[LM_NET] Hit: Humanitarians

[Nancy Stiner <nstiner@MCHSI.COM>]

Thanks so much to everyone who responded to my question about the 8th 
Grade English research project about Humanitarians.

Following are the responses:


I would nominate Jimmy Carter and Lance Armstrong.
 

Here is a list of Humanitarians with a few titles that came to mind
 
 From "Ten Amazing People and How they Changed the World"  by Maura D. 
Shaw  ISBN 1-893361-47-0

    * Dorothy Day
    * Janusz Korczak
    * Mother Teresa
    * Albert Schweitzer
    * Thich Nhat Hanh
    * Desmond Tutu

 Humanitarians from your neighbors to the north:-)  'The kids book of 
Great Canadians' by Elizabeth MacLeod ISBN 1-55337-366-9

    * Craig Kielburger
    * Terry Fox
    * Frederick Banting and Charles Best (inventors of insulin)

There's also 'Amelia to Zora: 26 Women who changed the world' by Cynthia 
Chin-Lee ISBN1-57091-522-9
 
here's a link for the table of contents for this one that lists all the 
names:
 
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/1570915229/ref=sib_dp_pt/105-2595924-5230000#reader-link


'Harvesting Hope:  The story of Cesar Chavez' by Kathleen Krull  ISBN 
0152014373
 
'Boy in Motion: Rick Hansen's Story' by Ainslie Manson ISBN 9781553652526



Greg Mortenson, whose book "Three Cups of Tea....." tells of his 
building schools in Pakistan. 



Andrew Carnegie
Mother Teresa
Bill Gates
Oprah Winfrey
Jimmy Carter
Princess Diana
Eleanor Roosevelt


Here are some well-known humanitarians:
Mother Teresa
Bill & Melinda Gates
Oprah Winfrey
Bono
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Jimmy Carter
Willie Nelson
Vince Gill
Bob Hope
Elie Wiesel
Kofi Annan
 
Non as well known:
Catherine Bertini
 
 
Iowa humanitarians:
Dr. Norman E. Borlaug
Herbert Hoover
George Washington Carver
Jessie Field Shambaugh
Walter Mondale
Robert Ray
John Walsh
Richard O. Jacobson
Also, check out http://www.kcrg.com/care/9whocare/12335246.html



collective bios done by
Enslow is Holocause Rescuers [Ten Stories of Courage] by Darryl Lyman.
Clara Barton


Nancy Stiner
7-12 Media Specialist
Iowa Falls Alden High School
nstiner@po-1.iowa-falls.k12.ia.us

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