Good
Jesus
Jesus was born in the year 6 BCE. He is
the son of God. Jesus helped people all throughout his life and was always did
the right thing. He preached the word of God. He became very well known however
he was arrested and crucified after confronting moneychangers in a temple.
Jesus was good because he always tried to do the right thing. He never gave in to temptation.
Dalia Lama
The Dalia Lama was born on the 16th of July 1935. He is the spiritual leader
of Tibet. The Dalia Lama has and still is coming up with non violent ways of
bringing peace to Tibet. He has received a Nobel Peace Award for his efforts.
The Dalia Lama is also always trying to promote compassion, happiness and
forgiveness.
Mary Mackillop
Mary Mackillop was born on the 15th of January 1842. She was the first
Australian saint. She went into poverty so that she could educate poor
children. She also got many people to help her do this.
This is good as she sacrificed her wealth
to assist people in need.
William Wilberforce
William was Born on the 24th of August 1759. He is known for abolishing slavery. He tried for years and even though to start off almost everyone was against him he tried his hardest. In the end he managed to trick people into reducing slavery then finally got the slave trade abolished.
This is a good thing as slavery affected many lives and slave ships had very bad conditions for slaves.
Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma was born on the 2nd of October 1869. He was the Spiritual and Political leader of India. His goal was to help poor farmers and put a stop to discrimination. He believed in living a simple life and made his own clothes and mostly ate the vegetables he grew.Mahatma Gandhi is good because he came up with many quotes that help people make the right choice. He also tried his hardest to get rid of two things that make life hard for some people, discrimination and poverty.
Evil
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler wanted to become an artist
but was rejected by the academy of fine arts twice and soon became homeless.
When world War 1 started Adolf Hitler was accepted into the army. Hitler was
surprized when the Germans surrendered and worked as an intelligence officer.
He joined a workers party which was called DAP. DAP then became NSDAP. In 1923
Hitler became the chairman of NSDAP. Hitler stormed a public meeting and was
arrested for high treason and put in jail. He wrote a book on how he wanted to
turn the German society into one based on race. Hitler became the leader of the
Nazi’s in 1932.
Osama bin laden
Osama bin Laden is on of the most well
known terrorists ever. His first offence was when he blew up a car. Eventually
he moved on to the worst act of terrorism to this date, the bombings of 9 11.
This is the most evil terrorist attack
ever made and could have been even worse if the attacks on the pentagon and
white house were as successful as Osama had hoped.
Pol Pot
Pol pot was born in 1925. He was
responsible for killing 25% of his countries population. This was through
overworking, starvation and executions. He evacuated peasants from towns within
Cambodia to save them from bombings yet they ended up working in a farm from
4am to 10pm. They only got 180 grams of rice every 2 days.
This is genocide which is an extremely
evil crime to commit. Pol pot killed hundreds of thousands of people.
Idi Amin
Idi Amin was born in 1925 and was
the leader of Uganda.
300,000 people were killed during his reign. He sent armies to capture
countries and expelled all the Asian people from his country.
Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong was born on
December the 26th 1893. He was responsible for the
greatest man-made famine ever killing 40 million people through starvation. He
also hid this from his nation and the rest of the world. He was regarded as an
extremely good leader however that changed when word went around about the
famine he caused.
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