Research of Life and Work of Important Characters Juan Carlos Chong Pon Instituto Evangélico Bilingüe Virginia Sapp Fundamentals of Professional Ethics 11th B Mrs. Olga Vigil 07 / 09 / 2023 Objective : Collect information about these important characters and how they influence and affect the society. Bible Principle : “Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.” ~ Proverbs 14 : 34 We need to be ethical with the actions and the decisions we take as only doing the right thing might take us high and give us a great image of righteousness, while doing the wrong and unethical things will be reproachable by many in society as well as it can have great consequences. Mahatma Ghandi His real name was Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, born in October 2, 1869 in Porbandar, a coastal town in the place known in the present as Gujarat, India. Was an Indian lawyer, politician, social activist, and a writer, who became leader of the nationalist movement. He fought over British rule in India with a nonviolent type of protest called “satyagraha” and he used it to achieve political and social progress on the problem of British rule in India. This was his popular philosophy of nonviolent resistance, in which he believed that using nonviolence means, such as civil disobedience, or boycotts or peaceful protests, that it was meant to achieve social and political change. He became popular for the way in which he protested with his own philosophy, as well as being a great activist into defending India over British rule. He also played an important role in the Indian independence movement against British rule. His leadership ability and his unique personality combined with his commitment to protest with nonviolence moved many Indians to join the battle to solve this struggle in search of freedom. Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta, Georgia and was son of a baptist minister. He also became a baptist minister and a social activist which was responsible for leading the civil rights movement given out in the United States of America. He was someone very educated, as he had a bachelor of arts degree in sociology from Morehouse College. A bachelor of divinity from the Crozer Theological and a PhD in systematic theology at Boston University. Luther King Jr. was an advocate of nonviolent protest and civil disobedience, this because he was highly influenced by the philosophies of Mahatma Gandhi. He headed the Montgomery bus boycott in a way to successfully protest against the racial segregation on public buses. This led to the rule by the supreme court that segregation in public buses was not constitutional. He became a fighting symbol for civil rights and justice, as his contributions were the peaking point for a greater equality amongst black and white races of people. He was also the legacy into inducing the philosophy of nonviolence that Gandhi left. Nelson Mandela Nelson Mandela was born in the Madiba clan in the village of Mvezo, ubicated in the Eastern Cape, on July 18th, 1918. He was a black nationalist and the first Black president in South Africa. He was very important as thanks to him and the negotiation he had with the South African president F.W. de Klerk which helped end South African apartheid. The apartheid was a system of radical racial segregation which governed relations between the white minority and non-white majority, dictating that non-white South Africans were required to live in separate areas from the white African Americans, and as well, use different separated public areas and facilities and restrain to any contact amongst the two racial groups. Due to this problem which hit South Africa, Mandela had a goal to meet. He joined the African NAtional Congress and became leader of this organization’s efforts to challenge the apartheid through a nonviolent protest and civil disobedience. And although the apartheid became very repressive, Mandela required more direct action, founding the “Spear of the Nation” which united the African national Congress to sabotage government installations. After all this, the apartheid arrested him with a life sentence, and this case dew the attention of other countries, making them see the impact of the apartheid in Africa, so he was helped to be freed from prison. Once out he became president of South Africa and forgave the white supremacy by reconciling and negotiating for ending the apartheid once for all. Rigoberta Menchú Rigoberta Menchú was born on January 9th, 1959 to a poor family and raised with the Quiche culture. She became socially involved when she attended the Catholic Church and was involved in some activities, making her prominent with the women’s rights movement while still being a teenager. She mainly fought for the rights of the indigenous people, mostly from Guatemalan indigenous cultures. She worked to raise awareness about all the discrimination, violence and hate given to indigenous people and communities found throughout the country. She really worked hard into protecting and preserving the indigenous communities in her country, by including great efforts into improving access to highly qualified education for children and adults who belonged to these indigenous communities, as she had the great belief that education was the tool necessary to have power and strength, it was the best thing to have because with education nothing was impossible, but the indigenous people had no possible access to education, so she fought and tried to implement education for people of these communities. She has been awarded the Nobel prize for peace, and she has been involved in international human rights’ organizations in which she highly promotes justice and peace amongst people, demanding love and equality between all cultures, religions and ethnicities. Teresa de Calcutta Mother Teresa, known in the Catholic church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta, was a nun and missionary who devoted her life to caring for the sick and the poor. She was born in Macedonia to Albanian-descendant parents. She was fond into helping poor people so much she created a specific organization to help poor people. Mother Teresa founded the Order of the Missionaries of Charity, which is a roman-catholic congregation of women who dedicate themselves into helping poor people. She is considered as one of the greatest humanitarians in the world from the 20th Century for all that she has done to poor people and the aid she has given to many people who are in great need. She said God spoke with her and told her to leave and stop teaching and began helping poor people in Calcutta. And she heard and said as God commanded and she stayed in Calcutta, India, helping poor people and aiding all of the sick and poor population there. Of course, she left the convent with permission and began working on it, devoting herself into this. She took basic medical training and voyaged to Calcutta, where, with no specific goal, she began to aid all people who were unloved, unwanted and uncared, and give them the best treats and aids.
