Influential Leaders: Julius Caesar vs. Mahatma Gandhi Julius Caesar and Mahatma Gandhi were both leaders from different countries and time periods. Based on the play‚ "Julius Caesar" by William Shakespeare‚ and the movie‚ "Mahatma Gandhi" directed by Richard Attenborough it is apparent that these two men were in some way very several similar and in other ways very different characteristics. Both were prominent people and lived lives of great importance and leadership. They both died in similar ways
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Early life and background of mahatma gandhi Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi[3] was born on 2 October 1869 in Porbandar‚ a coastal town which was then part of the Bombay Presidency‚ British India. His father‚ Karamchand Gandhi (1822–1885)‚ who belonged to the Hindu Modh community‚ served as the diwan (a high official) of Porbander state‚ a small princely state in the Kathiawar Agency of British India.[4] His grandfather was Uttamchand Gandhi‚ fondly called Utta Gandhi. His mother‚ Putlibai‚ who came from
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Mohandas Gandhi and Frantz Fanon were influential persons of the twentieth century‚ notable for their work in post-colonialist theory and activism. Though they shared the same vision of a decolonised world‚ they differed in their perspectives of colonisation‚ decolonisation and their approach towards the latter. The paper will examine the distinction through the framework of violence and non-violence‚ and begin with the complete examination of Fanon’s perspective before analysing Gandhi’s with Fanon
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get where they are today and most might have fought and committed violent acts to get what they wanted‚ but there are some that used the non-violent way to achieve their goals. Non-violence isn’t something that today we here much about‚ but back in Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.’s time non-violence was the key. There were both positive and negative attributes that they used in their teachings and some of the negative attributes lead them to miss their mark in some way. However all of their struggles
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In situations of civil unrest the people need a leader to led them to justice Martin Luther king Jr and Mahatma Gandhi rose to the accotion and led in the controversial times. Gandhi counter british rule‚ led india to freedom and ignited the thirst for world wide freedom. Martin Luther king utilized Gandhi’s teachings to help leb African Americans and minorities to civil rights for all. While their approaches for peace and equality are similar they are very different. The differences whether is minor
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Summary My Father had a small Estate in Nottinghamshire; I was the Third of five Sons. (See Important Quotations Explained) The novel begins with Lemuel Gulliver recounting the story of his life‚ beginning with his family history. He is born to a family in Nottinghamshire‚ the third of five sons. Although he studies at Cambridge as a teenager‚ his family is too poor to keep him there‚ so he is sent to London to be a surgeon’s apprentice. There‚ under a man named James Bates‚ he learns mathematics
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When addressing to the success of the Indian independence movement‚ Mahatma Gandhi is always mentioned. To a large extent the importance of Gandhi to the success in achieving the independence movement is unadoptable. As the major leader of the movement‚ not only should Gandhi’s role in the movement and his ideology should be examined; moreover to determine the importance of him to the success‚ the world wide situation during that period should also be considered as one of the major factors in allowing
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Edlin Sri Lankan culture is a rich blend of the interaction of diverse cultural patterns both indigenous and derived from‚ trade‚ religions‚ as well as‚ western colonization. The cultural patterns of Sri Lanka today show the lasting impact of a diverse range of cultures. The overall culture is largely the result of the impact of the introduction of Buddhism‚ more than 2‚300 years ago. It was very much later‚ from the early 16th century‚ that Sri Lanka came under the strong influence of the
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should think that Gandhi was killed by a madman" One of the best speeches of All time‚ which is compared to Socrates’s speech in his trial. The Judge was astonished by his speech and commented that if India had followed the Jury system of giving judgments‚ Godse would have been adjudicated as "Not Guilty" by the Jury‚ cause after the speech‚ the whole audience was in tears. This is the speech given by Nathuram Godse in the court in his last trial for the murder of Mahatma Gandhi Born in a devotional
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Gandhi and his campaign for civil rights and Indian independence Date Event How is this evidence of influence of Satyagraha 1869 The birth of Mahatma Gandhi Ordinary man‚ no effect of his birth. 1883 Gandhi married 14 year old Kasturbai Makhanji at age 13. 1888 Gandhi travelled to London to study law Became well educated‚ more educated then other Indians 1893-1914 Gandhi travelled to South
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