Nelson Mandela1918-2013: South African anti-apartheid activist and politician who served as the first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the countrys first black head of state and the first elected in a fully representative democratic election.
This assignment is primarily a research-based paper, and the goal is to identify the key leadership principle(s) that you find shaped the experiences and achievements of your selected subject. Build up your essay mostly with facts and opinions that you have gathered in your research. Structure the final version of your paper into three sections:
Introduction: Begin your paper with a quotation from your subject have serves as central idea for your introductionat least one well developed paragraph, extending from the selected quotation. Try to select a quotation that you feel will create immediate interest and a starting idea about your main subject. As with all quotations, you should directly cite the author and incorporate the quote into a complete sentence that you have constructed.
Body: The section that occupies the largest proportion of your paper should be a kind of selected history of your subject; in other words, try to focus on the aspect of leadership in presenting the facts, experiences, and historical commentary you discover about your subject. Incorporate at least four quotations from four different sources, one of which should be a block quotation.
Conclusion: Begin your concluding paragraph by stating what you feel is the most important leadership quality your subject applied during their life. Reference a couple of key historical facts that revealed this leadership quality. Is there an essential lesson we can apply today based on the model of leadership demonstrated by your subject? Elaborate.
Required Length: 1000 words, in MLA format, plus one additional page for a Works Cited list of sources.
