...Bo Jackson was an epic professional baseball and professional football player who was widely known for his epic, previously never seen feats. When he was young, he could do things most grown men couldn’t. He could do a backflip in thigh high water and land on his feet. His skill made other professional athletes look like minor league players. Even though he came from a poor Alabama family he became a great hero who was strong, courageous and humble. Bo Jackson was extremely strong without working out or training. He was stronger and faster than his opponents. When he was a young child he would participate in crabapple fights with kids in the neighborhood. He would throw the crabapples through screen doors because the other kids would...
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...Bo Jackson, a man who truly is the definition of a rags to riches story, a man who is a legend both in athletics and personality. He is undoubtedly one of the greatest to play both baseball and football, yet is not too recognized in either sport. He is a hero who has a fantastic story, one with lows and highs. His feats could be compared with that of even Beowulf. As a child, Bo grew up in a rough place, Bessemer, Alabama. His town was riddled with poverty, and his family was poor as well. He would play with the neighbor kids, and throw crabapples at each other, which taught him how to throw quickly in a way. When he got to high school, even then he astounded starting legends around the nation, such as when he jumped out of waist high water and did a backflip....
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...Vincent “Bo” Jackson, just a boy from Bessemer, Alabama becomes one of the most dominate players in both the NFL and MLB. Not only was he the first to show it was possible to play both sports, he excelled in both of them. Bo Jackson showed through his short lived sports career he was capable of deeds of great strength and courage. On and off the football and baseball field he was a great warrior persevering through injuries, opponents, and people who doubted him. Lastly, Jackson was extremely humble and did what he did not for the rewards but because he loved the games. Bo Jackson gave American Sports something they have never seen before and became an Epic Hero while doing it. Every since he was a kid Bo should greats feats of strength that...
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...“The Tank” Logan Lupo 4-15-15 Research Methods Miss Rosario Lupo 2 Logan Lupo 4-15-15 8-1 Research Methods “The Tank” Bo Jackson is nothing but an athlete. He’s a self-taught man growing up with a family of ten. It was hard for Jackson not getting much attention for his parents. But somehow Bo Jackson managed to be one of the greatest athletes of all time, to find great success in both football and baseball. Bo Jackson didn’t have it easy growing up, considering it was a family of ten. His Mother gave him the name Vincent Edward Jackson but later nicknamed him after a wild boar “Bo”, as he would constantly get into trouble. There family didn’t make the most money but it was enough to live off of for Bo and his family....
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...Bo Jackson has always been a larger than life ideal, possessing many characteristics of an epic hero. He played not one, but two professional sports. He was a superstar in both Professional Football and Professional Baseball. Even at a young age he was doing many things out of the ordinary. For example, he jumped over a volkswagon bug and landed the jump. This is just one of the many things that made him better than a normal person. Although he was born in a small poor town in Alabama, Bo is an epic hero because he is capable of great strength and courage, he possess humility, and he has traveled over a vast setting. Bo Jackson was born with incredible strength and courage. From a young age till his retirement he showcased his strength and...
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...Bo Jackson was a real life eric hero. He was one of most strongest and fastest athletes to ever live. What was special about him was that it was all natural. You would expect him to get all his muscle from lifting weights or using steroids. In reality, all that power and speed came naturally to him. Even though Bo Jackson has all the characteristics of an epic hero, the obvious ones were him being capable of deeds of great strength and courage, him traveling over a vast setting, and Bo being a great warrior. Bo Jackson is the definition of great strength and courage. At batting practice for the Royals, Bo hit a ball so far it hit the crown on the Royals scoreboard. No one has ever done that before or after him. One time he was standing in...
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...Vincent “Bo” Jackson was born on November 30, 1962, in Bessemer, Alabama. He was a constant trouble maker growing up. His cousins and siblings compared his toughness to a wild boar hog, and gave him the nickname “Bo.” It was very obvious early on that Bo was an extraordinary athlete. For example, he could dunk a stick into a basketball hoop in the 8th grade. After Bo and others killed $3,000 worth of hogs, the minister encouraged Bo’s mother to send him to reform school. Bo realized he needed to change his behavior. He turned his anger into energy for sports. Bo Jackson is an epic hero because he is capable of great strength and courage, a great warrior, and humble. Bo Jackson exhibited great strength and courage without having to put in much effort. His natural talent was unremarkable. At a young age, Bo saw practice as a waste of time because he was so far ahead of everybody. Bo showed an incredible amount of courage by choosing Auburn over Alabama. He didn’t care about the Alabama’s winning past. Instead, Bo cared about what impact he could make to help his team. His coaches at Auburn would introduce skills taught in the NFL and Bo would master them in a couple of days. Bo’s first...
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...Bo Jackson grew up in a not very wealthy area and had a tough time fitting in. Ever since Bo was a kid he always had something about him that made him different from the rest of the kids. Bo Jackson has multiple stories that are hard to believe to be true but when people consider his skills in life and sports, they all want to believe them stories. People say that he has jumped over a car, dunked a stick in a basketball goal in eighth grade, and leaped over a forty foot ditch after killing pigs with stones. These things are all the types of things that a normal teenage kid would or could do. With the force and skill that Bo has it is easy to see that he falls under the category of being an epic hero. Bo Jackson is considered a hero because of his great strength and courage, his traveling over vast settings, and his humility....
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...Bo Jackson is a machine like athlete who was able to create his own epic story through the NFL and MLB. As a little boy he began to make a name for himself as a boy that wasn’t like the rest. In high school, Bo was able to set records in track and Field and even become a two-time state champion in the decathlon. Bo was so good at sports that he reached a point that practice was pointless. Bo was a legend that came from a poor family but even that was able to help shape his epic story of national heroism, of a great warrior of great strength and courage. Bo was a great warrior fighting against the best players and even himself as well. Many great players in the football world tried to take him and even a former seattle player who many said...
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...Vincent Jackson, or more formally known as Bo, was the greatest recorded athlete to ever play professional sports ever. He was more myth than man and everyone was awed by his supreme natural talent. He would accomplish feats before his teenage years that most professional athletes at the time could only dream of. Even so, none of this went to his head and he remained humble and stoic as always. Through the events of Bo Jackson’s life he repeatedly possessed several characteristics of an epic hero such as great deeds of strength, national heroism, and Humility beyond compare. Bo Jackson was an incredible athlete who was capable of otherworldly feats. As a young boy, Bo Jackson grew up in a troubled house in a family with little income, without a father. He was angry because of his circumstances and channeled his rage into sports. There are stories of him getting into fights with other kids and throwing crabapples at them. When the other kids had enough, they would run inside; but that would not stop Bo. He would simply throw them through the screen door. His abilities were not only used for...
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...Bo Jackson was born on November 30, 1962 in the small city of Bessemer, Alabama. Although he goes by the name of Bo Jackson today, his original name was Vincent Edward. His mother got this name from her favorite actor. He got his nickname from first being called a wild boar by his family and friends. After a while, that was later shortened to just Bo. He did not have a very easy childhood growing up. His family was extremely poor, and it probably didn’t help that his father left before he was born. Bo did not actually get to meet his father until he reached the age of ten. On top of that, Bo’s mother had to provide for seven other children plus Bo. As a child, it seemed that Bo was always into some type of trouble (D’Agostino). He would do things such as stealing another kid’s bike or throwing rocks at a neighbor’s window. Bo once said that as a kid he wouldn’t do his own fighting; he would hire a kid to beat the other kid up for him. On another occasion, Bo and some of his friends killed some of their minister’s pigs by throwing rocks at them. After realizing all the trouble he had caused, he turned all of his attention to athletics (“Bo Jackson- Growing Up”). Bo went to McAdory High School which is located in McCalla, Alabama. Bo...
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...There’s no doubting Bo Jackson is an awe inspiring athlete, making unbelievable plays in both football and baseball. But is he an Epic Hero? I think Bo easily reaches the requirements to make his story an epic, all except two. Nonetheless, Bo very well could be considered an epic hero, since he meets the others. The first requirement is to be capable of great strength and courage. Bo shows his great strength many times in his baseball career, sending many of his hits out to the fans or even to the top of the royals crown. He also shows this in football, flying by the defense or pushing through lines like it was nothing, such as when the massive defender who had it out for Bo hit him with immense strength, but Bo pushes through. That also shows...
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...Vincent, “Bo” Jackson was a phenomenal athlete that excels in almost every sport imaginable, Football, Baseball, and Basketball. You name it Bo plays it, He trampled enemies and gave to the poor. He took his pride to heart but was also as humble as a priest. He loved his mother and his gifts that he claims were straight from God’s personal hand. In this paper I will show you three ways “Bo” Jackson was an epic hero or even Legendary Hero, He was capable of deeds of great strength and courage. He was a great warrior and finally he was extremely humble at heart. Bo Jackson was a man of great deeds and courage as he took down men as a big as mountains without the help of prescription drugs or even lifting weights. For him great deeds were small but meaningful, when he was just a kid he showed great strength and power as he had more special talents than all the other neighborhood kids. He wanted to be good at everything he tried and would accept nothing but greatness just as a boy. As a child he stuttered and when the kids would make fun of him it would just light the fire within him and he would show them all what he could do, if it was throwing rocks through windows...
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...qualities, including powerful deeds, a widespread effect placed upon others, or victory in a ruthless battle. However, one man in particular is recognized for his more modest approach to heroism. Though he was born humbly into a lower-income family in Alabama, Bo Jackson became a universally-admired role model for many Americans because of his natural abilities and overwhelming number of heroic deeds. Two-sport professional athlete Bo Jackson ultimately proves to be a hero for his widespread national heroism, numerous great feats and, most importantly, his omnipresent humility. Regardless of his unassuming upbringing and background, Jackson eventually became widely...
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...Bo Jackson was the closest thing to a modern day superhero we’ll probably ever get in this lifetime or the next. He was larger than life in both skill and pure size. Bo pushed the limits of the normal human body in his normal life and had little to no problems. At a young age he threw stones at boars and killed them and was said to have jumped a 40ft ditch to get away. With these abilities Bo played many sports and was seen as if he had god-given abilities. By late high school he had colleges sending their best scouts to see if the legends were real, which they were. Bo had done deeds of tremendous strength and courage like no one had ever seen. Toppling a batting cage with a single ball, hitting the crown of Kauffman Stadium on his first ball, and diving over a crowd of burly football players or a final touchdown are only a few of his amazing feats of...
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