“By blood, I am Albanian. By citizenship, an Indian. By faith, I am a Catholic nun. As to my calling, I belong to the world. As to my heart, I belong entirely to the Heart of Jesus.” These words fully sum up the essence of Mother Teresa. Having left the world 17 years ago in 1997, her life continues to inspire many. So many lives touched by her. The story of her life inspires an awe of how someone could live such a life starting from her childhood, through adulthood, and ending with her later years and legacy.
Born on August 26, 1910, she was born to a Albanian family in Skopje, Macedonia. Her family baptized her under the name Agnes Gonxhe. At age eight, she lost her father to sudden illness. Some speculate his political enemies poisoned him since he called for the freedom of Albania. Her mom, Drane Bojaxhiu, continued to raise the family with strict adherence to religion and hospitality. Even though the family had limited means, Drane issued an invitation for the city’s destitute to come dine with them. Because of her mother’s piety and compassion, charity assumed priority in Agn...
To begin with, on April 20, 1926 in Raesa, Romania Anna Seelfreud was born. In Anna small town of Raesa lived about 1,000 people and 50 Jewish families. Jews were known to be respected people in the town. Anna grew up
1. Dolores Huerta was a member of Community Service Organization (“CSO”), a grass roots organization. The CSO confronted segregation and police brutality, led voter registration drives, pushed for improved public services and fought to enact new legislation. Dolores Huerta wanted to form an organization that fought of the interests of the farm workers. While continuing to work at CSO Dolores Huerta founded and organized the Agricultural Workers Association in 1960. Dolores Huerta was key in organizing citizenship requirements removed from pension, and public assistance programs. She also was instrumental in passage of legislation allowing voters the right to vote in Spanish, and the right of individuals to take the driver’s license examination in their native language. Dolores Huerta moved on to working with Cesar Chavez. Dolores was the main person at National Farm Workers Association (“NFWA”) who negotiated with employers and organized boycotts, strikes, demonstrations and marches for the farm workers.
At the age of 14, she delivered a child. This child was from another father, so it was killed. The following year she was married to Count Ferencz Nadasdy. He was a very powerful noble in Hungary. Because of his high power, he was often chosen to govern the Hungarian Army during the Ottoman wars. He was not very supportive of her. Only marrying her for her father’s money and power. Making her feel bad about herself. Some people believe that this is why she started to kill and torture the common women, making them feel bad about being a commoner, and her feeling good about being a noble’s daughter.
The diary of Anne Frank, written over a two-year period, tells about her life while she and her family are in hiding in Holland. They are staying in a secret attic of the office building where Mr. Frank used to work in order to escape from the Nazis during World War II. During their stay in the annex, they are supported by several people in the office building, who risk their own lives to insure the secrecy of the Jewish hideout and to provide them with food and basic supplies. Much of Anne's diary tells about the daily routine of the occupants of the attic.
not her first pilgrimage and she makes it known to the others that she is experienced and
Susan Brownell Anthony was considered one of the first women activist. She fought for the abolition of slavery, African American rights, labor rights and women’s rights. Susan Anthony fought for women’s rights by speaking up and campaigning for women and serval others around the United States. She devoted her time and attention on the needs of women. Ms. Anthony helped reform the law to benefit women and improve our conditions, and encouraged the eliminations of laws that only benefited the men of our country. Susan B. Anthony helped change the life of African Americans and women in the United States with her morals and influential beliefs in equality.
“Back then, we didn’t have any civil rights. It was just a matter of survival, of existing from one day to the next. I remember going to sleep as a girl hearing the Klan ride at night and hearing a lynching and being afraid the house would burn down.”(Rosa Parks Biography). She’s tired and her feet are absolutely aching, but the only feeling going through forty-two year old Rosa Park’s mind is anger. She has just been told by the bus driver to relocate to the back of the bus and join the rest of the colored people that had been moved; so a white man could occupy her seat. He tells her to move again. She doesn’t. What happens next on this first day in December is a middle-aged seamstress being tossed out of a bus and subsequently arrested. The beginning of the Montgomery bus boycotts is about to begin.
Susan B. Anthony was born February 15, 1820 in Adams Massachusetts to Daniel and Lucy Anthony. Susan was the second born of eight children in a strict Quaker family. Her father, Daniel Anthony, was a stern man, a Quaker abolitionist and cotton manufacturer. He believed in guiding his children, not directing them. He did not allow them to experience the childish amusements of toys, games, and music, which were seen as distractions from the Inner Light. Instead he enforced self-discipline.
A young girl forced to spend her teenage years in hiding due to the barbarity of the Holocaust has more in common with a current American teenage than some people know. Yes, the circumstances in today’s world do not merely relate to the horrid times of the Holocaust but, the adolescents in both time periods still express the difficulties of finding themselves, as well as, building themselves to the person they want to become. Obviously, Anne Frank is a different person because of what she went through during Hitler’s dictatorship. People worldwide are still reading the remarkable Anne Frank The Diary of a Young Girl, because her own innocent words are written revealing how ordinary she truly was. Anne is comfortably capable of partaking in an eighth grade school classroom. Her mind is just like any average teenager, which is eye opening for readers considering her innocent life was taken. In today’s world Anne Frank would naturally fit into society because she expresses personal experiences and feelings in her diary to which an average American teenager could relate.
Lady Diana Frances Spencer (July 1, 1961–August 31, 1997) was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales. From the time of her engagement until her death, Princess Diana was one of the most famous women in the world. She was known across the world as “The People’s Princess” and “The Queen of Our Hearts” (Pettinger, 2006). Through her charity and her life struggles, many people admired and could relate to the Princess.
Anne Frank was a German-Jewish diarist. She was known for the diary she wrote while hiding from anti-Jewish persecution in Amsterdam during World War II. Her diary describes with wisdom and humor the two difficult years she spent in seclusion before her tragic death at the age of 15. Since it was first published in 1947, her diary has appeared in more than 50 languages. Perhaps more than any other figure, Anne Frank gave a human face to the victims of the Holocaust.
Rosa Parks is famous for a lot of things. But, she is best known for her civil rights action. This happen in December 1,1955 Montgomery, Alabama bus system. She refused to give up her sit to a white passenger on the bus. She was arrested for violating a law that whites and blacks sit in separate sit in separate rows.
I went to the movie Dolores on Wednesday March 21. I thought this film was very good. It was about Dolores Huerta. She is a political activist for her community and women. She dedicated her life to the United Farm Workers.
The call is the first step that all heroes start with, which is an opportunity for adventure is presented to the hero. Mother Teresa knew that she was missing something while she lived as a nun in the convent, she felt like she had received a message from God to help the poor and leave the convent ;Mother Teresa was called for service.
Mother Teresa was a regular woman that was born with the name Agnes Bojaxhui on August 26, 1910 in what is now the Republic of Macedonia. Her parents’ names were Nikola and Drana. Her father was a merchant. Agnes was the youngest of three children. She had a sister named Aga who was born in 1904 and her brother named Lazar was born in 1907. Agnes and Aga were very close. The three of them were Albanian and grew up in the city of Skopje. Her and her siblings attended a school that was attached to their church, parish of the Sacred Heart. She was part of the church choir. Agnes Bojaxhui’s father died when she was eight in 1919. This hit her mother, Drana, hard. She was miserable without him, but knew that she had to care for the children. Drana worked hard and became successful. She eventually started her own business (Rice, 1998, pp 5-13) (Tilton, 2000, pp 8-9).