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    endeavors to help people who struggles to get an education. A role-model has five different type of qualities: selflessness, passion and ability to inspire, ability to overcome obstacle, commitment to community, and clear set of values. These qualities are important to make a role model who they are, but the one that most significant are selflessness and to accept others. Malala uses selflessness so she can exceed to what she is now. She gave passion to others and inspire them. As she accept others, she

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    his life up to the conclusion of the novel, he does not merit the Christ figure label until his final act of sacrifice. Charles Dickens unexpectedly transforms a wretched Sydney Carton into a symbol of Christ through the character’s displays of selflessness,

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    Action filled thriller “Tron” teaches audiences that selflessness can be our most valuable asset. As we continue to move through 21st Century, selflessness has become a much more scarce - and valuable - commodity. We are constantly enthralled in our iPhones, iPods, i, i, i... We have put ourselves at the center of our shared universe, marveling over the wonder of our

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    change their life. After their plane crashes in the Andes, the survivors do unspeakable acts in order to survive. Through all the hardships and tough decisions, leadership was shown amongst the survivors. The leadership traits include: courage, selflessness, and determination. These three traits are what I plan to incorporate in my daily life. Courage is the strength to do something that others are afraid of doing because of fear. This is one of the three leadership traits observed in the film by

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    the surface. Christian’s death scene is pivotal to the play, unveiling the theme that sacrifice is important in romantic and platonic relationships, while also expressing a deeper significance to the story through Christian’s selflessness and the importance of selflessness in the playwright’s mind. Leading up to his death, Christian chooses to tell Cyrano that Roxane loves him purely for his inner beauty not his outer beauty. Since Cyrano is the one writing the letters and acting as Christian through

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    during his adventure in a bungalow at the Segowlee Cantonment. Rikki displayed selflessness after living with his new family through the way he protected them at his own expense. Courage, is also a trait seen in Rikki. Another characteristic of Rikki is cleverness, which he used to secure and defend the bungalow. Rikki Tikki exhibits selflessness, courage, and cleverness in his fight against the evil snakes. Selflessness is present through Rikki's concern for his new human family, as well as the safety

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    We as humans need to focus on the goods things that happen. The heros in our life don’t have to be superheros, they could be ordinary people that try to do the best they can. My definition of a hero is someone who has courage, responsibility and selflessness. Courage is something I think all heros need to have. According to webster's dictionary bravery is “possessing or a display of courage,” so technically bravery and courage is the same thing. I find that no matter who you are you can show courage

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    Ugly Girl Students should read the novel Big Mouth & Ugly Girl by Joyce Carol Oates. It has a good theme that shows students it’s important to help others out. Students should read this novel because it offers well an inspiring example of selflessness. In the book, Ursula, one of the main characters known as Ugly Girl, risks her reputation, her friends, and her pride to help out Matt, the other protagonist, who allegedly threatened to bomb his and Ursula’s school, who is someone she didn’t

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    of meat over the rocks to Piggy” (Golding 74). At this moment, Simon displays true selflessness by giving his piece of meat to Piggy. By giving him a piece of meat, Simon wouldn’t have any food for himself to eat. Even so, Simon was still willing to help his friend in need, Piggy, even if it meant him not having a chance to eat anything. Within To Kill a Mockingbird, Boo Radley also displays this form of selflessness. After the incident with Bob Ewell, Scout reminisces about how Boo gave her and Jem

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    protagonist of the book, The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis, Parvana, are two heroes in their own ways. The two heroes have different as well as similar ways of exploiting those characteristics. Selflessness is an important quality of a hero. Both Malala and Parvana show that quality of selflessness but, they show it in different ways. For instance, Malala has always put herself first and Parvana also does very selfless things for her family and friends. But, Malala is crusading for Women's rights

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