your typical “masculine” hero. Orlando is seen participating in violent activities‚ assuring his “power”. Woolf then goes on to explain the amount of power that his ancestors‚ all male‚ had as well. “Orlando’s fathers had ridden in fields of asphodel‚ and stony fields‚ and fields watered by strange rivers‚ and they had struck many heads of many colours off many shoulders‚ and brought them back to hang from the rafters. So too would Orlando‚ he vowed.” Every story of a hero needs to have the pressure
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My Michigan Hero We all have at least one hero. It can be a friend‚ a family member‚ or simply a stranger you met on the streets. My hero is my mom‚ Yan Li Cheng‚ who is a small Chinese woman with short black hair and warm chocolate eyes. Her smiles and laughter always cheer me up and she always supports me whenever I need it. Yan Li Cheng‚ my mother‚ is my hero because she has taught me that working hard will definitely pay off in the future. My mother struggled as a child. After she had turned
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EMolly Hackling‚ 7th Period 10/29/11 Epically Heroic Epic Hero- (n.) a brave and noble character in an epic poem‚ admired for great achievements. Odysseus and Spiderman both fit this description. The characteristics they displayed in their daily lives make them deserving of this title. In the novel The Odyssey by Homer‚ the main character Odysseus must learn how to take special gifts given to him by a goddess and use them to keep him alive. By comparison‚ in the screenplay Spiderman by David
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Johnny Do you know what a hero is? A hero to me is someone who has courage to stand up against things and that risks his own life for something small. They are also outstanding achievements. “Y’all were heroes from the beginning.” (Hinton‚107) I believe that someone in the book “The Outsiders” named Johnny is a hero. He is because he saved Ponyboy‚ he saved all the kids from the church that caught on fire‚ and he gave Dally something to live for. Ponyboy and Johnny fell asleep in the park and
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people who are admired for their courage and achievements. A hero can be a woman or man‚ and heroes come in many different shapes and sizes. In the text From My Hero: Extraordinary People on the Heroes Who Inspire Them it says “So we need to be very careful of those we put on a pedestal‚ and choose only those who embody those qualities that reflect the very best of human nature. But even that is a dangerous game. What do we do with a hero who has done something less than heroic?” I think that this
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A true hero does not fear death but instead risks all that he is for what he believes to be right‚ moral‚ and just. Revered by many‚ Beowulf is considered to be one of the most renowned Anglo-Saxon poems of all time. Beowulf faces death defying feats that no ordinary man would be able to complete‚ thus earning the hero status. Beowulf encountered many battles‚ where he selflessly put his own life on the line to stop evil from tormenting the people of the Danes. He traveled across the sea‚ killing
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Tragic Hero In many‚ a tragedy do the tragic heroes have flaws that lead themselves to their own demise. The main character always acts exactly on his or her own emotions; thus aiding their tragic flaw and leading to their own demise without giving them the time to stop the repercussions of their emotion driven actions. In the play “Antigone” by Sophocles many of the characters are simply too headstrong and passionate about their beliefs to realize that they would greatly regret the decisions
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What is a hero? On Dictonary.com it states thats its “ a brave and noble character in an epic poem‚ admired for great achievements or affected by grand events ” Now the real questios is. Is Odysseus a hero? In the Odyssey by Homer‚ it’s an epic poem about a man is stuck in a war for many years. He finally escapes the war to go home but instead is faced with many adventures to come along the way. On his adventures he goes through terrible storms‚ Wicked creatures‚ he also had to face gods and goddesses
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Who’s your hero? My definition of a hero is someone who is brave‚ courageous‚ and determined. Chris Kyle is my hero. He possess all the traits I just mentioned. He went overseas and served four tours with the seas. He saved over 400 American soldiers lives while he was in Afghanistan. Chris Kyle had over 164 credited kills while on his four tours. He also saved hundreds of his troops and civilians by sniping many people that were killing American troops and civilians. When Chris came home from his
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My Hero May 22‚ 2012 my life changed a lot literally. I felt like i was living on a trampoline‚ bouncing from foster care to my mother to foster care to grandparents to finally living a life with my hero Earl W. Hossler . He was born June 9‚1972 at the age 40 with 4 kids he took in and works at water treatment plant in Hillsdale‚ Mi. He keeps us in a good place and still has time to do extra things like going camping and stuff like that. Uncle is a big Facebook guy; you will always hear that ping
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