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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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    Jason Tshabalala’s team asks him how they can trust the old security to which he replies, “we can’t.” The Law of Solid Ground states, “Trust is the foundation of leadership.” After Tshabalala tells his team they cannot trust them, they focus more on their pride than the safety of Mandela. His pride caused a division in security, which is poor…

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    Summary of Evidence • Robben Island Tour: Gained an awareness that Robben Island had a far more diverse history than I expected and gave rise to my historical investigation. • Oprah Winfrey’s Mandela Interview Published in O Magazine in 2001: Nelson Mandela, who is regarded as Robben Island’s most famous prisoner, was “unscathed by bitterness” after leaving the island as it allowed him to develop into the diplomatic politician South Africa needed to transition into a democracy. Mandela’s message…

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    “Perhaps it does not seem to them that we suffer. Perhaps they do not care for it.” (Paton 39) Many people around the world went through some type of oppression. Some of the oppressed united as one to overcome the oppressors. Some as small as a family, others as big as a community. They united to gain freedom from the oppressors. In times of oppression marinating familial and cultural ties within the oppressed group allows its people to retain hope, organize, and gain power by relying on each…

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    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 oppressed. Mandela and Gandhi both fought for freedom, but Mandela has more evidence then Gandhi overall. First, Gandhi cared a lot about…

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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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    couple minutes, stunned by what just happened. And ran to mom and dad’s room. “Um, m-mom. We got a phone call “, I stuttered. “I’ll be there in one second honey.“ she didn’t understand. She couldn’t see the fear in my eyes, or the way my hands were shaking. She couldn’t read me. “No mom, I already hung up.“ “Then why do you need me Phyllis?“ I didn’t want to repeat it. Who would say that to someone? All we wanted…

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    men to be sent to the sea. After defeating his opponents, Prince Abdul returned home to announce the news. While the prince was traveling home to his father, he was ambushed by kidnappers. According to Prince Abdul, the attack was hostile: “We heard the guns. We saw the smoke.” (2:23) Many of Prince Abdul’s men were killed during the abduction. Forcefully, those who were left, were chained and dragged, to the sea. The abductors forced the prince to take off his shoes, so his feet were in pain…

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    Literature review Nelson Mandela was a South African leader. He succeeded to end apartheid and with the African National Congress (ANC), he was the first one who won the presidential election with black-African origin. Thus, Mandela received the Nobel Prize for Peace (Britannica, 2016). 27 years as a strong-willed prisoner (Shriberg and Shriberg, 2011, p. ) improved his personal development of forgiveness for his rivals, formed his strength and established supplementary leadership skills like…

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    I-presentation of NELSON ROLIHLAHLA MANDELA 1-Birth and death Rolihlahla Mandela was born on July 18th, 1918 in the village from Mvezo, at the edge of the Mbashe river with about fifty kilometers of the town of Mthatha, capital of Transkei, in the province of current Cape-Eastern in South Africa. Its first name, Rolihlahla means: “to remove a branch of a tree” or, more familiarly “trouble maker.” Mandela is resulting from a royal family Thembu of the Xhosa ethnos group which reigns on part of…

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