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A dream can be
defined as a strongly desired goal or purpose. Everybody has
different dreams depending on who they are. The dream might
be significant or not but can become meaningful in someone's
life.
My Dream
concerns not only myself but also the whole world. Every
human being living on Earth deserves to live mi peace and
harmony. Every human being deserves to go through life
without the influence of violence and discrimination. The
point that I am trying to make is, that everybody should be
allowed to live in a world of peace. To achieve my dream, it
involves every single person co‑operating and making this
world a happier place.
I know that I
am not the only person who has ever considered this idea of
a dream. There have been many people in the past and present
that have tried to accomplish a dream of peace in their own
way.
For instance,
Nelson Rolihlanla Mandela. Mandela was a South African
activist, statesman and Nobel laureate. He was also elected
as the first black president of South Africa in 1994.
Before that, he
was a leader of a protest against the white minority
government's policy of rigid racial division that was known
as apartheid (officially ended in 199I). His dream was to
have a new multi‑racial government that would stop the
social problems caused by apartheid.
Mandela was
sentences five years in prison in 1962. While he was in
prison, he and other prisoners were sentenced for sabotage
and treason to life imprisonment in June 1964.
In February
1990, President F.W de Klerk released Mandela after the
banning of the African National Congress.
In 1993,
Mandela shared the Nobel Peace Prize with President F.W de
Klerk for their accomplishment 'In establishing democracy
and racial harmony in South Africa.
Secondly,
Martin Luther King Junior was an American Clergyman and
Nobel laureate.
In
1955, King received his P.H.D degree and was asked to lead a
bus boycott in Montgomery. The city's black leaders
organized the boycott. It was a protest towards the enforced
racial division towards public transportation after a black
woman named Rosa Parks, was arrested because she refused to
give her seat to a white passenger. King was arrested,
jailed, his home bombed and threats against his life. It was
finally ended in 1956.
In 1959, King
visited India, and found an understanding to Gandhi's
principle towards non-violent religion.
In 1963, he led
an enormous civil rights campaign in Birmingham, Alabama. It
was a campaign for black voter registration, desegregation,
better education and housing throughout the south. The
campaigners were arrested several times.
On the 28th of
August 1963, in Washington, he told the famous speech, "I
have a Dream" Martin Luther King Junior won the 1964 Nobel
Peace Prize.
On the other
hand, Mother Teresa was the founder of the Missionaries of
Charity and a Nobel laureate.
When she was
eighteen years old, she joined the order of the Sisters of
Our Lady in Ireland and took her religious vows in 1937.
In 1948, she
was granted permission to leave her post at the convert that
she was in and started a ministry among the sick.
In 1950, Mother
Teresa and all of her associates were approved the Ministry
of Charity.
In 1952, she
opened the Nirmal Hriday (which means, "Pure Heart"), home
for Dying Destitute in Calcutta.
Mother Teresa's
work has massively extended into five continents.
Mother Teresa's
won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.
There are also
many organizations that try to make peace on Earth.
For example,
The Peace Corps is an organization, which is filled with
men, and women who share an interest. They usually live and
work in another country for two years. Volunteers run the
Peace Corps. They try to make this world a better place by
solving challenges that communities are confronted with.
They help the community by protecting their environment,
gain access to clean water, help prevent the spread of
deadly diseases, people who want small business of their own
and farmers to grow food more effectively.
The Peace Corps
also help by construction through bridges and by helping
understand people's different cultures.
The Peace Corp
is a United States agency made to provide world peace and
friendship by training American volunteers to perform social
and humanitarian service overseas.
Another example
of a peacemaking organization is Seeds of Peace. This is a
non‑government organization which teaches children who have
gone through their childhood during wars, to sow the seeds
of peace. It teaches children and teenagers to develop trust
and learn to negotiate with one another. The seeds of peace
are changing the landscape of conflict. It also helps the
people who have so much hatred that they are blinded from it
to see their enemies' faces. They are trying to end violence
to make a better future. After all, we are the leaders of
tomorrow.
Thirdly, The
World Peace Prayer Society is a non‑profitable organization
that tries to spread a message of "May Peace Prevail On
Earth" all over the world.
Fourthly, The
Fund for Peace Strives to prevent war and anything that
reflects towards wars. It encourages education and research
for practical solutions against wars. It is also contest of
social justice and the respects for the principles of
democracy.
Nobel Peace
Prizes are handed out annually to persons or institutions
for their outstanding contribution. The fields are:
chemistry; physiology or medicine, literature; international
peace and economic science. The most recent Nobel Peace
Prize was awarded to Kim Dae Jung in the year 2000. He
achieved the Nobel Peace Prize for the work he has done for
democracy and human rights in South Korea particularly.
As for me, my
dream is to make a difference to this world somehow,
someway.
I can organize
my own organization that would spread the word of peace; to
stop violence and gang riots; to stop cruelty to animals; to
help the elderly and to respect them. I can also go around
the schools and leach them that violence is not the answer.
I can involve everybody in volunteer and charity work and to
go around the world helping people in need.
People make
peace.
A little effort
can go a long way.
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