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09-20-2005, 10:47 AM | #1 |
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Greatest Social Impact
Which of the last century's social leaders would you say had the largest impacts on todays world as we know it? (positive or negative)
Ghandi Dr. Martin Luther King jr. Susan B. Anthony Adolf Hitler Nelson Mandella Lenin Ho Chi Minh Freud Einstein etc etc... |
09-20-2005, 11:36 AM | #2 |
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you have a mixed bag of politicians, dictators, thinkers and 'rights' people....IMO not all fit into the category "social leaders".
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09-20-2005, 12:19 PM | #3 |
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ghandi, fdr and hitler
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09-20-2005, 12:25 PM | #4 |
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Che Guevara
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09-20-2005, 12:28 PM | #5 |
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How about Susan B. Anthony for a SOCIAL leader? Womens rights created an entirely new society and it started with her.....basically.
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09-20-2005, 12:34 PM | #6 |
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In the US, perhaps. Not in the world as a whole.
IMO, social change isn't usually brought about by individuals alone, unlike other kinds of change (political, technological etc). That said, I nominate Hitler and Lenin/Stalin, simply because of the huge effects their actions had on millions of people in the twentieth century.
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12-24-2005, 04:11 AM | #7 |
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Winston Churchill
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12-24-2005, 05:43 PM | #8 |
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and John Fitzgerald Kennedy! and Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X, and Gertrude Stein. And Cornelius Vanderbilt, for building all the trains & railways going all over America.
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"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world; indeed it's the only thing that ever has." Margaret Mead
*thought is appropriate - eb
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J.R.R Tolkien, he revolutionized fantasy, the world would not be the same without The Lord of the Rings.
George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, for SW and Indiana Jones, and making film history.
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Galileo .
Nicolaus Copernicus. Sir Isac Newton. Spock mentioned Albert Einstein. Neil Armstrong. Yuri Gagarin.
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