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student's name / a: Ana Ruth Ramírez de Acosta

Name of Teacher: Jorge Alberto Mira Cortez

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Task 1 for module 1

Matter: English

2015

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Mahatma Gandhi ( 10/02/1869 - 01/30/1948 )

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

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Date of birth: October 2, 1869 , Porbandar , IndiaMurder: January 30, 1948 , New Delhi , India

Awards : Person of the YearChildren: Harilal Gandhi, Ramdas Gandhi , Manilal Gandhi , Devdas GandhiParents: Karamchand Gandhi, Gandhi Putlibai

“Las Generaciones del porvenir Apenas creerán Que Un hombre de Como Este Camino la tierra en carne y hueso. "Albert Einstein

BiographyHe was born on October 2, 1869 in Porbandar ( Gujarat current state ) .

When has 13 years , he married Kasturba , a girl of the same age in a marriage arranged by the parents .

He studied law at University College London. He returned to India in 1891 and sought work as a lawyer in Bombay , but without success. In 1893 , he was hired by an Indian firm as counsel to its offices in Durban , where he lived for 20 years visiting the prison numerous times because of his claims. In 1896 , after being attacked and beaten by white South Africans , he began to propagate the policy of passive resistance and non-cooperation with the South African authorities . Part of the inspiration of this policy is in Lev Tolstoy ( whose influence on Gandhi was profound ) . It also acknowledged the debt he owed the writer Henry David Thoreau, especially his essay Civil Disobedience . Gandhi , however, considered the terms ' passive resistance ' and ' civil disobedience ' unsuitable for their goals and coined another term , satyagraha ( ' embrace of truth ' in Sanskrit) .

After a great job in South Africa for organizing an ambulance corps for the British Army, running a section of the Red Cross and have founded some cooperatives to defend the rights of the Indians, he returned to India. He became a nationalist leader who managed to millions of poor and illiterate Indians form a mass movement that freed India from British rule. After the First World War, began his passive resistance movement, which throughout India extended to approved laws Rowlatt in 1919, through which the colonial authorities gave British emergency

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powers to deal with so-called subversive activities. In 1920, noting that the British government did not make any reform, proclaimed an organized campaign of noncooperation. All the streets of the country were paralyzed by sitting of citizens who, despite despite being beaten by police did not rise. In this demonstration was arrested, but soon regained freedom.Gandhi led a life of the most humble : he did not accept any earthly possession, dressed like the lower classes and their food was based on vegetables, fruit juices and goat milk . He campaigned in favor of the vernacular languages of India and against the class prejudices of caste . He gained considerable credibility by practicing austerity . He defended love as the only valid relationship between human beings. In 1921 the Indian National Congress , gave full executive authority. A series of violent revolts against Britain , which acknowledged the failure of his campaign of civil disobedience, so he decided to end it developed. He was imprisoned again. On regaining his freedom in 1924 , he left active political life dedicated solely to practice communal unity . But it did not take long to return to the struggle for independence .

In 1930 he moved to the population does not pay taxes , especially salt , which was very high . He was again arrested and released in 1931. A year later after creating a new campaign of civil disobedience against the British authorities , was arrested twice, fasting for long periods on several occasions. In 1934 he decided to leave politics , which back in 1939 because it had to end the federation of Indian principalities with the rest of India. In protest he made a hunger strike with the intention of getting the leader of the state of Rajkot modify his autocratic regime. The British colonial government granted the demands .

At the beginning of World War II , the Indian National Congress and Gandhi called for a statement of intent regarding the conflict and its implications for India. In reaction to the British response , the party decided not to support Britain if he was not granted full independence of India. Britain refused. In 1944 the British government agreed to grant independence to the condition that the Muslim League and the Indian National Congress resolve their differences . Gandhi initially disagreed that India was separated into two, although it concluded that internal peace would be achieved after demands for the creation of a Muslim state grant . In 1947 Britain granted independence to India and Pakistan but it became two independent states.

On January 30, 1948 while on his way to his usual afternoon prayer in New Delhi, Gandhi was assassinated by Vinayak Godse Nathura , a member of a Hindu extremist group.

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BOOKS : MAHATMA GANDHI

The Story of My Experiments with TruthBook of Mahatma GandhiPublication : 1927Author : Mahatma Gandhi

Hind Swaraj or Indian Home RuleBook of Mahatma GandhiPublication: 1909Author : Mahatma Gandhi

The words of GandhiBook of Mahatma Gandhi and Richard AttenboroughPublished: November 1, 1982Authors: Mahatma Gandhi, Richard Attenborough

Non - Violent Resistance ( Satyagraha )Book of Mahatma GandhiPublication : 1961Author : Mahatma Gandhi

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Gandhi ; their proposals on medicine , health and sexualityBook of Mahatma GandhiAuthor : Mahatma Gandhi

The Penguin Gandhi readerBook of Mahatma GandhiPublished: 1993Author : Mahatma Gandhi

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Gandhi in India, in his own wordsBook of Mahatma GandhiPublished: September 15, 1987Author : Mahatma Gandhi

Scraps of Mahatma Gandhi- Our reward is in the effort, not the result. Full effort is full victory .

- Since I am imperfect and need tolerance and kindness of others , I must also tolerate the defects of the world until I can find the secret that allows me to remedy them .

- The inner voice tells me to keep fighting against the whole world , but I am alone . She tells me not subject to this world but carrying forward me nothing but the fear of God.

- Violence is the fear of the ideals of others.

- No one can do good in an area of your life while hurtful in another. Life is one indivisible whole.

- There is no way to peace , peace is the way.

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- As someone understands to obey unjust laws is contrary to the dignity of man, no tyranny can dominate .

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