Topic: Pick a famous person

5 paragraph essay
1- Choose a person
2- Research take notes- focus on aspects of why they are famous, what
contributions they made, etc .
3- Use steps to generate a thesis
4- Outline

Fatih Sultan Mehmet (Mehmet the Conqueror)

Leaders are the ones who know how to motivate people. They have to be strong
enough to lead the masses and intelligent enough to rule people. In history, there are
some leaders that will never be forgotten, and Mehmet the Conqueror is one of them.
He will be remembered as the man who started a new era in the history of mankind.
His experience and education contributed to him being considered as a military genius
of his time.
His father was the Sultan Murad and his mother was Valide Huma Hatun. So he
was born and raised in a noble family and he knew that he would the Sultan of the
future. He was aware of this when he was so young and at the age of eleven he was
sent to Amasya to govern there. Once there was a problem in the country and it was
difficult to overcome that problem. So he called his father but his father didnt want to
deal with the situation. Then he wrote a letter to his father and said: "If you are the
Sultan, come and lead your armies. If I am the Sultan I hereby order you to come and
lead my armies." It was only after receiving this letter that Murad II led the Ottoman
army and fixed the situation.
Since his early childhood his father tried to educate him. He wasnt an easy boy
and he wasnt getting well with his teachers. Then his father sent Molla Gurani to
educate him. His father gave a stick to Molla Gurani and told him to use that stick if
Mehmed disobeys him. Mehmed didnt take it seriously and was beaten by his
instructor. This was a turning point for him and he accepted that even a sehzade, the
future Sultan, should listen to his instructor. He was interested in literature and he wrote
some poems with the nickname of Avni. He let the philosophers to discuss in front of
him but he wasnt brutal to any of them. He was respectful to ones who had different
ideas.
He was military genius. Hi ordered his soldiers to pull the ships over the land and
he wanted to have huge cannons which were never seen before. He took the name
conqueror after he won the war against Byzantines. He was tolerant against the
countries he connected to his country. He ruled the Ottoman Empire for 30 years and
he was a very brave soldier. He took place in front of his army in the wars and he
encouraged his soldiers.
In conclusion, rarely in the history we see a man with strict rules together with
tolerant behaviors. His military achievement is the results of the education he got and
the experiences he already had before being the sultan of the Ottoman Empire. He is
famous for his ability to negotiate with the other nations and having the qualities of
being a great soldier and a statesman.