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Muhammad Ali: A Hero In The Sports Industry
The name Muhammad Ali needs no introduction in the sports industry. This man is a living legend. In my eye’s Muhammad Ali was a true hero not only for his race and ethnicity but a hero for everyone during his era. The two points of Campbell’s characteristics of a hero that I will be looking at for Muhammad Ali is; a hero performs a courageous act, either physical or spiritual. A hero is usually someone from whom something has been taken or who feels there's something lacking in the normal experience available, or permitted, to members of his society. Ali has accomplished my achievements during an era when African-Americas weren’t allowed any opportunities. Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. later known as Muhammad Ali, was a black boxer, and was

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