Mother Teresa's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech

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Mother Teresa’s Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech The Nobel Prize Award is and honor given to those who had done their best to benefit mankind in the fields and categories of physics, chemistry, medicine and literature between many others. For example, the Nobel Prize Award of Peace, which was given to Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu (Mother Teresa) on December 11, 1979 at Oslo City Hall, Norway. That same day she gave her famous Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech to all of God’s creation around the world. While researching “The Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech”, written by Mother Teresa, I found many interesting facts and ideas she has proposed to society in order to make this world a better place. She often placed all the ideas she had into an historical context …show more content…
Like many of you know, now a day people can choose whether or not give birth to a child who is already living inside of them or not. Mother Teresa said the following, “Abortion is the greatest destroyer of peace. “ In other words, has humans have evolve from time to time we have decided to have our own opinion on whether what we are doing is correct or not. (Stern p.14) And that’s why now a days many people option to deny birth to innocent creatures which are God’s …show more content…
One of Mother Teresa’s main points was poverty, this because wherever she when on her life journey has a missionary she wasn’t surprise when she saw someone in hunger or starvation this because she had experience this traumas almost in every place she had journey on. “…And I saw this family of ten at the edge of death, has quickly has possible I gather a full bag of rice and gave it to them..”, Mother Teresa didn’t help others because she was told to do so, in the contrary she did it because she wanted to help others and feel that happiness on her life. She didn’t expect anything in return, all she wanted was for all to be in good health and for them to have an opportunity to come closer with God’s path and be “truly” safe, safe from the poison and danger of the enemy and death. Mother Teresa manage to make an awesome and extraordinary usage of rhetorical concepts like describing her purpose (Telos) in an understandable and clear manner and by using the adequate clothing for the ceremony setting. (Kairos) She also manage to make an incredible first impression by using a dress, creating a caring, religious and humble first impression; which obviously made her speech extremely powerful and

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