powerful interest

Essay #1: A Powerful Influence Many individuals have a powerful figured that has influenced them in many kinds of way. Whether it is intellectual, spiritual or just personal appealed. A great example of an individual being influenced by someone is Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. King was mainly influenced by two main individuals, Dr. Benjamin Mays and Mahatma Gandhi. To get influenced by someone is very appealing because you see something in that person that makes you want to do it yourself or gets you the courage to keep going. On my case, I have been powerfully influenced by my mother. Someone that stands out as a powerful influence in your life is there to stay and keep following some of their aspects. A great example of someone being influenced by amazing people was Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. King was a great person willing to change the society’s perspective. He wanted to get the Civil Rights Movement going and to be successful. Through his journey Dr. King met a person who influenced him very much. This was, Dr. Benjamin Mays, president of Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, where Dr. King attended school. Dr. Benjamin Mays visited King and his parents at their home and became a regular guest at the family’s Sunday night dinners. In which got Martin Luther King Jr. more attached to him and his believes. Dr. King’s ministerial aspirations were deeply influenced by Mays. “I could see in his life the ideal of what I wanted a minister to be,” King commented in a 1956 interview. Another powerful influence to Dr. King was Mahatma Gandhi, the spiritual leader of India's independence movement in the first half of the 20th century. Gandhi's nonviolence was informed by not only his Hindu background, but by study of other religious and moral traditions, including Christianity. He spent mostly his entire adult life experimenting with methods of nonviolence intended to be not just morally admirable, but effective in the real world. This is what caught the attention of