The Last Olympian

The Olympic games originated in Athens in 776 B.C. The more popular modern day Olympic games began nearly 2300 years later in 1896. The games no longer represented a religious festival, but a sports competition instead. The games can be studied via multiple aspects such as political, social, and economic, but this paper will concentrate on the economic aspect of the games and more specifically, the macroeconomic impacts the games possess.

Courage isn’t always bravery. Sometimes courage goes unseen. To Kill a Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee, displays different types of courage. It is written from a point of view of a child whose name is Scout growing up in a Southern town with her brother Jem. Their father, Atticus Finch, is defending an African American man named Tom Robinson who is accused of raping Mayella Ewell. The Finches mysterious neighbor in Maycomb County, Arthur Radley, whom the children have never seen until Halloween night, adds to the rising tensions in the town. The book teaches many lessons and sheds light on some of the problems we still have today. One of the lessons it teaches is courage. Courage is standing up for what is right, just like Atticus,

Courage is the ability to do something that frightens one or gives strength in the face of pain or grief. In the book Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass, Douglas shows courage throughout his years of slavery. Frederick Douglass was born into slavery and had no knowledge of his age. “ By far the largest part of slaves know as little of their ages as horses know of theirs, and it is the wish of most masters within my knowledge to keep their slaves thus ignorant”(Douglass 1). Slaves were often separated from their mothers at a very young age and Douglass was no different.

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” ~ Winston Churchill. This quote defines what it is to be courageous, to be courageous is to persevere even if you know you will fail. This kind of courage is the courage which both Harold Crick in Stranger Than Fiction and Jean Louise “Scout” Finch in To Kill A Mockingbird. In Stranger Than Fiction, an IRS agent, Harold Crick, with a monotonous life learns that you must not only survive, but you must truly live. This lesson is taught through a series of events that lead to his breaking out of his shell and truly living his life. The events are preliminarily put into action through Harold hearing the voice of the author of a book about his life. In To Kill A Mockingbird, a tomboyish six-year-old, Jean Louise “Scout” Finch, discovers the true meaning of camaraderie and bravery. Her friendships are strong but her definition of courage is flawed. In the end, she realizes a great truth, that to really know someone, you have to imagine yourself in their shoes. Courage is important to these two characters, as they both discover what it really means to be brave and what the true definition of courage is. Courage is not always outspoken, sometimes courage is knowing that you will fail, but trying and failing anyway and then accepting your failure.

“Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is being afraid and doing it anyway.” This quote said by Lou Gehrig explains that courage isn't about having no fear; but rather, it is about one being filled with fear and deciding that something or someone is greater than that fear. In the book, The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, by Jamie Ford, the protagonist, Henry Lee, turns against the will of his father and his own country values to run after forbidden love. Even though Lee is afraid, he courageously proceeds to follow his heart.

Courage comes from being brave and taking risks. It is unpredictable and it can either be in your favor or it can fail you, there is no guarantee. Atticus Finch a father and a friend in the novel To Kill A Mockingbird. In the book there are many obstacles and life lessons to be taught, including the momentous discussion about courage. Malala Yousafazi connects to his definition by fighting for something she believes in. Even though Atticus is a fictional character and Malala is a real girl, Atticus’s definition is a direct match to Yousafazi’s life.

According to Eleanor Roosevelt, “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” (Goodreads). Throughout To Kill a Mockingbird, courage is represented by Atticus, Scout, and Boo Radley. In the novel, some of the characters learn a lot about courage. The novel takes place in Maycomb, Alabama during the Great Depression. Throughout the book, many characters have to find courage.

He shows this courage in a main part of the book. He shows it when he takes the trail of Tom Robinson. He knows he will loose but tries his best to win. These three characters show us how to be courageous in the

Courage is shown within the characters of To Kill A Mockingbird in several situations.  The characters are challenged to face danger or pain without fear.  The courage they display gives them strength and deepens their self-understanding as the novel progresses.

Courage can be something that is hard to achieve. Not only do you have to be brave, but also willing to take the risk even when you are scared. Jasper Jones has many characters who show courage, but also characters who could have been courageous and changed the whole plot. Courage can save someone’s life, and the lack of it could cause totally different endings in life as if someone did something that they may not have done without having courage, when someone may have lack of courage causing them not to do something, or when someone may decide to use courage to save a life.

Courage is defined as the ability to do something that is frightening to you. Harper Lee makes courage a monumental part of To Kill A Mockingbird’s plot. Lee demonstrates her own definition of courage through her characters, and their everyday lives. She uses certain characters to exemplify courage in hopes of making her lessons on courage throughout the story more realistic to all people. Boo Radley seems to be the center of the children’s imagination, as well as their worst nightmares, in To Kill A Mockingbird; therefore, it is very easy for Harper Lee to demonstrate the children’s courage by using the idea of a scary, savage, and destructive Boo Radley.

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear” (Mark Twain), this ties in with Atticus’ and his definition because he masters fear and is resistant to it; he takes the case and is not feared by Bob’s presence. One of the many topics in this book is courage; it is used many times in the novel and in life. It is explained many times in this novel; whether it is through Harper Lee’s use of courage, how courage is defined and the character who exemplifies courage the best. In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird courage is expressed by many characters in many different examples.

Courage is usually shown as having great strength and bravado. However, there is another kind of courage, the quiet, humble type, in which an individual stands for his beliefs and principles. To Kill a Mockingbird written by Harper Lee, is filled with many themes and lessons, but the overriding theme is courage. In To Kill a Mockingbird, courage is the ability and willingness to confront fear, pain, danger, uncertainty and intimidation, to stand for what is right. Many of the book’s characters depict this virtue, but none more than Atticus Finch does. He shows courage as a parent, lawyer and member of his community. Atticus believes that courage, like charity, starts at home.

Although the original ancient Olympic Games can be traced back to 776 B.C, Homer’s Iliad indicates they may have existed as early as the twelfth century BC. The Games were then continued for twelve centuries and were devoted to Olympian deities. Olympia turned into the site of these memorable ancient Olympic games that scattered the seeds for the largest global sporting events of current times, the Modern Olympics. The location of the Ancient Olympics is situated in the western part of Peloponnese. The Ancient Olympic Games continued until 393 A.D when Emperor Theodosius I of Rome discontinued them. There were not any more Olympic games for fifteen hundred years before they were resurrected in 1896 in the city of Athens. The man in charge of the recreation of the Olympic games was a Frenchman named Baron Pierre de Coubertin, who introduced the thought in 1894. He proposed to stage the games in Paris in 1900 but representatives, from thirty-four nations were so captivated with the idea that they persuaded him to move the Games up to 1896 and have Athens serve as the host.

The characters in the book The House of Hades have some weird feelings, emotions, and motivations that either prevent them from accomplishing their tasks, or they help them accomplish their tasks. Percy Jackson is one of the characters with weird emotions in the House of Hades. When he and Annabeth fell into Tartarus, she started to lose hope but then Percy helped them persevere and get out of Tartarus alive. I believe that if you believe in yourself, you can’t lose, and that is what happened to Percy in Tartarus, he did not lose any hope and in the end, he and Annabeth beat the whole army of monsters, millions of monsters just because they kept believing and they didn’t give up and in the end, they ended up with a huge accomplishment