SESSION 1: LIVES THAT CHANGED OUR WORLD EXAMPLES OF INSPIRATIONAL PEOPLE

In this session we are going to have a look at the lives of some people that tried to improve their lives and the lives of the people in their communities and societies as they could not accept that people’s rights were being denied. We are going to focus on 3 men: MARTIN LUTHER KING, NELSON MANDELA and MOHANDAS GANDHI. But we should also mention the names of other people that wanted to change some aspects of the world like Mother Theresa, John Lennon, Dalai Lama, Rigoberta Menchú, etc.

 RIGOBERTA MENCHÚ (Chimel, Guatemala, 1959)

Dalai Lama (China 1935)

 John Lennon ( Liverpool, England, 1940)

 MARTIN LUTHER KING ( Atlanta USA, 1929 )

 MOHANDAS GANDHI ( Porbandar, India, 1869 )

 Mother Theresa (India, 1910)

 NELSON MANDELA ( 1918, South Africa)

















EXERCISE 1
Answer the following questions:

1. Luther King, Mandela and Gandhi took action in different ways because they saw some human rights were being denied to some groups of people. Describe the denial of human rights in their 3 cases.
2. How did they protest against what they thought was not right? (marches, demonstrations, etc)
3. Did any of them go to prison? If so, how long were they there?
4. Are they all 3 still alive? If not, how did they die?
5. Do the problems that they wanted to solve still exist in society nowadays?
6. Do you think they contributed to improving their communities? If so, in which way?

 1.-
Luther King:
 Black Americans were treated badly by white Americans
Mandela:

Black people were very unfairly treated by white people

Gandhi:
There Were terrible fights between hindu and Huslem ploper

2.-
They protested percefully

3.-
NELSON MANDELA 28 years and MOHANDAS GANDHI 6 years or more

4.-
 Martin Luther King -  In 1968 he was shot and killed by a white man
Nelson Mandela - no dead
Mohandas Gandhi - Gandhi was murdered by an angry Hinduman.

5.-
still think that the problems were not solved completely

6.-
  yes, because human rights were improved.




Exercise 2.-:


http://www.biographyonline.net/people/women-who-changed-world.html

Eva Peron:

 

Eva Peron was widely loved by the ordinary people of Argentina. She campaigned tirelessly for both the poor and for the extension of women’s rights. At the same time she was feared by some in power for her popularity. She was also criticised for her intolerance of criticism; with her husband Juan Peron they shut down many independent newspapers. She died aged only 32 in 1952.