Great Leaders of the World

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Before Reading

What is a leader’s true role and meaning?

What is a leader? A leader doesn’t simply represent an organization or a country and use power to protect its interests. Isn’t it also a leader’s role to use power in righteous ways to help people overcome difficulties or irregularities? If you look into world history, there were various kinds of leaders. There were notorious leaders who led the world into war and chaos. There were leaders who not only created economic revival and social changes in their countries, but also strived for the abolition of racial discrimination and slavery. There were also leaders who devoted themselves to the poor, touched people’s hearts and eventually produced social change.
In the book, we will check out five great leaders in modern and contemporary world history. Let’s find out how they exerted influence and produced changes together.

Summary

Among the many leaders in modern and contemporary world history, we will learn about five leaders who had a positive influence on their country or the world.
First of all, Queen Victoria in England ruled during the Golden Age of Great Britain when people said it had “the empire on which the sun never sets” and she was also the first British monarch who ruled India.
Napoleon, the most famous leader in French history, was first a soldier, then the emperor and finally the supreme leader, expanding France’s influence to many European countries.
Gandhi, the most well-known spiritual leader in India, was the leader who led India to independence from England through non-violent resistance.
Nelson Mandela, the first black president of South Africa, worked for black people’s rights against the racial discrimination that existed in South Africa.
Mother Teresa was not a leader who ruled a country directly, but she was mankind’s spiritual leader who was with the poor and neglected and served them until her death.