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    American Literary Award • Peripheral Vision (1992) • Planet Waves (1989) –National Book Award • Confessions of a Volcano (1990) • The Empire of Memory (1992) • My Sad Republic (1998) –Centennial Literary Prize • Anatomy of a Passionate Derangement (One-act play‚ 1980) -1st prize‚ Gawad Palanca Award • Ara Vos Prec (1985) –Gawad Palanca Award • Patria Y Muerte (1988) –Gawad Palanca Award • Mourning and Weeping in this Valley of Tears (1988) –Gawad Palanca Award • The Unbreakable Lightness of

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    Pulitzer Prizes archival website(www.pulitzer.org) explains everything about the Pulitzer Prize‚ which was established by Joseph Pulitzer‚ a Hungarian-American journalist and newspaper publisher‚ who left money to Columbia University in 1911. A portion of his money was used to found the School of Journalism in 1912 and establish the Pulitzer Prize‚ which was first awarded to Pulitzer in 1917. The main category of Pulitzer Prizes are two; A Prize in Journalism and A Letters and Drama Prize‚ The Prize

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    IF YOU THINK YOU CANYOU CAN “IF YOU THINK YOU CANYOU CAN” is a common phrase which we often use in vain.It means that if you have will and determination you will always find a way to success. For reaching the peaks of glory you should have a will to cross any hurdle that comes in your way. WINNERS NEVER QUIT AND QUITTERS NEVER WIN. Life’s battles don’t always go To the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins‚ Is the man who thinks he can. Good morning everyone‚

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    The focus of the video documentary "Ain’t Scared of your Jails" is on the courage displayed by thousands of African-American people who joined the ranks of the civil rights movement and gave it new direction. In 1960‚ lunch counter sit-ins spread across the south. In 1961‚ Freedom Rides were running throughout the southern states. These rides consisted of African Americans switching places with white Americans on public transportation buses. The whites sat in the back and black people sat in the

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    neither can anyone else. Can You Say What Your Strategy Is? by David J. Collis and Michael G. Rukstad Reprint R0804E It’s a dirty little secret: Most executives cannot articulate the objective‚ scope‚ and advantage of their business in a simple statement. If they can’t‚ neither can anyone else. Can You Say What Your Strategy Is? by David J. Collis and Michael G. Rukstad COPYRIGHT © 2008 HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL PUBLISHING CORPORATION. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Can you summarize your company’s

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    The Current Undergraduate The article‚ “Ask Not What You Can Do For Your University‚ but What Your University Can Do For You”‚ written by the University of California Los Angeles Student WebZine‚ claims that universities are no longer providing education for students‚ but rather running a business. Colleges have turned into a profit seeking institution‚ making decisions based on financial concerns. The article claims that students are customers and education is a purchase. Webzine scolds the students

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    the pinnacle of a career in a chosen arena; ultimate success. Being awarded these trophies warrant the recipients national recognition and seals their triumphs in history forever. Nearly every profession offers such awards as a motivation‚ something to work towards and way of recognizing excellence. In the world of writingthis award is the Pulitzer Prize. The Pulitzer Prize originated in 1917 by Joseph Pulitzer. In his will‚ he left two million dollars to Columbia University to create a

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    Can You Be Honest With Your Friends My sister is a person whom one might define as socially awkward. While neither of us possess the gift of tact‚ I have become slightly more adept a maneuvering unfamiliar social situations‚ whereas she avoids them wherever and whenever possible. We both have the same handicap: that being that we don’t possess a filter. Whereas most people know that it constitutes poor manners to point out a hanger from a perfect stranger’s nose‚ we feel it is our civic duty

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    SHINGO PRIZE AWARD Purpose and Background The Shingo Prize (SP) was established in 1988 by a Japanese industrial engineer by the name of Shigeo Shingo‚ which "distinguished himself as one of the world’s leading experts in improving manufacturing processes."(Shingoprize.org‚ 2010) The (SP) works by promoting an awareness of incline in manufacturing concepts‚ and to recognize companies that achieve world class status. The (SP) has been referred to by Business Week the “Nobel Prize of Manufacturing

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    orders school integration. Several southern governors lead the way in preventing integration‚ claiming the Federal government is intervening in state matters and pledging to maintain the South’s traditions and heritage. Thurgood Marshall was only 30 years old when he replaced his former professor Charles Houston as special counsel for the NAACP in the late 1930s. In that era‚ the NAACP was considered a radical left-wing organization. Freedom Summer recruits train in Oxford‚ Ohio‚ and leave for Mississippi

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