History is the past events of development of a
people. We have always been reading history as a source of knowledge which
provides information of events held in past. In history we find different
varieties of people, some deserve great and other fairly deserve that title.
Leading
the struggle for Indian independence from Great Britain through his campaign of
passive resistance and noncooperation, known as 'truth and firmness'. Mohandas
Gandhi Indian nationalist leader, established freedom through a nonviolent revolution.
Martin Luther King, American churchman and Nobel Prize winner, one of the
principal leaders of the American civil rights movement and a prominent
advocate of nonviolent protest. King’s challenges to separation and racial
discrimination in the 1950s and 1960s helped convince many white Americans to
support the cause of civil rights in the United States. Thus those people
deserve title “great” due to their great deserving works.
Albert
Einstein, German-born American physicist and Nobel Prize winner, best known as
the creator of the special and general theories of relativity and for his bold
hypothesis concerning the particle nature of light. He is perhaps the most
well-known scientist of the 20th century. And Aristotle, Greek philosopher and
scientist, who shares with Plato and Socrates the distinction of being the most
famous of ancient philosophers. His works on natural science include Physics,
which gives a vast amount of information on astronomy, meteorology, plants, and
animals. His writings on the nature, scope, and properties of being, which
Aristotle called First Philosophy, were given the title Metaphysics
in the first published edition of his works, because in that edition they
followed Physics. Both deserve the title “great “due to their great
contribution in Science.
William Shakespeare, English
dramatist and poet, recognized in much of the world as the greatest of all
dramatists. Hundreds of editions of his plays have been published, including
translations in all major languages. Scholars have written thousands of books
and articles about his plots, characters, themes, and language. He is the most
widely quoted author in history, and his plays have probably been performed
more times than those of any other dramatist. And Pablo Picasso, Spanish
painter did many contributions to the history of art, his most important
include pioneering the modern art movement called cubism, inventing collage as
an artistic technique, and developing assemblage in sculpture. They are great
from history of art and literature.
Adolf Hitler, German political and
military leader and one of the 20th century's most powerful dictators. Hitler
converted Germany into a fully militarized society and launched World War II in
1939. He made anti-Semitism a keystone of his propaganda and policies and built
the Nazi Party into a mass movement. He hoped to conquer the entire world, and
for a time dominated most of Europe and much of North Africa. He instituted
sterilization and euthanasia measures to enforce his idea of racial purity
among German people and caused the slaughter of millions of Jews, Sinti and
Roma, Slavic peoples, and many others, all of whom he considered inferior. His
positive works are less than negative ones. So he can’t be honored by title
great. Though he has contributed for his country and can be great for the
people of Germany but in the eye of the world he is an origin of war.
