THESIS STATEMENT EXEMPLARS

HOW JOSEPH STALIN’S COLD AND HARSH LEADERSHIP LEFT A LEGACY OF WINNING WORLD

WAR II AND A LEGACY OF FEAR AND DEATH

• JOSEPH STALIN WAS A CRUEL, BUT EFFECTIVE LEADER. MILLIONS WERE KILLED ON HIS COMMAND, BUT HE WAS A HUGE PART OF WINNING WORLD WAR II FOR THE ALLIES. HIS LEGACY WAS EVEN GREATER AS THE EFFECTS OF HIS LEADERSHIP LED TO CONSTANT DISPUTE BETWEEN THE U.S. AND SOVIET UNION. JOSEPH STALIN WAS QUESTIONABLE IN MANY WAYS, BUT HIS LEADERSHIP WAS CRUCIAL TO MAKING THE WORLD WHAT IT IS TODAY.

MALCOLM X: A REVOLUTIONARY CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER WHOSE LEGACY INSPIRES INDIVIDUALS

TO SEEK UNITY, EQUALITY AND TRUTH

• MALCOLM X, AN ELOQUENT AFRICAN AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST WHOSE BOLD AND REVOLUTIONARY LEADERSHIP EMPOWERED BLACKS TO FIND THEIR VOICE DURING THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT HAS IMPARTED A LASTING LEGACY OF DEDICATION TO EQUALITY, UNITY, AND THROUGH IN THE UNITED STATES AND BEYOND.

CORAZON AQUINO: SURPRISING LEADERSHIP LEADS TO A LEGACY SEEN IN

THE NEW PHILIPPINE GOVERNMENT• CORAZON AQUINO WAS THE “HOUSEWIFE THAT LED A REVOLUTION.” SHE

LED THE PHILIPPINE PEOPLE THROUGH A REVOLUTION THAT BROUGHT BACK THE DEMOCRATIC, REPUBLICAN AND CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT. SHE LED HER PEOPLE TO TAKE A LARGER PART IN LOCAL GOVERNMENTS, ALLOWING FOR A MORE DECENTRALIZED GOVERNMENT. HER LEGACY IS LARGE AND HER COUNTRY’S GREAT LOVE FOR HER CAN BE SEEN IN THE INNUMERABLE STATUES AND PLAQUES DEDICATED TO HER.