Chavez and Mandela The two people i'm doing are Cesar Chavez and Nelson Mandela. They are two of the most heroic people in history. But in my opinion I think that Cesar Chavez had help out more people than Mandela. Chavez went through boycotts,hunger strikes,and marches to help people out. And Mandela went through years in prison. This paragraph is about Cesar Chavez,and how he started helping famers.Which in my opinion did the most things to help out people.On the intro paragraph it says,”He went through boycotts,hunger strikes,and marches.And by doing this Chavez and his supporters successfully improved the lives of farmers around the country.” He risked his life doing this to help out farmers.And at the end of all of it,it paid
Ferriss, Susan, Ricardo Sandoval, and Diana Hembree. The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers Movement. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1997. Print.
Even though, this is a fictional book, it tells a true story about the struggle of the farm worker to obtain a better life for themselves and their families. There are two main themes in this book, non-violence, and the fight for dignity. Cesar Chavez was a non-violent man who would do anything to not get in a fight while they where boycotting the growers. One, incident in the story was when a grower pulled out a gun, and he pointed it at the strikers, Chavez said, “He has a harder decision to make, we are just standing here in peace…” The picketer were beaten and put in jail before they would fight back and that is what why all farm workers look up to Cesar Chavez , along with his good friend Martin Luther King Jr. Non-Violence is the only way to solve anything. The growers in that time did not care about their workers, if people were striking, the growers would go to Mexico and bring in Braceros, mean that they would not have to sign the union contract and not take union workers, who were willing to work if the grower would sign the contract.
...ss to sacrifice his life for the advancement of the laborers illustrates how invested individuals were and how deeply they believed in their cause.
Born in 1758 in Kohala, Hawai’i, Kamehameha I became the ruler of all the Hawaiian islands. When Kalani’opu’u, the former ali’i of Hawai’i died, his son, Kiwala’o was to take over his throne, but was taken by Kamehameha. Kamehameha was a powerful leader and role model. He was a tall, strong, and brave ali’i. Kamehameha lived from 1758-1819, till the age of 61. His strategies and techniques would help him strengthen and increase the amount of resources; help him unify the Hawaiian islands. Nelson Mandela lived from 1918-2013, till the age of 95 but spent his 27 tormenting and suffering years in prison due to his actions as the leader of the peaceful protest and armed resistance against the white minority’s oppressive regime in a racially divided
So I chose Martin Luther King Jr. because he is iconic and inspirational to many not just me and he truly crossed the rubicon by standing up for basic rights that everyone should have the right to love and live an not be down graded just because you aren't white and that anything is possible and hopefully in the future things will get better for all races but hopefully and especially for Native
From December, 1955 until April 4, 1968, in the less than 13 years of Martin Luther King as the leader of the modern American Civil Rights Movement, African Americans achieved more progress toward racial equality in America than in the previous 350 years. Dr. King is widely regarded as America’s pre-eminent activist of nonviolence and one of the greatest nonviolent leaders in history of the world.
Human Activists or Human Rights Defenders are people who, individually or with others, act to promote or protect some variation of a certain Human Right. Throughout history there have been many world famous Human Activists, some have won prizes such as the Nobel Peace Prize, while some have even lost their lives fighting for what they so strongly believe in. Some Human Activists choose to fight for their cause with violence, but many Activists take the non-violence rout to solving their conflict. Nelson Mandela and Mikhail Gorbachev are two very different Human Activists coming from two very different places, Nelson Mandela was the first black President of South Africa and spent spent 27 years in
Benjamin Franklin is someone that I look up to and his achievements are far greater than most. The first person that comes to mind when I think of a life given to the service of others is Benjamin Franklin because he pioneered the spirit of self-help in America, there was no-one who ever lived or is living on the face of this Earth who is more extraordinary and impacting than Benjamin Franklin, many people just see him as “the guy on the $100 bill” but what you will know is that he’s is truly the definition of success and by far the greatest man to ever live in colonial America.
The food we enjoy every day comes at a cost, and could stop being produced in an instant. Caesar Chavez knew of this problem and devoted his life to fixing it. Farmers across the United States suffer from unequal treatment. Chavez has worked to improve the financial, medical, and labor standards for all farmers regardless of race, or social standing.
Both of the speeches, Martin Luther King's and Cesar Chavez', are powerful peices and communicate one vision: equality. King and Chavez have two very different styles of writing but the message from both is simmilar. for example both king and chavez discuss how their people are discriminated against because of their skin color, and how their people have neither the right to vote in the the south, nor the will to vote in the north , and in Chavez' situation, to have their vote counted. however similar their message's may be, their writing styles are different. Chavez talks about statistics, about why and how his people are treated. king held that the atrocitys commited against his people were self evident and as such did not need to be proved to anyone. kings message was meant to encompass the entire Uninted States while Chavez' was directed primarily at California.
Martin Luther King Jr. and John F. Kennedy were two very commendable men. They were two very different men that I feel had the same incredible amount passion for human beings. Both Dr. King and President Kennedy had such high hopes for this country and regardless of the sad and devastating time era, they both spoke with much poise and compassion. I truly believe they are exactly what this country needed and still needs to this very day.
All of these people are great examples of heroes in their time periods from Odysseus to Stephen Kumalo to Helen Keller. Odysseus shaped greek culture with his values and story. Stephen Kumalo risked everything to help save his brother. Helen Keller influenced society with her with her struggle and writings. They all chose their own paths they were not born heroes. They all influenced their societies in one way or another and that is truly what makes a
The definition of a leader is a person who influences people to a common purpose. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr are examples of great leaders who brought about social change through alternative means in the 20th century. Their means were through nonviolent protests of freedom. Gandhi fought for freedom from Great Britain, and King fought for freedom from segregation and equal rights for all Americans.
Rose Castillo Guilbault, the author of "Conveyer Belt Ladies," and Nelson Mandela, the author of "Long Walk to Freedom," both portray an importance of childhood and adulthood in their stories. Imagination also plays an important role in Guilbault 's and Mandela 's articles. Although there are many differences, both of the authors have a unique writing style which consists of symbolism, metaphors, and imagery. The authors use their own voice to describe their story with complex, and ornate sentences yet, it is very straightforward. They also use expository and narrative writing to let their personality come through the page. Both the authors use an emotional, subjective, and intimate tone.
Nelson Mandela (1918-2013) was the revolutionary political leader and former president, who helped bring an end to apartheid in South Africa. He devoted his life to democracy and social justice, and received more than 250 honours for it, perhaps the most important one is the Nobel