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CUNY Nobel Science Challenge Around 300-600 million people suffer from malaria each year, and over one million people die from this disease every year, mostly children younger than five. This disease is endemic to over 100 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and the South Pacific, almost 40% of the world population. Malaria is caused by a parasite that is transferred by the bite of an infected female Anopheles mosquito. The most deadly form of malaria is known as Plasmodium

In Buddhism the Four Nobel Truths explain the root of humans problems, chief among these being suffering. While suffering is part of human life it does not always have a negative impact on one’s life. This suffering can be a force of good that propels people to do better and reflect on other people’s hardships. If one were to expel all their cravings and desires they would not have the drive necessary to achieve their goals and be a benefit to society. It seems that when you take away suffering the

What would you do if you woke up and thought, “The only thing we did to our world is destroy it.”As depicted in the text “Silent Spring” and “Nobel Speech”, pollution is the most significant effect people have on the environment. In “Silent Spring” it states that, “On the farms the hens brooded, but no chickens hatched. The farmers complained that they were unable to raise any pigs.” This is significant because it explains how our plants and animals will survive with all of the pesticides, and

In Yousafzai’s speech “Nobel Lecture” she speaks for all children regardless of their race. She claims how no child should be deprived of education and how there should be peace in every corner of the world. Yousafzai decided to speak up when her rights to learn were taken away. Although she knew the Taliban were going to kill her she did so anyway. Meanwhile in Vai’s video “Go To School: Spread The WORD” he speaks to his people, Pacific Islanders, and tries to send a wake up call so they can get

I was so excited to wake up today. It is the year 1903. All of my difficult work has finally paid off! Today is the day I will receive a Nobel Prize. It's not only me who is being awarded this prestigious prize. My husband, Pierre Curie, and my colleague, Antoine-Henri Becquerel, are sharing this prize with me as well. Sadly, my husband or I cannot attend due to the fact that we are too sick. We have all dedicated numerous hours to earn award. Everyone has sacrificed something to make this discovery

more important than the needs of animals and the planet? I think the people’s needs are more important than the needs of the animal's and the planet because it states in the “Nobel Speech” and “Silent Spring”. To begin, as it states in the “Nobel Speech” Al Gore says that we need to save us from climate change. In the “Nobel Speech” Al Gore the U.S vice president won an award and he gave a speech. He will talk about how we change the climate change and then there might be some problems in the future

The Nobel Peace Prize is an award Alfred Nobel made for people who try to make the world better. Each year a person who tried to make it less polluted or tried to take away one of the many problems. In 2007, Al Gore was given the prize. The most significant effect is climate change and global warming of which the people have created. This is true because as the months come and go, it is getting harder and harder to ignore the fact that the world is in danger. “In the last few months, it has been

that idea in her speech the Nobel Lecture. Toni’s writing illustrates her beliefs about language and the deeper meaning of it. She explains that language should “Permit new knowledge or encourage the mutual exchange of ideas” (Morrison). She believes that America is not achieving those ideas for language but in fact is doing the opposite. American people do not know the meaning and effect of language and because of that, true language is dying. In the speech, the Nobel Lecture, by Toni Morrison, the

Humble (Critical review on A Rose for Emily and Faulkner’s Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech) In Faulkner’s Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, he talks about how the award was not an award to him as a man, but an award to his work. Faulkner gives all the credit to his writing career and earning the Nobel Prize to his writing and not to himself. His speech is a very important part of history because it is such a humble speech and the things he talks about are very true about him as a person. In Faulkner’s

In their letters to the Nobel committee in 1993, both Nelson Mandella and Frederik Willem de Klerk both speak of what they feel that needs to happen for South Africa at the time to succeed in the efforts of peace. Both speak of the upcoming elections, that they are on opposite sides of. Mandella speaks of others who have won the Nobel and their contributions and what needs to be done to make certain apartheid come to an end. de Klerk tells of what he has been doing recently to move along the