Mother Teresa Research Paper

Olivia Zumwalt

Professor Lori Chlarson

English 2A

7 December 2011

A Hero the world deserves

Mother Teresa has caught the imagination of the world by being a person of immense compassion. Born in 1910 in war-wracked Albania to catholic refugees was Mother Teresa. She lived in a small community of well-rounded people. Her sacrifice to the less fortunate began an indulgent liberal name for herself. She practiced in religion and dedicated her soul to her charitable work. Whether or not she had a positive impact goes without saying. Everything she did in her life was to benefit others well being. She was neither boastful nor unruly with her compassion. Mother Teresa had positive attributes along with a positive influence to the world of cultures.

Mother Teresa of Calcutta was originally named Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu. It wasn’t until later that she earned a name for herself after the infamous saint Teresa. She was born in Skopje, Macedonia, on August 27, 1910. At the time of her birth Skopje was located within the Ottoman Empire, a vast empire controlled by the Turks in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. She was the youngest of three children and her father died in her early years. At just nine years old she experienced this loss of not only her father but also happiness throughout her once united family. “The family that prays together, stays together” was a much used axiom in her household. This is when her religious interests began. Little did she know this interest would soon become the reason for her being. From her childhood she had always attended prayers and devoted herself in the worship of the almighty. Research shows she was a young girl when she was first inspired, but what people don’t know is just how young that is. She received her first communion at the age of five, and by the time she was twelve she already felt she had a calling to help the poor. “From the moment a soul has the grace to know God, she must...