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Question

I have to do a study for my R.E class. the instructions are as follows.

Produce a slideshow biography of a famous person chosen because you think they are either snow white (good) or Stalin (bad). Pay particular attention to their positive and negitive effects on society.

The only problem is I want to do someone who is in the middle but dont have a clue who to do.

Can you help?

Also can you give reason for your chosen person

Many thanks.

i wanna do someone in the middle as it is going on a scale of good and evil and me and a friend want to do someone in the middle so they stand out more

Answer 1

We are all somewhere in between, I think. How about someone like Mother Theresa or His Holiness the Dalai Lama? They are both considered very good, but they each can be considered from a variety of perspectives.

Answer 2

Anyone you pick would be put in the middle by some or at the other extreme to where you put them.

Pick your person. Describe the negatives that they are reported to have and the positives too. State that some only look at one side whilst others only look at the other. State that any person can be viewed from either side and it is the viewer that decides what they see and how they judge.

Have fun.

Answer 3

if the instructions are to do either good or bad why would you go in the middle?

Answer 4

I would pick someone interesting such as Thomas Jefferson

1. Good points are contributions to founding principles that both major parties claim as representing their own. Besides
being the author the Declaration of Independence and the champion of religious freedom (see Virginia statute), also made contributions to agriculture (popularized the tomato), architecture (Monticello), and rational approaches to faith (Jeffersonian Bible).

2. Bad side - he is still criticized and questioned today about his holding of slaves (I heard it argued that slaves were owned and mortgaged through banks, like houses, so you could not freely choose to give them up but would have to be able to afford it similar to donating a house or car to charity) and also his relations and children with a slave that many claimed he truly loved and simply could not marry because he promised his wife on her deathbed and it was illegal for interracial couples to marry. He believed that private life was separate from public duty, which is still debated today.

3. He also believed that since government leadership was ordered or ordained by God, official decisions did not need to reflect public opinion, which would seem to contradict today's concept of separation of church and state. When Jefferson coined the term, in a letter to Baptists, he was defending their practice from state imposition. So since his stance was the opposite of how separation of church and state is applied today, he might seem more of an oppressor than a hero of American freedom.
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Other interesting choices:
A. Eva Peron, "Evita"
Controversial to this day, because she was loved an elevated almost to a Saint by the poor working class who saw her as one of their own who rose to power and still remembered and represented them (she founded the Eva Peron Foundation to give charity to the poor, including sewing machines or money for medical care). However, she and her husband allowed shelter for political refuges from Mussolini's dictatorship, and to this day it is suspected or debated that money smuggled into Argentina had been seized from Jewish Holocaust victims, and that could have been the source of some of the wealth distributed to the poor

B. Judas in the Bible
On one hand, he betrayed Jesus for 30 pieces of silver, and signalled using a kiss to identify Jesus for opposing authorities to arrest and subject him to unfair trial and execution, after which he killed himself out of despair.
On the other hand, these events were prophesied and destined to pass exactly as they unfolded, in order for Jesus to fulfill the path in his life that ended in sacrifice for the greater salvation of humanity. So the greater good could never have happened without Judas playing the role he did, which was a sacrifice in a different way. For the immediate short term, it was a negative, selfish act of betrayal; yet, he was meant to have that motivation to make the decisions to act as he did, in order to fulfill prophesy and allow God's will to ensue, which brought greater good for all humanity.