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Holocaust, the most deadly time in recorded history, many people, specifically people that practiced the Jewish religion, went into work camps and never came out. In the award winning novel entitled “Night” by Elie Wiesel, the main character and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Elie, changes from before his stay in the most infamous camp, Auschwitz, and after he got out alive. Before Wiesel traveled to this gruesome death camp, he showed an abundance of positive traits. Some of these being his love for his religion

“A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer”- Ralph Waldo Emerson. Heroes are the people who don’t give up. They walk into the unknown out of love or compassion. Heroes are humble and kind. Heroism is a sacrifice, not giving up, it is not arrogance. First, the function of heroism is sacrificing for others. Heroes are everyday people making good decisions, "The kid who stands alone instead of joining a gang" (Stone 5). This kid is sacrificing for his family

Nobel Peace Prize What would you do if your entire nation is being ravaged by a disease that you don't know how to treat? That's where The Carter Center stepped in to aid struggling families in Africa. Led by former president Jimmy Carter and his wife, they were able to bring cures to villages that have none. Some people may say that the Carters just want to gain media attention but I will prove that is not the case. The purpose of this essay is to show why I believe the Carter Center should be

According to the article, “Nobel peace prize speech,” Malala speaks for the right of education, for girls around the world, and for girls in Pakistan. It is good that she speaks for education because that lets people around the world know that she wants to make a change. It shows that she

Mandela did. But when he got out of prison in 1990 he encouraged his people to not start a war against the white people. He told them to vote for him as a president instead. He showed his people how to forgive and not hate. He awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993. Mandela and Gandhi fought for their people and what they believed was right. Both fights were against racism. Both faced adversity. Gandhi`s father died while he was young and didn`t use violence, even when the government did. Mandela lost

a huge issue in today’s world. Trying to stop nations from fighting is one of the most difficult tasks to accomplish, but what most people do not realize is that conflict is much easier to start than it is to end. A political cartoon about war and peace, as well as a quote by Albert Einstein represent this. Albert Einstein once said, “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” Einstein is saying that that if the United States

traveling home from school, because unfortunately where she lived, girls weren’t allowed to be educated. She survived, and Malala stood her ground. She continued to use her voice to speak out on the importance of education. In 2014, she won the Nobel Peace Prize and is the youngest person to receive it. Malala has touched and inspired people all over the

This image is from the Bring Back Our Girls campaign. The campaign began when 230 school girls who were kidnapped from their dorm rooms by terrorists on April 16th 2014 in Nigeria. A recurring theme during this campaign was to make everyone aware of the women’s names. Some schools in Nigeria asked each student to select the name of one missing Chibok girl and pray every day for her return. The idea was that to know a person’s name is one step closer to knowing them more personally, so that way

their local town they go around the world! You needed more sentences here. First, Malala Yousafzai, she fought for girls’ right to education for this, “Malala won Pakistan’s National Youth Peace prize, which has since been renamed the National Malala Peace Prize. In 2014, she was awarded the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize.” Malala is ambitious because she wants to help other people no matter the threat that the Taliban were giving Malala. Malala has succeeded in getting a message out that every girl

with a decision impossible for an adult to make, she saw that she had two choices: “one was to remain silent and wait to be killed and the second, was to speak up and then be killed” (Yousafzai 2014). Malala Yousafzai exclaimed this in her Nobel Peace Prize Speech, and she chose the latter option, realizing that at one time education was a