People Who Made a Difference Contest-Please read first post

[RuthD]

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[ladyt28]

Mother Teresa - a name recognized in nearly every country of the world. She continues to influence people long after her death. Mother Teresa was born in Macedonia. At the age of 13 she received her calling from God and went to become a nun at the age of 18. From 1931 to 1948 Mother Teresa taught at St. Mary's High School in Calcutta, but the suffering and poverty she glimpsed outside the convent walls made such a deep impression on her that in 1948 she received permission from her superiors to leave the convent school and devote herself to working among the poorest of the poor in the slums of Calcutta creating her own order "The Missionary's of Charity. Her work in Calcutta's slums illustrated something that the high priests of global development often tend to overlook: in order to pull people out of poverty, it is important to first empower them with self-esteem and with the hope that change is always possible. In India and beyond, Mother Teresa and her Missionaries of Charity devoted their time to the blind, the disabled, the aged, and the poor. She opened schools, orphanages and homes for the needy, and turned her attention to the victims of AIDS as that disease increased in prevalence. By 1996, she was operating 517 missions in more than 100 countries.Although she had no funds, she depended on Divine Providence, and started an open-air school for slum children. No one could explain her attitude better than herself: "I see God in every human being. When I wash the leper's wounds, I feel I am nursing the Lord himself. Is it not a beautiful experience?" -- [SIZE=-1]1974 interview. [/SIZE] "I choose the poverty of our poor people. But I am grateful to receive (the Nobel) in the name of the hungry, the naked, the homeless, of the crippled, of the blind, of the lepers, of all those people who feel unwanted, unloved, uncared-for throughout society, people that have become a burden to the society and are shunned by everyone." -- [SIZE=-1]Accepting the Nobel Peace Prize, 1979. When Mother Teresa died in 1997 at the age of 87, her worldly possessions consisted of two $1 saris, one pair of sandals, her rosary and a Bible. [/SIZE]Perhaps, French President Jacques Chirac summed up Mother Teresa's legacy best when he said after her death: "This evening, there is less love, less compassion, less light in the world."

 

[Rhapsody]

Florence Nightingale

Prejudice.
Ignorance.
Waste.
These were obstacles faced by Florence Nightingale.
She found them early in her childhood and she battled them all her life. By the time she finished, Florence Nightingale had lifted the nursing profession to a level of admiration and respect.

Surprisingly enough, young Florence might have enjoyed a life of pleasure and comfort. Her parents had wealth and position. There was no need for Florence to experience a moment's distress.

But something planted itself deep within Florence. In her diary, she noted, "God spoke to me and called me to His service." It was a call she answered with a deep love shown by sacrifice and devotion for others. To countless soldiers, she became known as God's servant on the battlefield.

Today, in every country of the world, people who are sick and injured may receive proper care and attention. They owe much to Florence Nightingale, who heard God's call to service and answered it.

--From God's servant at the battlefield, Florence Nightingale, by David R. Collins.


During the Crimean campaign Florence Nightingale gained the nickname "The Lady with the Lamp", deriving from a phrase in a report in The Times:
She is a ‘ministering angel’ without any exaggeration in these hospitals, and as her slender form glides quietly along each corridor, every poor fellow's face softens with gratitude at the sight of her. When all the medical officers have retired for the night and silence and darkness have settled down upon those miles of prostrate sick, she may be observed alone, with a little lamp in her hand, making her solitary rounds.

The phrase was further popularised by Henry Longfellows's 1857 poem "Santa Filomena":

Lo! in that hour of misery
A lady with a lamp I see
Pass through the glimmering gloom,
And flit from room to room.
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[Nilla]

is it too late to join???

 

[Rhapsody]

*Is ready for the screen-shot*

 

[RuthD]

is it too late to join???

No, it's not to late to join.

 

[Nilla]

No, it's not to late to join.

Ok, cool, if the screen shot from the other game I'm in gets taken tonight I'll be able to join and be ready in time. So I guess I have to give you a final decision tomorrow.

 

[RuthD]

I added your name to the list. I can take it off if there is any problem.

 

[Nilla]

I added your name to the list. I can take it off if there is any problem.

I just realised that I'm 6 hours ahead of the ESt time so I don't think that there will be any problem but I'll send you a PM if there is. I already figured out who I'm gonna pick. I think... Is it ok if it's a person who we do don't know exactly what she looked like?

 

[RuthD]

I just realised that I'm 6 hours ahead of the ESt time so I don't think that there will be any problem but I'll send you a PM if there is. I already figured out who I'm gonna pick. I think... Is it ok if it's a person who we do don't know exactly what she looked like?

Sorry but we have to have a picture of the person because you need to dress up like her or him.

 

[Nilla]

Sorry but we have to have a picture of the person because you need to dress up like her or him.

I chose - Mary, mother of Jesus. And there are a bunch of pictures of what she might have looked like but there's no way of telling for sure. That's what I meant. (Sorry for being vague)

I can choose someone else...

 

[RuthD]

You can choose a picture of Mary if you want.

 

[Nilla]

You can choose a picture of Mary if you want.

Ok

 

[CHristsaves]

I chose Susan B. Anthony because she is a wonderful example of living your life fighting for what and who you believe in.

Susan B. Anthony was a leader in the movement for women's rights. She helped found the Women's State Temperance Society of New York, dealing with the abuses of women and children who were abused by alchoholic husbands. She was an advocate for the abolition of slavery as well as voice for women to be given the right to vote.

In 1900 Susan led a successful campaign to have women admitted into the University of Rochester. The Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women's Studies was named in honor of her.

 

[RuthD]

We need 3 more contestants by Monday at 9pm.

 

[Jere209]

Hey Ruth. I'll try this one..
I'm doing Tecumseh, Great Shawnee Chief.

 

[Jere209]

Juju said she will do someone too. we will post tomorrow after school.

 

[mindalan]

Mary!?

That is an idea I never would have thought of.

 

[RuthD]

Hey Ruth. I'll try this one..
I'm doing Tecumseh, Great Shawnee Chief.

Okay I am signing you and juju up. Everyone is doing so good in this contest!!

One more person can join and be ready by 9 or 10 Monday (today)EST.

 

[4EverBlessed]

I'll join!