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Would you stick up for someone being harassed for their wealth, religious view, or political view? In the text “The Harvest Gypsies” and “Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech” the authors explain what it’s like to have all those things done to you. For that reason, bystanders are guilty if they don’t help a situation because they have the power to change it for the better. In the text “The Harvest Gypsies” bystanders watched as poor families struggled to get by and did nothing to help. For example, as…

In this essay I am going to discuss Gary Stanley Becker. He was born on December 2nd 1930 in Pottsville, Pensilvania and died on 3rd May 2014 in Chicago, Illinois. He was a major economist that received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1993 for his work in widening the field of microeconomic study to include a increased range of human actions including non trade behaviour . I will discuss briefly his life and how it contributed to his work. Additionally I will aim to discuss his three main…

to recover. A beautiful mind is about a graduate student that attends Princeton University with the Carnegie Prize for mathematics. Although he was not expecting to have a roommate, Charles comes in as his roommate and soon becomes his close friend. Nash is man that does not like to interact…

World War II and Civil War brought the most horrifying time in American History which killed countless people with nuclear gas and atomic bombs.There was one author who wrote about this time.He was William Faulkner, who also won the noble prize at the time for his outstanding and unique contribution to the American literature on December 10,1950. Faulkner addressed his speech in Stockholm, Sweden to the guests, the nation and his fellow writers that he believes will one day stand where he is.…

Rose for Emily and William Faulkner’s vision) William Faulkner most definitely may not be a household name, but he is an exquisite name and writer of short stories and in general, phenomenal fiction. Eventually, Faulkner went on to win the Nobel Prize for literature, but his beginnings are still rather intriguing. According to a biography of William Faulkner’s life titled William Faulkner published by Gale Research in Detroit in 1991, Faulkner has had mostly humble beginnings with a few odd…

There are thousands of novels written every year, and only a select few win awards. It’s a competitive market, and the Pulitzer Prize is one of the toughest to win. Back in 1939 (wikipedia.com), The Yearling won this prestigious award. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings deserved the Pulitzer Prize for her novel for many reasons, including her creative uses of figurative language, syntax, and sensory details. Her several uses of figurative language enhanced her writing by describing the situations in the…

around the world to fight for civil rights. King is most known for his “I Have a Dream” speech, which he gave at Washington D.C in 1963. In fact, the speech was so influential it earned King a Nobel Peace Prize. Other works by King include “Beyond Vietnam,” “Give us a ballot” and his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech (Biography.com Editors 1). King’s purpose is to motivate people into taking action against injustice and inequality in legal systems. He particularly focuses on injustices in…

Out, Out— is a narrative poem published in 1916 by Robert Frost, a winner of several Pulitzer awards and a graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard University. The characters in the poem include the protagonist, a young boy, his sister, and their assumable parents. The initial lines of the poem are quite pleasant as they evoke the aural, visual, and olfactory senses, but the poem takes a sharp turn as it then presents readers with intense tactile imagery and a cold ending. Why would Robert…

Correlation & Experiments Article Headline: “Does Chocolate 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…

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…