These champions‚ while spread across our world and its ages‚ share some key characteristics with each other. This formulaic composition of heroes‚ while it can deviate‚ has stayed true since the dawn of history. This remains true with the Finnish hero god‚ Vainamoinen. (okay so his name has a bunch of umlauts and such but I can’t type that every time.) The central theme around which these great heroes form consists of three main acts: The Call to adventure‚ the Transformation‚ and the Return. These
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Corzo Many think a hero has to be gorgeous and have super human-like abilities‚ but that is not the truth. Batman was based off an everyday average guy who wore leggings and ran around a city all day long saving lives. A hero can be considered many things‚ but mostly a hero is someone who is intelligent and carries selfless acts. What many don’t consider is that a hero is a casual civilian that rises to any challenge and accomplishes a deed of a “superhero.” The thing is a hero can be an ordinary
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A hero in my eyes is someone who is strongly wise‚ helpful‚ and caring. My mother portrays all of these wonderful qualities. She is the greatest friend‚ Mom‚ and counselor to be around and look up to. To be a hero you have to be strongly wise.My mom knows how to help me out of tough times by staying strong and using her knowledge to guide me in the right direction. She has gone through so many of life’s obstacles that she knows from experience how to help me. When times get tough a hero never
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Ukrani 1 The Three Stages “It is good to have and end to journey toward‚ but it is the journey that matters in the end‚”(Ursula K. LeGuin). One of my biggest journeys in life is when I started to play badminton. My personal experiences‚ and my experiences with others and the world reflect three of the first five stages of the archetypal journey. My journey starts with the ordinary world‚ the call to adventure‚ and the meeting of the mentor. Experiences in my ordinary world have shaped my beliefs and understandings of
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Robert Renfroe‚ better known as Bob Riley once said‚ “Hard times don’t create heroes. It is during hard times when the ‘hero’ within us is revealed”. In The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton‚ Johnny Cade is a 16-year-old Greaser with long and greasy ebony hair covering his forehead. He has dark pusillanimous eyes and a scar that runs from his forehead to his cheekbone. Johnny is portrayed as an abused boy who was emotionally and physically traumatized‚ but throughout the novel‚ it is revealed that he is a
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A Hero’s Journey is about a character who lives as an ordinary life then an event happen that makes the character leave his normal life and go into an adventure. According to the book “The Hero with a Thousand Faces” by Joseph Campbell. The hero must pass trial in his adventure. He or she must achieve his goal to get a reward or go back to his ordinary life. In the movie “Wanted” by Michael Brandt highlights the Hero’s journey because the hero got rid of his old life and goes on an adventure to avenge
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A Hero In the worlds eye of a hero we tend to think of super heroes from comic books‚ movies ‚ and television shows. Well many of us look up to that special person in our lives that have shown courage and determination to succeed after set backs. My hero in my life is my father. My father was born in a small town in Durango‚Mexico. He was brought to the United States at the age of 6 years old with 6 other siblings. While being raised in South Central Los Angeles‚ California he was brought into
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Macbeth and Homer’s The Odyssey I learned the impact of a journey and how it affects the characters. A journey can lead you to success of failure. Macbeth demonstrates a journey where the character was led to destruction and The Odyssey demonstrates a journey where the character was led to success. The play Macbeth shows the journey of a man who is led to eventual destruction. Shakespeare writes of a man named Macbeth who is a war hero. Macbeth soon after helping the victory of a war was visited
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Hero A hero to me is someone who has courage‚ bravery or the ability to do something out of the ordinary to help another person and expect nothing in return. A hero has many definitions that show examples like comic book super heroes to your local police officers but in reality any normal person can be a hero in someone’s eyes. You see heroes everywhere but sometimes you just never pay attention to what’s going on. For example you can be walking downtown and pass by an alley where someone
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Easter As with almost all "Christian" holidays‚ Easter has a secular side as well. The dichotomous nature of Easter and its symbols‚ however‚ is not necessarily a modern fabrication. Easter has always had its non-religious side. In fact‚ Easter was originally a pagan festival. It was co-opted by Christian missionaries starting in the second century CE. Easter must be celebrated on a Sunday between the dates of March 22 and April 25. The Lenten Season Lent is the forty-six day period just prior
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