Friday, February 25, 2005

Hee ji - Nelson Mandela

http://www.anc.org.za/people/mandela.html: Go to the Web site and read the article. Then answer these questions:
1. How important was music to Nelson Mandela?
2. What is the morning routine that he learned in prison?
3. What country helped him to stand against Apartheid?
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/mandela/: Go to the Web site. Click on “Interview with Richard Stengel.” This is part of the story of Nelson Mandela’s boyhood. Read the article. Stengel was asked what made Nelson Mandela become a great man. You will find this quotation: “What made him a great man was the fact that his dignity was offended. That when he went out into the larger world, it didn't jibe with his own conception of himself, and he realized, ‘If I feel so deeply spurned, and everything is so deeply unfair to me, think how it must be for all these other people, who are not as able to withstand it as I am." And that was the motor, that was the trigger. Because I don't think he is a naturally reflective or introspective man.’ ” Explain what this means.
http://www.time.com/time/time100/leaders/profile/mandela.html: Go to the Web site. Read the article. Then answer these questions:
1. Look on page 2. What inhumanities did he discover in apartheid?
2. Look on page 3. Why was he put on trial? What did he mean when he says, "During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to the struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But, if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die."
3. Look on page 4. How did the men educate themselves and others while they worked in the quarry?
4. When Mandela had spent 20 years in prison, he was released. Eventually he became the President of the ANC, and then of the country. What were some of the things he wanted to accomplish as President? What made this accomplishment difficult?

http://nobelprize.org/peace/laureates/1993/mandela-bio.html: Go to the Web site and answer these questions:
1. Why would Mandela want the African National Conference to have military?
2. Why would his reputation grow larger while he was in prison?

http://almaz.com/nobel/peace/1993a.html: Go to the Web site. Click on “Nobel Lecture.” Then answer these questions:
1. How does he think his work is like the work done by Martin Luther King, Jr.?
2. What common victory does he believe his work and King’s could win?

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Blogger Marvine Stamatakis said...

1-1. He loved music. He enjoyed spending most time he listened music with sun set. Music made him that he could find greatest way for him. Especially he and his
fellow prisoners organized concerts as possible. They particularly would sing at Christmas. He liked African choral music more than European classical music.
1-2. He began to do exercise by 5:00a.m for at least one hour. After exercise, he read newspaper and then he had breakfast by 6:30a.m. The menu was fresh fruit and milk.
1-3. Algeria helped him to stand against Apartheid for military training.

2-1. When he was young, he was in a utopia. While he has been doing a small town lawyer, he would be happy. Nothing burned his ambition to be a leader. Something did not jibe and offended his dignity. However, when he went out larger world to be a leader, something did not jibe and offended his dignity. He realized that when they other weak people have same problems with Mandela, they can not withstand as Mandela did.

3-1. In the inhumanities of apartheid, they were kindled to black people. The laws concentrated all political and military for black people. When the laws hampered to black people, Mandela opted for nonviolence as a strategy.
3-2. He disagreed with discrimination between white people and black people. He wanted that everybody was treated under the conditions which all are equal. He prepared to die, had supposed people can’t be treated same.
3-3. In the prison, Mandela and other prisoners made group of classes for studying. They assigned each instructor.
3-4. He wanted to accomplish the black people could be released form apartheid.

4-1. He thought the best way for fighting with white people’s government is to make military.
4-2. Mandela was widely accepted as the most significant black leader in South Africa and became a potent symbol of resistance as the anti-apartheid movement gathered strength.

5-1. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mandela effort to change human rights, especially black people. They are non-violence. They made a speech about war, violence, racism, oppression, repression, and the impoverishment of an entire people.
5-2. While a common victory was happening about racism, apartheid, and white minority rule, they shall together. Mandela and Martin Luther King trust each other, because of doing same thing for human rights of black people.

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