Heroism: Civil Rights Movement
Heroism Essay To many, the word hero conjures an image of a man who is idealized for supernatural powers and impossible achievements. The word hero has been misplaced in stereotypical conceptions and has lost its true meaning. The initial day of December 1955 coincidently was the initial launch of the civil rights movement, started by the mother, Rosa Parks. After a long day of work at a department store, where African-American Rosa Parks worked as a seamstress, she boarded the yellow and green Cleveland Avenue for home. She sat down in the fifth row, the first row designated for “colored people”. AS the long ride continued, the bus began to occupy more white people. When bus driver James Blake noticed the entitled white people accumulating
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A hero is always endure and concur perpetual failure until they overcome. An extraordinary example of this is Colonel Sanders. Colonel was left to cook for himself when his dad died when he was six. He dropped out of school in sixth grade and then lied about his age to enroll for the military. He led a life of tire selling, owning and running a fairy boat company, delivering babies and was a lawyer. With a 105-dollar social security check in his hand, Colonel set out at the age of 65, to pitch his revolutionary fried chicken recipe to restaurants, and to individuals, door to door. 1009 people rejected Colonel Sanders and his idea, but Sanders did not give up. Finally, his first franchise opened in Utah, in 1952, and continued to rapidly expand becoming a booming business. He sold Kentucky Fried Chicken to some investors in 1964 for two million dollars, which would equate to 15.3 million today, and donated millions of dollars to charities, schools and hospitals. Colonel was already leading a hard life, and had no obligation to persist in his jobs, however he always did, and was continuously progressing in his career, showing impeccable endurance and persistence. Colonel always found dissatisfaction in his jobs but used his desire to fuel him; an unusual reaction, commonly found among heroes, and a gesture towards his incredible determination. It would have been easier to quit, especially at age 65, an accepted retirement age, but Sanders,
A hero is always endure and concur perpetual failure until they overcome. An extraordinary example of this is Colonel Sanders. Colonel was left to cook for himself when his dad died when he was six. He dropped out of school in sixth grade and then lied about his age to enroll for the military. He led a life of tire selling, owning and running a fairy boat company, delivering babies and was a lawyer. With a 105-dollar social security check in his hand, Colonel set out at the age of 65, to pitch his revolutionary fried chicken recipe to restaurants, and to individuals, door to door. 1009 people rejected Colonel Sanders and his idea, but Sanders did not give up. Finally, his first franchise opened in Utah, in 1952, and continued to rapidly expand becoming a booming business. He sold Kentucky Fried Chicken to some investors in 1964 for two million dollars, which would equate to 15.3 million today, and donated millions of dollars to charities, schools and hospitals. Colonel was already leading a hard life, and had no obligation to persist in his jobs, however he always did, and was continuously progressing in his career, showing impeccable endurance and persistence. Colonel always found dissatisfaction in his jobs but used his desire to fuel him; an unusual reaction, commonly found among heroes, and a gesture towards his incredible determination. It would have been easier to quit, especially at age 65, an accepted retirement age, but Sanders,