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    Critical Analysis of Nelson Mandela’s Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was the son Hendry Mphakanyiswa the tembu tribe chief and South African farmer .Nelson Mandela later became the most prominent figures the leader of the fighting against apartheid. He also was the longest imprisoned member of the African nation Congress (ANC). As a result of his fighting and resisting to the white minority rules in and out of prison he was awarded Noble peace prize. In 10 December 1993 in Oslo Norway Nelson Mandela received a Nobel peace prize as a result of his leadership and peaceful and nonviolence ending of the apartheid and laid the foundation to the new Democratic South Africa. At the ceremony he gave the most influential speech of our time. The audience was mainly made up of white and upper classes but the most the outside audience was the people across the world. And in his speech Mandela highlights the major obstacles of our time from property to human right violations. The key points of Nelson Mandela speech was pursuit of happiness liberty and human and children right. How all of us have the right to live and practice democratic and fair system of justice. “...society should never allow again that there should be prisoners of conscience nor that any person 's human right should be…

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    Stookey watched his father suffer for a week, wondering the whole time why such a painful and long procedure was the only option. In October 2015, he stated “ I wish doctor-assisted death had been available to my father… I wish I could say he looked at peace in death, but he did not. There was a disturbing look… It was a look that will haunt me… that said: ‘Where, Son - where my doctor son - was my hemlock?’” Patients should not have to die this way, and doctors should not be forced into a…

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    She was originally sent to Calcutta, India as a teacher, but after seeing the plight of the people she left, following her own calling and starting the Missionaries of Charity. She believed in living a simple life and helping others to do the same by teaching them to meet their own basic needs. In 1971 she was awarded the first Pope John XXIII peace prize, and then in 1979 she was awarded with the Nobel Peace Prize for her work on behalf of the world’s poorest…

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    the same specie, have the same capabilities of being successful. According to Prof Rippon, “The bottom line is that saying there are differences in male and female brains is just not true. There is pretty compelling evidence that any differences are tiny and are the result of environment not biology,”(The Telegraph) this illustrates that logically there is no such difference between a male and female in terms of science. In history, there has been women who have done amazing, critical…

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    Imagery In I Am Malala

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    after that, just over two months later, she was dead. It happened right in front of my eyes as I again watched her on TV” (Yousafzai 54). Malala incorporates this to strike a sense of fear into the audience to radiate the harshness of the extent the Taliban goes in order to remain dominant and reign supreme over Pakistan. This being said, Malala develops this emotion in the audience in order for them to get the gist of what is going on in Pakistan alongside the motive to hopefully decide to help…

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    Jimmy Carter "God gives us the capacity for choice. We can choose to alleviate suffering. We can choose to work together for peace. We can make these changes – and we must." Good morning, I am Luke McKenzie and for the next few minutes I will be telling you about the life of Jimmy Carter and why he is someone we should all strive to be like. America’s 39th president, Jimmy Carter came from a small country town from a humble family and life and fought his way to the top by beating racism out of…

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    Elephants and human beings can be family or at least that is what “To a dead elephant” by David Livingstone suggests. It explores the familial relationship between a young boy and an elephant, as they grow up together. After many years together, the elephant dies and as a result the boy, now a grown man writes a poem attributed to his friend. Consequently, the poem or eulogy conveys a very important ecological message that animals and humans can co – exist peacefully. Before his death in 1996,…

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    But her family thought that the taliban would not hurt a little girl. On her way back from school, a masked gunman showed up on the bus and demanded Malala. Her friends looked at her giving away her location. The gunman shot her in the head and landing in the shoulder, wounding two other girls. Malala was taken to a england hospital. After she had awaken, the gunshot did not stop her, but only gave her more courage to keep going forward. On her sixteenth birthday her delivered a speech to the…

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    opened a school in Lebanon. Malala also had her own not-for-profit fund, the Malala Fund, that would benefit young girls between ages fourteen to eighteen by offering them schooling (Schnee par. 11). Between when she was born and she when she opened a school she had attended school. However, her school is very different compared to ours because while many of us take school for granted here in the United States (U.S) many girls in Pakistan are forbidden to go to school. Which is why “After…

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    Al Gore is a prominent political figure who acted courageously by beginning to advocate for the climate crisis in the 1980s and eventually starting The Climate Reality Project in 2005. Being that the climate change issue is still fairly controversial in 2016, it was courageous of Al Gore to begin advocating for the cause while it was doubted by so many. The former Vice-President has been an environmental activist for a large portion of his life, even earning the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. The…

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