Mythe et héro

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Exposé sur Nelson Mandela niveau lycée dans le cadre de la notion Mythes et Héros

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[...] Our culture is full of past and current heroes. They are usually someone extraordinary, who achieves things an average person wouldn't and becomes famous and praised for that. I have chosen to study the figure of Mother Teresa. What did she do to be recognised as a heroin in her own right ? First I will tell you about her background and then about her actions. Finally, I will explain what earned her this reputation. Mother Teresa, whose original Albanian is too hard to pronounce, was born in 1910 the Ottoman Empire, in what would later be Macedonia. [...]

[...] Mother Teresa was officially considered a heroin, after she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979, and eventually made a saint by the Roman Catholic Church. For helping the needy, raising awareness on living conditions and instigating peace and brotherhood among people. As we can see, a hero is someone who makes good actions around themselves in such proportions that they look superior to mere mortals. It requires a lot of energy and a deep insight of things to raise one's soul. [...]

[...] She arrived in Calcutta in 1929 and was appalled by the extreme poverty. She became a school teacher for a few years while living among a religious community but one day, during a celebration, she had the sudden desire to help the poor on the field. She spent the next decades roaming the slums of India, giving basic education to street children, teaching the use of soap to spread hygiene, or taking care of the sick and the dying. She was progressively joined in her mission by other nuns and former pupils, though some Hindus disliked their religious competition. [...]