Mahatma Gandhi
(Mohandas Karamchand)
“Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one
as this ever walked upon this earth in flesh and blood”.
-Albert Einstein
Throughout history most national heroes have been warriors, but Gandhi was a passive and peaceful preacher of morals, ethics, and beliefs. He was an outsider who ended British rule over India without striking a blow. Moreover, Gandhi was not skillful with any unusual artistic, scholarly, or scientific talents. He never earned a degree or received any special academic honors. He was never a candidate in an election or a member of government. Yet when he died, in 1948, practically the whole world mourned him. Einstein said in his tribute, “Gandhi demonstrated that a powerful human following can be assembled not only through the cunning game of the usual political maneuvers and trickery but through the cogent example of a morally superior conduct of life”. Other tributes compared Gandhi to Socrates, to Buddha, to Jesus, and to Saint Fancis of Assisi.
The life of Mahatma (great soul) Gandhi is very documented. Certainly it was an extraordinary life, poking at the ancient Hindu religion and culture and modern revolutionary ideas about politics and society, an unusual combination of perceptions and values. Gandhi’s life was filled with contradictions. He was described as a gentle man who was an outsider, but also as a godly and almost mystical person, but he had a great determination. Nothing could change...
Chris McCandless was had an adventurous, young spirt that drove him into the wild. His kindred soul was a leading force into a journey designed to find himself. In the book Into the Wild, Chris McCandless left society behind, trading a familiar scenery for the unknown. Mahatma Gandhi was a peaceful creature by habit, whose drive in life was to teach others how to live in peace. He wanted the world to learn to love, trying to have a positive impact on all who walked through his life. In many ways, Chris McCandless and Mahatma Gandhi are like, and in the same amount of ways are different.
Ted Bundy did not have the best or easiest life growing up. According to Rachael Bell, when Ted was growing up, he had no idea who is father was and he was led to believe that his grandma and grandpa were his parents, and that his mother was his sister. They did this because they wanted to protect his mother from ridicule and prejudice of being an unwed mother. Bell also informs us that when Ted was age 4, he and his mother moved and she married a man named John. Bundy never had anything to do with his stepdad, even though he made subtle efforts to include h...
Friedrich Nietzsche and Mahatma Gandhi, two mammoth political figures of their time, attack the current trend of society. Their individual philosophies and concepts suggest a fundamental problem: if civilization is so diseased, can we overcome this state of society and the sickness that plagues the minds of the masses in order to advance? Gandhi and Nietzsche attain to answer the same proposition of sickness within civilization, and although the topic of unrest among both may be dissimilar, they have parallel means of finding a cure to such an illness as the one that plagues society. Nietzsche’s vision of spiritual health correlates directly with Gandhi’s image of industrialism and the self-sufficiency. This correlation prevails by highlighting the apparent sickness that is ubiquitous in both of the novels.
In 1997 Dr. Ian Wilmut, a British scientist successfully cloned a sheep named Dolly. This turned the scientific world upside-down. The success of the experiment is considered by all as an amazing achievement in science. However, ethics and morals must surface to regulate cloning. It is understood that individuality is the most important part of life. Individuality is given to a person at birth and considered a right they will have for rest of their life. There is also a fear that the clone may only be produced to live the life of the clone, thus causing severe emotional damage as well pain and suffering for the clone. The progression of the clone may be limited, the advance in idea development will slowly die off. Evolution could come to a halt, because with clones, diversity will be limited and there will not be as many advances in society. The cells, in all humans, will all be the same and there will not be a process of natural selection and diversity.
Nike Inc which was originally known as Blue Ribbon Sports was founded in 1964 by Phil Knight and Bill Bowerman (“Mathew”). Nike started off slow, however the development of new and improved training shoes was the stepping stone that began Nike’s success. In the later years, Nike opened a new platforms of shoes designed for Michael Jordan, and sponsored international sports teams which increased the company's popularity and lead to economic growth (“Mathew”). Nike’s main focus started as footwear, but now has expanded and influences the entire athletic clothing industry.
Hinduism, as well as Buddism, both came into existence in India. Both religions are similar in many ways. The religions both believe in reincarnation and that the specific purpose of their teachings is to escape this cycle.
Cloning is one of the most widely talked about topics in this world. It is one topic that evokes a great public response worldwide. The defenders of cloning believe that cloning and genetic engineering will be the answer to most of the diseases in the future. On the other hand, the people against cloning view it as ‘ playing God ’. Cloning is unethical because people will lose their identities if their clones come into this world. We are taking nature into our own hands by cloning animals or humans.
Once ----- stated, “Just as there are two sides to every story, there are two sides to every person. One that we reveal to the world and another we keep hidden inside” (____). And so did the great and unforgettable leader, Mahatma Gandhi. Who was the real Father of the Indian nation? Was Gandhi what one thought he was? Gandhi was and will always be on known for every child, every young man and woman, and every old man and woman mind. He will always be depicted as a noble leader whom spent life fighting for justice through “satyagraha”- reaching truth. Contrastingly, there is a second face to the person that we all adore. A face that was not known as the “Mahatma” or the “Bapu” that we all recognize and venerate. The side, which came to light by several well-known historians and writers, was unfortunately, a side that neither one of us would anticipate from a courageous, kind and gentle leader. Even though India’s God-Like Founding Father, Gandhi, was a great leader, there are further little known parts of his life, which are not yet exposed.
Benegal’s Gandhi is not Attenborough’s ‘saintly’ Gandhi; rather he only strives to be the latter. Benegal’s Gandhi is a bright, hopeful young lawyer who came to South Africa to earn a living. He is neither great nor saintly but he is courageous enough to stand for the right cause. This movie gives a glimpse into the making of a great man; he was not born great but he achieved greatness by adhering to the simple human values. It is an intimate account of the life of Gandhi who worked hard and gave many sacrifices to become a leader. The wife, Kasturba and son, Harilal were the constant reminders of his human side and he learnt that to follow the right path he must give away whatever little he holds dear to himself. Since Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is the human counterpart of Mahatma Gandhi, and the movie makes the former its prime subject. Shyam Benegal in an interview said, “It is the young Gandhi we don’t know”. Mahatma Gandhi is known to all with due regard to Attenborough’s film production, the human side of Gandhi which is safely omitted by the director is little known. Benegal’s sees these twenty one years spanning from 1893-1914 as crucial since these were the years Gandhi spent as a human who longed to find his purpose in life, these were the experiments that made him the Mahatma
In the 18th century, the British took control of India, and its population. From this point on, the Indians endured the hardships that come with being a British colony. India remained under British rule, until Mohandas Gandhi came along. Some call him “Father of the Indian Nation”, others call him “Mahatma” meaning “great soul”, but regardless of titles, Gandhi was truly a great man, and an example of the pure love and peace we can find in every soul. Gandhi was not only a politician, but a revolutionary leader, and without his efforts, and use of satyagraha, India would not have gained the independence that it still has to this day.
The process of cloning is done by With the exception of the sperm and egg, every cell in the body contains all of the genetic material in its DNA to theoretically create an exact clone of the original body. “But cells have been "biochemically programmed to perform limited functions.” (http://www.religioustolerance.org/clo_intra.htm) When the process is done the daughter will have the exactly the same DNA as the mother, and they will look the same. Similar experiments to clone mice were initially unsuccessful.”
We live in a world where leaders become rich at the expense of the citizens, where leaders live for selfish reasons or even where leaders send others to fight on their behalf yet they stay safe. However, Mohandas Gandhi, also known as Mahatma (“The great Soul”) Gandhi was not one...
Despite all these that have been mentioned, is Gandhi really the good, saint man he seems to be? Is he really the Mahatma, which literally means Great Soul, as portrayed by Attenborough in the film Gandhi. He he worthy enough to be compared to other legends of his times. These are some questions one has to ponder over. It is not right to always look at only one side of the coin. I personally feel that this film is an exercise in myth-making in its portrayal of Gandhi, his ideas and the events in his life. No doubt, in this film Gandhi, Gandhi is pictured as an overly good man one should worship and look up to as an idol. There have been many instances in the film where the events were inaccurate or the portrayal of the characters were biased. In any case, lets now explore some of these issues. Throughout my essay, my main focus will be on whether Gandhi is really the good man he seems to be in the film ...
The term « clone » is derived from the Greek word « klon » which means twig and may have arisen from the idea of growing desirable plants by taking cuttings. Today, according to Aaron Hawley a clone is “an organism that has the same genetic information as another”. The creation of a genetically identical human is a very delicate subject in today’s society. A statistic concerning whether internauts consider human cloning wrong or not by http://www.debate.org/opinions/is-human-cloning-wrong proved that 54% are against it. The possibility of cloning humans has been a subject of interest and speculation in the 20th century. Following the cloning of Dolly, the sheep in 1996 by Ian Wilmut and his colleagues at Roslin Institute in Scotland, the idea of cloning humans became a very important source of interest, debate and research. Advanced Cell Technology created the first human clone in 1998, after the cell was cultured; an embryo was formed and destr...
Clone? This is where things start to get a little shaky. The answer is more of a