dijous, 6 de maig del 2010

LIVES THAT CHANGED OUR WORLD EXAMPLES OF INSPIRATIONAL PEOPLE

.Gandhi was born in Porbandar (Gujarat state current), a coastal village in India. First was the son of local minister and his family was the caste vaisya (dealer). He studied law at the universities of London and Ahmedabad, and worked as a lawyer in Bombay (now Mumbai). His first work he performed in South Africa in 1893. While working for a company in this country was interested in the situation of 150,000 compatriots who lived and fought against laws that discriminated against Indians in South Africa through passive resistance and civil disobedience.

Lives that changed our world examples of insprational people

Rolihlahla Nelson Mandela (IPA: [roli'ɬaɬa]) (* Mvezo, 18 July 1918), known as Madiba in his country, was elected the first president of South Africa democráticamente THROUGH sufragio universal. Before being elected president was an important activist against apartheid, because of which it was encarcelado during 27 years.
During his encarcelamiento, Mandela became the most representative figure of the fight against apartheid, remain a key personaje peaceful transitions in representative democracy in South Africa and an internationally renowned statesman and influyent

Lives that changed our world examples of insprational people




DATES1929 Birth of Martin Luther King1963 Martin Luther King leads a huge march to Washington 1968 Murder of Martin Luther King
6 decades ago, in the southern USA, a young black boy called Martin Luther King was growing up. Martin saw how badly black Americans were treated by white Americans. Blacks could not attend the same schools, eat in the same restaurants or travel on the same buses as whites.
All over the south, Martin Luther King led peaceful protests, calling for equal rights for black people. In 1963 he led thousands of people, both black and white, on a march to Washington, the capital of the USA. In a speech he said: “Ï have a dream, that my four little children will be judged not by the colour of their skin, but by the content of their character”..