Humility, simplicity, and sacrifice are the terms most often associated with Mother Teresa and her work though many that encountered her personally would quickly add tenacity. And this tenacity was often followed by a stern, uncompromising demeanor. She was driven by an unswerving conviction that she was called by God to reach out to the poorest of the poor, and this conviction left little room to entertain the opinions of government officials, church authorities, or even military leaders.

In a famous televised scene from 1985, she insisted that a government minister from Ethiopia give her Missionaries of Charity two unused buildings to be made into orphanages. With cameras rolling, the minister was tongue tied but finally had no choice but to give her the buildings. Pop singer Bob Geldorf, in Ethiopia as part of his Band Aid campaign, witnessed this exchange in th

In 1952, four years after she left Loreto community, she opened Nirmal Hriday (Pure Heart), a home for dying and destitute people in Calcutta. In the decades that followed, she opened her work to five continents. The first 20 years of the ministry passed unnoticed, but that changed quickly in 1969. When Malcolm Muggeridge for the BBC interviewed her. A film and a book (both called Something Beautiful for God) by Muggeridge followed, and soon she was on her way to becoming an international celebrity. Special recognition came from Queen Elizabeth and from the U. S. Congress, and even from Harvard University, which granted her an honorary doctorate. In 1979 she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. But she was never fully comfortable in the limelight. "For me," she confessed, "it is more difficult than bathing a leper."

In today's society there is a many ways to define what a hero is. In today's society there is also many people focus on themselves. They are only interested, and concerned with things that will make their lives better. They are also only concerned with how things will affect them, not others. In looking for someone to admire or label a hero, I feel heroes don't need super powers, extreme physical gifts, or to be beautiful on the outside. A hero to me is someone you would like to live your life like. Mother Teresa and many other heroes in the past and present have a gift that makes them extremely special or beautiful. Mother Teresa was a woman dedicated to God. She loved all people whether they were sick, poor, black, white, or on their deathbed. This woman cared for human beings, and was afraid of no one. Mother Teresa had extreme courage to trust her calling she had, and do what she felt was her life's purpose. Mother Teresa was not a type of hero who falls under one definition or meaning found in a dictionary. She practically falls under all definitions of what it takes to be a hero. Mother Teresa sacrificed. She took risks. She had many achievements and contributions in her lifetime. She had an extreme talent with touching people's lives in a positive way. She was also viewed as a protector of the people who were shunned from their communities once they became sick. In my eyes no one can compare to the beau

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