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Mother Teresa was born in Skopje, Macedonia, on August twenty sixth, 1910. At birth, she was given the name Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu by her parents Nikola and Drane Bojaxhiu. Growing up, Agnes was the youngest of three children. At the age of five, Agnes received her first communion. Even at such a young age, Agnes attended prayers, and devoted herself to the almighty. When Agnes was eight years old, her father died, because of which, the Bojaxhiu family faced financial problems. Drane Bojaxhiu, Agnes’ mother, was then obligated to play the roles of both the mother and the father in the family, while helping her children develop a good character, and a good sense of self. Under the influence and guidance of her mother and a priest, Agnes decided to carry out missionary work. In her teens, she became a member of a youth group in her local parish called “Sodality”. Through her involvement with the activities at the Parish and with the guidance of a Jesuit priest, Agnes furthered her interest in missionaries, and strongly felt the touch of God. At the age of eighteen, she left her parental home in Skopje and joined the Sisters of Loretto, which is an Irish community of nuns, known for their missionary work. After a few months of training in Dublin, Ireland, she was sent to India, where on May the twenty fourth, 1931, she took her initial vows as a nun, and chose the name, “Teresa”, in honor of Teresa of Avila and Thérèse de Lisieux. In Calcutta India, Mother Teresa taught geography and cathechism at St. Mary's High School In 1944, she became the principal of St. Mary's. Soon Sister Teresa contracted tuberculosis, which is an infectious bacterial disease transmitted through the air that mainly affects the lungs. When Mother Teresa was unable to continue teaching and was sent to Darjeeling for rest and recuperation. It was on the train ride to Darjeeling that she received her second call, otherwise known as "the call within the call", to work with the poor. She was ordered to leave the convent, to work with the poor, and to live among them, and if she didn’t, it would be seen as defying faith, and God. In the 1950s, Mother Teresa received permission from the Vatican to leave the Sisters of Loretto to pursue her own calling under the jurisdiction of the Archbishop of Calcutta. At heart, Mother Teresa is modest, humble and rarely strives to be in the limelight or in a position of power. With that being said, Agnes Bojaxhiu can be relied upon to be cautious, efficient, and thorough in her work and she takes pride in a job well done. Mother Teresa was always motivated by the well being of others, and she based her entire life on helping and servicing those in need. Mother Teresa clearly wanted to make the world a better place, Mother Teresa’s foundation, Missionaries of Charity, was established in 1950 by mother Teresa herself. This particular foundation consists of over 4,500 sisters and is active in 133 countries. The sisters who are apart of this foundation must take vows of chastity, poverty, obedience and the fourth vow, to give "Wholehearted and Free service to the poorest of the poor", before they’re able to join. Everyone who is apart of this foundation is expected to care for those who include refugees, ex-prostitues, the mentally ill, sick children, abandoned children, lepers, AIDS victims, the aged, and convalescent. There are schools run by the sisters, to educate street children, they run soup kitchens, as well as many other services as per the communities' needs. They have 19 homes in Kolkata (Calcutta) alone which include homes for women, for orphaned children, and for the dying. Mother Teresa did what she did because she wanted to help others. She wanted the less fortunate to have a better life, and she knew that she could help provide them with a better life, so she did everything in her power to do this. Mother Teresa wanted there to be “Something Beautiful for God”, she stated. I assume that Mother Teresa realized that God thought of all people helping each other, and caring for each other as something beautiful. Mother Teresa's very life influenced the people of today's world. Although Mother Teresa isn’t living among us today, we all remember her, and the good that she has done for others in the past, will always be a great influence on people in the future. Her want to be good to others, will remind us why we should try to help people who can’t help themselves. We take that information with us, and those of us who are willing to take everything that she has done for people into consideration, will do what they can to assist others. Those of us who can wrap our heads around what Mother Teresa has accomplished for our world, know that it was done out of the kindness of her heart, which will, and has, inspired individuals to become better people. Mother Teresa made a difference in the world because she was always reaching out to help people. She lived a holy life. She always responded with great actions. She believed that to change the world, people must begin with peace and war. Mother Teresa’s hard work and efforts will always be remembered. http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/1-23-2005-64646.asp

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Dear Editor, Before Nazis occupied Europe I was a regular person, like a normal human being. I would attend church on Sunday, go dancing with my friends, and spend nights with the family. Everything about me was normal, except for the fact that I was a homosexual, and as part of the Nazis' attempt to purify German society, the Nazis condemned me as "socially aberrant." During the war, after taking office on January 30th, 1933, Hitler banned my friends and I from attending homosexual organizations. Brown shirted storm troopers raided the institutions and gathering places of homosexuals. When the Nazis first started to shut down the places where I was most comfortable, I myself as a lesbian, was devastated at how poorly we were thought of, and how poorly we were treated, just because of our different preference in soul mates. As a human being, you'd think that I would at least be given the benefit of the doubt, before my very few and limited connections to others of my orientation was demolished, but I wasn't even given that. Infact, I wasn’t given any choices at all. I wasn't able to love freely, or to be with the people I loved the most. I wasn't even able to choose between life or death. I took what I was given, and went on with my life as the Nazis planned it. In 1928 when I heard that an estimated 1.2 million men were homosexuals in Germany in 1928, and that between the 1933s to the 1945s, an estimated 100,000 men were arrested as homosexuals, and of these, 50,000 officially defined homosexuals were sentenced. Most of these men spent time in regular prisons, and an estimated 5,000 to 15,000 of the total sentenced were incarcerated in concentration camps, all because of their orientation, I was obviously scared for my life. I was scared that at any moment, a Nazi would show up at my house, with a warrant for my arrest, which is very much equal to a warrant for my execution. Countless nights I lied awake, thinking about my family, and my friends. I was thoroughly disgusted with the Nazis, and hoped that all of them would one day pay severely for taking my last bit of humanity away from me. Right after the war ended, and I was re-adjusting myself to the Nazi free life, I was still scarred from what I saw with my own two eyes, and the types of things I heard other people say about me, people exactly like me. Unfortunately for me, the images that I saw, and certain things that I heard cannot be erased from my memory, but it’s just so ironic that some people of today, are related to some of those who ruined mine, and millions of other’s lives. They’re related to some of those who murdered, condemned, and assaulted my friends, my family, and my companions, yet they show little recognition towards what I’ve been through as a person, and little respect towards me. I feel as though my experience has been lost in the minds of the people in the world. Many choose to feel sympathy for soliders or innocent war civilians. When people think of the holocaust, the first thing that comes to mind are the Jewish people who suffered greatly, and they feel so much sympathy for the Jewish people, that they have none left for the Asocials, the mentally handicapped, the physically handicapped, gypsies, or in my case, for the homosexuals. They’re right to do so, but they don’t stop and think about the other people that were hurt, traumatized and killed during the holocaust. People like me, who were never interviewed as a survivor of the holocaust, or looked upon as strong, and amazing for surviving through such tough times. It’s easy for people to act like they know what you went through for a little while, but holding up the act for too long is hard work, so it turns out to be a fad, because it’s easier for people to shrug aside someone else’s grief, pain and suffering, because they don’t internally have to deal with it. Not only did I endure a lifetime of pain, but did I regret being the person I was, for that, I despise the Nazis. I loathe them, and everything that they stood for. I’m strongly against their views, and their way of going about things. My mind will never change. Sincerely, A forgotten victim.