Nobel Prize

The History of Wheat and Celiac Disease Wheat of the centuries has been a source of food and nutrition all over the world for many different cultures. Originating in southwest Asia, the crop was bought and sold by traders from Europe and Africa and eventually making it over to the Americas by the early 1600s. The first archeological findings of wheat being made into bread can be found in ancient Egypt along the Nile River sometime around 5,000 B.C. as well as India, China, and even stretching…

charity in which open Shishu Bhavan House for abandoned and handicapped children. (Meg Greene, 2004) In 1952, she established Nirmal Hriday hospice where the terminally ill could die with dignity. Mother Teresa awarded the Nobel in 1979, she accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of "the throwaway of society". She asked that the grand gala dinner be cancelled and the proceeds be given to the poor of Calcutta. (O’Connel,…

and starting the Missionaries of Charity. She believed in living a simple life and helping others to do the same by teaching them to meet their own basic needs. In 1971 she was awarded the first Pope John XXIII peace prize, and then in 1979 she was awarded with the Nobel Peace Prize for her work on behalf of the world’s poorest…

Third world countries are constantly facing global controversies as time progresses through the 21st century. In one part of the Middle East, a girl named Malala sparked a movement for female education across the globe through her book, I am Malala. As Malala shares her experiences in her hometown Swat Valley, her determination for education in a restricted male dominant society developed a goal in advocating for giving education to everyone. Along with this, the event of Malala being shot…

December 2014, Malala gave her Nobel Peace Prize Lecture in Oslo, Norway. According to Malala, the award is not only for her, but also for those “voiceless children” (Yousafzai), who don’t receive education. Malala is from Swat, Pakistan. Her name was inspired by “Malalai of Maiwand, who is the Pashtun Joan of Arc” (Yousafzai), and Malala means “grief stricken, sad.”(Yousafzai) She is the first Pashtun and the youngest Pakistani to ever receive the Nobel Peace Prize. She and Kailash Satyarthi,…

As Gandhi once said, “Live as if you were to die tomorrow; learn as if you were to live forever.” The practice of selfless concern for the well being of others, this is the concept of altruism. Whether it be in literature, in history, in our everyday lives, or in society around us altruism is vital. Songs are written about it, a balanced life depends upon it. Living as a well balanced, active member of any groups celebrates life as if there is no tomorrow and lives each day to the fullest. When…

Of the two versions that we as a class read and listened to from Al Gore’s Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, I think that the audio version is more effective. I think that listening to the speech is more effective because you can see and hear their emotions, and that it only takes a short amount of time. These next few reasons and paragraphs should soon convince you to agree with me. With these reasons and pieces of evidence, this is why I think that the audio version of Al Gore’s speech is…

All started with a young woman in her mid -20s, she graduated in electronic engineering in 1974. In the same year, she decided to study at the university of Grenoble, but unfortunately her mother was killed during an assassination attempt on her father, who was the current president of South Korea, age twenty-two she was regarded as First Lady. Five years after her mother’s murder, her father was also assassinated. Suffering such tremendous tragedy did not make her weak, instead she became…

Malala Yousafzai Through the eyes of many, Malala Yousafzai is a survivor; she is someone people look up to and dream to be. She has gone through many trials that tested her bravery, and tested her will to live, and even after all that, she never gave up. Throughout the nineteen years that Malala Yousafzai has been alive, she has endured many struggles that can be tracked throughout her childhood, autobiography, I am Malala, and the education that women receive in the Middle East. Her story…

Only 109 people have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. This award is given to someone “who shall have produced in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction”(The Nobel Prize in Literature 1954). Nobody has won the prize more than one time in their lifetime, which shows how tough it is to accomplish. The Literature Prize is just one of six prizes that can be won each year; including the Chemistry, Peace, Physics, Economic Sciences, Medicine, and Literature.…