Nobel Prize in Literature

He cites numerous peers throughout his essay to reinforce the creditability of his statements, for example, Nobel Prize winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, data-security expert Bruce Schneier, Canadian privacy expert David Flaherty, and legal scholar Geoffrey Stone. Through the use of rhetoric, Solove expresses to the reader that the nothing-to-hide argument is one piece…

He was a writer from his time in the Army up until the time of his death. He was such a prolific writer that he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953 for his overall body of work. The power to be able to convey his message in print was a powerful tool for Churchill to lead a nation. He was able to inspire his fellow countrymen with his writings about war and the history of their…

Churchill Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874-1965) was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, and had a second term spanning from 1951 to 1955. He was also an officer of the British Army and writer, who won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1953 (Mishra). Churchill was born into the family of the Dukes of Marlborough. His father, Lord Randolph Churchill was a politician, his mother an American socialite. As a young army officer, he served in British India and…

Huxley Aldous Huxley was a 20th Century author whose works warned audiences about the dangers of technology. According to J.E Luebering in English Literature from the 19th Century through Today, some may know him as the author of The Devils of London which is a psychological study of a historical incident and group of seventeenth century French nuns who were crossed over by hysteria (176). This story is important because it shows Huxley’s desire to break free from the “bondage of ego” (Rolo 75)…

Shakespeare's poems and stories are very famous for his characters having a wide range of emotions and conflicts. William Shakespeare has won no awards of any kind because awards like Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Award of Literature did not exist in William Shakespeare's lifetime, he couldn't have won a prize or award even if he tried. William Shakespeare had over thirty eight plays, and one hundred and fifty four sonnets, his most famous of them all by most scholars and authors is, “Romeo and…

produce, theft even of the children a slave might have borne” (Notable Quotes). This particular theme is one of the main points in Toni Morrison’s novel: Beloved. Toni Morrison has won several awards for her work, including the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize in Literature. Beloved was Morrison’s fifth novel and was written around the same time she left her job (Morrison XVII). The novel is set in Cincinnati, Ohio in the home of an ex-slave Sethe and her daughter Denver. The book details…

For his efforts during the Second World War, Queen Elizabeth II knighted him in 1953. In the same year Sir Winston Churchill won the Nobel Peace Prize in Literature, becoming the first and only British Prime Minister to win the award, for his six-volume historical study of World War Two. Later in his life in 1964, Queen Elizabeth II offered to create him the Duke of London, but he rejected on objections…

to become my own persona. Her speech engaged me as well as encourage and motivate me. Even though in her time it was difficult to become a successful women who went to school she was able to become the first African American who won the Nobel Prize in Literature. She explained how everyone has a different story to make and tell; not everyone’s foot steps should be exactly the same. In her speech she said, “In short, the palm I was reading wasn’t yours, it was the splayed hand of my own…

civilization. It was a massacre led by Adolf Hitler. The holocaust made a great impact on the world and should never be forgotten. Simon Wiesenthal positively influenced the world by becoming a Nazi hunter to work for justice and through his many pieces of literature he educated others on the religious issue that took place as shown in the book “The Sunflower.” Simon Wiesenthal was born at 11:30 p.m. December 31, 1908 in Buczacz Galacia also known as Buchack Ukraine. His father, Asher…

What kind of society is portrayed in To Kill a Mockingbird and to what extent do you think things have changed since the time of the novel? In To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee explores the themes of racism and injustice through the eyes of two children, Jem and Scout, as their father, Atticus, takes on a case to defend a black man, Tom Robinson, against a false allegation that he had rapped a white girl, Mayella Ewell. The story takes place during the 1930s, in Maycomb, a small city in Alabama,…