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- 331: Breakup Of The Soviet Union An
- ... and nothing to replace it. He was guilty of criminal irresponsibility . Gorbachev was always a prophet more acclaimed abroad than at home. For ending the Cold War, he received the Nobel Peace Prize. His policies united Germany, let communism die in Eastern Europe and stopped arms support for wars in Angola, Cambodia, and Nicaragua (Bedard). Even Time magazine named him Man ...
- 332: Africa 2
- ... are two of Africa's most brilliant contemporary authors. These African writers Wole Soyinka of Nigeria, Naguib Mahfouz of Egypt, and Nadine Gordimer of South Africa have been awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 1986, 1988, and 1991, respectively. (See also Achebe; African Literature; Ngugi Wa Thiong'o; Soyinka.) Contemporary art takes many other forms. One is cinema, a field ...
- 333: Ernest Hemingway
- ... Ernest had a serious accident, and later became ill, he could never admit that he had any weaknesses; nothing would stop him, certainly not pain. In 1954 he won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Toward the end, Ernest started to travel again, but almost the way that someone does who knows that he will soon die. He suddenly started becoming paranoid ...
- 334: John Steinbeck
- John Steinbeck, a 20th century novelist, was the recipient of numerous awards including the Nobel Prize. Steinbeck, a conservative that valued the old America, could produce pages of beauty followed by pages of sheer trash writing using specific characteristics, which his work is characterized by ...
- 335: Victorian Literature
- ... early 1900's was Rudyard Kipling. He was a prolific writer of prose and poetry, and he was enormously popular. Kipling was the first English writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize for literature, in 1907.
- 336: Of Mice And Men
- ... of this book. He has also has written many other good books such as The Grapes of Wrath, Cannery Row, and Winter of Our Discontent for which he won a Nobel Prize. He is truly a great writer, and Of Mice and Men is no exception, but while reading this book I was greatly troubled by its ending. I can see ...
- 337: The Plague 2
- THE PLAGUE The Plague by Albert Camus won the author a Nobel Prize for literature, and with good reason. The story, about an outbreak of the bubonic plague in Oran and the isolation Oran is forced into as a result, examines the ...
- 338: "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings"
- ... in the Magdalena province of Columbia, is a writer who does not use real events to create his stories, rather images and fantasy-like magical realistic notions. He received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1982, which reflected the extent of his magical talent to write. He was the oldest of twelve children and was born into a poverty-stricken family ...
- 339: The First Atomic Test
- ... started by scientists at Los Alamos on the possible yield of the Trinity test. Yields from 45,000 tons of TNT to zero were selected by the various bettors. The Nobel Prize-winning (1938) phycisist Enrico Fermi was willing to bet with anyone that the test would wipe out all life on Earth, with special odds on the mere destruction of ...
- 340: The Atomic Bomb and its Effects on Post-World War II
- ... mislabeled. This is just one of the many episodes in the book that characterizes Dr. Hoenikker as a player of games. He recognizes this in himself when he gives his Nobel Prize speech:I stand before you now because I never stopped dawdling like an eight year on a spring morning on his way to school. Anything can make me stop ...
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