worked as a foreign correspondent and journalist at various times for the French‚ Jewish‚ periodical‚ L’Arche‚ Tel-Aviv newspaper Yediot Ahronot‚ and the Jewish daily forward in New York City. Francois mauriac the Roman Catholic Nobelest and Nobel Laureate convinced Wiesel to speak about the Holocaust. Wiesel wrote an 800 page memoir which he later edited into a smaller version called "Night". In the mid 60’s Wiesel spoke out a lot about the Holocaust. Later on Wiesel emerged on as an
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Winfrey – Celebrity/Philanthropist • Florence Nightingale - Nursing • Mother Theresa - Charity • Jonas Salk - Scientist • J. Edgar Hoover – Criminal Justice • Hillary Clinton – Secretary of State‚ former First Lady • Aung San Suu Kyi – Nobel Peace Prize • Gabrielle Douglas – Olympic Gymnast • Martin Luther King Jr.- Civil Rights Activist • Ernesto “Che” Guevara- Revolutionary • Andy Warhol/Jackson Pollack/Norman
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Malala Yousafzai Malala Yousafzai is the person who admires the most from the South Asian Women. She is the girl who defied the Taliban in Pakistan and demanded that girls be allowed to receive an education. She was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman in 2012‚ but survived. Malala Yousafzai was born on July 12‚ 1997‚ in Mingora‚ Pakistan‚ located in the country’s Swat Valley. For couple years‚ her hometown remained a popular tourist’s spot that was known for its summer festivals. However‚ the
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In “Maybe Money Does Buy Happiness After All‚ “David Leonhardt claims there is a strong relationship between wealth and contentment. David Leonhardt studied Mathematics at Yale University. He has been working for the New York Times since 1999‚ he works there as a columnist where he discusses matters about economics‚ the column is called “The Economic Scene “. Leonhardt wrote for two well-known Newspapers such as Business Week and The Washington Post. The Gerald Loeb Awards is one of the most respected
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his literary career. First of all‚ the main reason of my opinion is that Hemingway won a lot of awards because of this novel. In 1953‚ The Old Man and the Sea was awarded the Pulitizer Prize and American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Award of Merit Medal for the Novel. The following year‚ Hemingway won the Nobel Prize for Literature because The Old Man and the Sea. What’s more‚ this book was on the list of 32 landmark books in American history. It was also recognized as one of the one hundred classic
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Filmstrips. (EX 338.19 L84) Related websites • • • • • • • • • • Natural Resources Conservation Services Envirofacts Warehouse United Nations Population Fund Natural Resources Defense Council Top United Nations Environment Programme (2007 Nobel Peace Prize Co-Winner) Ecological footprint and biocapacity Yearly CO2 emissions from 1800 to 2010 http://unfpa.org/ageingreport/
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some extent. Above all‚ he was a patriot‚ even while being a citizen of the world. His famous novels are “Gore”‚ “Wreck” etc. But he is most popular for his book: the “Gitanjali”- a book of devotional lyrics in poetic prose. The book won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. He wrote this book in Bengali and then himself translated it into English. Our national anthem “Jana- Gana-Mana” is also the creation of Tagore. No doubt‚ Tagore is the greatest poet and writer of modern India. His writings
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been preparing‚ and instead went into science. There he had a great impact on the field of physiology by studying the mechanisms underlying the digestive system in mammals. For his original work in this field of research‚ Pavlov was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1904. By then he had turned to studying the laws on the formation of conditioned reflexes‚ a topic on which he worked until his death in 1936. His discoveries in this field paved the way for an objective science
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that 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
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The Nobel Prize winner for literature‚ John Steinbeck‚ in his novel‚ The Grapes of Wrath‚ illustrates the hardships of the migrant farmers as they moved from their homes. Steinbeck’s purpose is to establish how much the Joads and other migrant farmer families struggled during their journey and to . Through the use of personification‚ allusions and symbols‚ Steinbeck successfully gets his message across to his readers. As Uncle John makes his way down to the “boiling stream”‚ he finds a spot
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