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Writer's Duty Osvaldo Barragan October 12, 2015 On December 10, 1950, William Faulkner delivered his Nobel Prize Acceptance speech. Faulkner delivered the "writer's duty" for all the future writers to write only from the truth of the heart. His concern was for the young writers. He believed that a good writer has to avoid writing nonsense. He felt concerned about the new authors who expressed their writing to the young Americans with stories that talked "not of love but of lust,…

Deneicen Fernandez Mrs. Pickett English 10, A-3 November 13, 2015 Important and Valuable Leadership Traits Throughout time in history, we’ve gained various types of leaders depending on race, gender, and religion. With these leaders, comes a big difference in traits in each leader. It’s hard to choose a few traits that make up a leader when there are numerous valuable traits a leader should have. The three valuable and important traits found in a leader are hard-working, an open-mind, and…

scientist the fight against cancer or something as simple as getting an x-ray would not be what it is today. Her research has helped to save the lives of millions. In order to accomplish everything she did (Founder of Curic Instutes, winner of two Nobel Prizes, discovering two new chemical elements) being a woman in a time where women were considered to be second class citizens, just goes to show how truly special Marie Curie is. Marie was born as Maria Salomea Sklodowska on November 7, 1867 in…

Each year, the Nobel Prize awards people with outstanding contributions for humanity in chemistry, literature, peace, physiology or medicine, and physics. This year the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics to Takaaki Kajita from Japan and Arthur B. McDonald from Canada “for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass.” Their discovery was announced to be a historic discovery for particle physics. After a various amount…

One of the most famous women in physics back in the early 1900s was Marie Sklodowska. While she was in physics, Marie won two nobel prizes. Also, she discovered the elements Radium and Polonium. Marie had to conquer many hardships to get all these awards. Marie Sklodowska was born in Warshow, Portland on November 7, 1867. She was the youngest of five children, and that family was already very poor. Her mother was a poor schoolroom teacher that was named, Bronislawa Sklodowska. Her father was…

Steinbeck is a celebrated author around the world. John Ernst Steinbeck III was a American Novelist that won the Nobel and Pulitzer Prize during his prime and achieved this while passing through some roadblocks in his life. Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California on the 27th of February in 1902. Born with his 3 sisters, his only siblings, his father worked as a treasurer of Monterey County and his mother worked as a schoolteacher. After high school graduation, Steinbeck enrolled at Stanford…

while she studied at the University of Wisconsin. She and her husband, Joshua Lederberg produced a way that they could easily transfer bacteria from one petri dish to another. They called his process replica plating. In 1958, Joshua received the Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine because of his and Esther's work. In Joshua's acceptance speech, he mentioned that he enjoyed the company of his colleagues, including his wife. He did not however, mention the important role she had in their…

noted journalist. Chris Hamby went to the University of Missouri and he got a bachelor degree from the University of Richmond. He also has a master’s degree in journalism. He has won countless of reporting awards such as the Pulitzer Prize, the Harvard Goldsmith Prize, awards from the National Press foundation, the…

ndividuals win Nobel Prizes for doing something out going, discovering something, or even curing someone. Albert Einstein, won a Nobel Prize for Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect. Growing up he felt not smart and thought that he was going to be nothing in life, but he realized that he loved learning and that he was going to be something in life and make something of his name. He has inspiring quotes that just make you want to push…

journalism. The Pulitzer Prize is named after him as it is one of the most prestigious awards one can win in American journalism. However, in 1897 to win such type of award would be worth nothing, it would be an insult to win a prize like that. There were many controversies surrounding Pulitzer and his newspapers. His newspapers had a reputation for “arbitrariness, pettiness, and downright mean-spiritedness,” (Campbell, 119). It was after his death in 1911 where the prize would be named after…