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    Indira Nehru, also known as Indira Gandhi, was one of the most controversial prime ministers of India who led from 1966 to 1980. Gandhi came to power after the death of her father and India’s leader of the Indian National Congress at the time, Jawaharlal Nehru. She started Indian feminism and increased the potential power of women in the world, but she committed many crimes that prove that she was a bad leader for India. She did everything she could to keep herself in power even though she was…

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    Nelson Mandela was a strong leader who never gave up on what he believed to be right, even when the task seemed impossible. He led the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) to fight the Apartheid laws in South Africa. Many people looked up to Mandela as a great leader and their hope for equal rights. Even though he spent a total of 27 years in prison. Nelson Mandela led his people by example, doing everything he could to fight apartheid and standing strong. After many long hard years,…

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    Afrikaner Empire with the objective to own the land and all its resources. Racism was the main problem during 1948 until 1991, where African black people were abused and separated from their land due to a legislation named Apartheid imposed by the National Party (government party) in Africa. Afrikaners were Dutch decedents that arrived to Africa between the seventeenth and eighteenth century. From 1877 to 1878 the last frontier war took place, between British colonies and Xhosa people; this…

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    Indira Gandhi; Mother India or Tyrant Indira Gandhi leaves a divided legacy. To the poor she is a hero. She is Mother India, who helped the underprivileged with her social welfare programs and the mother of the Green Revolution, which helped make India self-sufficient in grain productions. For others she is the architect of the Emergency, a dark period in India’s history when democracy was suppressed and political enemies we put down or…

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    The world we live in is filled with racial discrimination. Even after slavery was abolished, there are still many signs of the racial barrier between whites and blacks. The struggle to end this fight has been tried by many people who pushed the success for equality a little bit farther. One of these people was Nelson Mandela. Mandela was determined to fix the problem with white superiority in his country. With all the work Nelson Mandela put into fixing the racial separation, he should be…

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    The word “Apartheid” is pronounced “apart-hate” with the goal to separate people according to the color of their skin. The end of an apartheid state in 1994 was caused by series of events that were through social, political, and cultural issues. Some examples that fall under these categories were the “Black Resistance” that included things such as Programs of Action, civil disobedience and boycotts. Also the influence of Nelson Mandela had a big impact during the fight for the end of the South…

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    Human qualities are what make us human. Without them, we would become emotionless drones. The human quality that I find most important would be integrity. I believe this quality is very essential because it encumbers all the traits that make a truly good person, such as honesty, being incorruptible, and morally or ethically upright. [THESIS] Having integrity means always doing the right thing despite the odds or difficulty of it. [THESIS] The person who I think embodies the trait of integrity…

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    african national congress, and releasing Nelson mandela, a key person for that group. The African national congress was a movement that was against the segregated form of government. Nelson Mandela was an important person, he was put in prison because he led a sabotage attack against the government and was caught. After that attempt In 1990 the government had an election in 1994 where the people would get to vote whether the African national congress will be in power or not. The African national…

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    Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation by Josh Carlin is an extraordinary read about a nation that no one ever thought would come together as one. As a politician of South Africa and eventually the president, Nelson Mandela, always seemed to know how to win others over. Not only would he win them over, he would develop a connection through his words that made the people feel adoring to his nature. The drive and motivation combined with the smooth talker he was led him…

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    Nelson Mandela was in prison for over 27 years, because he had some political opinions. The South Africa government or the Apartheid did not want the black majority in South Africa to have any power of justice. If the Apartheid gave the black majority power, then the British people could lose their advantages, more likely the white people could lose their advantages. Everybody would hate to be in prison for 27 years, they would take revenge. Mandela, but did not take revenge, he was using his…

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