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Definition Of Heroism Essay

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To define the word hero is like trying to build a card house, it’s back-breaking and darn near impossible. To the majority, a hero may be a super-chiseled body saving the citizens of some large city with their great powers. But a hero, whether with a spandex suit or not, often exemplifies many of the same traits. Qualities like courage, bravery, perseverance, humbleness, and selflessness. As the esteemed Joseph Campbell said, “A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.” A hero is a person who is willing to make a sacrifice, one who takes risks so that others may not have to. A hero is someone who does not give up, and a hero is someone who strives to make the world a better place.
To define a hero is to define someone who is willing to take a risk and to sacrifice something for others. An example of this would be the story of Mulan. In Mulan, it tells the story of a …show more content…

In fact, none of the examples shown above have any connection to spandex at all. All of the heroes mentioned were normal human beings like you and I and they were praised as heroes because they performed deeds on a much larger scale. When in reality, we have all shown qualities of a hero. There is a quote from Robert Downing Jr in which he says “I think that we all do heroic things, but hero is not a noun, it's a verb.” This paper was at first, written to define a hero, when really, it has been unknowingly written to define what a human being is. We as humans, have invented this word to identify great people when it really should be a term to describe everyone. We have all sacrificed something before. We have all persevered, whether it be in sports or in homework and we have all given back to the community, even if it was just a small task such as recycling a sheet of paper. So, really, we all have earned the right to stand on a pedestal and prance around in tight rubber

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