Norwegian Nobel Committee Essays

Every year since 1890 the Nobel prize is given to laureates for their breakthrough or preventions in certain categories. Yet out of all the laureates who were chosen the board of Nobel peace prize has made a surprising decision . That a Ultimate Nobel peace prize a prize only given to the bravest and most Nobel laureates will be given out to Elie Wiesel for speaking out against oppression and hate crimes. Since 1890 when Alfred nobel created this prize thousands of amazing people have one in

After she saw India’s poor and had an epiphany, Mother Teresa heroically devoted her life to serving the needy. As she opened many clinics and shelters, Mother Teresa demonstrated that she had the capacity to serve. She possessed a moral objective and brought “solar light” into the world. According to Joseph Campbell, these characteristics would contribute to her achieving the status of a hero. In his book, The Power of Myth, Campbell states that a hero must undergo a transformation

Dehumanization is the process of depriving a person or group of positive human qualities, according to the dictionary. Throughout Night it shows a lot of dehumanization examples. It would take hours to name all of them. Some of the ways dehumanization was showed in Night was all of the abuse, having no identity except for a number, and the hunger they felt because they would only get one meal per day. In Night one of the ways that the Jews were dehumanized was by abuse. There were beatings

allocated in the world with her use of passionate parallelism, concrete diction, and heartfelt imagery.        Malala portrays parallelism in her speeches to assure that her most important points reach the minds of her audience successfully. In her nobel peace prize speech, she greatly manifests, “In my own village there are still no secondary school for girls, and it is in my wish and my commitment and now my challenge to build one, so that my friends and my sisters can go there to school and get

The memoir written by Elie Wiesel, Night, is illustrating the Holocaust, the even which caused the death of over 6 million Jews. Auschwitz, the concentration camps, is responsible for over 1 million of the deaths. In the memoir Night, Wiesel uses the symbolism of fire, and silence to clearly communicate to the readers that the Holocaust was a catastrophic and calamitous event, and that children should never be involved in warfare. Elie Wiesel enters Auschwitz at the age of 15, and witnesses’ horrific

Malala Yousafzai does deserve the Nobel Peace Prize “Why is it, that giving guns is so easy but giving books is hard ” said Malala Yousafzai a female rights protester. Malala is a 19 year old inspirational speaker. who has not only helped spread awareness to women's education all around the world, but she has become an international icon of resistance to women's empowerment. Therefore, Malala Yousafzai deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for showing a tremendous amount of bravery and being a continued

allocated in the world with her use of passionate parallelism, concrete diction, and heartfelt imagery. Malala portrays parallelism in her speeches to assure that her most important points reach the minds of her audience successfully. In her nobel peace prize speech, she greatly manifests, “In my own village there are still no secondary school for girls, and it is in my wish and my commitment and now my challenge to build one so that my friends and my sisters can go there to school and get quality

“One child, one teacher, one pen and one book can change the world,” was the inspiring message given by Malala Yousafzai in her Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech on 10 December, 2015 at Oslo, the day when the hearts of millions reverberated with new waves of energy and enthusiasm. Her award was a victory for those frightened and forgotten all over the world. Beyond her own immense personal glory, she was proud to represent the downtrodden, and her voice became their voice. Her words echoed great

The process of assessing and comparing the life achievements of various world leaders is never easy. Such is the burden of the Nobel Peace Prize committee, who annually sift through dozens of political leaders, activists, and trailblazer’s efforts to award the world’s most prestigious prize in conflict resolution. Their choice, however, sometimes garners more hostility than harmony. This irony was especially exemplified in President Obama’s 2009 win, which was awarded less than nine months into his

Can a young girl change the world? Out of the 7.4 billion people currently living in this world, no one quite compares to the impacts and inspiration that these two completely different yet similar teenage girls have given us. Both Malala Yousafzai and Anne Frank were two very similar souls with very strong voices that have inspired many people today. They were originally just two ordinary girls who lived on opposite sides of the world and endured some of the most terrifying things you’ve ever heard

Martin Luther King Jr. was an important figure in gaining civil rights throughout the 1960’s and he’s very deserving of that title as seen in both his “I Have a Dream” speech and his “Letter from Birmingham Jail” letter. In both of these writings Dr. King uses logos - logical persuasion - and pathos - emotional appeal - to change the opinions of people who were for segregation and against civil rights. Although King was arrested for a nonviolent protest, he still found a way to justify his actions

with their laws for women's rights and their education. After she was shot, she was flown away to the United Kingdom where she was able to survive the bullet. Malala is a peaceful girl as before and she like any other girls except she has won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 in the United Kingdom after her and family moved to escape the Taliban. While Malala is out there helping to save the world only making it better place for them, the Taliban are out there in the world to make it worse with their

help others in order to benefit all of society. Perhaps the best way to deal with conflict is to simply not give up or not stay silent when conflict and wrongdoings are happening such as in “Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat” by Winston Churchill and in “Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech” by Elie Wiesel and perhaps a closer look must be taken at how these methods affect the situation, how they affect those involved, and how this can help with a person’s emotional well-being. To begin with, what one says

Finnskogen is the name of a big forest stretching across the border of Norway and Sweden and it's also the home of several haunting stories. The place got its name from the finnish immigrants who settled there in the 1500 and 1600 century. The cross on Röjden In Norway there is a place in Hedmark right across the Swedish border near Svullrya in Finnskogen, where there is a cross on the ground where it doesn't grow anything in. It keeps amazing people even to this day. The grass growing there only

1. The committee system provides Congress with its second organizational structure, it is more a division and specialization of labor than the hierarchy of power that determines leadership arrangements. Six fundamental characteristics define the congressional committee system. The official rules give each standing committee a permanent status. The Jurisdiction of each standing committee is defined according to the subject matter of basic legislation. Standing committees' jurisdictions usually parallel

Everyone makes choices in their lives, and most people experience a variety of subtle or noticeable changes in their personality as a result of them, depending on the type of choice and its consequences. This idea is reflected in David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, where Benjamin’s personality undergoes considerable changes because of the choices he makes, specifically regarding his emotional courage. The film follows the growth of his emotional courage, from being inspired by Queenie

The aim of the paper is to extract the perspective of gender difference at work place in regards of the movie The China syndrome 1979 which is a America origin film based on the role of a news reporter and her cameraman that fulfill their work at the most tense situation of nuclear meltdown at a nuclear power plant. The reason to extract the theme of gender at workplace is to determine that man or women, when it comes to fulfill their responsibility, they aim to accomplish it without any hesitation

As Mila Bron said, “In order to heal we must first forgive…and sometimes the person we must forgive is ourselves.” In “The Seventh Man” by Haruki Murakami the narrator should forgive himself for his failure to save K. because he could have died himself and he was not wholly in control of his actions during the life-or-death situation. The narrator was not responsible for the wave that killed K. and he should not punish himself for something that was out of his control. The narrator blamed himself

Topic: Hegemonic Masculinity in Khaled Hosseini's novel A Thousand Splendid Suns This study is carried out to find the causes and reasons of ‘hegemonic masculinity’ in Afghan society through Khaled Hosseini’s novel: A Thousand Splendid Suns. This term is not just restricted to masculine superiority but it is about gender relations. When we speak of masculinities it is not equivalent to male gender only, rather it is concerned with the position of men in gender order. The theoretical framework of

From Casting to Casting Away Gender: Cross-Gendering in Modern Shakespeare Performance The year 1660 marked an important juncture in the English theatre. Not only was monarchy restored in England but Charles II also allowed women to enter the stage. Thus, women replaced the young adolescent males who cross-dressed in order to portray the women characters in Shakespeare’s plays. Although, the cross-dressing motif might seem strange to some, this practice can be traced back to Ancient Greeks who did