Nobel Prize in Literature

country s broad middle class and rising standard of living were built on the genius of inventors and entrepreneurs like Henry Ford and Thomas Edison and, more recently, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. Leading economic studies, including the work of Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Solow, suggest that most of the growth in our standard of living over the years has come from innovation and technological advances. Innovation, Skills, and Research To keep our competitive edge, our colleges and…

William Faulkner has written many critically acclaimed text throughout his lifetime. These text range from poetry, short stories, novels, and screenplays. The short story “A Rose for Emily” is one of his most famous works. Set in a southern town at the turn of the century, Faulkner describes the life of Miss Emily. Miss Emily is the lone survivor of a well to do family in the city of Jefferson. The short story describes how Miss Emily deals with the struggles of her changing life. William…

Madmen and prophets have been, for quite long, the source of contention in literary circles. The relationship between madness and prophecy in literature is somewhat difficult to tackle as both concepts are connected to a more mystical world that can give shape and meaning to human existence and truth about life. During the twentieth century, immediately after the Holocaust, people began more readily questioning the existence of a supreme Deity and His lack of divine intervention in such a…

Kabuliwala, a friend Life unfolds many mysteries one being someone people who come into the lives of others as an angel. Did you meet anyone like that in your life? Mini a small girl was one for a Kabuliwala called Rahim. Kabuliwala is a story written during the early 20th century showing the difference of opinions about caste, character and personality. Rabindranath by using Mini and an Afghan Kabuliwala Rehmun, portrays how society labels the people, how Mini being innocent enough was unable…

under the surface with his high dorsal fin knifing through the water without wavering...This was a fish built to feed on all other fishes in the sea, that were so fast and strong and well armed that they had no other enemy”(101). A skilled critic of literature does the same thing as this shark through their critiques and can penetrate a seemingly flawless book and has a deep enough knowledge of writing that he or she would be able to see the true mistakes and pick apart the bad pieces and leave…

spiral of his career. He released several other works that presented unorthodox views of politics and religion. Rudyard Kipling’s radical views led to a decrease in popularity; however, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1907 and won the Gold Medal of the Royal Society of Literature in 1926 (“Rudyard Kipling”).Rudyard Kipling died on January 18, 1936, at the age of 71, due to an ulcer (“Rudyard Kipling-Biographical”). Kipling left behind a great legacy of famous short stories and…

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was born in 1931, in Privolnoye, Russia. Gorbachev’s family was very poor and as a teenager, he contributed to his family’s income by driving tractors at the local machine station (Biography, 2015). Gorbachev’s young life and upbringing was that of a communist country. He graduated from high school with a silver medal in 1950. He then continued his academics at the Moscow University, which was the premier school in the Soviet Union…

were hurt in the war. This poem reveals the different effects and the burdens faced by the people and the world. Mid-Term break is poem that is written by Seamus Heaney, He is a great poet, playwright and a lecture; he has also won the Nobel Prize in literature. The poem is in subject to the death of his younger brother. It is a…

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but can a picture save a whole nation from destruction? There is approximately 250,000 words in the english language. But it is not about how many you have learned or how big of words you know, instead, it is about how you put them together and how you convey them. Despite Winston Churchill’s lack of intention in education, through persuasive delivery and unparalleled charisma, he turned the tides of a war using only words. Thus, he is one of the…

Punishment can only be conquered through pride and rebellion. The myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature, describes a comical hero who is happy in the face of terrible and eternal punishment in the underworld. Camus explains Sisyphus’s happiness in that “There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn” (Camus 5). Sisyphus overcame his eternal…