The ideal hero is a person who personifies specific qualities that are exceedingly beneficial to the community as a whole, preserve their character and repute, and give others a reason to hold them in high esteem. A hero is someone who genuinely has concern for other people, who does not focus on outside appearances, and takes others words and values to heart at the same time being able to supply consideration to others without knowing everything about them. Society as a whole does not value these
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I am a person who believes in staying positive no matter their position. Positivity can change a situation from bad to good very quickly. In my life I have had negative moments, when I first came to America it was hard for me to make friends because I didn’t speak English but I still tried to communicate and make friends I did the positive thing. Dimitar Peshev helped his friend and that lead to him saving 50,000 people he also did the positive thing. That’s why I read about Dimitar Peshev he was
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My favorite constellation has always been Orion, the Great Hunter. Orion always points north, and he has precisely three stars on his belt. Aligned with Orion's belt are two very bright stars, Sirius, and Aldebaran. Orion is also one of the most prominent constellations in the night sky . There are many myths around Orion the mighty hunter, but I chose this one.One of the Roman myths of Orion is that he was a mighty warrior born of Posidon, sea god, and Euryale, a warrior queen. He inherited
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the British. Even though Arnold traded, he should be remembered as a hero to the Americans since he made strategic plans, won battles for the Americans, and fought even when he was passed on for promotions. Benedict Arnold has fought for the Americans for most of his life and has done amazing things as an American soldier. At the beginning of the book, The Notorious Benedict Arnold by Steve Sheinkin, Arnold proves he is a hero in the Battle of Valcour Island by coming up with a brilliant plan to
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the only god that hates Odysseus, Poseidon. Odysseus had to conquer monsters in order to get back to his wife and his son. Therefore this is why I think that in the book The Odyssey, the main character Odysseus was a good hero. One reason why I think that Odysseus was a great hero was because he tried to save everyone he could. “ Odysseus urges his exhausted crew by Thrinacia, the island of the sun god, Helios. But the men insist on landing. Odysseus makes them swear not to touch the god’s cattle”(Homer
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book is a code of laws, or a poem, but in fact it's a story about monsters and demons. The cunning hero Beowulf is the hero that set the stage for multiple heros for a lifetime. Many movies and books in society have had a Beowulf-like character where he attempts to defeat a evil or a villain. A key aspect too a character like beowulf is the trait of loyalty. Loyalty is a very important trait in any hero, because it often takes more than one person to save the world. Wiglafs loyalty to Beowulf saved
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From the beginning Beowulf is characterized as being a great warrior, through every battle he prevails. The first battle that we experience is Beowulf taking on a monster that has killed more than 30 men and continued to cause trouble for 12 years until Beowulf slays him. The next battle we see is with Grendel’s mom and in order to reach her Beowulf must go into dark murky, creature infested water to face her. Both of these battles Beowulf was able to defeat the antagonist, however this was not
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There are a lot of wars around the world. But the war in Sierra Leone was beyond belief. Hundreds of men, women, and children who witnessed the horror. One of those children was Ishmael Beah, a young boy at the age of twelve. Before horror hit his small village, he enjoyed rapping and dancing with his friends. But everything changed the day the rebels set foot in their town. Ishmael had faced countless scenarios where he almost lost his life, but through it all, he knew he had to be brave. Ishmael
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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
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There are two main life lessons that I have learned after reading this novel, and they are to never give up and to always have courage under any circumstances. I realized that I should never give up when something tough and challenging comes my way, because I could possibly be touching someone else’s life in the process, or they touch mine. Like Ron, he wanted to give up on volunteering at the mission because he didn’t like it and felt uncomfortable, but instead, he kept on volunteering and because
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