Mohandas Gandhi by JACK FIELDS https://padlet.com/bd5518412_13/s14lk2xiit94 Jack FIelds en-us 2018-12-14 12:52:34 UTC 2023-04-05 02:55:04 UTC hello@padlet.com Where and When Did He Live? bd5518412_13 https://padlet.com/bd5518412_13/s14lk2xiit94/wish/314623392 Mahatma Gandhi was born October 2, 1869 and died January 30, 1948. He lived and was born in Porbandar, India (a seacoast town in the Kathiawar Peninsula north of Bombay). He was assassinated in New Delhi, India. Gandhi also lived during a time period were there was violence and tragedy in India.]]> 2018-12-14 12:54:42 UTC https://padlet.com/bd5518412_13/s14lk2xiit94/wish/314623392 What Was His Family Life? bd5518412_13 https://padlet.com/bd5518412_13/s14lk2xiit94/wish/314625067 He was born into wealthy family that was part of  the higher social classes in the indian caste system. He was the fourth child of Karamchand Gandhi. Karamchand Gandhi was the prime minister to the raja, the ruler, of three small city-states. Gandhi's mother was a deeply religious woman who attended temple services daily. He ended up getting married to a girl his own age named Kasturbai.


]]> 2018-12-14 13:01:04 UTC https://padlet.com/bd5518412_13/s14lk2xiit94/wish/314625067 What was his education and training? bd5518412_13 https://padlet.com/bd5518412_13/s14lk2xiit94/wish/314627281 As a child his ambition was to study medicine, since the study of medicine was beneth his caste system his father convinced him to study law instead. He became a lawyer in 1891 for a brief period for the prince of Porbandar. He was then unsuccessfully to practice law in Rajkot and Bombay, and gave up being a lawyer. 


]]> 2018-12-14 13:09:08 UTC https://padlet.com/bd5518412_13/s14lk2xiit94/wish/314627281 What or who gave him courage and inspiration? bd5518412_13 https://padlet.com/bd5518412_13/s14lk2xiit94/wish/314636244 In 1893 Gandhi accepted an offer to represent a firm of Muslims in Pretoria. While he was riding in first-class train compartment in Natal, South Africa, a white man asked Gandhi to leave. Gandhi got off of the train and spent the night in the train station meditating. The white man on the train inspired Gandhi to start working on ending racial prejudice. Mobs threw rocks at him during launch of his campaign for improved legal status for Indians in South Africa. During Gandhi's second stay in jail he read the American essayist Henry David Thoreau's (1817–1862) essay "Civil Disobedience.” Reading “Civil Disobedience” deeply influenced Gandhi. 



]]> 2018-12-14 13:35:25 UTC https://padlet.com/bd5518412_13/s14lk2xiit94/wish/314636244 Why and How did he oppose authority? bd5518412_13 https://padlet.com/bd5518412_13/s14lk2xiit94/wish/314638729 Gandhi decided to start living a life of voluntary poverty. At this time Gandhi developed the concept of soul force. Gandhi began to spread his ideas to the Indians in South Africa in 1907.  He urged them to defy a law requiring registration and fingerprinting of all Indians which landed him in jail for two months. The repressive Rowlatt Acts of 1919 Caused Gandhi to call a strike throughout the country. After the Amritsar Massacre, Gandhi began not cooperating with British courts, stores, and schools. The government agreed to make reforms. In 1922 Gandhi was tried and sentenced to six years in prison, but he was released two years later for an emergency appendectomy, Gandhi’s imprisonment was last time the British government tried Gandhi.



]]> 2018-12-14 13:42:16 UTC https://padlet.com/bd5518412_13/s14lk2xiit94/wish/314638729 What were the long and short term results of this opposition for him and others? bd5518412_13 https://padlet.com/bd5518412_13/s14lk2xiit94/wish/314641699 Gandhi was able to fight for him and many others through non violent protests. In 1915 Gandhi founded an ashram in Ahmedabad, India, that was open to all castes, so no matter how wealthy or poor someone was they could go to the ashram.]]> 2018-12-14 13:48:26 UTC https://padlet.com/bd5518412_13/s14lk2xiit94/wish/314641699 What is presently occurring in society concerning the issue he opposed or fought? bd5518412_13 https://padlet.com/bd5518412_13/s14lk2xiit94/wish/314643662 Gandhi’s hard work and ability to fight for what’s right has made it possible for India to currently still be free from Britain. But unfortunately there is still racism and devision going on today between religions.]]> 2018-12-14 13:53:17 UTC https://padlet.com/bd5518412_13/s14lk2xiit94/wish/314643662 Why was he considered a hero? bd5518412_13 https://padlet.com/bd5518412_13/s14lk2xiit94/wish/314643806 Gandhi was considered a hero becouse he brought peace through non violent actions. He was able to bring peace between the Hindus and Muslims. He himself was able to influence influence millions of people without even hurting a fly. He is considered one of the most amazing hero’s throughout time for his justice. Not only were his actions full of love and kindness, his bravery to stand up to power lead peaple to fallow in his path. Gandhi was revolutionary are peaple strive to be like him.]]> 2018-12-14 13:53:42 UTC https://padlet.com/bd5518412_13/s14lk2xiit94/wish/314643806 What was the economic, political, or environmental issues raised by this person? bd5518412_13 https://padlet.com/bd5518412_13/s14lk2xiit94/wish/314644361 After the white man told Gandhi to get of the train he began raising awareness of the Racial prejudice he experienced and that many others have experienced. Gandhi was the leader of India’s non-violent independence movement against British rule. In South Africa who advocated for the civil rights of Indians. In 1906, Gandhi organized his first mass civil-disobedience campaign, which he called “Satyagraha” which was against the South African Transvaal government’s new restrictions on the rights of Indians, including the refusal to recognize Hindu marriages. 


]]> 2018-12-14 13:55:17 UTC https://padlet.com/bd5518412_13/s14lk2xiit94/wish/314644361 What is your opinion on the issue he was “doing the right thing for”? Why? bd5518412_13 https://padlet.com/bd5518412_13/s14lk2xiit94/wish/314644590 My opinion on the issue of what Gandhi “did the right thing for” is that he did do the right thing. Beginning with standing up for Indians in South Africa and starting a small movement ended him up in Jail but that didn’t stop him from continuing to fight against laws and rules that he believed werent right.]]> 2018-12-14 13:55:51 UTC https://padlet.com/bd5518412_13/s14lk2xiit94/wish/314644590 Is there an issue in your life that you would stand up for? How far would you go? bd5518412_13 https://padlet.com/bd5518412_13/s14lk2xiit94/wish/314663705 Currently in my life I believe in equality. All people should be treated the same no matter what there sex, race, religion, sexuality, or anything that makes them different. We are all human and we should all be treated with respect. I would go as far as to stand up for anyone who is being suppressed.]]> 2018-12-14 14:38:05 UTC https://padlet.com/bd5518412_13/s14lk2xiit94/wish/314663705 Work sited bd5518412_13 https://padlet.com/bd5518412_13/s14lk2xiit94/wish/314699356 “Mohandas Gandhi Biography.” Encyclopedia of World Biography, Advameg, Inc., www.notablebiographies.com/Fi-Gi/Gandhi-
Mohandas.html.

“Mahatma Gandhi.” Biography.com, A&E Networks Television, 9 Mar. 2018, www.biography.com/people/mahatma-gandhi-9305898.

“Mahatma Gandhi.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 15 Nov. 2018, en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi.]]> 2018-12-14 15:48:43 UTC https://padlet.com/bd5518412_13/s14lk2xiit94/wish/314699356