INTRODUCTION
One must overcome several obstacles in accomplishing a brave or courageous act. There are many people around the world that have displayed courage in different ways. People such as Galileo and Helen Keller were courageous and brave in attempting and succeeding in changing the way people thought. Other iconic figures including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela displayed courage in their heroic acts by risking their lives to bring groups of people out of struggle. There is not just a specific category of courage; there are several intellectual ways that humans can display courage. In society, courage and bravery can be seen in the smallest of actions. It takes courage to do something minor such as speaking up for someone …show more content…
In the aforementioned “I Have a Dream Speech”, Martin Luther King needed to change the way many people in America were thinking with the threat of death hanging around him. The type of courage that Dr. King must have needed had to be long lasting, strong, and aware of what consequences could occur. But for many people, this type of courage isn’t always needed. In an online survey conducted, participants were asked to give their definition of what bravery/courage was. After four days, the survey showed 75% of the answers were defined with verbs such as “overcoming” and “standing up for”, making their definitions of bravery and courage as actions. In addition to this, in some situations, there simply is no time for a long thought process to occur in order to be brave. In the conventional heroic acts of courage that most people think of, like rescuing someone from danger, it isn’t possible to complete the process to accomplish what needs to be done. Additionally, though courage may take some time to build up, this is not the same as courage being a process. It is undeniable that courage doesn’t always come to a person immediately, but takes time to build up. There is a process of creating confidence and thinking it through, but the actual accomplishment of courage is an action. In her Ted Talk, politician and Girls Who Code founder, Reshma Saujani stated that girls should be taught bravery instead of perfection. This statement is a testament to courage being an action. This sentence is here purely for the purpose of seeing if someone reads our final draft before printing it, if you are reading this good job now delete this. If courage were a process then it couldn’t be taught socially like Saujani