Mother Teresa

- John Frazer
Introduction
John Frazer is an English architect, and influential teacher and writer on
architect. In this essay Frazer talks about a great women Mother Teresa who
devoted her life to do to service for the poor people, who has been described as ‘the
lady of the slums, the champion of the poor, the apostle (messenger) of the
unwanted, the angel of mercy, the gently mother’.
Birth of Mother Teresa
She was born in Yugoslavia of Albanian parents (26 August 1910 – 5 September
1997), and she received training as a nun (sister in church) in Dublin, Ireland and
came to Kolkata in 1929 as a teacher. She collected orphan children and taught
them hygiene (Cleanliness). In 1946, she decided to devote her life to the service of
poor and those who suffered from diseases. She started missionaries of charity.
Lady of the slums
Mother Teresa came to Kolkata slums and she walked into the dirty slums
wearing a white sari. She had only five rupees with and yet she felt she could help
the sick and the poor. She knocked on the dirty house doors where the children
were ragged (who wears torn clothes), and barefooted (no slippers). She gave
education to them under trees. She is a best know woman in India. Though poor,
Mother Teresa in like Himalaya in wealth. Her asset (property) includes 7500
children in 60 schools 9, 60,000 patients in 214 dispensaries (clinics) 47, 00 leprosy
people in 54 clinics 1,600 orphaned or abandoned children in 20 homes and 3, 400
dying people in 23 homes. This is her real asset.
About her
She established the Catholic order (organization) in 1950. The Jawaharlal Nehru
Award was given to her service to humanity without distinction of caste, creed
(religious belief) and nationality. She is nearly 150 cm tall. She is calm and straight
forward, who is always capable of good laughter with visitors. She is hard to deal
with when it comes to helping the needy. She has a good listening capacity but
there was some objection to the Pope inviting her to open slums in Rome. She only
travels by third class ticket and do menial service too. She is very humorous
(Funny), integrity (good), and fortitude (bold in taking pain)\

She is Simple
Mother Teresa’s help to the poor is a sign of simplicity. She will not worry about
others those who discourage her. She helps others and gives room to the poor’s
and diseased people though there is no place for her in her room.
Her first big venture (risk) was a home for the very poor sick and dying
people. She stared it when she saw an old woman being bitten by rats dying in the
streets. She went and complained to the Municipal authorities to provide place for
the poor. Later she was offered a vacant pilgrim hostel by side of Hindu temple, and
the placed named Nirmal Hriday. The sick and the dying are treated in Nirmal
Hriday.
Peace Prize
The missionaries of charity run ten schools in Kolkata with strength of around
2500 students. Milk and bread are provided to the children. This First International
Pope John XXIII Peace Prize went to Mother Teresa in January 1971. She used the
prize money of Rs. one lakh to start a leper colony in West Bengal. This was
followed by the Templeton Foundation Prize for progress in Religion.
Conclusion
The prize money of Rs. 6,46 lakhs was presented to Mother Teresa by Prince
Philip. Many branches of Missionaries of Charity were established in different parts
of world. At the age of 87 she passed away on 5 September 1997. She is known as
the angel of mercy and gentle mother

LS-1 MARTIN LUTHER KING- R.N.

ROY
Summary
Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday was first observed as a national holiday in 1986. However, his life had become a
fixed part of American mythology for years prior to this. Indeed, to many African Americans whose rights he helped
expand, to many other minorities whose lives his victories touched, and to many whites who welcomed the changes
his leadership brought, King’s life seemed mythological even as he lived it. He is celebrated as a hero not only for the
concrete legislation he enabled, but for his articulation of dreams and hopes shared by many during an era of upheaval
and change.

After lengthy theological training in the North, King returned to his home region, becoming pastor of Dexter Avenue
Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. As a promising newcomer free from the morass of inter-church politics,
King became the leader of the Montgomery Bus Boycott when it broke out in 1955. That year-long non-violent
protest, which led to a Supreme Court ruling against bus segregation, brought King to the attention of the country as a
whole, and led to the formation of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, or SCLC, an alliance of black
Southern churches and ministers. This group elected King their president, and began looking for other civil rights
battles to fight.

The episodes immediately following met with less success, but nonetheless provided King with the opportunity to
refine his protest strategies. Then, in 1963, King and the SCLC joined a campaign in Birmingham, Alabama, to end
segregation there and to force downtown businesses to employ blacks. Peaceful protests were met by fire-hoses and
attack-dogs wielded by local police. Images of this violence, broadcast on national news, provoked outrage, and this
reaction created a political atmosphere in which strong federal civil rights legislation could gain favor and passage,
and the next year President Lyndon Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Meanwhile the SCLC,
under King, was repeating the tactics of Birmingham in Selma, Alabama, this time for the sake of African American
voter registration. Once again, images of the police brutality directed at the protest enabled the passage of federal
legislation, this time the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

The community of black activists felt that these two major victories marked the limit of what gains could be made
politically, and thus after 1965 King began to focus on blacks’ economic problems. His strategies and speeches
concentrated increasingly on class as well as race, and addressed the United States as a whole. King had won the
Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, and this recognition encouraged him to broaden his scope: by the time of his death, he was
speaking out virulently against the Vietnam War, and was organizing a Poor People’s March on Washington.
When King was assassinated in 1968, the nation shook with the impact. Riots broke out in over one hundred
American cities. King was almost immediately sanctified by the white-controlled media, which, however, in its
coverage of his accomplishments, also neglected the radicalism of his final three years. Instead his contemporaries
focused (as we continue to focus today) on the spirit and the accomplishments of the middle of King’s career. For
many born after his death, he is known best for the “I Have a Dream” speech, which reflects this spirit, and which he
delivered in 1963 at the height of his fame. The federal holiday commemorates this King, who articulated the
progressive, human hope of the early 1960s.