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Essay on True and Every Day Heros

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There was an article in The Japan Times, October 2, 2013 by a person named Kyodo. In the article they talked about a great daring, heart wrenching sacrifice of a young Japanese woman that was riding along with her elderly father one day. When going along they came upon a set of railroad tracks. The train was steadily moving along those tracks towards them. The young girl noticed an elderly man lying on the tracks. She yelled to her father, “I have to, I have to move him, and I have to save his life.” These heroic words were the last words that this elderly father would hear from his daughter. That day pulling the man to safety the young Japanese girl was hit by the train while she saved the man’s life. Greg Botellio, Vivian Levo, and …show more content…

In this story Ms. Tuff is the hero to the children of the school, hero to the gunman, and definitely a hero to the cops who the gunman wanted to kill. In the book, “The Hero’s Journey” by Harold Bloom there is a story of two young men of Hellenic and Roman decent wanted to bring social order upon their homelands. Achilles and Aeneas, set out on a self-sacrificing journey to bring the order to their homes by battling. The stories of these two battling men were to provide wisdom and a will to survive. They desired a social change and order to their societies and lived their lives to do so. Heroic to say the least to live their life to better that of their lands. Ernesto Quinonez from Bodega Dreams (2000) wrote a story about struggling inner city children trying to just get by. Every day they would be harassed and belittled by their teacher Mr. Blessington. Mr. Blessington would always tell the children they were going to end up in jail and never make anything of themselves. On the other hand, there was one teacher that seemed heroic like. Mr. Tapia was a teacher that was always on the children to better themselves. He did not want the children to fail but showed them tough love. Mr. Tapia always told his students he cared about them and tried to be their hero. Mr. Tapia told a young man named Sapo what to do to not go to juvie after he had bitten Mr. Blessington in the neck. Mr. Tapia’s actions saved a young man’s life but in

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