Nobel Prize

If I was stranded on a deserted island and a lifeboat came and I had to choose between a healthy three-year-old, an elderly Nobel Prize winner, a single father of two young children, a thirty-year-old decorated combat veteran, and a middle-aged doctor who has performed life-saving surgery to save, I would choose to save the single father with two kids. It would be a hard decision to make but having two kids I would want them to have a father. I would choose to save the father of two because…

make you Clever?” Link: www.bbc.com/news/magazine-20356613 Claim: The claim made in the article is that eating more chocolate could make people more smart and maybe even produce more Nobel Prize Winners. Correlational Evidence: Evidences shows there is a positive correlation with eating chocolate and the amount of Nobel laureates in each country. Possible Explanations: (i) Papers say that cocoa is good for you, so this could be why people are cleverer when they eat more chocolate. (ii) The…

The novel As I Lay Dying is known all around the world to be a Nobel prize book due tothe novelist William Faulkner. Not only is As I lay dying considered a Noble prize bookwhereas, the novel became known in the banned books awareness for the overuse of God’sname, profanity, and abortion which seemed offensive and obscene to people. As ironic as it is,none of the board members had read the book.The Author of As I lay Dying William Faulkner, was born in New Albany, Mississippion September 25th in…

In his Nobel Prize speech, William Faulkner said that it is the writer’s duty to write about “love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice” (par. 3) and that anything other than those “problems of the spirit” are not worth writing about. The ways he lived up to the standards he set were through the characters in his book The Unvanquished. The book takes place in the 1860’s-70’s centered around the maturation of a young boy named Bayard. His resilience, maturity, and basic…

Do you know what it would be like to be courageous. Teen activists have to be courageous every day. Even though some teen activists are physically or mentally abused, they still speak out, for example, Alex Lin, Iqbal, and Malala. Teen activism is people fighting for a cause that could help people and the world. Iqbal is an example of a teen activist, he was a young boy who was sold to a carpet company. Iqbal Masih, a 12-year old former child slave in Pakistan. His family sold him to the…

was created that could remove the risk from investments. Many financial derivatives were invented to exploit the BS formula. So after the academics received the Nobel price, LTCM (long term capital management) was created (smart guys going to the market). In 1995 the hedge fund LTCM (long term capital management) was created. The Nobel prize winners had no problem raising the capital and became what could be the team of the century. Within months $3bill raised. Started investing. Nobody could…

Half a Day and Zaabalawi Najib Mahfuz was born in Cairo in 1911. Mahfuz is a 1988 Nobel Prize winner in literature, by displaying artistic, cultural, and structure through his writing. Mahfuz uses symbols and hidden messages in his writing to make the reader search for the true meaning be hidden them. Two of Mahfouz stories show his rage of creativity, Half a Day and Zaabalawi. In these two short stories, he shows great examples of his culture through time and religion. In Half a Day, Mahfuz…

Margaret Atwood’s ‘Spotty-Handed Villainesses’ and Doris Lessing’s ‘On Not Winning the Nobel Prize’ are both valued speeches due to the fact they evoke a personal response in their intended audiences and offer insights into timeless issues. These issues are timeless because they do not have a clear answer and will remain a controversial topic that is relevant across time. The ideas offered by these speeches resonate beyond the contextual audience and hold value for a twenty first century…

John Nash, a Nobel Laureate in Economics, Directed by Ron Howard in 2002. This story emphasizes Nash 's graduate years at Princeton University where he starts to develop a mental disorder. Later doctors diagnose Nash with paranoid schizophrenia which causes Nash to start hallucinating. Nash struggles through his life and with the help of friends and especially his wife is able to recover. A beautiful mind is about a graduate student that attends Princeton University with the Carnegie Prize for…

regarded as one of the greatest writers of all time. When he received his Nobel Prize for literature in 1950, the world was yet reeling from the horrors of the two world wars, both of which suffered many casualties. He had stated "I believe man will not only endure, he will prevail," (Banquet Speech, 2015) and by this statement, he meant that he truly believed humanity could overcome the horrors and fears of war. And in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, he speaks of writing to rekindle emotions…