I went to the legislature in Victoria BC it was a blast and i got to mean Rick Thorpe the MP from the Okanaugan. it was a blast ( I'm the tall guy in that back row beside the teacher looking person on the left side) it was fun, my whole class is in the picture. IT WAS AWSOME PAUSOM

Nelson Mandela

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela born 18 July 1918m, is a former President of South Africa. Mandela was an anti-apartheid activist and leader of the African National Congress. He spent 27 years in prison. he went to prison because he was fighting for african peoples writes in there own country. Mandela received more than one hundred awards over four decade ( most notably the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993). He fought for the freedom of aftrican and won!!!

Victoria Trip

The Victoria trip was filled with fun times. the funnest times for me though was going out for coffee with my Aunty Joan, Uncle Doug and cousin Glen at the Pacific Rim Hotel and the Empress hotel in down town Victoria after words going to a Fancy white spot. The coffee that we bought the bill at the end was 40$!!! the funnest part of the Field trip besides that though was the night we all went to see the Imax and they locked the doors on us so we just went and walked around down town Victoria that was thee funnest part of the trip for me. the part i disliked the most would of had to been the fairy ride back it was not nearly as fun as the fairy ride there. Over all i loved the trip to Victoria and cant wait for the next time i get to go

Tommy Douglas

Tommy Douglas is known as one of the ten greatest Canadians in Canadian history. The thing he is best known for is bringing universal free health care to Canada so Evrey citizen in Canada gets free health care in most cases and if it doesn't cover it it would help fund you to get what ever needs to get done. He was the leader of the Saskatchewan Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) from 1942 and the seventh Premier of Saskatchewan from 1944 to 1961.

Dali Lama

the Dali Lama is a great man who did alot for the world. Tibetan Buddhists believe the Dalai Lama to be one of innumerable incarnations of Avalokitesvara. the Dali lama was a leader of tebeten goerment before it got taken over by Chinese ruling. he fights for the feedom of his people and also for human rights across the world. he won a global peace price in 1989.

Gandhi

in 1930 Gandhi had his famous salt march in India where him and many of his followers fallowed him down the the ocean to make salt for themselves so they do not have to buy it from the British people in the country because they were making salt very expensive and were putting many tax's on it so no one could afford it. Gandhi held this march went down the to ocean and made piles of piles of salt and handed it out for free. in 1964 he got the Nobel Peace Price for all of his actions in India trying to free Indian soil from the English and re take India's culture for its own and free the Indian people from the English culture and the chains that were getting put on them. Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated on 30 January 1948, shot at point blank range by Nathuram Godse, an activist of the Hindu nationalist Hindu Mahasabha. Since 1934, there had been five preceding unsuccessful attempts to kill Gandhi.

Martin Luther King

Definition - Civil Disobedience:

Is the active refusal to obey certain laws, demands and commands of a government or of an occupying power without resorting to physical violence

Martin Luther King did civil disobedience with marches down streets blocking traffic and black rights did this by rampaging and looting store fronts and rioting down town streets in LA.