Improving Quality of Life

Improving Quality of Life

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Improving Quality of Life

1. Individuals Making a Difference

2. The Global Dream

Individuals Making a Difference

• Describe the actions of individuals who have influenced global affairs in a one-page biographical account of who they were/are and how they influenced global affairs. On the next couple of slides are just some suggestions of individuals to research.

Individuals Making a Difference

• The Right Honourable Lester B. Pearson• Dr. David Suzuki• Mr. Stephen Lewis• Mr. Craig Kielburger• Mr. John Humphrey• Mr. Maurice Strong• Ms. Louise Fréchette• Major General Lewis Mackenzie• Lieutenant General The Honourable Roméo Dallaire• The Honourable Lloyd Axworthy• Mr. Matthew Coon Come• Mrs. Louise Arbour

Individuals Making a Difference

• Mr. Nelson Mandela• The Honorable Jimmy Carter• Mr. Kim Dae-jung• Mrs. Aung San Suu Kyi• Pope John Paul II• Mr. Dag Hammarskjold• Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt• Mr. Mikhail Gorbachev• Mr. Mohandas Gandhi• Mr. Robert Kennedy, Jr.• Ms. Jody Williams

Individuals Making a Difference

Individuals Making a Difference

• Recommended Reading:– Me to We: Turning Self-

Help on Its Head by Craig and Marc Kielburger

– It outlines a philosophy of living that challenges the way we look at the world

– The self-help culture that has shaped so much of modern life has led us up the wrong path with its focus on “me” and not “we”

The Global Dream

• Common Aspirations