LEADERSHIP RESEARCH PROJECT

The following list contains the names of famous people. Pick one person that you would like to learn more about and research their biographical information. Write a 350 word description containing:

1. who they are/were
2. what they have accomplished
3. why they could considered to be an example of a leader

Mohandas Gandhi	Jean Vanier	Gloria Steinem
Audrey Hepburn	Estée Lauder	George Patton
Martin Luther King	Charles Chaplin	Ray Kroc
Nellie McClung	Norman Bethune	Mother Teresa
Cleopatra	William Osler	Agnes McPhail
Lee Iaccoca	Alan Eagleson	Anne Frank
Charles Darwin	E.P. Taylor	John Galt
Joan of Arc	Albert Schweitzer	Lester Pearson
Winston Churchill	Louis Riel	Henry Ford
Catherine the Great	Malcolm Muggeridge	Sir Thomas More
Buckminster Fuller	Pierre Trudeau	Queen Elizabeth I

You will then be responsible for presenting your findings in class in an informational and interesting format. Your presentation should be about 15 minutes in length, and you are acting as the teacher of the class during this time. Consider the use of the blackboard, overhead, handouts, or any of the other teaching tools that you are familiar with. You will receive marks for content and presentation of this information.

Your written material will be handed in at the time of your presentation.

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