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HOW DOES HELPING OTHERS HELP US ALL?

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This unit is about living creatures helping one another. You will read about an Apache boy who recieves help from a farm family and biographies about people who devoted their lives to helping others. You will also read about the impact of urban expansion on wildlife. As you read, you will practice the academic and literary language you need to use in school.

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Extraordinary People: Serving Others

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In different places and at different times, people have achieved extraordinary things. In the short biographies that follow, you will read about people from different times in history who helped others in many ways. You will also read about a group of people who continue to do extraordinary things in troubled parts of the world today.

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Benito Juárez

Benito Juárez (1806–1872) is a national hero in Mexico. He was the son of poor Zapotec Indian farmers in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. At age thirteen he couldn’t read, write, or speak Spanish. He trained to become a priest, but later he decided to become a lawyer. As a young man, he became interested in social justice, especially the rights of native peoples. He was very popular among the native Indian population. In 1847, he was elected governor of Oaxaca. In 1861, Juárez became the first Zapotec Indian president of Mexico. He improved education. For the first time, it was possible for every child to go to school. He stopped the French from colonizing Mexico. His many reforms made Mexico a fairer, more modern society.

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Florence Nightingale

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Florence Nightingale (1820–1910) came from a wealthy English family. Against her parents’ wishes, she became a nurse. In 1853, she became superintendent of a hospital for women in London. In 1854, Britain, France, and Turkey fought against Russia in the Crimean War. Nightingale volunteered to go to Turkey to help. She took thirty-eight nurses with her. They helped many wounded soldiers recover. Nightingale often visited the soldiers at night, carrying a lamp. Soldiers called her “the lady with the lamp.” When Nightingale returned to England, she started a school for nurses. The school still exists today.

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In 1893, Gandhi traveled to South Africa. The government of South Africa had a system of racial separation, called apartheid. A group of white South Africans attacked Gandhi and beat him. After this experience, he encouraged people to practice passive resistance against the South African authorities and apartheid. After he returned to India in 1915, Gandhi became a leader in India’s struggle for independence. He became the international symbol of nonviolent protest. He believed in religious tolerance. In 1947, Britain finally ended its 190-year rule in India. Then, in 1948, Gandhi was assassinated by someone who didn’t agree with his beliefs. Gandhi inspired nonviolent movements elsewhere. In the United States, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. used passive resistance when he became leader of the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s.

Mohandas Gandhi

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Mohandas Gandhi (1869–1948) was born in the coastal city of Porbandar, in the western part of India. At that time, India was a British colony. Gandhi went to England in 1888 and studied law. He returned to India and worked as a lawyer in Bombay (Mumbai).

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882–1945) was elected as the thirty-second president of the United States in 1932. During the 1930s, the country was experiencing deep economic troubles. This period in American history is called the Great Depression. Banks shut down, workers lost their jobs, and farms failed. Roosevelt declared that Americans had “nothing to fear but fear itself.” He put into place a series of new government programs that brought hope to the American people. Many people returned to work. Roosevelt soon faced another challenge. The Second World War in Europe and the Pacific began in 1939. Great Britain, France, Russia, and other countries (the Allies) fought against Germany and Japan. In 1941, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. Roosevelt declared war on Japan, and the United States entered the war.

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The United States and the Allies fought many brave battles and eventually won the war in 1945. Roosevelt faced personal challenges as well. He came down with polio at the age of thirty-nine, and lost the use of his legs. However, Roosevelt did not allow his physical condition to prevent him from contributing to society. Roosevelt is now considered by many historians to be one of the greatest U.S. presidents.

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Helen Keller

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She also couldn’t “read lips,” as many hearing impaired people do. Although these challenges made young Helen very frustrated, she was also extremely intelligent. With the help of a skilled teacher, named Anne Sullivan, she learned that everything had a name and that these names were words. Because of the help of others and her own determination, she was eventually able to learn different ways to communicate. For instance, she learned to “hear” and understand speech by touching a speaker’s lips and throat. Keller gave lectures (with her teacher’s help) and wrote a number of books. Her public talks and her writings inspired countless people with hearing, sight, and other physical problems. She inspired others to not give up in the face of adversity. Keller also toured the world. She raised funds for programs to help people with impaired hearing and sight. To this day, Helen Keller remains a figure of inspiration.

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Helen Keller (1880–1968) was nineteen months old when she became sick with a fever. The sickness left her without sight or hearing. Because she was so young when this happened, it was hard for her to learn to communicate. Because she could not see, she was unable to use sign language— the language of hearing-impaired people.

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Doctors Without Borders

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Doctors Without Borders won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1999. Accepting the award, one of the organization’s founders, Bernard Kouchner, said, “I’m deeply moved, and I’m thinking of all the people who died without aid, of all those who died waiting for someone to knock on their door.”

Doctors Without Borders is an international organization whose members believe that every person in every country has the right to medical care. It helps victims of war, disease, and natural disasters. A small group of French doctors started Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières) in 1971. Each year, thousands of volunteer doctors, nurses, and administrators from countries all over the world provide medical aid to people in more than seventy countries. They provide health care, perform surgery, organize nutrition and sanitation programs, train local medical staff, and provide mental health care. Doctors Without Borders works with the United Nations, governments, and the media to tell the world about their patients’ suffering and concerns. For example, Doctors Without Borders volunteers told the media about the atrocities they saw in Chechnya, Angola, and Kosovo.

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