Nobel Foundation

In the year 1950 William Faulkner was at the pinnacle of his writing career, he had many popular novels written and had just been nominated for the Nobel Prize. When Faulkner took the stand to give his acceptance speech he had more to say than just his thanks and gratitude, he had a message. This message was tailored to the writers and poets of the future; more specifically their duties in society. He knew his time would pass and was afraid the art of writing might die off if there was no one to…

Her promotion of women’s and children’s education put her on national media, but it also placed her under the Taliban’s eye. After receiving the National Youth Peace Prize in December of 2011 she began to set out to create the Malala Education Foundation to help send girls that cant afford school, got to…

Bob Dylan, the American folk singer has recently received the Nobel peace prize in literature, the second to receive this honor for songwriting. The Nobel peace prize is one of five Nobel prizes created by a Swedish inventor, Alfred Nobel. This award was given to Bob Dylan for having created new poetic expressions within the “great American song tradition.” Dylan was not only a musician, publishing six books of drawings and paintings, and his work has been exhibited in major art galleries. As a…

Hurricane Matthew made landfall in the United States on Saturday, October 8, bringing up to Category 4 force winds, rain and storm surge to communities across the Southeast. U.S. officials reported damage of at least $10 billion, making Matthew the costliest hurricane since Sandy in 2012. In North Carolina and South Carolina, swollen rivers transformed thoroughfares into canals and homes into sodden islands, in some cases with only the roof or the windows peeking above the water. American Red…

Malala’s “Malala day” speech to the UN Youth Assembly. –Emily Jones. Malala Yousafzia delivered her speech to the United Nations Youth Assembly on her 16th birthday. This speech was significant as Malala is the youngest person to date to receive the Nobel Peace prize. The purpose of this speech was to unify and help society move forward with education becoming a right for boys and girls worldwide. During her speech Malala refers to her audience as her brothers and sisters to address them.…

In December 2014, Malala Yousafzai won The Nobel Peace Prize, together with Kailash Satyarthi. Both speakers fought against the suppression of children and young people in their native country and for the rights of all children to have an education. Malala Yousafzai delivered a passionate persuasive speech after receiving her Nobel Prize medal and diploma during the Nobel Peace Prize Award Ceremony at the Oslo City Hall in Norway. In her speech Malala expressed gratitude and honor for all…

The Hope for the Hopeless Light in illness Have you ever been so sick that you feel as if you are going to die? All you can do is lay in bed helplessly and wait for your body to heal itself due to our strong immune system. We get to skip school and go to our doctor 's office which is usually within an hour drive. We get diagnosed with a cold or the flu and get prescribed a medication and are on our way home within the next hour or so. We get to go home and fight off the illness. We eventually…

Rigoberta Menchú became one of the most controversial Nobel Peace Prize winners when her testimony was put under a microscope and discrepancies were found by multiple people working in academia. This is given in the edited manuscript of her verbal testimony in the book I, Rigoberta Menchú, as it presents itself as a truth of her life, although that’s debatable. Blame could be put on her editor, Elizabeth Burgos, herself, or the Guatemalan people who knew her personally that gave their own…

Malala Yousafzai, female activist, human rights spokeswoman, and a normal girl who enjoys quality time with her siblings, is known for her human rights advocacy for the education of women and children in Northern Pakistan, where the local Taliban banned girls from attending school, to limited their rights little by little. Malala was only 10 years old when the Taliban dominated her region and influenced her people through the use of Islam in a very drab, murky way. She was taught to stand up for…

Faded faith Elie Wiesel was one of the persons that survived the Holocaust. He was an author and wrote totally 57 books. Among them, the trilogy, Night, Dawn and Day, which were about his own experiences of the Holocaust. Wiesel achieved the Nobel peace prize 1986 and he unfortunately died this summer. He became 87 years old. I think the book, Night, is a very special book to Wiesel. He even wrote that if only got to write one book, this would have been the one. I think that is because there…