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made many foundations to help the people, and one is known as the Nelson Mandela Foundation. This foundation focuses on many global topics. This includes building schools, research about a cure for HIV/AIDS, research into providing education in rural areas, and even peace and reconciliation interventions. The foundation also promotes social justice for all, freedom, and equality, which Mandela really focused on while he was president. (Nelson Mandela.org). Another one of his foundations is the…

family to survive. He was a teacher. Met an Austrian Holocaust survivor then they got married in Jerusalem. Then he moved to New York. He was a scholar at Yale. Then he made several books and in 1986 he was awarded the Nobel peace Prize. Founded the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity. (Elie Wiesel) Now that I know more about the Holocaust I know the things that they did to them. I would not want any of that to happen to me or anyone. I also think that Hitler was mentally insane! I…

The line of Disney Princesses started just before World War II with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937). Next in the line, after the war, it was Cinderella (1950), followed by Sleeping Beauty (1959), The little Mermaid (1989), Beauty and the Beast (1991), Pocahontas (1995), Mulan (1998), Princess and the Frog (2009), Tangled (2010), Brave (2012), and Frozen (2013). Each of the movies presents a main female character, usually oppressed, and a main male character, usually quite masculine and…

graduated in 1883. While enrolled at the medical academy, Ivan researched the centrifugal nerves of the heart, leading him to the idea of nervism. He developed his own ideas of “reflex regulation of the activity of the circulatory organs,” (The Nobel Foundation 2015) meaning the automatic response between the organs of the circulatory system triggered by a particular stimuli. This study was…

Friedrich August Von Hayek was a political economist that possessed a tremendous influence on how people in capitalist societies comprehended the concept of liberty. His viewpoint of freedom did not embody liberal ideals, but “a policy that deliberately adopts competition, markets, and prices as its ordering principles” (The School of Life, 2016). Although he had a substantial career, it was after his retirement, that his influence truly left a mark in the realm of economic theories. In his…

actinium, and investigated its and radiothroium’s alpha-rays (“Otto Hahn Biographical”, Nobel Peace Prize Organization). After two years in Montreal, Hahn moved back to Germany, this time heading to Berlin’s Chemical Institute where he taught as a professor of…

Sweden has long been known to be a neutral country in wars and has not been involved in any wars for over two hundred years. The citizens of Sweden enjoy a strong economy, higher education and health care, and an extremely low crime rate. Home of the Nobel Peace Prize, Sweden strives for equality and peace in their own nation and throughout the world. Sweden may be one of the most desirable countries due to its stable economy and welfare systems. Motivated to improve the lifestyle of all…

Nelson Mandela Many would argue that Nelson Mandela is the most admired political figure of the twentieth century and a leader of the human rights movement. What did Nelson Mandela do in his life to deserve such accolades? Well, he took a stand against the way certain people were being treated in his country and stood up for what he believed in. This group of people was the blacks of South Africa. Throughout Nelson Mandela’s tedious life, he made a remarkable amount of achievements and turned…

Genre Experiment 3 Profile Mother Teresa Could one person change how the world views each other? Mother Teresa once said, “Spread love everywhere you go… Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting.” Mother Teresa had so much love for everybody she came across. She dedicated her life to help people who could not help themselves. She…

Rolihlahla Mandela was born to Henry Gadla Mpakhanyiswa and Nonqaphi Nosekeni on 18th of July in 1918. The name Nelson was given to him by his teacher when he was studying at a local Methodist school (Valley, 2013). His father was the head councillor to the king and his mother was the third wife out of the four wives that his father had (Limb, 2008). He had three biological sisters. In 1928, his father died and Mandela was place under the guardian of Jongintaba Dalindyebo, who was the Thembu…