One such charity was the Children’s Welfare Fund of Jefferson County Wisconsin, which was renamed for him after his death. My uncle was a great man. He was an extremely hard-working, kind, and generous person. He was respected and loved by everyone who knew him and that’s why I consider him a hero. He displayed and represented courage, nobility of purpose, and sacrifice.
He was an all-around successful man in his culture. Okonkwo was strong, masculine and also very violent. However, Nwoye did not take on any of the characteristics of his father. When the Western missionaries came to the villages, some people accepted them and welcomed them while others disagreed with them. To some the missionaries had no impact on.
His grandfather was a much respected soldier. The Plutarch also says, " His ancestors commonly passed for men of no note whatever, but Cato himself extols his father, Marcus, as a brave man and good soldier." His men ancestors have been great men in the past, yet Cato want to be like his dad who was a brave man and a great soldier. The Plutarch
My Hero Gary Sinise Mr. Gary Sinise is best known as LT. Dan from the Oscar award winning film Forest Gump. Other films Mr. Sinise also stared in were the acclaimed Apollo 13 as well as the thriller Ransom just to name a few of the many. (www.garysinisefoundation.org) But these are not the qualities that make him a hero to me. Mr. Sinise is an inspiration to me because of his selfless devotion to honoring the men and women of the armed forces as well as first responders and all who serve our country. He does this through the foundations that he has started, one of which is the Gary Sinise Foundation.
Malcolm X was one of my hero’s. Conclusion Just like Dr. Martin Luther King, Malcolm X was and still is today one of my heroes’ and I believe that Malcolm X just like Dr. King was honest and stood for the all black people, and I will forever cherish and honor both of these great men for their sacrifice for we as black people have the opportunities afforded to us today because they gave their lives for us.
The Astonishing Legacy of Abraham Lincoln “Northerners and Southerners, blacks and whites, East Coast elites and prairie Westerners, liberals and conservatives, the religious and secular, scholars and popularizes- all have recalled a sometimes startlingly different Lincoln (Kunhardt III).” Abraham Lincoln was viewed as a hero by many and a martyr by others. Lincolns path through his presidency has left him a legend and to be known as, “the great example of democratic leadership-by most criteria, truly our greatest president. (Kunhardt III).” No matter the mistakes President Abraham Lincoln made in his journey, they have helped to shape the free country we now live in. His work in the civil war, the emancipation proclamation, The Thirteenth Amendment, as well as his dreadful assassination have created his legend and extolled his reputation. Abraham Lincoln was not a man of high rank before his presidency; his only military experience was from being “captain of a militia unit that saw no action in the Black Hawk War (McPherson).” Even without the same education that his peers received, Lincoln was known to be a quick study, “He observed the successes and failures of his own and the enemy’s military commanders and drew apt conclusions; he made mistakes and learned from them; he applied his large quotient of common sense to slice through the obfuscations and excuses of military subordinates (McPherson).” He was also known for his admirable speeches which he wrote for himself by hand.
My first hypothesis is identity holds many mysteries, and in Armand’s case, its pride. He is so full of pride that he cannot see anything but his family name in golden words. My second hypothesis is Desiree’s love in this story has different meaning, for some it is a form of passion and for others, its identity. My first hypothesis states that throughout this story, Armand is portrayed as the man who had it all. He figured that because of his family name which he thought was, “…one of the oldest and proudest in Louisiana” (Chopin 1).
Nerves of Steel History 11 10/31/12 Andrew Carnegie is hailed as a man who has done many great services to this nation. While this belief is true and his efforts are numerously noted, Andrew Carnegie remains a man just like the rest of us. He has had his struggles and he has had his triumphs. Like most of us, he came from humble beginnings, and like all of us at some point in our lineage, walked through the doors of Ellis Island and stepped foot on American soil to realize a dream: a dream of a better life, a dream of success, and a dream of endless possibilities. Andrew Carnegie and his family had just become part of the glorious melting pot that we call the United States - a land where hard-working men and women can realize their full potential and achieve greatness (much like Carnegie was destined to do).
They didn’t care what it will take them into forcing me to study. They never relented on getting us educated. To be more precise, my mother who is a teacher never allowed us to play around during weekdays. There were no time to play and there wasn’t no being idle. The manipulated our mind with fear and this fear grew in us.
Yet it is the one essential, vital quality of those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change." Any type of courage is rare to find in Alan Paton’s book ,Cry the Beloved Country, due to the fact that it is the 1940’s during an apartheid. The main protagonist, Reverend Stephen Kumalo, showed several times throughout the story what it truly means to have moral courage. Stephen Kumalo is a very humble Father and husband who has an astonishing amount of love for his country and family and has spent his whole life in the village of Ndotsheni. Kumalo has a very strong moral sense and an even stronger faith in God.