It’s hard to choose a specific leader I admire the most‚ but if I had to choose one‚ it would be Malala Yousafzai. From what I read from her autobiography‚ I greatly admire her acts of leadership‚ courage and determination for change. She may not be as known‚ but her story and her beliefs are just as great as those we look up to today‚ such as Martin Luther King Jr.‚ Gandhi‚ Abraham Lincoln and so on. She is a young Pashtun girl from Pakistan who is suppressed by the Taliban from getting an education
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A hero is a person admired for their courage‚ integrity‚ and gratitude. This person puts away self-desires to make others happy in difficult situations or circumstances. There are many different types of heroes because of how one may describe the person they look to as one. A lot of times people look up to those who do the impressive‚ noticeable deeds as heroic‚ but oversee those who do small‚ yet significant acts in life. If the small acts change someone’s life for the better that is a hero as well
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Blood‚ horror‚ and friends dying. Stephen Crane tells readers how Civil War battles actually were like. Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane is about a boy named Henry Fleming who is in a Civil War battle‚ while there his friend Jim dies‚ this story really conveys the real essence of the Civil War. Stephen Crane uses Civil War guns and descriptive features to represent what life was actually like in the Civil War. Crane is particularly strong with his descriptiveness. “He turned now with a lover’s
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Personal Response:Beyond Courage: The Untold Story of Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust by Doreen Rappaport‚ was a good book. I have always been interested in the history of the Holocaust. This book was a true story of events that happened leading up to the Holocaust and what took place during the Holocaust. This story explained what exactly happened to the Jewish people. Plot:This book included stories about the events that happened during the Holocaust. This book showed pictures of the
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juts out like an animal’s.” and “ that he is a creature of the Devil‚ perhaps even the Devil himself!” Seeing him once Brown told the town of what Drummond is‚ soon the words spread and the town think he is a evil man. It would take a man a lot of courage to go into a town where he is hated‚ and seen as a bad person. When he made his first appearance Melinda yelled “It’s the Devil.” Even knowing that the whole town is going against him‚ he did not let it affect his case and keep strong with
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The Red Badge of Courage Journal Entry Rafid Mirza I was surprised when the Confederate army mounted a second charge at the Union army. I thought that the Confederates would attack again later during the course of the story. This showed me that Crane put many twists in the story. “The youth turned quick eyes upon the field. He discerned forms begin to swell in masses out of a distant wood. He again saw the tilted flag speeding forward” (Crane 41). “The men groaned. The luster faded from their eyes
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To Be a Slave‚ Like The Red Badge of Courage is refreshing: it shows a period of history in a new light‚ one that we don’t see in our history textbooks. This book shows slavery for what it really was: a disgusting time full of pain and injustice. Because To Be a Slave is written through first person stories‚ we as readers get a more accurate portrayal of what slavery was like‚ rather than the watered down version written in our history books. Slavery was so much more than the “It began‚ it was bad
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Courage to Soar‚ written by the 1984 Olympic Gold medalist gymnast Mary Lou Retton‚ highlighted Simone’s powerful gymnastics style and her extraordinary success. The first chapter is in Simone’s perspective‚ which remains for the rest of the story. Simone describes her failure to make the National Women’s Artistic Junior Gymnastics Team by only one place at the 2011 Visa National Championships in St.Paul‚ Minnesota. Simone learned that she could train harder and be more prepared for when the Championships
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In the novel Red Badge of Courage‚ Crane depicted the main character Henry as a callow youth who recently joined the Union army for the sake of his naive conception of heroism plus the quest for honor. Thus‚ in the beginning‚ Henry fought along with other comrades during the first battle. Although he bosomed the sentiments as fear and uneasiness‚ everything was still new to him and it left him no time to react on his guts. However‚ after the early round of brutality‚ Henry savvied right enough that
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Throughout the book‚ readers are shown Atticus’ high morals and values and the events in chapter 15 only explore that further. In this chapter‚ Atticus chooses to put himself in harm’s way in order to do what is right‚ hence displaying moral courage. After the fellow townsfolk warn him of a lynch mob‚ the lawyer takes it upon himself to protect his client – Tom Robinson – from the racist mob. He goes out of his way to travel to the town late at night and unarmed‚ leaving himself very vulnerable.
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