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    Have you ever read the stories about the hard workers Gandhi or Nelson Mandela? If not you are going to learn a little more about how they both fought hard for human rights.Mahatma Gandhi were both great fighters for human rights. Both men were fighting for their people in their country that were being oppressed. In The Eulogy for Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela’s autobiography, we see the differences these two leaders made, not only in their lives, but the lives of everyone who has been…

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    Why is Nelson Mandela a role model for so many people in the world? Nelson Mandela is a hero for lots of people because of his fearless fights for the civil and human rights around the world. He led several campaigns and protests in South Africa against the apartheid system. This system separated the South African people by their skin colors. Therefore white and black Africans did not have the same and equal rights. Due to Mandela’s actions, the leaders in South Africa who supported racial…

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    Question 2: Njabulo Ndebele’s The Cry of Winnie Mandela “In the novel, the historical Winnie Mandela is imaginatively re-inscribed. She is removed from the public arena to a woman who is just one among many, a descendent of Penelope.” The road to self-realisation is a lonely road. Caught between self-exploration and social expectance, one cannot determine their highest height until they have experienced their underground low. Set in an era of apartheid regime, societal roles and government laws…

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    Task 1 Why is he a role model for so many people in the word? Mandela got prisoned in South Africa under the Apartheid regime because of his political opinions. But that was not the only reason. It was because of his skin color, because he was a black man with strong opinions. This was not allowed in the country in that period, because the leaders were afraid of black people with strong voices. The way Nelson Mandela is a role model for so many people in the world, must be of his forgiveness.…

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    Nelson Mandela made this point in one of his speeches in his country of South Africa, which generally is quite significant. These words generally carry a lot of meaning for those who generally struggled to gain their freedom and to mostly be recognized in South Africa, in times of adversity. This for all intents and purposes quote reminds us to mostly invest in the specifically hopes alongside the willingness to for all intents and purposes get involved, to really produce results, which…

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    If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes in his heart ( Nelson Mandela). It is no doubt that language is one of the factor that communication exist and still remain crucial between all humans today. Linguists in no exception played a major role in structuring these languages techniques, specifically English language There are a lot of field of linguistics have been developed throughout the years as a result of the…

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    “No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.” ( Julia Glum 2015 )This is a famous quote of Nelson Mandela, a black south african leader who fought for his rights and black peoples right since they were treated like their worthless. Nelson Mandela challenged and resisted the…

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    ry of South Africa. The ANC won so on May 10,1994 the ANC chose Mandela to be first African American president of South Africa with de Klerk as his deputy. Nelson never forgot where he came from or the people he met along the way that helped him get here today. The first thing Mandela did as president was end the apartheid system , helped the lower class south Africans to have a better life and make sure all human rights were fair which meant no discrimination or fair treatment to people in…

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    Nelson Mandela instigated his efforts in the fight to eliminate apartheid by joining the African National Congress. This was the oldest black political organisation in South Africa and is protuberant in its opposition to apartheid. It restrained the inequalities which were seen, and the apartheid organisation gave rise to a comprehensive resistance movement. For racial fairness and impartiality, Nelson had been an inspiring figure all around the world for activists, as he was giventhe symbol…

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    Courage is a very powerful word with various meanings; for example, bravery implies courage with a daring and selfless boldness. In fact, courage is the quality of an individual’s mind or spirit which allows him or her to face a difficulty head on, along with the danger and pain that comes with it, without any fear. This, of course, typically involves overcoming a specific fear, or masking it in a way that is undetectable with one way of accomplishing the former by sheer determination. There are…

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