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    Bradley Manning

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    known otherwise (Guarisco‚ 2013). Guarisco (2013) places Bradley Manning in this category and believes he should be protected under the Whistleblower Act instead of being convicted as a criminal. Bradley Manning was even nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize (Bradley Manning‚ 2013). Villain At the Manning Court-Martial‚ the prosecutor accused Manning of being a traitor‚ not a whistleblower‚ who used his training and skills to deliberately and systematically harm the United States (Pilkington‚ 2013). The

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    Compare and Contrast the roles of Walesa (Poland) and Havel (Czechoslovakia) in opposing Soviet control Both Walesa and Havel were very influential figures in opposing Soviet control. Both had similarities and differences ranging from their background to their international fame to their role in 1989 revolutions. Havel was born in Prague and was brought up in a well-known‚ wealthy‚ entrepreneurial and intellectual family. His parents were both from a higher class and owned large properties such

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    Surprise Award

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    Surprise Award Provokes Mixed Feelings President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on October 9th. The award has brought immense attention to the modest President. This is an immense accomplishment for Barack Obama as well as for anyone who is privilege enough to win such an award. The argument throughout this article is if Obama is truly justified in winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Scott Wilson does an impressive job of creating an argument within his writing. Both sides are expressed

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    What is and is not important is a hard to consider when working on such large scales. In the case of Santos winning the Nobel peace prize‚ very few people will personally be affected by this news outside of Colombia. In this case it is not entirely surprising that this story was lacking in attention in both top down and bottom up distribution models. Because it did not garner wide spread

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    Leymah Gbowee's Speech

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    Leymah Gbowee gave a speech at the Mennonite Economic Development Associates (MEDA) conference‚ titled “Women Building Peace: The Liberian Experience‚” about how her life experiences‚ before‚ during‚ and after the Liberian civil war‚ led her to determine how to fight for Peace successfully. In her childhood‚ she was raised in a community in Liberia‚ where people treated everyone as equals. They did not see ethnic‚ racial‚ religious‚ or social status differences and lived in harmony‚ but when a civil

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    Firstly‚ Malala got shot‚ she continued searching for women’s right‚ and she never gave up. She was the youngest individual who succeeded and won The Noble Prize. As for Iqbal‚ he found a way to join a freedom carnival held by the Brick Layer Unions where he started using his efficient personality to speak on behalf of the slaved labors. Malala began to classify plans to originate an association to discover

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    Communication Composition

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    Comunication Composition ¬ Text number 4: The text is a diary written by a woman and it is probably only to be read by herself. She is typing it down early in the morning¬ (7.15 a.m.) while her boyfriend Mark Darcy is still asleep. She starts with making a status over her weight in stones‚ her number of boyfriends‚ ¬the number of shags she and her boyfriend had and how many calories she has eaten. After ¬that she writes down how good she feels and she makes comparisons with herself and

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    Gwendolyn Brooks

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    Brooks in 1966‚ which is one of the popular poem she did. She’s an African American born in Topeka‚ Kansas and raised in Chicago. She is the author of numerous poetry‚ including “Blacks” (1981)‚ Annie Allen (1949)‚ for which she received the Pulitzer Prize‚ and the “Children Coming Home” (The David Co.‚ 1991). She also wrote several other books such as‚ “Negro Hero” (1945)‚ “Maud Martha” (1953)‚ “In the Mecca” (1968) and many more. Brooks was named Poet Laureate of congress during 1985-1986; she then

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    Golden Notebook

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    Notebook‚ and five other novels collectively known as Canopus in Academy. Lessing was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature. She was described by the Swedish Academy as "that epicist of the female experience‚ who with skepticism‚ fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilization to scrutiny". She was also the eleventh woman and the oldest ever person to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. It is a book that expresses the major themes of the world in its century. What we now call

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    Faulker vs. Hemingway

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    Compare and contrast: Hemingway v. Faulkner Each writer has its very own and unique style when writing a story. The style a writer uses to write a story shows the tone being use‚ symbolism‚ characterization and description‚ enough for the reader to understand the story. Two well-known writers with completely different styles are Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner. “Faulkner uses many words to weave an intricate picture in the reader ’s head of what is going on‚ and Hemingway uses many monosyllabic

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