A Woman Whom I Admire....

Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu ­commonly known as Mother Teresa, born 26^th August 1910, is attributed as one of the world’s most inspirational, admired, and respected woman of all time.  From an early age Agnes was tremendously fascinated by the stories of the lives of missionaries, and by the age of 12 she persuaded herself to commit to religious life. Agnes learnt Bengali and taught at the St. Teresa’s School, a schoolhouse not particularly far from her convent in the Himalayan Mountains. It was in that school that Agnes took her vows and became a nun; there she opted for the name Teresa, the Spanish spelling of the patron saint of missionaries, Thérèse de Lisieux.  It was at that moment that Teresa was struck with distress and disturbance by the poverty around her in Calcutta. She believed that god had sent her a message to give herself to the deprived and underprivileged.  The strongest, most heartfelt woman I know is, Mother Teresa.  

Mother Teresa did what other people have only thought about; she gave herself into helping the poor and sick. She is one of the many women in history that have devoted themselves to care for the underprivileged, poor, sick, blind, deaf and disabled. The modern world we live in is a cruel and harsh place filled with a decreasing amount of people like Mother Teresa.  Her devotion has not only recognized my admiration, it has also documented her to winning many prizes, such as the Nobel Peace Prize, it is one of the greatest honours to achieve this prize, let alone many more.  Even after receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, she exclaimed discretely that the awarded money go to the poor in Calcutta, here again she is putting others’ needs before hers. My respect, appreciation and admiration are truly dissolved unto Mother Teresa’s work and drive for change in her final last two decades, here she had fallen sick during, and began suffering critical health problems, but nothing would discourage her from fulfilling her mission of helping the poor and deprived. It is the drive to finish what she had started, to keep serving the underprivileged, which makes me respect her.

Saint Mother Teresa, as she was named after her death, was a woman who strived to achieve her goal. Her strength came from the poor, the weak and the deprived; she worked till her death to make the underprivileged’s lives better, she wanted to secure their future, she put their needs in-front of hers. Even when the Pope had offered Mother Teresa his limo, she did what other would only imagine; she sold the luxurious car and gave the money to her charities.  Mother Teresa’s entire life was based around the unfortunate and underprivileged, and as we might think of this as a burden, she thought of it as her duty.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given. – Mother Teresa. 

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Mother Teresa Nobel Prize (How she came to achieve it and why she refused it, ect)
Mother Teresa - A Message from God (Video) and Extended history on her life

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Of Mice and Men, Book vs. Movie

Within the last few days, we gazed upon a new movie, in marvel of its exciting comparison to the plot of the book, Of Mice and Men.  The movie, as well as the book, could be shown as a playwright, as the plot of the story can be pronounced in a series of ways, such as book, movie, and play. Nevertheless, it did not come to my surprise when some aspects of the movie had been altered and some scenes deleted. It would be wise for anyone who is aspiring to watch the movie, to read the book first, as the differences are quite noticeable.

Of Mice and Men, the movie, was very well directed and the setting of the movie was spectacular.  The film did not surprise me a lot, except the way that the characters were portrayed, as I would have expected Slim to be like the head and boss of the bunkhouse, but he was not shown like that. Also I was surprised that when Curley’s wife died, he did not cry or remorse petulantly, Curley just went for his gun and went after him. I would have expected that the movie would have paid some attention to death, as all the movies do, but unfortunately, it did not.

As the film had its accolades attributed by myself, I did also have a few negatives and confident needs for improvements in the film.  I was irritated with some aspects of the film, such as deletion of scenes, such as when Candy’s wife dawdles into Crook’s room and conjures a conversation and a threat to Crooks. Also, at the end of the book, Lennie has illusions about a giant rabbit and his aunt Clara, this scene was deleted and it could have provided us with vital information about how he thought about his actions and what he thought he could do to fix them.  This also may have attracted a larger scope of an audience; nevertheless, the scenes which were implemented in the story were very well projected.

The film did help me understand elements of the book more clearly, such as the bond between George and Lennie, the film portrayed true friendship and it made me realise that there is more to them, than meets the eye.  The film also helped me truly recognize the importance of friendship and what it means to be a friend.  The movie did to some extent help me comprehend the situation of symbolism in the book.

Of Mice and Men the film had a very interesting cast, some of the choices of actors made by the casting call I did not see eye to eye, but otherwise it was a fantastic film, complemented by an exceptional cast. In the book, we see that George Milton is portrayed as a small character, who acts as a father figure, and depends on Lennie frequently.  Although in the movie, George is similar to Lennie in the way that they are both nearly the same height and Lennie depends on George a lot.  Furthermore, I imagined Slim as a muscular, tall, broad shouldered, handy and clever man, whereas in the movie, we see Slim as a character much like George, medium height, somewhat build, not too handy but can get a job done and has a short temper. Except for these characters, nothing else came to surprise in the film about the casting.

The ending of Of Mice and Men, came as no surprise as we all knew that Lennie was going to die, as we had read the novella. The ending did make me understand more clearly that George killed Lennie, out of his love for him and also for Lennie’s benefit and possible his own. I would have sought for a longer ending, in which there would be an increasing build up to the climax in which Lennie would have died. In the book, we saw that George spoke to and comforted Lennie about the dream farm in which he took the surge of the breath of friendship and then shot him. Whereas, in the movie, we see that George begins to converse to Lennie about the farm and explains about its amenities, but then he hastily shoots him, this may have been because it was too difficult for George to bear any more time to wait. 

I believe that the movie and book are both great versions of the same spectacular story, but in my opinion, I preferred the book to the novel.  Nonetheless, the movie was brilliant, the cast were tremendous and I would love to watch it again and find more insights about the characters and their relationships to one another.