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Barack Obama earned the Nobel Peace Prize through his efforts while being the Forty-Fourth president. For example Obama was very skilled at “finding common ground with enemies” according to (Norwegian Institute). Many of Obama's accomplishments were done during his presidency. Having 8 years in the seat He was able to accomplish much. Obama was seen as a “world healer… an antidote to George H W Bush” (Barack Obama 2011). Being the first African American president he gave a voice to a previously…

The novel As I Lay Dying is known all around the world to be a Nobel prize book due tothe novelist William Faulkner. Not only is As I lay dying considered a Noble prize bookwhereas, the novel became known in the banned books awareness for the overuse of God’sname, profanity, and abortion which seemed offensive and obscene to people. As ironic as it is,none of the board members had read the book.The Author of As I lay Dying William Faulkner, was born in New Albany, Mississippion September 25th in…

“Desiree’s Baby” is a literal fiction short story by Kate Chopin that takes place in Antebellum Louisiana. A young girl by the name of Desiree is abandoned who was discovered. Armand Aubigny was the one who found desiree and after that they fell in love and had a baby. The people sense that the baby is different time goes by, they realize the baby skin color is of African descent. Armand thinks Desiree is part black, but she doesn’t accept the statement. Desiree takes the baby and leaves to the…

1. Brief history of the company/factory ? In 1930, Dr. Minoru Shirota, who was conducting research in a microbiology lab at the Medical Faculty of Kyoto University in Japan. He succeed in culturing a strain of lactic acid bacteria beneficial to human health. This bacterium was named "Lactobacillus casei Shirota strain. It took Dr. Shirota another 5 years of research to find the right food medium for the Lactobacillus casei Shirota bacteria. In 1935 the first bottle of Yakult, a fermented…

the benefits and disadvantages of it. Thanks to Currie radioactivity is now frequently used to treat cancer and has the potential to save lives. Marie Currie was a powerful figure who benefitted society’s view of women through her winning of two Nobel Prizes, discovering radioactivity and two periodic table elements, and founding…

One mathematician that I discovered is Hypatia of Alexandria. Hypatia was born in C.355CE and lived in Alexandria. Hypatia lived in a very turbulent era in Alexandria’s history, she was the first woman to make a substantial contribution to the development of the mathematics and is daughter of Theon. She was also killed by a fanatical Christian sect. What did Hypatia teach? Hypatia was the earliest female mathematician, astronomer, and a philosopher and was also the first woman to…

1951 while she studied at the University of Wisconsin. She and her husband, Joshua Lederberg produced a way that they could easily transfer bacteria from one petri dish to another. They called his process replica plating. In 1958, Joshua received the Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine because of his and Esther's work. In Joshua's acceptance speech, he mentioned that he enjoyed the company of his colleagues, including his wife. He did not however, mention the important role she had in their…

Vladimir Lenin was a large figure in the revolution of the USSR and the future of Russia. Vladimir Lenin was born April 22nd, 1870 in Simbirsk, Russian Empire as Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Владимир Ильич Ульянов). Some days later, he was baptized into the Russian Orthodox Church. He took on the alias Lenin in 1901 while doing underground party work. (http://www.biography.com/people/vladimir-lenin-9379007#early-years). He was born into a wealthy middle-class family, third of six children, along…

Testimonial for St. Frances Cabrini St. Frances Xavier Cabrini was a perfect example of the Catholic faith, beginning her lifelong service as a little girl, following in the the steps of one of her primary role models: me, Rosa, her sister and teacher. Although our uncle and I guided her initially on her spiritual journey, Frances was an independent and self-sufficient young lady, securing a teaching license with the highest honors from the Daughters of the Sacred Heart. With her new license…

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