suddenly she was in many interviews and documentaries. On 10 October 2014 she was announced as the co-recipient of the nobel peace prize for her work on letting children have the right to go to school. She was 17 at
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was up on January 2011 in Sana’a University which is in Yemen’s capital. The leader of the protests was Tawakel Karman from Yemen. This essay will explain who Tawakel Karman is and why her accomplishments were recognized to the Nobel Peace Prize committee. Tawakel Karman is one of the greatest political activists in the world. She was born in 1979 in the port town of Taiz‚ which face with the Red Sea. She has been active in searching for freedom of expression and women rights in the Arab
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My Ideal Person One woman‚ one mission—that’s all it takes to change the world. Mother Teresa‚ born Agnes Gnocchi Bojaxhin‚ in South Yugoslavia in 1910‚ came to Kolkata at the age of 18 to pursue her life’s mission of caring for the poorest of the poor. Mother Teresa‚ an Angel of Mercy‚ was God’s greatest gift to mankind. Her life was a true story of love and compassion. It was she who brought shine on the faces of millions who were sick and poor. Throughout her life she did the service of the
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Heroes and role models reveal a society’s highest standards .The first thing that comes into my mind is when was the last time I read about a hero in the newspapers or any other media ? What defines a hero or role model in today’s society ? The author claims that the heroes and role models represent the society we live in.This statement leads to a moral dilemma inside me .Whether this claim just aims that society is represented by handful of role models or it also has a secondary meaning of being
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EWRT 1B Disgrace: Living a Deceitful Life “The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.” - Carl Gustav Jung With life come many trials and tribulations. With hope come many wishes and dreams of a life that could be. And with change comes the unexpected transformations that were at once thought impossible. In Andrew X. Pham’s The Catfish and Mandala: A 2 Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam‚ he tells an autobiography of his life‚ including both
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ACADEMIC INTEGRITY IN A CULTURAL CONTEXT Every culture is indeed unique and diverse‚ shaping and molding its belief systems‚ values ‚ and knowledge. In Africa‚ particularly Nigeria‚ we have traditionally been an oral society‚ in that from the days of slave trade‚ our forefathers have passed on the art of story-telling from one generation to another. Today‚ some of the stories have been compiled and taught as legends in our education systems and some are still being told by our fathers and grandfathers
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In these pages a few years ago‚ I reported on some of my findings at having reached very old age. I was then in my early 90s. Five years further down the hill‚ I have a few more matters to note. Certainly I have not gained in wisdom‚ but due to so little physical activity and fewer social goings-on‚ I have begun to inhabit the static house of my head. To my surprise I find it a somewhat well-furnished abode‚ occupied with what I remember‚ have heard recently‚ and observed. Ernest Hemingway boils
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Hertha Marks Ayrton was a British mathematician‚ engineer‚ physicist and inventor who was awarded the Hughes Medal in 1906 by the Royal Society for her work on electric arcs and ripples in sand and water. Born in Portsea‚ Hampshire in 1854‚ she studied at Girton College‚ Cambridge‚ and registered 26 patents for mathematical divders‚ arc lamps and electrodes between 1884 and her death in 1923. As Google marks what would have been her 162nd birthday with a Doodle on its homepage‚ here are five
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Through the existence of social control many groups of people learned to interact with and influence ones behavior through mechanisms of a formal or informal responses to a situation. Social control is implemented from birth and can be seen throughout life. Social control is implemented everyday in work and at home. Without social control the structure and rule of society would disintegrate. In everyday life examples of social control are seen. For example when a child has committed or partaken
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