Nobel Prize in Literature

treated by other races such as the doctor's race. During John Steinbeck's life, The Great Depression, WWll, Japanese Internment Camps, Vietnam War, and the Civil Rights Movement were going on. Because of his unique writing style, he won a Nobel Prize for Literature and got nominated for an Oscar. In…

figures of India. He majorly wrote in Bengali as he came from a feudal Aristocratic family of Bengal, although, most of his works have been translated into English and various languages worldwide. He is the first Non-European to win the Noble Prize for Literature in 1913. Tagore’s prime emphasis was seen revolving around the secluded domestic lives of women. In his short stories and novels he depicts the scenario of women having extra marital affairs, widows having un-reputed sexual desires,…

President Obama proposed to Congress in the State of the Union Address that the federal minimum wage should be raised from $7.25 an hour to $9 an hour. He also remarked that “even with the tax relief we have been put in place, in which a family with two kids that earns the minimum wage still lives below the poverty line….that’s wrong.”. “According to a poll taken earlier this year by the Pew Research Center, Americans are in favor of increasing the minimum wage from its current level by a wide…

education in college. Most women started school for only one reason though, to get married. Slowly though, women claimed there spot as college professors. Women's organizations began to insist for equal pay for women. Feminism was majorly shaped by literature, specifically by Simone de Beauvoir. In the 1960s another famous womens author emerged. Betty Friedan brought awareness to the “dissatisfactions of domesticity”. The 60s brought attention to the assumed roles of wives and husbands in the…

collection called Miguel Street in which the life of ordinary, poor people in Trinidad is observed through the eyes of young, fatherless boy.he is regarded by many as one of the best writers of our time, and he is also perennial nominee for the Nobel Prize in literature which he is finally won on October 11 2001. “The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. It’s not the cup that…

Owning A Pet Dog Is A Beneficial Thing “Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened,” states Anatole France, a famous poet and journalist, who has won a Nobel Prize in literature. Owning a dog is brilliant and needed at some point in a person’s life because a dog teaches you how to become more responsible and caring. They teach you these things by demonstrating them, themselves. First of all, a pet dog always remains loyal to its owner. Secondly, it can help it’s…

Ramon Jimenez/ Literature A. Quote: “If they give you ruled paper, Write the other way” (Bradbury XVII). B. Explanation: In the Beginning of the story, this quote is an allusion to Juan Ramon a Jimenez, a Spanish poet. He earned the Nobel peace prize for literature in 1956. Jimenez was a well-known in the United States for his poetry. He wrote most of his poems in free verse, and he published over 300 poems (“Juan”). 2. Allusion/Type: Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels /Literature A.…

Shortly after Péri’s death in 1941, he published his first works, The Stranger and The Myth of Sisyphus one year later. Towards the end of his life, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957. Tragically, he died in an automobile accident in 1960, however his contributions to philosophy and the significance of the theory of the absurd continue to be discussed and analyzed to this day, often in regards to the similarity…

According to John Steinbeck, the author of The Grapes of Wrath and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, “Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.” People often choose to ignore what they know so that they can continue acting in a way that they know is bad idea. Despite the fact that they are aware of their malicious actions, they choose to ignore the truth of their situation in order to act in a way that is convenient or profitable for them. In…

Pablo Neruda has usually been cited together the best poets of the twentieth century, and also the heritage of this Nobel-prize winning author undeniably lives sturdy in his wide translated books and in social media wherever the younger generation has adopted his words to specific their thoughts of affection and its quality. An invited guest of this years Cinemaissí and also the director of Cantalao, Diego Del Pozo admits to being an excellent fan of Pablo Neruda. “Without being objective, I…