English Research
Theme: Biography
Orientações:
- Utilize as estratégias
de leitura para ler o texto.
- Responder as questões abaixo em uma folha separada e entregar no
final da aula.
Mahandas Karamchand Gandhi
Leader
of the Indian independence movement was born in Porbandar, Gujarat, whose
religious principles of nonviolence and the belief in the sanctity of all
living beings, followed successfully in his political activities, consecrated
the world.
The
title given Mahatma, which means great soul, expressed the respect and
veneration of the Indian people for their leader. Studied in Samaldas College
in Bhavnagar, and law at the University of Oxford, England. Returned to India
(1891) and then moved to Natal, South Africa, a country with a large population
of Indians, where he practiced law (1893-1914) and began his fight against
injustice and located humiliations suffered by Indians residents. Founded a
section of the Congress Party and laid the foundations of peaceful resistance,
satyagraha, based on the principles of nonviolent struggle and suffering as a
means to resist the opponent.
Returned
to India (1915), supported the British during the First World War, but the
massacre in Amritsar (1919), in the state of Punjab, where British troops
killed some 400 Indian made commence their struggle for independence ( 1920),
it resulted in a prison term (1922-1924). On his release he had to work hard in
the reunification of communities and the Congress Party extremely divided
between Hindus and Muslims.
After
the notorious disobedience campaign against the salt tax (1930), agreed a truce
with the United Kingdom and has agreed to attend the Second Round Table
Conference (1931), in London, in which once again claimed the independence of
his country . Returning to India in December (1931), resumed disobedience
campaign and was again arrested and convicted. In this period remained
fundamental political contacts with Jawaharlal Nehru, another of the great
leaders of the future Indian nation. In protest against the decision of the
British government to segregate the lower castes, outcasts (1932) made one of
his notorious hunger strikes.
Leaving
the Party Congress (1934) focused on a program of organization of the nation
from the fight for the poor, which included the encouragement of regional
industries and the establishment of an education system geared to the needs of
the people. With the outbreak of World War II, he returned to active militancy
and urged the immediate withdrawal of the British (1942), which resulted in the
arrest of the key leaders of the Congress Party.
After
the war (1945) has begun a new stage in Indo-British relations which resulted
in the formation of two independent states (1947): India, largely Hindu, and
Pakistan Muslim. He was assassinated by a Hindu fanatic, while praying in
Delhi, and his ashes were scattered in the Ganges River.
Source:
http://www.dec.ufcg.edu.br/biografias/
Monsenhor High School
English Language Teacher Zoraide Alcântara
3rd year “_____“
Morning Date:
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Student:
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Student:
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Questions:
1. Quem foi Gandhi?
2.
De
onde ele é?
3. Qual
o significado do título dado a Mahatma?
4. Onde
Gandhi estudou e quais os cursos?
5. Qual
foi a sua luta e onde foi?
6. Quais
foram os anos que ele foi preso e quais os motivos?
7.
Quais foram as conquistas na luta de Gandhi?
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