My Top Ten Most Influential People

This is my list of people I think should be on the Times 2010 list of most influential people. 1) Pope Benedict : Current Pope, Inspires Christiains to do the right things with their lives, born on 16 April 1927 in Marktl am Inn, Germany, Founder of the Ratzinger Foundation, on April 19 2005 Cardinal Ratzinger was elected the successor of Pope John Paul II by becoming Pope Benedict the XVI. www.popebenedictthe16th.com 2) Bill Gates Born in Seatle, Washington 28 October 1955. Has 2 sisters. Dropped out of Harvard freshmen year create microsoft in 1975. Donates $1 billion to charity every year and founded the Bill and Melinda foundaProxy-Connection: keep-alive Cache-Control: max-age=0 on. Recieved an honorary knighthood by the queen of england in 2005 for improving health condition and reducing poverty in developing countries. http://www.thegatesnotes.com/Default.aspx

Nick Vujicic Born limbless without any medical condition and inspires disabled people to not lose hope, Born 4 December 1982 in Melbourne, Australia, Started the Life without Limbs Foundation. http://www.lifewithoutlimbs.org/ 4) Warren Buffet Born on August 30, 1930 in Omaha, Nebraska. Interested in money and busniess at a very early age. When kids his age were playing around, Warren was making money. At 11 he was purchasing stocks. İn 1947 he made what $5,000, which is equivalent of $42,610 today, from delievering news papers. He went onto the University of Pennsylvania but transfered to University of Nebraska. Donated over $37.4 billion to charity. http://beginnersinvest.about.com/cs/warrenbuffett/a/aawarrenbio.htm 5) JK Rowling Writer of Harry Potter and inspires people to read, born 31 July 1965, Supports such charities as Comic Relief, One Parent Families, Multiple Sclerosis Societry of Great Britain, and the Children’s High Level Group, was a runner-up for the Times Person of the Year 2007, Writen the Harry Potter Series showing how good prospers over evil with courage and determination, http://www.jkrowling.com/ 6) Tiger Woods Eldrick Tont Woods or Tiger Woods is a professional golfer with more career major wins than any other competitive golfer. Woods has recently been disgraced when more than a dozen women admitted to having relationships with him. Tiger Woods took a hiatus from golf lasting 20 weeks and returned to golf on April 8, 2010. Tiger Woods inspires people to be the best at whatever they do. do http://web.tigerwoods.com/aboutTiger/bio 7) Mark Zuckerberg Creater of Facebook, inspires people to stay connected with old friends, Went to Harvard, Born May 14, 1984 in White Plains, New York, USA, Founded Facebook in 2004. http://www.biography.com/articles/Mark-Zuckerberg-507402 8) Steven Hawking Born 8 January 9142 in Oxford, England. Showed brilliance at an early age. Went to a high school for girls at age 8. At 20 Hawking went to Cambridge to study Cosmology. That was when he was diagnosed with ALS. (Amyotrophic Lateral Clerosis). At the time he didn’t have any reason to live, then he found the women that would become his wife. (Jane Wilde). Studied mostly about Black Holes. Got pneumonia and lost his voice forever but they instaled a voice sythesizer into his wheelchair but they made the mistake of giving him an American accent. inspires people to not lose hope. http://library.thinkquest.org/C007571/english/advance/biography.html 9) David Beckham Most famous soccer player, currenty working on bringing soccer to America. Donated $15 million for malaria nets, Victoria and David Beckham’s Children charity has donatd over a million pounds since they started in 2005. He is also the ambassador of UNICEF. http://www.beckhamwatch.com/beckham.html 10) Dali Lama The Dalai Lama is a Buddhist leader whose name means “chief” or “high priest”. All Buddhists believe the Dalai Lama to be a reincarnated form of their spiritual leaders who choose to enlighten others instead of passing on. The current Dalai Lama’s name is Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso, birth name being Lhamo Döndrub. He inspires buddhist to be the best they can be and to not break the rules of their religion. http://www.dalailama.com/biography/a-brief-biography Image URL: http://nationalspectator.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/time_100_most_influential_people.jpg

Haiti In Need

As of 2006 Haiti was plagued by extreme poverty causing children to be denied their rights. Factors that keep Haiti in poverty are the lack of medical attention, education, access to clean water and sanitation. In Haiti only 34% have access to adequate sanitation. In … 60,000 people live in 1square kilometer with no toilet and a clean source of water at all. Getting clean water in Haiti is a challenge as well. Many children are sent away from home walking miles to collect water at the expense of their schooling. Even after they collect the water it is not safe to drink until it is boiled with wood or coal but with only 3% of the forest in Haiti left, materials need are scarce. Without water many children die from diarrhea. Since most hospitals are hard to reach many children are dying from HIV/Aids without medical attention. However even inside hospitals it is overcrowded, understaffed and under supplied. With children dying in the hospitals they can’t go to school. The schools in Haiti however are understaffed and the facilities are rundown. If children do go to school their education is very poor. Many families can’t send their children to school so they send them away with other families with the promise of a better life. Instead children are exploited. A new president was was elected and was promising change and help was on its way to Haiti.

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Kenya is on the way

In Sauri, Kenya living conditions have improved. Agricultural yields doubled, child mortality has dropped by 30% and children have been attending school. This is happening because people are having a change it attitude. People are learning how to take care of their crops and livestock. Technology based programs are improving their lives. Sachs has been working on a Millennium village project. Easterly argues that it won’t work on a larger scale. He thinks government corruption is a barrier to aid. Easterly also thinks poverty is linked to terrorism. Sachs agrees and admits they are dealing with 1/3 of the problem.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/09/world/africa/09kenya.html

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Children's Rights

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them." - Mother Teresa

I chose this quote because I think that it applies to everyone. If you discriminate against another race or culture you feel no love towards them. Also if you judge someone, generally it is a negative connotation. If you think lowly of someone then you don't feel any emotion towards them other than anger, disappointment and frustration. I also chose this quote because of the person who said it. Mother Teresa, born as Gonxha Agnes, grew up with a religious background because of her mother. She went through extreme measures to teach people about god, even going to extreme lengths like living in extreme poverty. Mother Teresa loved everyone and didn't make an assumption about someone no matter what their age, nationality, sex and position in the social structure.


This is a picture of Mother Teresa feeding a child. This photo shows how much Mother Teresa cared about other people enough to care about them. This shows that there are people in the world that will go to extreme measures to help other people.
"If you judge people, you have no time to love them." - Mother Teresa

I chose this quote because I think that it applies to everyone. If you discriminate against another race or culture you feel no love towards them. Also if you judge someone, generally it is a negative connotation. If you think lowly of someone then you don't feel any emotion towards them other than anger, disappointment and frustration. I also chose this quote because of the person who said it. Mother Teresa, born as Gonxha Agnes, grew up with a religious background because of her mother. She went through extreme measures to teach people about god, even going to extreme lengths like living in extreme poverty. Mother Teresa loved everyone and didn't make an assumption about someone no matter what their age, nationality, sex and position in the social structure.


This is a picture of Mother Teresa feeding a child. This photo shows how much Mother Teresa cared about other people enough to care about them. This shows that there are people in the world that will go to extreme measures to help other people.


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Poverty can be Wiped Out

After watching an interview with Jeffery Sachs and hearing that what his opinion was on poverty and solutions for it I know believe that poverty can be gotten ride of. One organization that can help is World Bank. World Bank is an organization that lends out money to people for a good reason with no interest. The World Bank collected data from 73 countries and asked what they thought what poverty was. Its important to collect data from 73 countries because then you get a wide variety of answers. Poverty is not having enough money for basic human needs. The difference between poverty and extreme poverty is that extreme poverty you also feel extremely powerless. The poverty trap is when you feel as if you can't get out of poverty. The World Bank defines poverty as 'not having enough income to meet the most basic human needs for
r adequate food, water, shelter, clothing, sanitation, health care or education.' From www.thelifeyoucansave.com/topic.html. As of 2008 1.4 billion people are living under the poverty line. The numbers are improving because in 1981 there were 1.9 billion people living in poverty.

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"If you judge people, you have no time to love them." - Mother Teresa

I chose this quote because I think that it applies to everyone. If you discriminate against another race or culture you feel no love towards them. Also if you judge someone, generally it is a negative connotation. If you think lowly of someone then you don't feel any emotion towards them other than anger, disappointment and frustration. I also chose this quote because of the person who said it. Mother Teresa, born as Gonxha Agnes, grew up with a religious background because of her mother. She went through extreme measures to teach people about god, even going to extreme lengths like living in extreme poverty. Mother Teresa loved everyone and didn't make an assumption about someone no matter what their age, nationality, sex and position in the social structure.


This is a picture of Mother Teresa feeding a child. This photo shows how much Mother Teresa cared about other people enough to care about them. This shows that there are people in the world that will go to extreme measures to help other people.

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