Daniel Ellsberg: A True Hero

There are a lot of bad people in the world. For example, John Wilkes Booth was a very bad person. He destroyed people’s sense of safety. When he killed the president of the United States, it made citizens feel unprotected and that something even worse would happen. He’s a villain for killing Abraham Lincoln. However, there are good people too. Martin Luther King Jr. was a hero. This is because he was a civil rights leader. He was a very kind man who was influential and also a great man to our country. Instead of making people feel unsafe and scared like what John Wilkes Booth did, Martin Luther King made people feel good about themselves and he made freedom. History is related to the novel Tangerine written by Edward Bloor.

“I didn’t do anything special, but if the progress I have made motivates another wounded veteran to keep going, then that’s great” (Fiege). Eugene Segers is a soldier that lost his leg in Afghanistan. He got home and got the treatment he needed, but he never stopped moving forward. He was determined, he did not stop doing things because he only had one leg. Now he is a hero because he is inspiring people to let nothing stop them no matter what happens. Also, Segers has the characteristics, leadership, and bravery. He is a leader because he is setting a good example for others that are going through rough times like him. He is brave enough to keep moving forward after going through all this pain. Since heroes need to face the challenges ahead of them, they have to have leadership, bravery, and kindness.

recognize their struggle. He had been motivated in his dying years to renounce his American

It was shown that he went off to fight in a war that he knew would

then met with cannon and rifle fire. This act turned the people of Gonzales into rebels and started

Raoul Wallenberg was certainly courageous. One time he made special passes saying that the Jew holding one of his passes could not be deported and was under protection of the Swedish government. Surprisingly, the Germans actually thought they were legal documents! Can you believe that! Later in 1945, Raoul heard that every Jew in Budapest's largest ghetto was to be executed. He sent a message to the Nazi commander, saying that he, Wallenberg, would personally see to the commander getting hung as a war criminal if he proceeded with the killing, and miraculously it worked! Lastly, he is courageous because, he was arrested by advancing Russian soldiers. It must have been hard for him to do things he did every day, knowing his own life was in danger. However, he bravely continued his work right up until he was captured. Certainly you see how Raoul was courageous and deserves to be a real life

Major General Benedict Arnold is without a shadow of a doubt the most intriguing and infamous general in American History, perhaps remembered by most as the infamous American traitor. His bravery, superior tactical skills, greed, need for self-preservation, lust, and jealousy all contributed to him being considered by various sources to be the most heroic and villainous character in all of American History.

Have you ever heard about Elie Wiesel? Elie Wiesel is a Holocaust survivor. He got taken to a concentration camp at the young age of 14 with his mother, father, and his older and younger sisters. After he got freed, the Holocaust had such an impact on him that he wrote multiple books over it. Even though he went through a lot of trauma, he was still strong the whole way through and decided to share his story with the world.

What makes a hero? Is Harrison Bergeron a hero? Harrison does make up a hero. Harrison Bergeron is a 14 year old boy, son of George and Hazel Bergeron. George, the father, had a metal handicap radio in his ear required by the government to wear at all times to shock him every twenty second or so.

“I have chosen guerrilla warfare to revenge myself for wrongs that I could not honorable revenge otherwise. I lived in Kansas when this war was commenced. Because I would n to fight the people of Missouri, my native State, the Yankees sought my life but failed to get me. [They] revenged themselves by murdering my father, [and] destroying all of my property.”

Another way that civilians were assaulted was when Lincoln closed the Southern ports. When the waterways were blocked, the fundamental supplies (such as medicine) were not able to get to those who needed them Because of this, many people died. The final two parts of this chapter were devoted to Sherman and his relationship with Lincoln and Sheridan’s part in the burning of Shenandoah

white men were enemies and that he had to stick to his own blood. He was used to his

He pushed his men into the battle with no idea of what he was up against. This led to the loss of all his men’s lives; it cost him his own life as

America’s greatest hero because of his involvement in saving the Union and the emancipator of

Thomas Alva Edison was an unconventional genius that played a vital role in shaping the modern world with his inventions, but didn’t accomplish this role easily. Edison led an inquisitive life encompassing his disruptive adolescence, unconventional methods of success, and exceptional ability to endure failure. Although his inventions and ideologies exemplified him, Thomas Edison overcame tremendous obstacles throughout his lifetime before achieving his anticipated goals.