"Who best benefit mankind through their actions", this is what distinguishes people who got a Nobel Prize.
This Prize is an award in the memory of Alfred Nobel, the inventor of Dynamite.
There are, every year, six awards for six subjects:peace, literature, physics, chemistry, economics, and medicine.
All the prizes are given out in Sweden exept for the Pease one which is given in Norway: this is because Norway adn Sweden were one country when the prizes started.
The Nobel Peace Prize is given to someone who: "...shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses."
Every year the Norwegian Nobel Committee invites o group of qualified poeple to submit nominations for this award.
Beyond the great importance that the winner of this Prize gets there is a prize in money that worths 10 million SEK (c. US$1.4 million).
We are going to talk about the Prizes given in 1995 an 1996, to Joseph Rotblat and Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs and to Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo and José Ramos-Horta.
Joseph Rotblat was born in 1908 in the territory of Russian Empire, now called Poland. He was a Physicist and when he got the Prize he lived in England. He wanted to fall out the nuclear centrals. He bacame secretary of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World affaries and, in conjunction with it, he got in 1995 the Nobel Peace Prize with the following motivation: "for their efforts to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international politics and, in the longer run, to eliminate such arms"
Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo was born in 1948 in East Timor, Wailacama exactly. He was a catholic bishop.
José Ramos-Horta was born in 1949 in Dili, East Timor. He was a politicia, the second president of Est Timor since de indipendence from Indonesia. The got the Nobel peace Prize together wit the following motivation: "for their work towards a just and peaceful solution to the conflict in East Timor".
"Heal the world make it a better place for you and for me and the entire human race." These words are from one of the most popular songs by Michael Jackson, with this word he invites us all to make something for our "sick" world.
Can we do something to save the world? This is the question that nowdays everybody tries to answer. Topics like renewable enrgies are always most treated, but first of all I think that we should learn how to be less squanderers. Today with easy daily action we can help saving the environment and saving energy at the same time! Saving the planet is not an easy task because it requires the power of the whole planet. There are a lot of things that we can do but if we aren't united to achieve the same objective, we won't menage to do nothing!. I think that the first base is the ''Diversified Harvest''. This last is the easier way to start to save the planet. With simple gestures, you can start to do useful things for a world that is crying. The Diversified Harvest done only by few people is useless, but the situation changes if we do that all togheter. Others eco-behaviors like taking the bus or using the bike to move into the city instead of take the car, could help reducing the air pollution. We are guys that hope that everybody will understand how it is important to try to protect the world from men's destructive work. Infact we have to save our planet under all its points of view,endangered species, air pollution, greenhouse effect... These are just few of the problems that are going to destroy our planet, we have to make a difference, to roll up ours sleeves and preservate the Earth for all the generations to come! Since we were young our parents educated us respecting nature, because we are a basic part in it, the uncontrolled exploitation of natural resources is taking us into a self-destruction. We must realize that the World isn't ours but we have got it in loan and we must keep it intact for all the generations to come.
We suggest you to watch this video: Severn Suzuki speaking at UN Earth Summit 1992
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