History Makers Part I

          Adolf Hitler, Starlin, Sadium Husdam, Mother Teasera, Julia Cesera, Alexsander The Great,  Gandhi, Nelson Mandela,  Martian Luther King, Buddha, and Jesus Christ are all well know names of people who sort to change the world or the world view of others in some way.  Each of these individuals I believe had a firm picture of what an ideal world would look like and "a action plan". Most of us hold a idealistic picture of what we believe the world should look like, but few of us express it, and only a few  individuals in history have been brave enough to develop an action plan and begin to put it into action in such a way then have become historical figures who either for good or evil helped shape the world with live in today.

I would argue that each of these individuals did the change the world in someway, thankfully not all succeed in their mission .

The Great Thinkers . . .

Other names come to my mind in terms of individuals that have helped shape the modern era we live in, Alexandra Graham Bell,  Tomphas Eddision, Albert Einstein, Benajamn Frankland, The Wright Bothers, Steve Jobs, Henry Ford and Bill Gates. Is it possible to sit and imagine a modern world without the influences of these great minds. I too world argue that these people helped changed the world in their own way.

. . . For evil . . .

One man who had an incredible impact on history in his attempt to create a "Pure Human Race" is Adlof Hitler. Hitler was the last leader of the Nazi Party (National Society of German Workers). 

Did Hitler set out to be evil? Certainly not, like all ideologist, his political viewpoints had some 'merit'. As an early movement the party focus was anti-capitalist in it rhetoric, but slowly change to anit-Semitic and  Anti-Marxost's ideals.Early Nazi Party Ideals and anit-communist (Frank Mc Donough, Hitler and the rise of the Nazi Party (2003),)

Eventually, Hitler's foundation ideaologicaly  centred on the establishment of the "Aryan Race", He concluded that not all "races" were equal and in essence there was an unchangeable natural order, which engrimiation and thus intermarriage brought about. True Biography. While Jews were primarily the targets, other groups considered 'racial inferior' were Roma (gypsies), people with disabilities and a number of Slavic groups including Poles and Russians.  United States Holocaust Memorial Museum  In the later part of his rise to power he particularly became anti-Jewish which gave rise to World War II and the Holocaust.  In which was estimated 6 million Jews and 'other ethnic groups' were murdered.   

Hitler's rise to power and formation of the National Society of German Worker's part or the Nazi Party as they became known was founded on noble principles as the sort for the rights of the German people and in essence an attempt to offer another resistance to capitalism by offering another alternative to communism which already had strong holds in the former Soviet Block Countries. What went wrong is the humane need for power and  acculmation wealth are not selective to the capitalist principles.

Hitler and his party fell into the trap of believing they belong to a superior race, like the Egyptians, Greeks and Romans before them.

. . . For Good . . . 


Mother Teresa


The are others in the world like Mother Teresa that have influence the world and started to promote world change by the virtues they lived.  The did not start a political party, idealology or a religious movement. The simply seek to treat others as they themselves would expected to be treated.   

Humanitarianism is an act of kindness, benevolence or meeting someone at their point of need; that is extended universally to all humans regardless of their race, gene, age, religion, sexual preferences or  nationality. (Wikipedia)

Although Mother Teresa founded a religious order called the Missionaries Of Charity, under the auphises of the Roman Catholic Church she did not like someone like Buddha or Jesus Christ start a new world religion. Of course as a devoted follower of Jesus the values of her "Christian Faith" underpin her life and work ethic. (Nobel Prize Winner Mother Teresa). Mother Teresa is perhaps most widely known for her work on the streets of Calcutta in India believe God had called her to minister to the poorest of poor. Her work begin buy teaching children is the slums, a role she was well suited having come from a disadvantaged background and being a trained teacher. However, at the heart of the Missionaries of Charity call was meeting the most basic of human needs food, clothing, shelter and medical assistance.

She described herself as, "God's pencil - a tin bit of pencil which he writes with what he likes." (American Catholic)  Mother Teresa gave herself to the task of keeping individuals alive rather than tackling the problem of poverty itself. (See Wikipedia) 


Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi 


Was an pre-eminent political figure involve in the civil rights movement in both his native home land of India and South Africa. He later was appointed  to a leadership position in the Indian National Congress.  Gandhi was known for his campaigns to ease poverty, gain equal rights for women, building religious and ethnic amity, ending the untouchable cast system, increasing economic self-reliance and thus ending foreign dominance in India and thus gain India's Independence. (Wikipedia)

Gandhi was born in to a noble or upper cast in the Indian cast system with the "untouchables" also known as the serfs in South Africa, being at the bottom of this cast system and having almost no humanian rights in society at all. He for himself disturbed by the cast system in India and sort to dismantle its influence on society.

His personal philosophy was sort from a position of non-violence, choosing to live modesty and dress in traditional Indian dhoti. Wikipedia Although not a Christian it was Christ's Sermon on the Mount that began to shape Gandhi's philosophy. "Whosoever shall smite the on thy right cheek turn to him the other also. And if any man takes away thy coat let him have thy cloak too." (The Progress Report) Gandhi's however found himself at odds with many other bible texts. His personal philosophies were drawn from a number of world religions, in addition to Christianity, including Muslim and Jewish.  


"I can't hope to bring about economic equality . . . I have to reduce myself to the level of the poorest of the poor." (South Africa Venues)

Martin Luther King 


King was America's Gandhi, what Gandhi achieved in South Africa and then his homeland of India through non-violence protest, inspired Martin Luther King to coordinate the civil rights movement in America. Luther King was so inspired by Gandhi's non-violent approach for achieving equal rights that he travelled to India to learn more about his philosophy and non-violence movement.

Buddhism

Buddha is the "Enlighten One" or "Awaken". (The Buddhist Centre) Through out the history of Buddhism there has been a seccession of Buddha's. The historical figure widely referred to as Buddha was a man named Siddhartha Gotama born in  India 2500 years ago, before the birth of Christ.

Siddhartha Gotama belonged to a noble family but as a young man was confronted by  human suffering and death. (Who was Buddha?)  This confrontation challenged Siddhartha to question the issues of pain, suffering and death and there meaning at the age of 29 Gotama sought to set about answering these question.

At that time there were several 'Gurus' or 'religious teachers' in India that influence him (Wikipedia) and he eventual join this 'band of wandering religious teachers' (Who was Buddha?). After years of meditation and self-tortor Siddhartha found himself no closer to the truth. . . So he went and sat under a tree and meditated day and night until he realised life was about finding 'balance'.

  

Jesus Christ of Nathizeths . . ."It has taken many individuals to shape history, but only one man has defined history."