One year ago, the death of a princess brought an entire world to tears. The wounds are slowly healing and the grief is less painful. What remains are the lessons that can be learned from a phenomenon that few can entirely forget. At the time it was a mystery. A divorced member of the royal family of a medium-sized European nation dies in a banal car accident in Paris, and for a week the sun, moon and stars are knocked off their appointed tracks. Within days, Europe suffers a shortage of cut flowers as tens of thousands of bouquets are laid before the house of the victim. Demand for newsprint soars; the funeral, watched live on television throughout the world, attracts an audience of 1 billion.
A few years later, the mystery remains. What was the Diana phenomenon all about? Diana’s former husband, Prince Charles, is more popular than he has been for years. The French authorities are still looking for the white Fiat Uno. Real news – terrorism, Russia, Bill Clinton’s sex life, two pregnant Spice Girls, all this knocks the event from the front pages. And we wonder: those flowers, that grief, ‘The People’s Princess.’ Why did Diana move us so?
“I think the biggest disease this world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved, and I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I’m very happy to do that and I want to do that,” says Diana (2, page 96). Princess Diana in a changing world like ours today there is many uncertainties. There is one thing we are sure about, that's our own pass. When you look back at your life are you going to see yourself as a leader or a follower? There is one woman from the last century, one that sticks out, to have been a leader for us. We need more women like Princess Diana to step up and become leaders in this changing world. Diana was associated with over 150 charities, and was president or patron of more than 90. Hospital patients sometimes awoke in the small hours to find the ‘Queen of Hearts,’ in jeans and baseball cap, at their bedside to comfort the sick and the dying. Some of Diana’s charities included the Leprosy Mission, she made substantial personal donations as wells as raising its profile. “A fund-raising meal at Kensington Palace brought in £100,000. There was her beloved English National Ballet, for when a...
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...at is shocking.’ Sometimes, Diana admitted, the scenes she saw were horrifying. ‘But over the years I’ve learned to cope with it, because each person is an individual. Each person needs a bit of love. You don’t think about yourself. You always take it home with you. I have lasting impressions of people struggling and they are very touching.’
Especially she remembered a little girl she had met in hospital: ‘She had her intestines blown out. She’s very, very, poorly, and I think just looking at her and thinking what was going on inside her head and heart was very disturbing.
‘But she’s just one statistic, and there are millions of landmines lying around. Someone has got to do something.’
That someone, she had decided, was herself and, once she had committed herself to the cause, The Queen of Hearts was a very determined lady.
Diana, the Princess of Wales will always be cherished for her love that she tried to shower on the needy and less fortunate people around the world. Her beliefs and causes should not be forgotten just because she is no longer with us. Instead, they should serve to remind us what caring really means, not merely spoken words but rather, actions that are felt.
she believed in.The best heroes are the ones that are willing to fight for the good of the
She was mentally able to grow from the graphic things she is seeing. She says "Many times during that long journey, I was terrified beyond description, yet somehow my mind remained intact. Men and women the age of my parents lost their minds on that journey. Had I been twice the age of eleven, my mind might also have departed" (p.65). She was so young which allows her to comprehend what kind of situation she was in and what should she do in order to survive. The young lady is curious enough to question everything and never gives up hope. Furthermore, Aminata always seems to come face to face with death. She has to stomach dealing with seeing so many dead bodies at such a young age. This allows her to push through and toughen up. Aminata states "homelanders were dying steadily at a rate of one or two a day. The dead were shown no respect. The splash of a man or woman hitting the water horrified me each time…" (p.93) The concept of death is no longer foreign in the eyes of Aminata. She has slowly become desensitized to the aspect of dead bodies, yet the way these bodies are treated are what bothers her the most. Finally, as Aminata matures, she becomes fearful of her own
Elizabeth I was born in 1533 to Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. Although she entertained many marriage proposals and flirted incessantly, she never married or had children.
Growing up in 1960s, Diana Spencer always knew royalty. This idea of power was a birth right through her father, but yet Diana did not know of the influence she was going to inflict one day. Princess Diana, through her marriage with Prince Charles, became an icon for the United Kingdom and impacted many in the world (Princess Diana Biography Princess). Along with her compassionate heart and humble soul, Diana ascended in the eyes of the public and became England’s sweetheart and beloved leader. Princess Diana soon inspired people all over the world by breaking the royal stereotypes, sponsoring many charities and providing a prime example of what it means to love one’s children and people.
This ruling served as a wake-up call to the British press and public. According to a recent poll, 43% of the U.K. public hold the photographers responsible for her fatal crash, while only 33% of the country thinks that the chauffeur is equally responsible.Some believe the chauffeur was under the influence and he wasn’t paying attention to the roads. Others theorize Princess Diana provided a tip to the paparazzi about the decoy vehicle. No matter the theory, the public turned against the media after the death of Princess Diana. Most tabloids as well as the British magazine “Sun and the Mirror” began to have their lowest sale figures. Many people who worked at the magazine would not mention to anyone of their line of work for fear of ridicule. The British media was ashamed after what had happened to Princess Diana and distanced themselves from
Queen Elizabeth I was said to be one of the best rulers of England. Unlike rulers before her, she was a Protestant and not a Catholic. She was not stupid though. She did go to church and did everything that Catholics did to prevent getting her head cut off under the rules of her sister Mary. Elizabeth was very young when she came to rule. She was only 17 years old when her sister Mary died and she took over.
And seeing what Clara Barton has done – everything she has done, from the beginning of her life to the last moments of it – how can anyone say that women are not equal to men in their power and influence? Clara is not only a symbol of kindness, of determination, and of generosity; she is also a symbol of equality, she is proof that no one man or woman is greater than the next, and that anyone, no matter how big or how small, no matter their sex or their race or their physical attributes, can make a name for themselves. Clara Barton changed the world. She caused a ripple of emotion. She is a woman who matters.
Not only her family and her friends but the whole nation to whom she had become an icon.. The forth rule in tragedy is that it is partly brought about by the victims own actions. For Diana it was the fact that she had been taking a slight risk in asking her driver to try and escape from the pa... ... middle of paper ... ... y come a few seconds earlier she could have prevented
Even twenty years after her death, the world continues to remember the princess who perpetually remembered them. Princess Diana lived as one of the most influential figures of the 20th Century. She devoted her life in the spotlight to bring recognition to causes that she felt others should care about, such as AIDS, homelessness, leprosy, and landmine removal. Diana believed that love and kindness served as the remedy for any sort of suffering. She once stated in an interview with BBC journalist, Martin Bashir, “I think the biggest disease this world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved. I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour, for a day, for a month—I’m very happy to do that and I want to do that” (Roisin Kelly). While the matter remains certain that people were initially starstruck having a princess in their midst, it is undoubtedly Diana’s kindness that attracted and continued to attract beings to her presence. She held the hands of those deemed unsafe to touch and broke down stigmas in the process. Diana became a hero for those who had no one to speak up for them, or the trials they endured, through simple acts of kindness, such as a warm smile or a gentle handshake. While Diana aided those around her, she herself desperately craved love and kindness, as discussed in the following quote from the New York Times’ Article, “Diana in Search of Herself”. “Indeed, Diana's unstable temperament bore all the markings of one of the most elusive psychological disorders: the borderline personality. This condition is characterized by an unstable self-image; sharp mood swings; fear of rejection and abandonment; an inability to sustain relationships; persistent feelings of loneliness, boredom, and emptiness; depression; and impulsive behavior such as binge eating and
The book Uncle Tom’s Cabin is considered a classic. Many times classic lose some of their impact as time goes by but that is not the case with Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel. It can be argued that the story has more meaning and impact now then it even did when it was first published. It is a glimpse into a dark period of American history that people have no actual frame of reference to understand. Books like Stowe’s puts a name and an emotional context to what can otherwise be viewed through a detached lens of indifference.
... being so open and willing to share, we are now able to understand bulimia better. The message she really tried to get out there is that it’s dangerous and shouldn’t be overlooked. It can arise when people are under a lot of pressure, when they have low self-esteem and when they don’t know how to get the attention they need in a positive way. She really helped bring light to a situation that most did not understand.
Princess Diana was known throughout the world as being a well rounded, gorgeous woman, but through all of that she was also a hero in many people’s eyes. Diana was often called Princess Diana by the media and the public, but she did not enjoy such a title and did not personally think of herself as a princess. This is a point Diana herself made to people who referred to her as such. She always had a strong head on her shoulders, no matter what might have been going on at the time. Diana tried to not let various things get her down, even though some could have destroyed her. Diana also spoke with surprising truthfulness about her own personal struggles with bulimia and suicide, giving individuals struggling with these issues a role model of openness and honesty. Princess Diana used her media popularity to bring attention to the needs of the forgotten and needy of the world. She was out to seek a symbol in everyone’s life, life itself.
...g as an ambassador for England, Diana desperately sought out peace for herself and others throughout the course of her life, which in my opinion has earned her the permanent title as “the people’s princess.”
Princess. What does the term really mean? Most people associate it with a fairy-tale life. You have everything you want right at your finger-tips. You are perfectly happy and nothing can go wrong. In reality though, is this true? Lady Diana Spencer was seen as a perfect, flawless princess. But who really was she? What did the title “Princess” mean to her? Diana secretly struggled with insecurity her entire life, but her determination and compassion shaped the way the world thought of her.
... had. Diana’s two sons, Prince William and Prince Harry continued their mother’s legacy with the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund. In the first nine years, the Fund pledged more than $125 million to more than 350 charities around the world. Diana was a unique princess and her charities were handled on such a deeply personal level she became the real people’s princess. People could identify with her from around the world and they appreciated her approach to life. She was not just adored in her home country the United Kingdom, but around the world.