...Two people who I believe have shown extraordinary courage and persistence in their lives are Martin Luther King Jr. and Samwise Gamgee. Of course, one is a real historical figure and the other is a fictitious character from a fantasy classic, but both have overcome extraordinary obstacles and have taken incredible risks to be the historical and literary figures they are today. Martin Luther King Jr. who was both a Baptist minister and a civil rights leader, faced intense challenges and the ever possible threat of death throughout his life. Just given the time period and the fact that everyone knew who he was must have been a struggle on his conscience while coping with every considerable anxiety and fear possible. He did most of his nonviolent activist work in the south which was the heart of segregation and led marches through the streets of major towns and cities. He is known as one of the greatest historical orators and graduated from three different colleges with a B.A., a B.D., and a Ph. D. He headed the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and later received the Nobel Peace Prize for the pursuit of peace and equality through nonviolent activism and went on to expand his pursuits on poverty and the Vietnam War before being assassinated in 1968. Interestingly enough, King originally did not want to follow in his father’s footsteps to become a minister because he felt differently about some of the major ideals of the church at that time and he was known to rebel...
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...This video is about a woman named, Aimee Mullins who was born without shin bones and how she overcame her disability. She is a model, actor, and an advocate for women and next generation prosthetics. In the video she shows the definition of the word disabled and it shows how society views people with disabilities. She compares the definition of the word from the early 1980s to the definition from 2009. There was very little change between the two definitions from these two time periods. She goes on to talk about how this word, disabled, affects people who live with these every day. The words that come out of these definitions, like useless, mutilated, and etc. mislabel these people in society. When she met the doctor that had delivered her he said that she made a liar out of him by exceeding his expectations because he was the one that had to deliver the bad news that her legs had to be amputated from below the knees. She goes on to say that we enhance ourselves through adversity and that no one should let go of their dreams even though it seems to be an impossible goal. “Adversity isn’t an obstacle that we need to get around in order to resume living our life. It’s part of our life. I think of it like my shadow — sometimes I see a lot of it, sometimes there’s very little, but it’s always with me.” (Aimee Mullins). Only through her persistence she rose above her disabilities to become successful in her career and as an example that people can over many obstacles in their life...
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...DIFFERENT ACTS OF COURAGE Cynthia Anderson AIU Online OUTLINE Topic: Courage Thesis Statement: When you have the courage to take risk in your life this allows you to face your fears even when you are afraid. Main idea 1: One of the greatest act courage would be to risk your life to save someone else’s life. Main idea 2: Standing up for what is right and what you believe in is another act of courage. Main idea 3: Facing your fears even when you are afraid is another act of courage. Conclusion: It takes courage to do the right thing even if you don’t want too and facing your fears even when you are afraid. ABSTRACT Courage is a state of mind that enables a person to overcome fears, pain, danger, or hardship. Courage comes in a lot of ways. Even though these ways are different, they all involve taking a risk. Perfect courage would be to with nobody watching or be capable of doing with the whole world looking. Whatever meaning a person has for courage, it is because they have acted on courage in one point or another in their life. Physical courage is to face hardship or death. Moral courage is the ability to do the right thing even if people frown upon it. Courage is something that everybody wants. One of the good attributes of courage is that it makes us worthy of respect. When other people see someone saving a little girls life or see someone taking care of a elderly person people automatically see courage. Also it takes a lot of courage to walk away of...
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...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...
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...Courage We all face challenges in the process of achieving physical health, financial stability, and enough time to do what we must do. However, what gives us strength to meet these challenges is courage. Courage is our inner strength to stand up against difficulties and grief. Courage also includes our ability to confront humiliation, fear, and pain. Courage helps us overcome our fears and the obstacles in our lives. Courage motivate us to pusue our goals that lead us to great success ,balance and fullfilment in life. Every day, we all act with courage no matter how wise or stupid, young or old, we are. According to Micheal Bucci, editor of the Askmen Become...
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...My Inheritance Named Courage “Courageous, brave, strong, outgoing...” and the list goes on and on. I could not describe a single superhero without using one of those words, and at the very top of that list, is courage. It seems almost cliché to use nowadays. For myself, courage became something ordinary. It had this numb meaning, almost as if this rare trait lost its worth when it became a normality. To think that a value that I see now as priceless, could be thought of as common and as easily obtained as a cold. However, it all boils down to meaning. How courage is defined truly sets its own value in someone’s mind. At least, that was what happened with me. Courage finally became more than just a word, it became a perspective, a goal, a standard. To do so, all I had to do was look inside my own home. Who knew that extraordinary people could live such “ordinary” lives? In the end, my parents...
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...̈He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. ̈ said the professional boxer Muhammad Ali. This quotes means that you have to have to courage to accomplish great things in life. You have to take chances to get where you want to be. Courage takes great strength and motivation. The theme courage was present throughout all the characters in To Kill A Mockingbird. Many characters displayed courage at one point in the story. In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Scout learns about courage from Mrs. Dubose, Atticus and Boo Radley. Mrs. Dubose shows a great deal of courage in this story. She may have been a mean old lady to the children, but she had far more going on in her life than the kids were aware of. She said some mean and nasty things to the children. “And you what are you doing in those overalls? You should be in a dress and camisole, young lady! You’ll grown up waiting on tables if somebody doesn’t change your waysa Finch waiting on tables at the O.K. Caféhah!” (Lee 101). She directed this towards scout and towards Scout and Jem’s mother. She was addicted to morphine and was trying to stop her addiction before she died and it caused her to say some rude things. When Jem messed with her yard, she made him read to her every day after school and on Sundays for two...
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...furthermore, what makes people who they are? Courage is what causes all of these things. Courage is what causes Jamal Wallace to break into the apartment of recluse and former writer William Forrester on a dare before he gets caught and the whole story begins. Forrester has not stepped foot from his apartment for years, yet Wallace does not give up and eventually breaks the mold; meanwhile, Forrester creates a writer of Wallace by teaching him how to write. Jamal Wallace is cast from his home in the Bronx and his public school into the rich and prestigious prep school because of his test scores and his ability on the basketball court, but because of his low class scores,...
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...How does courage affect you in your life? I’m going to tell you how you can use courage in three different ways. First, you half to have the courage to never give in what you want to do. Second, have the courage to keep wanting even if you can’t. Third, to have courage to take responsibility for your actions. Courage is an important element of character. The paragraph I’m going to write may be about country music. Yet, you should get more out of it than just a country song. Aaron Watson is a country singer that lives in Abilene, Texas on a ranch trying to make a living singing country. There’s just one thing thats making him struggle while singing country, “HE DOESN’T HAVE THE LOOK”. They told him not much people like the original way of country, so he kept a smile on his face and said ok. Still, that didn’t stop Watson from playing country music. He’s not going to give up no matter what people tell him. It takes courage to keep playing with top country music stars....
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...Allison Winans Sullivan English 30 9.10.2012 The Understanding of Courage Courage is being able to stand up for what is right, even if that means others will be against you. Everyone has courage that lives inside of them, but not everyone let's it free. Abraham Lincoln was full of courage throughout his whole life. Lincoln went from being illiterate as a child to becoming one of the most revolutionist presidents in history. The one thing that made Lincoln so powerful was that he was filled with determination and courage. Courage is something that we all can acquire if we have a reason to be motivated. Lincoln once said “ It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.” and he is completely right. Fears are what will hold you back from actually showing courage when it needs to be shown. First, courage is not something you are born with. Not one person that has shown acts of courage has just woke up one day and been full of courage. Lincoln was illiterate when he was a boy, but with determination he taught himself to read and write. Lincoln was born and raised in a log cabin on his family's farm. Lincoln's father wanted Lincoln to stop reading all the time, but Lincoln did not want to stop his fascination with reading. To settle the dispute Lincoln and his father decided to make a compromise. The compromise between the two was that Lincoln could keep reading, but he had to get his farm work done first. To be able to accomplish this task Lincoln would...
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...I found the definition of courage has various meanings, and there are three main themes or descriptions that show or prove courage. Mostly it is physical courage, emotional courage, and moral courage. The literature of English 421 taught me that it may take a little or a lot of courage to stand up for yourself in order to reach your goal, and you may find courage you never knew you had. I will describe situations of courage that I think were important in the three novels we read, beginning with the novel displaying the least courageous characters and finishing with the novel displaying the most courageous characters. A Midsummer Night’s Dream It is my opinion this novel did not have the type of characters I would think of as courageous. So, when I was trying to come up with examples of courage from this novel, I thought of Hermia, and the courage she showed when standing up to her parents about Lysander. She loved Lysander, but was supposed to marry Demetrius. There were many conflicts in the novel, mostly about who loved who, and the confusion around why things were happening, not necessarily acts of courage. Hermia stuck to what her heart wanted and that took courage no matter what the Royal parents thought. It takes courage for Hermia to stand up to her father. This is a pretty good example of emotional courage. (Shakespeare, 64) Lord of the Flies Ralph is the main character in Lord of the Flies. He wants to be leader of the boy’s tribe because the boys voted...
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...The Courage to Take Action Perhaps the greatest challenge that you will ever face in life is the conquest of fear and the development of the habit of courage. Franklin D. Roosevelt once said , "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself," he was saying that the emotion of fear, rather than the reality of what we fear, is the cause of the associated anxiety, stress, and unhappiness. When we develop the habit of courage and unshakable self-confidence, a whole new world of possibilities opens up to us. Just think: What would you dare to dream, be, or do if you were not afraid of anything in the whole world? Fortunately, the habit of courage can be learned, just as any other skill is learned. To do so, we need to go to work systematically to diminish and eradicate our fears, while simultaneously building the kind of courage that will enable us to deal fearlessly with the inevitable ups and downs of life. Syndicated columnist Ann Landers wrote, "If I were asked to give what I considered the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity, it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high. Look it squarely in the eye and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.' " This is the kind of attitude that leads to victory. The starting point in overcoming fear and developing courage is to look at the factors that predispose us toward fear. The root source of fear is childhood conditioning that caused us to...
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...is much more simple than completing one. There will always be a challenge waiting for one to overcome, waiting for one to face their fears and take a stance in what they believe in. As demonstrated in Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird, there are many ways to act courageous. Standing by ones morals and acting against ones fears represents true courage. In To Kill a Mockingbird, true courage can be shown through moral courage, mental courage, and physical courage. In To Kill a Mockingbird, standing up for what one believes in shows moral courage. Firstly, Atticus defending Tom Robinson even when he knew he would lose shows moral courage. Atticus is a well-known and respected figure in Maycomb. Choosing to defend a...
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...accused of raping a white girl named Mayella Ewell. Harper Lee has Scout’s learn about empathy, courage, and standing against prejudiced ideas from her role models in order to build Scout’s character to prepare for the inmost cave. Scout learns how to empathize with other from her roles models to take the first step out of the inmost cave. Early...
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...MORAL COURAGE IN NURSING Objectives: 1. Recognize the characteristics of moral courage. 2. Discuss the concept of moral courage in nursing. 3. Identify steps to recognize moral courage. 4. Discuss strategies for developing moral courage. 5. List inhibitors of moral courage. 6. Ways to enhance the ability to demonstrate moral courage in nursing. 7. Describe organizational Structures that Support Moral Courage 8. Case studies "Stand up for what is right even if you stand alone." Anonymous Examples of unethical behaviors are seen today in academia, politics, sports, entertainment, banking, and the legal system. Healthcare professionals working in clinical practice, education, research, and administration are not immune to these unethical behaviors. They face ethical dilemmas on a regular basis. Shortages in the numbers of clinicians to deliver patient care, inadequate staffing levels, cost containment measures, consolidation of healthcare organizations and ineffective leadership have resulted in the escalation of ethical dilemmas nurses face today in healthcare environments. How individuals respond to these ethical dilemmas depends on their previous experiences with unethical behavior, their individual personality traits, their ethical values as well as their knowledge of ethical...
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