Students Name University Name Year I read this sad story of a courageous woman from a magazine sometimes ago. It was just a short news article in one of the local dailies. The story keeps on ringing in my mind up to today. I feel that the whole nation should stand and honor this woman for her courageous actions she portrayed on this fateful day. It happened that in the year 2007 in the city of Orina in India, a town that had over 100,000 people. It was raining heavily, and life was almost coming
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voice calling "Help! Help!" You run toward the voice and when you run about a block up the street you smell smoke. You look up and see a house totally engulfed in flames. You see a woman on the lawn of the burning building crying, "Help! Help! My baby's inside!" "Inside the burning building?" you ask. The woman nods her head up and down. You tell her not to worry, that you'll save her baby. You run inside. Heat surrounds you. Your eyes sting and you can hardly breathe with all of the smoke
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independence. She could only attain the freedom in the death of her oppressive husband. The main character in “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” is Walter Mitty who is a daydreamer. He spends most of his time fantasizing that he is someone else. According to his imagination, he is a hero, a successful and courageous individual who is destined to save
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What is a hero? Superman and Wonder Woman are common figures that may pop into a person mind when they think of someone who may be considered a hero. Superman and Wonder Woman saved cities and defeated villains on a daily basis, which by definition would most definitely make them heroes. However, in the non-fictional world what would define a hero? Does an individual have to wear a cape and fly over cities using their superpowers, and risking their lives for the good of mankind in order to be
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side they fought for. During the Civil War, many army generals selected certain people who would be willing to spy. Many men were selected, but many women were selected as well. Author Karen Zeinert explained the roles of a spy in her book Those Courageous Women of the Civil War by stating “these spies included women who were willing to go behind enemy lines as well as those who suddenly found themselves in enemy territory when the United States torn asunder”(Zeinert 29). Proving to be brave women
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Unit IV Case Study Professor Janice Spangenburg Current Issues in Leadership (MSL 6040-12C-3) January 20, 2013 Andra Rush, a minority female of Native American descent, was a nurse working on a Master’s degree in Business Administration. She started this journey in an effort to ensure employees were treated fairly in the workplace after hearing her co-workers complain. While caring for a patient and listening to him talk about his career in the transport business, Andra decided this would
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of pain when she was dying, but she was being morally courageous by trying to stay clean, no matter how hard it was for her. From when she was younger to when she grew older, Scouts idea of moral courage changes. She was ignorant and naive at first but then she started to realize how the world truly is. Scouts idea of someone being morally courageous might be different from somebody else's, one way to tell that someone is being morally courageous is what they will do when they have a big problem or
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I am here to tell you about a young woman who is a lot like you and me, but she has taken a stand against tyranny and injustice and suffered greatly for her courageous actions. She has been a voice for the weak and oppressed who do not have a voice of their own. This young woman is Makala Yousafzai; she was targeted by the Taliban because of her campaign for women’s education. While researching and learning about this young activist, I have been inspired to continue to stand strong for my own values
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A research paper by Roberto Longhi, an important Italian critic, dated 1916, named Gentileschi padre e figlia (Gentileschi, father and daughter) described Artemisia as "the only woman in Italy who ever knew about painting, coloring, doughing, and other fundamentals". Longhi also wrote of Judith Slaying Holofernes: "There are about fifty-seven works by Artemisia Gentileschi and 94% (forty-nine works) feature women as protagonists or equal to men".[13] These include her works of Jael and Sisera, Judith
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Finch becomes a fighter for justice and truth. He possesses such traits as being principled, determined, honest and courageous. Atticus goes beyond the racist limitations of his society. By doing so he risks becoming an outcast for the courageous stand he takes. By agreeing to defend a black man falsely accused of having raped a white woman, Atticus demonstrates he is the most courageous person in Maycomb. He not only risks being alienated from the town, he also tries his best to defend his client
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