My Genius Hour: Uncapeed Heroes

Nature is the playground for every human. It is essential that we include nature in our lives; it keeps us on our correct path. However, if we dismiss ourselves from nature, we begin to stray from our correct path. We become engulfed in the distractions from the modern world . The only approach to appropriate this quandary is to break our pervicacious ways and return to peaceful serenity known as nature.

My first year, I worked on a business plan to revamp the website of Silver Cloud Inn (a local hotel company). I knew about technology, but nothing about networking or public speaking. The first week, I dropped off 100 customer surveys at the front desks of two hotels. I received three responses. Through trial and error, I eventually found myself in contact with the company’s COO and had the inside track to a great business plan. Still, I had to present to judges in competition. Fortunately, I was speaking about a project I was passionate about—improving a website that hadn’t been redesigned in 10 years. This made the iterative

Sociology 461 Criminal Justice Systems Edward M. Stern No Heroes, No Villains; by Steven Phillips In the book No Heroes, No Villains the author Steve Phillips describes a story of a single dramatic trial of murder it offers a thoughtful and balanced presentation of the problems besetting our criminal courts, lays bare the mechanics of justice, and explains in graphic detail just what is wrong and right about our criminal justice system.

The Hero’s Journey tells us the path that every hero takes in every story, and the conflicts that he faces throughout it. In the Ordinary World the hero is in comfort and tranquility until he is called upon to take this journey, into and unknown place called the Special World. The Special World is nothing like the Ordinary World, it has unstableness and that is where the hero will meet the villain which he must stop. In the Call Of The Adventure Stage, the hero will be presented with his challenge and will be told where to go and if he is willing to perform this journey. The Hero is left to choose if he has the courage to go to an extremely strange and unpredictable world. Next he will enter the Refusal Of The Call, here the hero feels frightened by the quest he must face and

The movie I watched for my critique was called No Ordinary Hero. In this movie there were two characters who had a disability. The disability that they had was being deaf. Jacob, an eight year old boy, is struggling in school, mostly because he cannot hear the lectures being given by his teacher. Tony, a deaf television star, has a goal of inspiring the hearing impaired as well as those of us who can hear. Throughout the movie the two characters go through a series of obstacles but they are always able to overcome them.

Ironman, Spider-man, and Batman are all extraordinary people who are deemed heroes. Everyday heroes like firefighters or police officers, and fictional heroes such as the ones listed before are illustrated as invincible and a moral example for individuals. However, neither of those characteristics apply to an epic hero. An epic hero is flawed, and because an epic hero possess this quality it is the reason why a person would relate more to him and connect with the written work rather than a superhero. An elementary example of an epic hero, is Odysseus the main character in Homer’s The Odyssey because he goes above and beyond the call of bravery and courage of any normal human being to give sanctuary to his men while trying to get home. The Odyssey divulges the journey home Odysseus must make after fighting in the Trojan War; Little does he know that his own hubris will cause this short trip from Troy to Ithaca, to prolong into a twenty year voyage. The characteristics he manifest while facing adversities, his guile, and his tenacious desire to get home to his family is what makes him an epic hero in literature.

The Hero’s Journey is an important concept, it is the template upon which a vast majority of successful stories and Hollywood blockbuster are based upon. Being able to analyze, understand and deconstruct the different capacities undertaken by the Hero is essential. The Hero’s Journey is a cycle made of super structures/steps which consists of both linkages and connections. It is composed of a beginning and an end, which ultimately are the same. This full cycle is attained through periods of loss and gain (hardship) which in turn are subdivided into different sections, composed of micro mini stages which together act as stepping stones leading the hero full circle back to the beginning.

The many heroic feats we hear of from 9/11 were not only committed by the hands of emergency personnel, but also by untrained civilians. In the air, flight attendants on hijacked flights managed to retain their composure, hunt down crucial information,and make contact with airlines. Passengers fearfully rallied together and rebelled against the enemy, knowing very well that they may not even survive. The courageousness of civilian heroes on the hijacked planes may not have stopped the attacks from happening, but it did help expose the hijackers, and even saved thousands of lives on 9/11.

The 9th one is hero’s journey is the atonement with the father. This is the point of the story were the hero wants more power only to discover that is was the dad that had more power. In the book Into The Wild, Alex’s atonement happened when he argues with his dad when he found out that he cheated. In the book Shooting an elephant there is no atonement with father. In the book The Stranger. there is no atonement. In the movie V for Vendetta, The movie never talked about V’s dad. In Assassins Creed 3, Connor’s Father Is the Leader of the templars and Connor is a part of the Brotherhood Of Assassins so they are rivals at heart. But that feud ended in Connor killing his dad in order to liberate the colonies from the templars grip. In Punisher, Punisher didn’t have a dad he was a dad at one point until his kids shot and killed. In Lucky, she has no father in the movie. In Daredevil, Murdoc’s dad was a boxer, he wasn’t the best boxer but it was the thing that gave murdoc a bright future with the money his dad made. Until his dad was killed leaving Murdock blind and a dadless.

The Hero’s Quest is an archetypal journey a character embarks on, representing their quest of overcoming an obstacle and becoming a hero. The Hero’s Quest follows a specific pattern of stages the hero goes through on their quest. Typically this hero goes through great physical, mental and lifestyle changes to transform from a normal person into a hero on one quest, attempting to overcome one obstacle. Beowulf is an epic poem written during the time of the Anglo-Saxons; heroism is a motif commonly found in literature during this period. Beowulf tells the journey of a young man who transforms into a hero and accomplishes what was thought to be impossible. While Beowulf followed the archetypal qualities of the

I read the attached article in the Los Angeles Times recently. It is the story of a former Hells Angel who turned his life around as a result of a bad accident. He began climbing mountains and that led to the founding of a nonprofit foundation - the Heroes Project. According to the article, Heroes Project was born to inspire, train and accompany wounded vets to summit some of the tallest mountains in the world. I have climbed the two tallest mountains in California, Mt. Whitney and Mt. Shasta, and know how hard and uplifting it is. I do not know if you or U.S. Bank are familiar with the Heroes Project, but with Veterans Day this week and knowing our commitment to veterans, I thought I would forward it to you. This would be a great way

Name: Nhat Ho Mr. Erwin Philosophy 432 30/10/2015 Hero in High Noon In many Western films, the roles of courage, women, integrity, community , individualism, Indians, landscape, and the wilderness were often presented in a similar thematic way, for the directors and their audiences shared a common view of the Old West and shared the same basic values. Courage, integrity, and individualism were greatly admired, women were admirable creatures but needed to be rescued quite frequently, and communities needed to be united in order to survive hostile Indians and an unforgiving wilderness. These values all reflect the idea of Sublime, Jonathan Locke’s view of property, Thomas Hobbes’ conception of human nature and human society, and Aristotle’s

In "The Thematic Paradigm", Robert Ray explains how there are two distinctly different heroes, the outlaw hero and the official hero. The official hero embraces common values and traditional beliefs, while the outlaw has a clear sense of right and wrong but operates above the law (Ray). Ray explains how the role of an outlaw hero has many traits. "The attractiveness of the outlaw hero's childishness and propensity to whims, tantrums, and emotional decisions derived from America's cult of childhood", states Ray. (309) Ray also says, "To the outlaw hero's inconsistence on private standards of right and wrong, the official hero offered the admonition, you cannot

Of all the novelists of the past 25 years, few have had such an aura surrounding their work, life and death as that of David Foster Wallace. His 1996 tome Infinite Jest has found itself on the book shelves of readers of serious adult fiction around the world, and his plethora of essays (which tackled everything from summer blockbusters, to sports, to pornography, to the concept of infinity) are still widely read and dissected in the literary world. In his lifetime, he reached a level of respect and broad appeal that few authors could have hoped to achieve (think Kurt Vonnegut and J.D. Salinger), yet Wallace was far from complacent with his status. He struggled with depression for much of his life, and committed suicide in 2008 at the age of

At this essay, I will review the movie “12 O’clock boys”. This movie has two lines which make it interesting and unusual. The firs line is telling us a story about an urban motorcycle gang from North Baltimore and the second line is telling us a story about thirteen years old boy Pug who wants to be a part of 12 O’clock boys gang. The people who belong to this gang want to escape from the reality of life by doing crazy and dangerous things on the roads which make them feel free and powerful. Of course, this freedom and wildness attract teenagers who growing up without good and strong authority in their families. In my review, I would like to pay attention on several important aspects which provide us this movie such as how the environment may affect kids and how is important for people to be special and powerful.