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    Everyone wants to a hero, wants to be loved, want to have a crowd cheering their name, wants to have a chance at a happy ending. Naturally, media gives us the stories where we see the heroes we want to be. However, when only certain people get to be the hero, we naturally form ideas on who hero or heroine. And usually, it is not someone of color, someone in the LGBTIAQ+ community, someone who isn’t skinny or ripped, or someone who is not a man. The amount of heroes who fall into the old mold is

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    My Hero A Hero

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    What does make a hero a hero? Is it there looks? Alternatively, maybe is it their personality? However, the question is what are those essential qualities that make one a hero? Different people require different heroes to look up to or try to emulate. However, whoever it may be, they all possess certain qualities. My hero is my mother, for the reason that she is selfless, compassion, and courage. That kind of selflessness can often be premeditated, since concentrating on others' needs often winds

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    Jim Withers Heroes

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    Dr. Jim Withers is a Hero in Disguise There are many heroes saving the world trying their best to do what’s best. For example, ending starvation, ending animal cruelty, ending violence, ending war, etcetera. Dr. Jim Withers is one of those heroes today. Withers disguises himself as a homeless to help them with their illness or injuries and even finding them a home. There are many of those without a home, who have to live on the streets. In the U.S there are about 3.5 million people who are homeless

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    Desmoine Adams My Hero

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    not last, only two percent of marriages in North America are high school sweethearts (Manning). There are very few people that I consider to be a hero. Maybe it is because I am antisocial, or perhaps it is because I am pompous. However there is this one name that slipped in mind when the word “hero” was mentioned, and that name is Desmoine Adams. My hero is Desmoine Adams, because he is extremely passionate, beautiful, and committed to being successful no matter the cost. Desmoine is a passionate

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    Josephine Baker, Oscar Schindler, Lenny Bruce, and Yogi Berra. I am going to be talking about World war II and what a hero means to me. What is a hero? To define a hero is someone who is outstanding, courageous, and not perfect. After December 7,1941, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and the United States was thrusted into what we call World War II (1939-45), and everyday life was dramatically changed. Food, water, gas, and clothes were rationed. Communities conducted scrap metal drives

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    A hero is a person who is admired for great or brave acts or fine qualities. They do not always wear a cape or have superpowers, some heroes live in Alabama, in a district called Maycomb County. Atticus Finch is a hero that transcends all other heroes for his understandings of how the world is. In the book To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Atticus Finch was the father of Scout And Jem, two rambunctious kids in the beginning but learn throughout the book everything isn’t always what you think it

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    Oprah Winfrey: A Hero

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    A hero is someone that you look up to someone who inspires you. Somebody that has done something that you admire. A hero is Oprah Winfrey she inspires me to keep pushing and she motivates me with her life story. She had a rough childhood from moving back and forth from her father to her mother. She didn’t feel so secure with her mother because she stayed in the ghetto. When she moved in with her dad she felt safe she knew that nothing would happen to her. Then her mother wanted her to move back with

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    Heroism is dead. Many people in the world are still heroic, but society’s definition of what a hero should be has almost become twisted beyond repair. If heroism is going to be an admirable trait in the future, then people must change the way they perceive its definition. Rather than living an average life and accomplishing one great feat, heroism is instead taking every opportunity to positively impact people and the infinitely improvable world in which they live. Society continuously defines heroism

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    1. Who is the hero of The Hobbit? J.R.R Tolkien’s The Hobbit or There and Back Again implements many forms of heroism; whether it be Bilbo, Bard, Gandalf, or even Thorin and his dwarves. Relating to this, there is no one hero per se but rather multiple; the heroes face both internal and external challenges. This essay will argue that the heroes of The Hobbit are Bilbo, Gandalf, Bard and Thorin respectively, in addition, this essay will also analyse the first stage of the hero’s journey structure

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    persevering even when it looks like nothing is going right. Heroism is selflessly persevering and helping people who are in need, but not always being respected as a hero in society’s view. Heroism is persevering and standing up for what is right, even when society is not standing with you. For instance, Harriet Tubman. She is proclaimed a hero after leading in the Underground Railroad during the 1800’s. She showed

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