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Within the Virtual Ref. Collection under History and Geography
For a great source to start with to help develop you FACTUAL (#1) column
Select- ABC-CLIO -World History/ Modern Era
-Type in Indian Independence
select articles from the links, print out and then highlight what you can take from it.
For help in writing your OBITUARY & your EDITORIAL
use the Biography Reference Center
-Type in Mahatma Gandhi. Select from different reference sources related to Gandhi.
http://xaaa.calypso.scoolaid.net/bin/vrc/vrcList
Other resources to help with your OBITUARY and EDITORIAL
Gandhi Serve Foundation-
A charitable foundation that aims to spread the ethics of nonviolence by providing information about and popularizing Mahatma Gandhi's life and works.
http://www.gandhiserve.org
Nobel Prize Site
Site established by the Nobel foundation. Provides info. about the scientific and literary achievements as well as peace efforts recognized by the prize. Scroll down to see biographical information on Mohandas Gandhi.
www.nobel.se/peace/articles/gandhi
For Political Cartoons (#4)
See Gandhi Foundation site again. Look through these examples of cartoons to help you to develop your own depicting India's plight. It'll serve as a rally cry to drum up support for independence from Great Britian.
http://www.gandhimedia.org/cgi-bin/gm/gm.cgi?direct=Images/Cartoons
From the National Library of Wales in the U.K.-here are a few more examples...
"Move over Marmaduke, this brute needs bringing to its senses." August 9, 1942
An aristocrat and a soldier are riding an elephant-representing the Indian National Congress- which is out of control.
http://cairsweb.llgc.org.uk/images/ilw1/ilw0456.gif
"Free India"
A group of protestors are holding up signs demanding that the British get out of India. Sitting down is Gandhi and a woman holding her young child. Around them are bodies of those who've died from hunger or were killed in the ongoing civil war.
http://cairsweb.llgc.org.uk/images/ilw1/ilw1248.gif
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