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Courage and selflessness are words that describe heroes. Mundane people can be heroes when they have enough perseverance to do extraordinary tasks. They sacrifice their needs for others. Frederick Douglass was a brave, honorable and bold abolitionist, his heroism was impactful and it changed the mindset of many people.

A hero is a person noted for brave acts or goodness of character. A person who face the danger and combats the evil. Heroic leaders have the purpose of achieving the goal, regardless of the challenging difficulties. Often sacrificing their own personal concerns for a greater good Some qualities are passion, integrity, honesty, confidence, patience, selflessness, courageous, and humble. An example of a hero is John Proctor. He is a tormented man. He believes his affair with Abigail irreparably injured him in the eyes of God, his wife Elizabeth, and himself. True, Proctor did surrender to sin and commit adultery; however, he lacks the capacity to exonerate himself.

According to the dictionary brave means to defy; challenge; dare. Cesar Chavez, Mother Jones, and Jinsook Kim were all activists who demonstrated what bravery meant in their fight for workers’ rights. Cesar Chavez was an individual who showed that through happiness and leadership, working conditions could change for the better. Furthermore, Mother Jones was a woman who was persistent and cared deeply for the children she fought for. She saw how harsh the working conditions were and how the conditions had a toil on the children’s bodies, so she decided to fight for better working conditions for the children. On the other side of the world, Jinsook Kim, a Korean activist, fought for her co-workers justice after a mass layoff. These three persistent human rights activists, all fought for workers’ rights through courageous acts of bravery.

It is important to be courageous to show people the true braver and how far people will go for something. In the book Jasper Jones. Charlie and his friends had several courageous acts. One these courageous acts that stood out to me the most was when Charlie decided to help jasper so he wouldn’t get into trouble. This is courageous because it shows the risk that Charlie is willing to take for someone he doesn’t even know.

Heroism is helping others, even if it puts you at risk. Frederick Douglass was born a slave in the 1800s, but eventually managed to escape to a free state. He had finally escaped the dreaded slavery, but he remembered those who hadn’t escaped, those still toiling in the horrid conditions. He spoke out, at anti-slavery meetings, risking all he had gained for others. “...beaten to his knees, exiled, visioning a world where none is lonely, none hunted, alien…”(Hayden). Frederick had been denied his freedom and told that he was worse than everybody else. He could still believe in a free world even after all he had been through. Frederick found the strength to not just escape, but to fight back for everyone else’s freedom. However, heroes have

In the face of danger, heroes often show courage and perseverance to achieve their goals. There are many aspects that denote courageousness. To start, bravery is defined as having the strength to act in spite of undeniable fear or pain. On another note, courage can also be seen in people who overcome suffering and better their lives. Additionally, the trait of valor is demonstrated by speaking out and standing against injustice or evil because it is the ethical behavior, even if one stands alone.

Beowulf depicted courage and illuminated bravery by showing the geat he was stronger and better than him. Shania depicted courage and illuminated bravery by going off her A.D.D. medicine for over two years so she could join the military and show everyone how strong and brave she could really be. A hero is a person who personifies their courage and nobility to other people by helping them or saving them. Beowulf and Shania display all these heroic qualities by saying they are going to do something and fight until they get it done, even if it could result in death.

Hero is a person noted for courageous acts or nobility of character (dictionary.com) . In Ken Kesey’s novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. The protagonist Randle McMurphy is seen as a “comic hero” due to the fact that he stood up against Nurse Ratched who was seemingly against him and made efforts to emasculate the men on the ward . McMurphy was able change the ward because, he encouraged the men to stand up for themselves and get them to realize that they can’t continue to let Miss.Ratched (Big Nurse) emasculate them. There have been numerous instances in which McMurphy has shown the men that they need to stand up against Miss.Ratched; throwing the party and sneaking the girls into the ward,going fishing and engaging in sexual activities, and voting on watching the world series in hopes of giving the men of the ward a voice, there are a plethora of other cases in which McMurphy has shown the men ways that they can “save their masculinity” in the ward.

What is heroism? Is it a knight in shining armor? A man that has a tragic past and has now stumbled upon powers? Or perhaps the guy who was able to save the whole earth from total destruction? As Arthur Ashe once said, “True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.” Heroism is always being willing to help others and disregarding their safety for the safety of others, but heroes are not always the main guy who does gigantic actions.

Heroes are people who put others before themselves. Such as on 9/11, when a call was given out for boats to come rescue people off the island of Manhattan, where the terror attacks happened, as pictured in “Boatlift” Vincent Ardillo calls out to his wife “I gotta do something.” This represent heroism because Ardillo is not thinking of how he will be impacted, but rather

One way Odysseus shows that he is a true hero is when he “rushes to save his men from the enchantress” (387) on the island of Aeaea. This shows how he put his crew’s needs over his own and show that he has a tremendous amount of bravery to charge into save his crew from a very powerful witch.

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Heroes, In today’s society we think of heroes as soldiers,police-officers,firefighters,doctors,old war veterans,artist,you-tubers,and even just random people are considered to be heroes in many ways to other people. Heroism is an act of great bravery and when these heroes had reacted in these heroic ways; they have sometimes felt this sudden rush of adrenaline or an sudden burst/ urge of energy or either courage. In the past, the tales or myths of heroes range from wars,war heroes victories,gods, and the journey/adventures of godlike people. Now in the Present, most of the stories we hear of these modern heroes are true. In the stories “The Good Soldiers” by David Finkel and “Odyssey” by Homer,we have read stories from both the past and present of the adventure/tale of these normal people reacting in these heroic ways but having different traits of heroism.

Heroes in society have inspired others with their acts of selflessness and bravery. They demonstrate courage everyday. Courage is standing up for what is right, doing things and knowing the risk, and that courage is different from bravery.

First and foremost, a hero needs to be courageous enough to take action, even against impossible odds; although, the form that that courageousness takes are often different between heroes. Take Beowulf and Shahrazad for example. Beowulf is a famous and powerful Geat leader, a “man whose name was known for courage” (Beowulf 120), especially in the field of battle, where he best demonstrates his courageousness. When Beowulf hears of the attacks on Hereot, he quickly comes to offer Hrothgar his services, and in his first battle with Grendel, Beowulf displayed immense bravery and courage fighting the demon, knowing that he may well perish, and even more so in deciding to do battle bare-handed and naked

     Bravery is a great trait for a hero to posses. I think bravery is a key quality because you don’t always know what lies ahead of you and you have to be brave to continue. A good example of this is Charles Lindburgh. He was the first person to fly across the Atlantic Ocean. I believe that took a great amount of bravery because no one had ever made it across, so he didn’t know what lie ahead of him. One of his many good quotes he said, “The most effective way to do it, is to just do it”, (Lindburgh 1).