Cited: "Biography." John Steinbeck Biography. Nobel Peace Prize‚ 1962. Web. 21 Mar. 2013. . This website is by the Nobel Peace Prize organization. They have a biography on every person who has won the Nobel Peace Prize. This includes a timeline‚ his speeches‚ and a summary of the event. This website is a reliable source for information because it is a globally well-known organization dedicated
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political leader I n 1988 Aung San Suu Kyi became the major leader of the movement toward the reestablishment of democracy in Burma (now Myanmar). In 1991‚ while under house arrest by the government for her activities‚ she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Early life Aung San Suu Kyi was born in Rangoon‚ Burma‚ on June 19‚ 1945‚ the youngest of three children of Bogyoke (Generalissimo) Aung San and Daw Khin Kyi. (In Burma all names are individual and people do not have last names.) Her father is
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Malala Yousafzai Should Not Win the Nobel Peace Prize Malala Yousafzai is a girl from Pakistan who was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize because she called for female education. She should not win the Nobel Peace Prize because she did not make the world more peaceful and the other nominee‚ OPCW‚ is more suitable for the prize. First‚ Malala Yousafzai ’s actions did not make the world more peaceful. Young girls in Pakistan are still fearful when they attend school (Maza 2013). Malala was attacked
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The Mauritian Offshore sector Two Nobel Prize winners namely Mr. James Edward Meade CB‚ FBA winner of the 1977 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences and Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul‚ winner of the 2001 the Nobel Prize for Literature but one verdict: “Mauritius post-independence in 1968 had little hope and awaited a bleak future.” History or rather Mauritius‚ proved the dire prognostications famously wrong. Indeed‚ we had it on the highest possible authority which stated
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order to create ammonia. Haber was awarded with various prizes for his invention of new method of producing ammonia and finally he was nominated for Nobel Prize in 1918. A significant proportion of scientists differed against granting him the Nobel Prize and they alleged him as a war criminal of WW1 because of his invention of the chemical weapon from nitrate‚ a flammable substance used to make explosives. Nevertheless‚ he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1919. His invention of chemical weapon‚ chlorine
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Albert Camus (French: [albɛʁ kamy] ( listen); 7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French Nobel Prize winning author‚ journalist‚ and philosopher. His views contributed to the rise of the philosophy known as absurdism. He wrote in his essay "The Rebel" that his whole life was devoted to opposing the philosophy of nihilism while still delving deeply into individual and sexual freedom. Although often cited as a proponent of existentialism‚ the philosophy with which Camus was associated during
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Marie-Elena John (born 1963) is a Caribbean writer whose first novel‚ Unburnable‚ was published in 2006. She was born and raised in Antigua and is a former development specialist of the African Development Foundation‚ the World Council of Churches’ Program to Combat Racism‚ and Global Rights (formerly the International Human Rights Law Group)‚ where she worked in support of the pro-democracy movement in Nigeria and in the Democratic Republic of Congo. She is known especially for her work in the United
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John Forbes Nash Jr. (born June 13‚ 1928) is a mathematician who worked in game theory and differential geometry. He shared the 1994 Nobel Prize for economics with two other game theorists‚ Reinhard Selten and John Harsanyi. After a promising start to his mathematical career‚ Nash began to suffer from schizophrenia around his 30th year‚ an illness from which he has only recovered some 25 years later. John Nash was born in Bluefield‚ West Virginia as son of John Nash Sr. and Virginia Martin
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The Dalai Lama Speech ‘World peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just mere absence of violence. Peace is‚ I think‚ the manifestation of human compassion.’ Quoted by a man of peace‚ a man of many names‚ the Ocean of Wisdom‚ the Compassionate‚ the Presence‚ but mainly known as the 14th Dalai Lama‚ Tenzin Gyatso was recognised as the reincarnation of his predecessor‚ the 13th Dalai Lama. The Dalai Lamas are believed to be the Bodhisattva Avalokite vara‚ a heavenly being that embodies
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A prize for Roll of thunder‚ hear my cry. In the twentieth century a British academic writer Nicholas tucker‚ traced the changes that the First World War during six-years did on the children’s books; he came out with many social and political changes. During the war comics and a few numbers of novels toke the theme of the war‚ even though there was no political talk in children’s books or social issues. Children’s books shared many values of the past‚ rather than looking forward‚ also a problem
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