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    to improve the environment as a spiritual leader to the absence of war‚ pain and torture. Aung San Suu Kyi wanted freedom and equal rights through non-violence. Wanagari Maathai‚ Tenzin Gyatso and Aung San Suu Kyi were all awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004‚ 1989 and 1991 for the GreenBelt Movement‚ spiritual leadership‚ and for democratic and human rights struggles. ! Wanagar Maatha was a strong black woman. Throughout her life she was very dedicated to the well being of the environment. While

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    Robert Frost Biography

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    often seem familiar and old‚ his observations have an edge of skepticism and irony that makes his work‚ never as old-fashioned‚ easy‚ or carefree as it appears. He was one of America’s leading 20th century poets and a four-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize. After his father’s death of tuberculosis in 1885‚ when young Frost was 11‚ the family left California and settled in Massachusetts. Frost attended high school there‚ entered Dartmouth College‚ but remained less than one semester. Returning to Massachusetts

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    powers during China’s Cultural Revolution‚ caused great suffering. Some‚ such as Boudicca‚ who led a bloody rebellion against the Romans‚ were warriors. Others advocated peace: Bertha‚ baroness von Suttner‚ influenced the creation of the Nobel Peace Prize that would eventually be won by many women‚ including

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    Charity. Under her direction‚ the Sisters of Charity ministered to the sick and hungry of Calcutta. Showering love and food on all who came to the mission’s doorstep‚ Mother Teresa soon became a local celebrity. In 1979‚ she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and her position as the world’s greatest champion of the

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    Nelson MandelaBorn in 1918‚ Mandela is the first black president of South Africa. He is the winner of the Nobel peace prize in 1993 (Encarta Online Encylcopedia). He had a long struggle against racial discrimination in South Africa. He had been subjected to many hard things several times; in 1040 he was expelled from South Africa for participating in a student demonstration. He became the president of the African National Congress in 1951. When the National Party came to power his struggle increased

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    Evolution of Public Health: Sir Alexander Fleming University of Phoenix CERTIFICATE OF ORIGINALITY: I certify that the attached paper is my original work and has not previously been submitted by me or anyone else for any class. I further declare I have cited all sources from which I used language‚ ideas‚ and information‚ whether quoted verbatim or paraphrased‚ and that any assistance of any kind‚ which I received while producing this paper‚ has been acknowledged in the References section. I have

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    “Kuso culture can positively uplift the political participation of adolescents.” To what extent do you agree with the above statement? With references to the above sources and your own knowledge‚ explain your answer. To a large extent‚ I agree that “kuso culture” can positively uplift the political participation of adolescents. “Kuso culture” refers to people reorganizing other people’s cultural products with creativity‚ creating works that are humorous and sarcastic. Most of the “kuso culture”

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    journalist. His distinctive writing style‚ characterized by economy and understatement‚ influenced 20th-century fiction‚ as did his life of adventure and public image. He produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Many of his works are classics of American literature. It’s a third person narration text. The description is interlaced with descriptive passages and dialogues of the characters. The text is realistic. The story is written

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    Radley from being a spectacle. In short this book has many different displays of immense courage both in the physical sense and in the moral sense. I also feel that had it not been for these shows of courage this book would not have won the Pulitzer Prize it did

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    Elie Wiesel

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    tragic themes in Night is Eliezer’s discovery of the way that atrocities and cruel treatment can make decent people into brutes. Does Elie himself escape this fate? Use specific events to convey your opinion. 2) Elie Wiesel won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986 for his championing of human rights around the world. How might his advocacy for human rights have grown out of his Holocaust experiences? What are the positive lessons of the Holocaust that Wiesel hints at in Night? 3) Dehumanization

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