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Bob dylan, after being announced the winner of nobel literature prize 2016, suddenly attracts the attention of the world. When asking why Bob Dylan has been awarded the Nobel Prize in literature, the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, Sara Danius, in an interview, answers that “He can be read and should be read, and is a great poet in the English tradition, and he is the wonderful sampler, very original sampler. He inbold the tradition and for 54 years now. He has been active,…

It was around eleven p.m. when a disastrous earthquake hit everywhere in the United States. It devoured several cities including Newport Beach. That Earthquake was the start of the end of the of the strongest country in the face of Earth and maybe of the existence of humankind. Families and friends were separated maybe for some time or for the rest of their entire life. Billy was only a 16-year old boy whose family was killed by their own house. Billy was in shock. He knew he had to be smart and…

right away for them, the two were engaged by 1953. At this time John F. Kennedy was already elected to the U.S. Senate. On September 12, 1953, Jaqueline Bouvier and John F. Kennedy were married. The wedding took place at St. Mary's Church in Newport, Rhode Island. Afterwards the couple took a honeymoon to Mexico. In 1957, Jaqueline and John were blessed with their first child. They had a baby girl that they named Caroline. January of 1960, Senator John F. Kennedy declared his…

Spending hours on social media and losing sleep because of it, is also a sign of social media addiction. There is a vast difference between staying up to complete a chore or task and staying up to make sure one does not miss a single minute of anything being uploaded on social media. Lack of sleep can negatively affect a person’s energy level and can affect a person’s disposition too. The combination of these factors could lead to intense mental and physical problems and negatively affect one's…

form of an emotion. Maybe it is happiness, perhaps even sorrow, it is all dependent on the situation. This is my story of one of the most confusing times in my life. It was a mundane weekday, nothing short of monotony. The drive home from Norfolk to Newport News was filled with traffic, like always. My car’s only way to diminish June’s hot summer heat is to trap it in the air that blows through an open window; a task that is difficult for a car to achieve while sitting in HRBT traffic. Even…

Dagmawi Wassie Landwehr,Joshua; Monahan, Griffin HN U.S History 1 October 4, 2015 Diary of George Golding November 14 of 1606, Willoughby, people were getting ready to travel to the new world. I wanted to leave England in search of a better life. The economy was on the decline and it became impossible to survive. People wanted to escape religious persecution. When I heard the Virginia Company was going to cross the ocean to the new land, many people including me wanted to go, the problem…

is introduced to alcohol at a younger age, then that individual will be able to observe how to perform during everyday life or a social event. You’ve probably heard the jokes about how heavy alcohol consumption can kill brain cells. Scientist at Newport Academy state “Recent neurological research indicates not only that these jokes are true, but that teenagers may be more prone to alcohol-related neurological damage than adults. A teenager’s brain is at a vulnerable stage of development and…

Nayeon Kim Professor Peggy Lindsey WRIT 1101 8 Oct 2014 Capital Punishment: Fair or Foul One of the hottest topics among these days is “Death Penalty”. It is a kind of punishment for a serious criminal. Death is the biggest fear to human being. Preventing the crime by death penalty is sounds like simple but it acts really powerfully and effectively. “ Lex talionis”, as mentioned in the Bible, encourages “Eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.” That means, if the person kills others,…

Hundreds of years ago, America’s economy was nowhere near close to world standards. However, as time has progressed it has grown into the largest superpower in the world. One of the major factors to this growth is due to the emergence of entrepreneurs. Wal-Mart is just one successful business that is able to benefit from enormous economies of scale, and find ways to outgrow its competitors (The 39 Most Influential). Sam Walton, the entrepreneur who started it all, was able to accomplish…

A skinny church boy on the outside but, a brave soldier on the inside, Desmond encouraged people to stay true to what they believed in and do what was right. Among his fellow soldiers most of them called him a coward and didn’t believe he would be any help on the battlefield. Much their surprise in the future, he would save more than half of their lives. Doss’s childhood helped him become who he was and helped him through his time in the army and after. This fearless soldier was born on…