Indira Gandhi

Indira Gandhi is one of the best known female political leaders that ever lived. She was born in India in 1917. She was the only child of Jawaharlal Nehru the first independent Indian prime minister. Gandhi went to England but never finished all her schooling, There she met Feroze who she soon after married. After she returned to India were she took a political career. In 1966 she became the Primeminister of India.

Gandhi was the first ever female Primeminster of India and the 3d independent Indian Primeminister. While in office Gandhi did a lot of things for India. She built friendly relationships with the Soviet Union to help her with the Indian war against Pakistan. Gandhi advanced green technology and agriculture to feed the rapidly growing population of India. Gandhi Developed the nuclear Weapons program in India so the country could follow all the advanced countries which were developing there nuclear weapons.

Gandhi served 3 consecutive terms and was in office until 1977. She is the second female leader with such power and authority and the second longest serving female leader. At the age of 66 in 1984 she was assasinated by her bodyguards in retaliation for ordering Operation Blue Star.

Saint Nicholas

Saint Nicholas is a saint, for both the Catholic and Orthodox churches. Nicholas was born a greek in 270 A.D. in Asian Minor modern day Turkey. Saint Nicholas is the patron of Sailors, mechants, archers thieves, children and students. He is known as a very generous and kind person an example is that people left their empty shoes and he left money for them. He became the model of Santa Claus because of his generous deeds. Nicholas was also given the name Nikolaos the wonderworker since many miracles attributed to his intercession. Nicholas became the patron of many harbours and docks in towns all over greece and Rome because he protected them while sailing.

Nicholas was known to be born to wealthy parents in Asian minor as a young boy he was very intrested in religion and Christianity. His parents died while he was still young form and epidemic so he was raised by his uncle.

Saint Nicholas preformed miracles during his life, he preformed a miracle when he unloaded wheat from the emperors boat, to help people deal with a famine. When the emperors boat reached constantinople it was still the same weight before he unloaded the wheat. He unloaded enough to feed the people for two years.

Saint Nicholas was awarded his own day on december the 6th because of his great generosity and miracles he preformed for people.

Anchor Mosaic

I made an anchor for my mosaic. The anchor is a early Christian symbol and was one of the primary christian symbols until 400 A.D. The anchor was a key symbol during the time of Roman persecution. The christians found the anchor, as the symbol of Seleucus the First, the king of a selucid dynasty. it's also the symbol of safety. In more modern christianity this symbol means hope and further existence on this planet. It relates to salvation. In earlier christianity especially in the 3 and 4th centuries achors were found in catacombs and graveyards. A qoute that is used to describe the anchor is " As the anchor thrown from a ship prevents this from being borne about, but holds it securely, so faith, strengthened by hope,"

I chose this as my symbol for my mosaic since I liked how it looked, and I could picture how it would look like when I skecthed it. I liked how the anchored looked like and how it was shaped. I also chose it because I like sea's and sailing on ships. When you think of an ship you also think of an anchor.

The Fall of The Roman Empire

There are many reasons for the decline of Rome. The geography was donut-like and therefore it was harder to defened from the empires enemies and barbarians. The economy was very weak Rome was hiring and buying more than they could pay for. The Goverement grew and many dishonest and untrustworthy people who were corrupt entered the goverment. There was a decrease in work force since the number of Romans decreased due to death and the number of slaves decreased. There was a lack of technology the number of workers couldn't produce enough for all the people. The army became weaker and could no longer defeat the barbarians. I think that three of these factors affected the decline the most, First the weak economy, secondly not enough workers and thirdly the weak army.