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worked as a foreign correspondent and journalist at various times for the French‚ Jewish‚ periodical‚ L’Arche‚ Tel-Aviv newspaper Yediot Ahronot‚ and the Jewish daily forward in New York City. Francois mauriac the Roman Catholic Nobelest and Nobel Laureate convinced Wiesel to speak about the Holocaust. Wiesel wrote an 800 page memoir which he later edited into a smaller version called "Night". In the mid 60’s Wiesel spoke out a lot about the Holocaust. Later on Wiesel emerged on as an
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his literary career. First of all‚ the main reason of my opinion is that Hemingway won a lot of awards because of this novel. In 1953‚ The Old Man and the Sea was awarded the Pulitizer Prize and American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Award of Merit Medal for the Novel. The following year‚ Hemingway won the Nobel Prize for Literature because The Old Man and the Sea. What’s more‚ this book was on the list of 32 landmark books in American history. It was also recognized as one of the one hundred classic
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Malala Yousafzai Malala Yousafzai is the person who admires the most from the South Asian Women. She is the girl who defied the Taliban in Pakistan and demanded that girls be allowed to receive an education. She was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman in 2012‚ but survived. Malala Yousafzai was born on July 12‚ 1997‚ in Mingora‚ Pakistan‚ located in the country’s Swat Valley. For couple years‚ her hometown remained a popular tourist’s spot that was known for its summer festivals. However‚ the
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In “Maybe Money Does Buy Happiness After All‚ “David Leonhardt claims there is a strong relationship between wealth and contentment. David Leonhardt studied Mathematics at Yale University. He has been working for the New York Times since 1999‚ he works there as a columnist where he discusses matters about economics‚ the column is called “The Economic Scene “. Leonhardt wrote for two well-known Newspapers such as Business Week and The Washington Post. The Gerald Loeb Awards is one of the most respected
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Filmstrips. (EX 338.19 L84) Related websites • • • • • • • • • • Natural Resources Conservation Services Envirofacts Warehouse United Nations Population Fund Natural Resources Defense Council Top United Nations Environment Programme (2007 Nobel Peace Prize Co-Winner) Ecological footprint and biocapacity Yearly CO2 emissions from 1800 to 2010 http://unfpa.org/ageingreport/
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some extent. Above all‚ he was a patriot‚ even while being a citizen of the world. His famous novels are “Gore”‚ “Wreck” etc. But he is most popular for his book: the “Gitanjali”- a book of devotional lyrics in poetic prose. The book won him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. He wrote this book in Bengali and then himself translated it into English. Our national anthem “Jana- Gana-Mana” is also the creation of Tagore. No doubt‚ Tagore is the greatest poet and writer of modern India. His writings
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been preparing‚ and instead went into science. There he had a great impact on the field of physiology by studying the mechanisms underlying the digestive system in mammals. For his original work in this field of research‚ Pavlov was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1904. By then he had turned to studying the laws on the formation of conditioned reflexes‚ a topic on which he worked until his death in 1936. His discoveries in this field paved the way for an objective science
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Sir Frederick Grant Banting was a Canadian medical scientist‚ physician‚ painter‚ and Nobel laureate. He is well known and famous for his discovery of Insulin‚ which was one of the most dramatic and important medical breakthroughs and milestone of the century. He was awarded the Nobel prize in the field of medicine in 1923 for the discovery of Insulin. He was born in Alliston‚ Ontario‚ Canada on November 14‚ 1891. His father’s name was William Thompson Banting and his mother was Margaret Grant and
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keeps progressing as fast as it has in the past few years‚ it will surely attract the immense weight of investment in research and development that has so far gone almost exclusively to silicon. Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov‚ won the 2010 Nobel Prize for Physics for ground breaking experiments in Graphene! Graphene is a novel material with very unusual properties. To be sure‚ silicon will reign supreme in many of the applications in which it is now found. But carbon‚ silicon’s little brother
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