Al Gore
What is the Nobel Peace Prize?
The Nobel Peace Prize is an Award given to an individual or an association “who has 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 “This means that the Nobel Peace prize is awarded to an individual or association who has done something to help two nations get along in peace.
Bibliography of the person:
Al Gore:
He was the second of two children and grew up in Washington D.C. His older sister Nancy LaFon Gore, who was born in 1938, died of lung cancer in 1984. He graduated 25th in his class of 51, applied to only one college, Harvard, and was accepted. Al gore married a woman called Mary Elizabeth on May 19th 1970. They had four children, Karenna (b. 1973), Kristin Carlson Gore (b. 1977), Sarah LaFon Gore (b. 1979), and Albert Gore III (b. 1982) Gore eventually decided that the best way he could contribute to the anti-war effort was to enlist in the Army. After enlisting in August 1969, Gore returned to the anti-war Harvard campus in his military uniform to say goodbye to his adviser and was "jeered" at by students. He later said he was astonished by the "emotional field of negativity and disapproval and piercing glances that certainly felt like real hatred". Of his time in the Army, Gore later stated, "I didn't do the most, or run the gravest danger. But I was proud to wear my country's uniform. Gore began serving in the U.S. Congress at the age of 28 and stayed there for the next 17 years, serving in both the House. At the end of February 1976, U.S. Representative Joe L. Evins unexpectedly announced his retirement. Gore decided to quit law school and run for the House of Representatives.
When and why the person was awarded the prize:
In 2007 Al Gore was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. He was awarded the prize for:
“for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change”
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