Nobel Peace Prize

Grammy Speeches, toasts, special address, inaugural address, and retirement speeches. It is hard to imagine what these all have in common. All of these speeches are given only for special occasions. Speeches for special occasions are different from the other speeches discussed in the textbook. Special occasion speeches are help give the occasion. In chapter eighteen of The Art of Public Speaking Stephen Lucas discusses speaking on special occasions. Lucas breaks, special occasion speeches in too…

to Strasburg college. He got a degree in physiology. The next year he went back to college. Schweitzer then got a degree in medicine. Then he went to africa to save people. He gave many sick Africans food, water, and medicine. He earned a Nobel Peace Prize. That is how he brought light into darkness. -Bram Martin Luther King Jr was a great man. He really brought changes to our country by fighting for African American rights. He did this not by violence or yelling at people to make them…

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…

set the tone for the night. As I sat the coloring, a speech my friend gave earlier in the day kept rolling in inside my head. It was about the young girl, Malala Yousafzai, and how she is an activist, the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, and an international hero. At a very young age (11) she began giving speeches on how the Taliban couldn’t…

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…

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…

extraordinary in an ordinary world, bringing that little extra into the picture to save mankind from itself. This takes loads of dedication. In an article written on October 10, 2014, seventeen year old Malala Yousafzai from Pakistan wins the Nobel Peace Prize. She survived a shot to the head by members of the Taliban for sticking up for girls’ rights to an education. Afterwards, she said, “Weakness, fear, and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage…

at midnight and when I almost died it was just after midday.” Her solo motive has now become a voice of millions of girls around the world who are denied their right to education. At just at the age sixteen, she has become the symbol of peace and the youngest Nobel Laureate in the year 2014. The present study will critically review the tale of a strong and brave girl whose voice is inspiring the change in the world. Key Words: Gender-equality, girls’ education, empowerment, terrorism. Gender…

Imagine yourself as a Jew during the Holocaust, captured and dying. How would you survive? Would you survive? Well there is a boy who did. When faced with seemingly impossible obstacles Malala Yousafza, Elie Wiesel, and Anne Frank all persevered, showing the true strength a person can have. However Elie Wiesel proved to have the most strength and stamina throughout all the obstacles he faced. Elie shows stamina emotionally by never giving up and always overcome challenges. First on page 8, Elie…

Definition Essay On September 11th, 2001, people came from all around the Manhattan area with their boats. They brought people from the big black, smoke-filled city, across the water to safety. Many people consider this event, brought up in the article “Boatlift”, a heroic event. This event wasn’t just one person showing heroism, but hundreds of people. A hero is a determined and an inspiring leader that does what they can, and does not stand by. People, such as Vincent Ardolino, are heroes…