Mohandas Ghandi

As a child he was taught very little of religion, and recalls his initial distaste for the Vaishnava faith. It wasn?t until his father became ill that Gandhi found something in religion that suited him. While his father was bedridden a man would come and recite the Ramayana, and young Gandhi listened intently. Gandhi later said, ?Today I regard the Ramayana of Tulasidas as the greatest book in all devotional literature.? (Experiments 48) Being at his father?s bedside also forged a lifelong tolerance for other religions.

He came from an upper class Hindu family and his father Karamchand Gandhi was a leader in the community. While Gandhi was young he was shy, kept to himself and never thought to be a world-renowned political and spiritual leader. As a kid Gandhi was not the perfect child many would think he was, Gandhi did many things outside the norm of his community like eating meat, smoking, and a small amount of stealing, however Gandhi did regret these things later on in his life. As was tradition where he grew up Gandhi’s parents arranged a marriage for him at the age of 13 to a 14-year-old girl Kasturbai Makhanji. The marriage at the young age may seem strange to the North American society today, however it was the normal way of doing things where he grew up.

Gandhi. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi of Gujarat, the same country I am from, was a very important and momentous man who not just changed Gujarat, but India as a whole. This man signifies India’s independence and freedom from the tyranny of the ghastly British. The way he flourished from being a shy lawyer to a stalwart rebellion leader shows and symbolizes how devoted and steadfast he was to God and his country. The aspect that I desire to learn is the good and bad of his non-violence philosophy and how it influenced and changed the future through analyzing the change he went through, as well as the change India went through.

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O’Brien relays to the readers the truth of the Vietnam War through the graphic descriptions of the man that he killed. After killing the man O’Brien was supposed to feel relief, even victory, but instead he feels grief of killing a man that was not what he had expected. O’Brien is supposed to be the winner, but ends up feeling like the loser. Ironically, the moral or lesson in The Things They Carried is that there is no morality in war. War is vague and illogical because it forces humans into extreme situations that have no obvious solutions.

Brutus' tragic flaw was making bad judgments. For example, he let Antony speak at Caesar's funeral, he let Antony live and also he marched to Phillipi. Since the Romans liked Brutus, they thought that if he killed Caesar, then he had a good reason for it. However, if Brutus had not let Antony speak at the funeral, the people would not have turned against him and the other conspirators. Antony was not Caesar's best friend, like Brutus; he just wanted everybody to be against Brutus so they could follow him.

In the present, I come back to the growth mindset. I tried to understand why I got the math problems wrong or why do butterfly have different colors. During fourth to eighth grade, I gave up in the process. I slowly lose confidence in myself and slowly became anti-social or the outsider. I felt that I am not smart enough.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869, into a family of merchants. He went to England to study law when he was 19. His fellow students avoided him because he was an Indian. In London he read Henry David Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience”, which had an enormous influence on him (Ryan). In 1893, he accepted a job at an Indian law firm in Durban, South Africa.

In Gandhi’s later years his mothers impact is apparent as he fasts many times and becomes a vegetarian. She also had a moral influence on her son. One of Gandhi’s early teachers encouraged him to cheat on a spelling test in order to impress a school inspector, but he refused. Despite all his good traits Gandhi was a below average student and did not show much promise in academics. (Wolf 171) Nevertheless he traveled to England to attend law school in 1888 in accordance with the desires of his family.

He made a great impact in our history as a nation. He created the Monroe Doctrine, made it hard to own slaves, helped Indians find land, and helped our country unite as one. He fought for us in the War of 1812, which he was wounded. He loved our country and was true to the U.S. Monroe was the ‘Era of Good Feeling’ and will always be remember as James Monroe, who did bring to many people an era of good feelings.