Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize It was announced on October 9‚ 2009 that American President Barack Obama is this year’s recipient of the Nobel Prize for Peace. The Nobel Foundation states that Obama was chosen "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples." (Nobel Foundation) Controversy and debate ensued in the world wide media. Critics have debated Obama’s worthiness. Supporters have cited numerous examples of the current U.S. Presidents’
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Wangari maathai was an extraordinary woman and activist because of her lifelong dedication to the environment. Wangari Maathai watched as her homeland forestation in Kenya‚ Africa was drastically disappearing acre by acre because of factories. In response‚ she started the Green Belt Movement. Her mission was to create a more sustainable livelihood for the community by making the land a more greener place‚ and what better way to make the world greener than to plant trees. Green Belt Movement communities
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In Wangari Maathai’s speech at the World Forum‚ she explored the idea of the mass waste of resources from the wealthy‚ and it is not being used efficiently if it was used wisely then the world crisis will be solved. Maathai believed that if the resources were not wasted massively‚ it will end poverty. As the wealthy’s riches are depleting‚ humans forget to address the real problems of the world. In the speech‚ Maathai stated that the reason there is no peace is because the world focuses on conflicts
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because of the amount of passion instilled in his words and his extreme mastery in putting images in the minds of his audience. Not to mention‚ his message is explicitly conveyed to the audience. Martin Luther King Jr. establishes his acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize with powerful insight of the Civil Rights Movement‚ and the must to overcome segregation through the use of figurative language and repetition/example/parallelism/imagery to show that our battle with racism has yet to be over. Martin
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Nobel Prize "The said interest shall be divided into five equal parts‚ which shall be apportioned as follows: /- - -/ one part to the person who shall have made the most important discovery or invention within the field of physics ..."(Alfred Nobel). The Nobel Prize was created by a Mr. Alfred Nobel who had accumulated much wealth throughout his life (mostly due to his invention and production of dynamite) and loved learning in all fields. Following his death much of his wealth was put towards
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Did you ever wonder who was the first black man to win the Nobel peace Prize? Well it was Ralph Bunche. Bunche is the Noble Peace prize winner in 1950 for a arranged cease-fire between the Israelis and Arabs during a time of war. The Arab-Israeli war broke out in 1948‚ when five Arab nations invaded territory in the former Palestinian mandate (“Office of the Historian” 1). This war lasted till February of 1949‚ when the two sides reached an agreement‚ and Bunche was a major key in stopping fire
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Topic: This year’s Nobel Prize in Medicine This year’s Nobel Prize in Medicine is won by two scientists. They are Sir John B. Gurdon from United Kingdom and Prof. Shina Yamanaka from Japan. They both contribute to develop human cell studying. Official Nobel Prize announced that the Prize motivation is "for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent". They discover that mature cells can be converted to stem cells. Sir John B. Gurdon was born in Dippenhall in 1933
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Awarded for the Nobel Prize for Peace a life time working to promote working rights and democracy in 2002‚ and was the 39th president of the United States from the years of 1977 through out 1981‚ Jimmy Carter was born on October 1‚ 1924‚ in Plains Georgia. His father‚ James Earl Carter‚ was a peanut farmer and businessman who owned his own area of land as well as a warehouse and store; and his mother Lillian Gordy‚ was a registered nurse‚ where back in 1920s Ms. Gordy counsel black women on health
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Are bystanders guilty or innocent when they witness civil injustice? In the ¨Harvest Gypsies¨ and ¨Wiesel´s Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech¨ we are given evidence how bystanders can be guilty. Bystanders are guilty for not speaking up to injustice. Bystanders remain silent and ignore serious situations. Ellie Wiesel expressed in his speech how bystanders should take action when they see injustice of any sorts and not keep quiet. ¨Who would allow such crimes….How could the world remain silent¨(Wiesel)
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Rabindranath Tagore’s Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech I was an obscure individual in those days. My name was hardly known outside my own province‚ but I was quite content with that obscurity‚ which protected me from the curiosity of crowds. And then came a time when my heart felt a longing to come out of that solitude and do some work for my fellow beings‚ and not merely give shape to my dreams and meditate deeply on the problems of life‚ but try to give expression to my ideas through some definite
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