NOBEL PEACE PRIZE (2009 and 2010)

In 1901, a man (Jean henri Dunant) received the NOBEL PEACE PRIZE for the first time; from this moment, someone receives it every year, but I will talk only about the last two.

Every year, the ceremony  takes place in Oslo.

2009

The President of United States of America, Barack Obama, received the Nobel Peace Prize with 1,4 million dollars only ten months after becoming President. He was the third American President that received this prize, but he was the first afroamerican president who received it.

The committee of Oslo decided to assign it to him for these reasons:

 ==> his commitment to reinforce international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples;

 ==> his commitment to make a world without nuclear weapons.

In effect, he asks the nuclear disarmament and he is working to restart peace's negotiations in Middle East. So, he's trying to do some very important things for us, he's in the centre of our attention and we hope in a better world. 

He received 1,4 million dollars with the Nobel prize, but he gave this money in charity.

2010

This year, the commettee of Oslo assigned the Nobel Peace Prize to Liu Xiaobo, (who's Chinese and ex university teacher of litterature) because there is a connection between human rights and peace in the world.

Today he's in prison because he's a dissident; he was one of the 300 men that signed the "Charta 08" and he diffused it. In this document they asked some politics reforms like the liberty of religion, printing and reunion.

Liu Xiaobo today is in prison: he sacrificed his liberty to defend his ideas and convinctions.

WHAT DID HE DO?

==> He supported the "war" for democracy, human and civilian rights;

==> He took part in the protest of Tiananman in 1989.

He was accused for getting over the consented limits of expression's liberty. He defended himself saying that his intentions were peace-related but he was condamned so, now, he must stay in prison for 11 years.

The organisations of defence of human rights, and western countries too, reported his sentence. Also Obama, asked China if he could be released.

What can we do to save the world?

We all live together in a world where not everyone pays attention to preserve nature!! 

But if we want the world to live forever we have to do it and there are a lot of ways.

Last week, we saw a video at school that talked about one of these ways that was to be vegetarian. I think that it can be a good idea but it can be dangerous for our health because we need to eat meat, eggs, milk, cheese...

I think that the biggest problem of the world is pollution.

It is a phenomenon that is always more diffused in the world because we need to produce energy and we do it with sources of energy that aren't renewable; so we produce waste that can't be reused in some way, and we are forced to leave them in the sea or underground; and they are very dangerous.

But, if we can use some sources of renewable energy, (like the energy we take from the sun, the water, the wind ecc.) why don't take advantage of them?

It can be a very good solution to stop the pollution. and there are some contries that already do it. I think that in Italy too we must use them also because they are less expensive. 

It is very important to save the world and everybody has to understand it!! 

We have to try to do it everyday and doing everything all together and we must diffuse the message to everyone, more of all to the young people because they are the future of the world and they will live in this world.