Elfriede Jelinek is one of those 10 women who received a Nobel Prize in Literature with 90% male domination in this state. She is one of the most influential contemporary writers. A feminist Austrian novelist, she has been writing on female sexuality, its abuse and the war of sexes in general. Accor...

Alfred Nobel: the Man Behind the Prize The great Alfred Nobel was born in Stockholm, Sweden on the 21st day of October,1833. His family was one of engineers who had descended from one of the 17th century's greatest technical geniuses who goes by the name of Olof Rudbeck. At the young age...

Critique of William Faulkner's Nobel Prize Speech In 1949, William Faulkner, the writer from Oxford, Mississippi, was awarded the Nobel Prize. He was the first American author to receive this prestigious award since the start of World War II. The context of his acceptance speech is importan...

I feel that the qualities to win a Nobel Peace Prize are to be a good citizen, be kind to others, never put anyone down, and to stand up for what's right. Martin Luther King Jr. had those qualities and many more. He believed that everyone should have equal rights and should be treated with the same ...

A Case For ServingServing others.It doesn't come naturally. We are bent in the opposite direction. Instead of having a fine-tuned radar directed outward toward other people's needs, we are usually focused on ourselves. We are skilled at arranging information, opportunities, and even relationships ar...

Skepticism is an EnergyOne-hundred years after the first Nobel Prize was awarded a new category known as the "retro Nobel Prize" is instituted. The task of awarding this prize fell upon a committee who must choose a worthy scientist who made great advancements before the first Nobel was issued. Wri...

The Grapes of WrathBy John StienbeckReview By Nic SherlockThis book was published in 1975 but written in the 1930's. It won the Pulitzer Prize and the author also won the 1962 Nobel Prize for Literature. The book is a story of the Joad family, and their trip to California. It tells of the migration ...

His wife, Marion, has translated most of his books into English. His books have won numerous awards, including the Prix Medicis for A Beggar in Jerusalem, the Prix Livre Inter for The Testament and the Grand Prize for Literature from the City of Paris for The Fifth Son. Wiesel's most recent books p...

Minorities have had many contributions to science and chemistry. A few of these minorities are George Washington Carver, Marie Curie, Lloyd Hall, James Harris, Mario Molina, Baruj Benacerraf , Luis Federico Leloir, and César Milstein. An African-American born to slave parents, George Washin...

Marie Sklodowska Curie Polish-French Chemist (1867-1934) Marie Sklodowska Curie was born on November 7, 1867 in Warsaw, Poland. Her father was a physics teacher and her mother was a principal at a girls school in Warsaw. She had three sisters(Sofia, Helena, Bronislawa) and a brother Josep...

Introduction One cannot begin to discuss postmodern culture without first looking at what is known as the Modern movement. Modernism was a shift in thought with regard to the arts. This movement, which includes music, literature, the visual arts, and drama, rejected the old Victorian standards of a...

The Night by Elie Weisel is a non fiction auto-biography. His special qualification for writing this is that he lived through it. He has won the Nobel Peace Prize, and he has written Dawn, The Accident, and The Town Beyond the Wall. He won the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in improving t...

On the 7th November 1867 a teacher in physics and maths became the father of a little girl called Marya Sklodowska and nobody could know. That this girl would have been one of the most famous female scientists in the 90's and 20's century. At the age of 16 she finished her exam in a lycee...

Niels Hendrik David Bohr Niels Hendrik David Bohr was one of the foremost scientists of the 20th century. The Nobel prizewinning physicist was known for his development of the theory of atomic fission that led to the development of the atomic bomb. He was born on Oct. 7, 1885, in Copenhagen, D...

Theodore Roosevelt was a fighter. "If it were righteous, he fought for it; if it was evil, he hurled the full weight of his personality against it. He never capitulated, never sidestepped, never fought foul. He carried the fight to the enemy" (Howland, pg. 1). Although Roosevelt was well known ...

Henri Becquerel Father of Radioactivity 1852-1908 Early Life Henri Becquerel was born into a family of scientists. He was born in the city of Paris, France, on December the fifteenth 1852. He inherited from his father a large supply of minerals and compounds, which were also studied by his fa...

Many in the world of science do not succeed as prominent individual considering it is a tough field not only to achieve in but to maintain an identity. Mario J. Molina was someone that prospered as a minority and Nobel Laureate in this particular field. Mario was a Mexican American chemist, born...

Deoxyribonucleic Acid, DNA for short, is a molecule that has been one of the biggest mysteries of modern science. What is its structure? Does it contain the genetic code and if it does how is it used? These are some of the questions that puzzled scientist in the early fifties. Many scientists tried ...

All around us are people, places, and things. Waking up in the morning till bedtime at night, one meets people, sees things and places, and encounters rapid growth of science. To understand what science is all about, try to observe your nature or things that you do not encounter before and ask what,...

Thich Naht Hahn and His Life Thich Naht Hahn is wonderful Buddhist monk and a great asset to the Buddhist religion. He has had and is having an interesting life. He is known for many things. These include he talks during the Vietnam War for peace, organizing help for villages,...

John Steinbeck was born in February 27, 1902 in Salinas, California. Salinas was an agricultural valley in California. His father was the county treasurer and his mother was a schoolteacher. This is where his education began from a mother that encouraged him to read. The community was a com...

On August 15, 1917, archbishop, Oscar Arnulfo Romero, was born in Ciudad Barrios, El Salvador. Archbishop Romero was highly praised for his heroic struggle to speak out for the social and human rights for his people, eventually earning him the Nobel Peace Prize of 1979. Growing up, Romero faced th...

A Beautiful MindA Beautiful Mind tells the autobiographical story of Jonh Nash Jr. a distinguished professor from Princeton who went on to make some great theories and win the Nobel prize. The centerpiece of the story is the fact that John Nash suffers from schizopherinia a debilitating condition fo...

Frederick Banting Diabetes is a chronic disorder in which the pancreas doesn't produce enough insulin. Insulin is an important hormone for the metabolism of sugar in the body. When the pancreas fails to provide the body with insulin, these sugar build up in the blood stream. Therefore, the...

John Steinbeck was born in 1902 in California. He lived most of his life there and often it is the setting of his novels. He was one of America's great writers because of his unique contributions to literature. He gave literature a different view of America through the eyes of the working and l...