I’m writing this essay because I’m supposed to define the word hero. A hero to me is someone who risks their lives, is compassionate, and shows bravery. The research I’ve conducted is that heros are helpful towards humans and animals. Heros are important because they inspire people, and they help people. These three people, Donnie Inman (my brother), Sam Morales, and Stephen Bona are all heros to me.
The first hero I’m going to talk about is my brother Donnie Inman. He is my hero because he risks his life for others everyday. He is also compassionate because he cares for others and because he loves his wife and I.
Next there is Sam Morales. He is a hero because he shows compassion. He cared about five people he saved, while risking his own life. Apparently, he found out that the people he saved were his trainer’s sister. He was also brave enough to go into the fire and save those five people.
Last but not least there is Stephen Bona who is hero because he showed bravery. He showed bravery by saving a woman’s life from a shark. He also showed compassion because he didn’t want her to get bitten or eaten the shark. He showed compassion by caring for her because she had an open cut and he knew that blood attracts sharks. He took her to the shore that was far away and he got her away from the shark.
In the end I found out that heros are important because they save people by risking their own lives, being brave, and showing compassion. It’s important to me because those three characteristics I feel describe a hero.
At Les Bois Junior High school we are writing about heros for English. We are describing heros and how we think of them. A hero to me is some one who is brave. A hero has nothing to do with a job unless you are a fire fighter or a cop. But to be a hero you are doing what you know is right. Also, helping animals or people in need. The definition of a hero is a man of distinguished bravery and a principle figure.I would like to tell you how much work I have done on this hero project and how much I did not know about them and what I have learned.
Doing what you know is right is one way to be a hero. Cederic Redus,Tatoris Shepherd,and Michael Travis have done this specfic hero category. These three teens saved a trucker from his burning truck full of gas that would blow up any minute. They grabbed the trucker from the flaming truk even though they did not want to. They got 10 to 20 feet away and it blow into pieces. Doing what is right is a tough thing to do because you have to make a decision between your heart and your brain.
Jonathen Griswold and Clay Gneza showed bravery to their class mates and school. They talked a class mate into putting his gun down and not doing anything stupid because it would ruin his life. This shows bravery . This took a lot of courage to stand up in the middle of class and talk him out of it.
Finally, Beate Litz has helped sea lions in need. She has fead and given homes to sea lions for a couple of years. She saves them from the ocean and keeps them until they are well again. This is important because they could become extinct if she didn’t rescue them.
These are just a few characteristics of a hero. There are many more stories about heros but these were some I chose to tell you.If you would like to learn more about hero do some research.
I am writing an essay to tell why a hero is a hero. A hero is a person of nobility, bravery, and compassion. A hero can be almost anyone because it is a person that dose things for other people. Firemen are heroes because they do things for people all the time. They help people in need and in danger. I found my heroes on a search web. I found three heroes and they all shared the three qualities listed above.
Firemen are heroes because they show bravery every day. They save peoples lives and shows compassion too. Firemen can show all kinds of things that relate to a hero. Firemen are one of my favorite kinds of heroes.
Martin Luther King is another kind of hero because he showed compassion fighting for people’s rights. He also showed bravery standing up for all African American’s and died doing it. Martin Luther King was a big part of history for African American’s and American.
One of the few kinds of heroes is normal people that do things for other people. A man and his daughter helped a young girl lost in a subway. They spent all night trying to find the young girl’s parents and finely found them.
I think that we should heroes because danger happens every day and we need heroes to help us with that danger. Being a hero is hard because people have fears but firemen and other kinds of heroes won’t show that fear. With out heroes the world wouldn’t be safe and we probably wouldn’t be ware we are today.
The dictionary defines the term hero as a man or woman of distinguished bravery. In my opinion, some of the things that make a hero is compassion, putting others first, and bravery. Heros are saving other people that they don’t even know, putting others before themselves and being brave. Through my research, I was able to locate three people on the Internet who I think are heros. They are Roxanne Vega, Michael Fraiser, and Samantha Marie Rowland. I am going to tell why these three people are Heros to me.
Michael Fraiser plunged into a cloud of poisonous gas to save another man’s life. He is a hero to me because he did what was right. Now all people have doubts and fears, and Michael Fraiser was no exception. He probably knew he was going to die, but he rushed into the gas and saved the life of a man he didn’t even know. Extraordinary act of bravery like this do not happen very often. I know I would never be able to do anything like that.
The next person I am going to talk about is Roxanne Vega. She scaled an icy cliff to safe the lives of two children that were still trapped in a car. She is a hero to me because she was compassionate. She cared about the kid’s well being. She didn’t just let the kids stay in the car and die. She scaled that cliff even when she was injured. Not a lot of people who are injured would scale an icy cliff to save two children.
The third person I am going to talk about is Samantha Marie Rowland. She is a hero to me because she learned to read when no one else thought she could. She is a hero to me because she showed moral courage. She did not let her problem take over her life. She took responsibility for herself to get help for her problem even though she knew it would be hard.
I wrote this essay because I want to share my view of what I think makes someone a hero. Before I did that research, I never fully understood how important heroes are in the lives of others. Just think what life would be like if we didn’t have heros. If no one ever saved the life of someone else and if no one cared about hurting people’s feelings, the world would not be a very good place to live in. Heros manage to restore the peace. Heroes can pick up the pieces when a person fees like their life is falling apart. Heros improve the lives of people everyday all around the world. Because of heroes, we are able to carry on each day.
What is a hero? A hero is a person that risks their lives, put others first and does what he or she knows is right. I’m writing this essay because heroes are important to little kids that need a hero to measure up to. I did a lot of research to find heroes that I want to measure up to when I’m older. And I found three heroes’ that did this.
The first group of people I consider hero’s showed doing what they knew was right. Cederio Redus, Latoris Shetherd and Michael Travis saved a man from a gasoline fire. They took him from his truck and got him to safety. They showed bravery and compassion when they did what they did.
The second group of people risks their lives everyday. The U.S. Army risks their lives everyday so no harm comes to us. They are in Iraq right now helping people get their lives back together, and to find Osama Bin Laden. They go to many other countries to help other people.
The third hero is Sam Morales. He put other people first. Sam Morales was training to be an Olympic Boxer. He smelled smoke in his apartment so he ran to his neighbor’s apartment and got Toni Joshson and her four grandkids out of the building to safety. Toni Joshson and her grandkids are glad to be alive because of Sam Morales.
Heroes can be anyone. They can be a mom, dad, your brother or sister. Heroes give little kids hope for the future. The three characteristics of what a hero is such as risks lives, doing what you is right and to put others first. If we didn’t have hero’s there would be a lot of people in jail.
What is a hero? A hero is someone who’s brave, compassionate, and has courage. People also look up to you if you are a hero. Risking their own life and saving others are characteristics of a hero. I chose three people during my research that I believe are heroes. These three people have courage, bravery, and compassion.
Omar Rivera’s dog, named Daisy saved people on 9/11 from the World Trade Center. Daisy showed compassion when she ran back into the building and saved a total amount of 967 lives from the World Trade Center. Daisy had bruises all over and had one broken leg, but she got an award for saving a lot of people.
Sam Morales was brave because he saved lots of kids. He also saved a lady and an elderly woman from a burning building. The second thing that I want to tell you about Sam Morales is that he could of ran off but instead he put his own life in danger for those people. Another reason why Sam Morales is a hero is because he could have called 911 but instead he saved the people himself. Sam was training for boxing when he smelled smoke. He was not afraid which made him a hero.
Jonathon Griswold and Clay Gheza showed courage by sticking up for students. A man pulled a handgun on the kids in school. They stopped him from harming students. The second reason why they are heroes is because they didn’t run. They put their lives in jeopardy to save the kids. The final reason why they are true heroes is because they could have called 911, instead they had an instinct to act immediately. They thought waiting for the police would probably be a bad idea. The kids would have been harmed.
A hero is someone brave and who shows compassion towards others. In dangerous situations they save lives. If people didn’t have bravery, courage and compassion some people would be dead. In my research I found out that these three people have bravery, courage and compassion. I think that these characteristics are what make up a hero.
A hero is brave and fearless. A hero saves other peoples lives and risks their own life to help others. Heroes are important because some people would not be alive if heroes were not around. There are certain people that might be heroes in the future. You have to be brave to save other people. Everyone could be brave if they wanted to. I went on-line and looked up heroes and found three people that were brave, saved people’s lives and helped others.
The first part about being a hero is being brave. You have to be brave to tackle a person like Jonathan Griswold and Clay Gheza. They tackled a guy with a handgun at school. You would have to be brave to tackle someone with a handgun. Not everyone would tackle a guy with a handgun. I bet that if you saved a person’s life you would feel good about yourself.
A hero has to save people. Like Sam Morales saved people from a burning house. People would be dead if he didn’t risk his own life. It is not easy to save people’s life. Sam is a hero to me because he risked his own life for people that he didn’t know.
The final characteristic is helping others. Cederic Redus, Latoris Shepherd, and Michael Travis cared about someone they didn’t know. They helped a truck driver on a highway. They pulled him out of the truck after the truck rolled over. They pulled him out before the truck exploded. They had faith that they could pull him out before it exploded and they did. That is why they are my heroes.
If there were more heroes there would be more people in the world. If people looked out for other people everyone would be happy. You have to be brave to save people’s lives and have faith. Sometimes you need help but people run away because they want to save their own life. That is why heroes are important because heroes will go out there and help.
What is a hero? A hero to me is people who have courage, bravery, and saves people lives. The definition of a hero is: Legend a man of great strength and courage favored by the gods. That is the definition from the dictionary. I did research on hero and found three people that that showed most of these qualities.
The first thing I will tell you of a brave man and his name is Elvin Huber. Elvin was the bravest man that I ever knew. Even when he found out that he had lung cancer. He always tried to make things easy for everyone else and made sure that every thing was in place. He never showed that he was scared.
The next thing I will tell you tell you of a man that saved peoples lives. This mans name is Omar E. Rivera. He saved people from the Twin Towers, but he needed to have his dog help him. His dog was the main reason that he is alive because the man was blind.
The last thing I will tell about a guy that showed courage and his name is Erich Weihmeyer. He was blind and he still climbed Mount Everest a copal times. Hess don it without a seeing eye dog. He showed courage because he was blind and still did so much stuff.
Now I guess we know what a hero is. All the people I wrote bout about all show what I think makes a things I think makes a hero are, is courage, bravery, and people’s lives.
Hi! My name is John. I think heroes are brave, compassionate, and they do what is right. In my research, I found three people who have these characteristics. I think heroes are important because they show us what is right and what is wrong.
A hero is someone who is brave. Michael Travis risked his life to save a hurt truck driver. He put other people before himself. I think he was brave.
Another characteristic of a hero is someone who has compassion. My Dad, Robert Karrels is a hero to me because he knows when I am hurt and he cares. He helps me when I need help. My Dad comforts me and takes care of me.
My last hero is a person who did what was right. His name is Jonathan Griswald. He stopped a gunman from killing people at school. He risked his life he helped rather than run. Jonathan Griswald distracted the gunman and grabbed the gun. This is an important part of being a hero to me.
I think heroes need to be brave, compassionate, and they need to do what is right. Heroes put others before themselves. Heroes risk their lives to save others. They are very important. If we didn’t have heroes, everything would be different than the way it is.
So many things are here to influence us: religion, advertisements, subliminal messages on tv, etc. When one person can overcome all of the images and words that are pounded into their head, THAT is being a hero. Throughout my life I have strived to not follow in the footsteps of anybody, because that would defeat my logic of how a hero is not an individual, but instead it is a group of qualities which inhibit a person. The hero's most important quality, I think, is being able to live your own life. A real hero knows that you must be yourself.
This quality may, to some of you, seem a little arrogant. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that a hero needs to be cocky, I am just saying that a hero should know what he/she is doing, and they should just do it. That is what lets us as human beings know that we're alive. We have the freedom to make any decision we make, regardless of whether anybody agrees with us or not. A hero knows where he wants to end up, therefore he already knows the steps he is going to make. The road may be long and hard, and filled with obstacles, but everything is eventual.
To be a hero, you obviously are going to need to pave your own road, which I have now said numerous times. But on that road, there are going to be many decisions where one thing you do will lead to something bad, and one will lead to something good. Sometimes you are going to have to travel through the bad path to get to the ultimate euphoria. A real hero will go down that path and take anything bad that is thrown at him like a man. A hero MUST persevere through some negative situation in his/her life to be a hero.
So now you can see how unorthodox this hero essay is. I do not think there is any individual who will carry all of these traits, but I know people that are close. I know that I am trying to live my life this way, and anybody that decides to live their life this way after reading this MISSED THE POINT. The whole point of this essay is to show that there is no such thing as a hero. Stop searching, stop thinking about it, stop making people write about it. You might as well throw your hands up in the air and give up. But hey, if you do that, then you're not a hero.
Dear iEARN,
We are in hard times so we need to give everything a second thought. We have to remember our morals and promise ourselves to behave properly and get rid of selfishness. We need to answer this question: What are the qualities of the good citizen? Answering this question will ease our temper and will give us a push forward to live in hard time.
I still believe that the greatness of a man can nearly always be measured by the willingness to be kind, to be kind for yourself, to your family, to your community, to your country, to your nation, to the whole world, to the universe……… Man does not live for himself alone. He lives for the good of others as well. Therefore, before learning how to make people admire us, we must analyze why we ourselves admire certain people more than others. Who is my hero? He is the good citizen. So let us answer the above mentioned question together. Here is mine. My heroes are who dedicate their soul to their duties and put their hearts into their work. Who believe that goodness rewards itself. Who have the innate goodness, even though mistakes and false opinion may often ruin the beauty of the goodness.
Dearest students and friends, We see only a little of the bloody awful mess due to we are the poor creatures. We are not the Almighty Creater. Let us cry to purify our souls and start building our peacefull world as real life has not started yet.
Wishing you all the best. Waiting to read yours as I believe that I read to feel I am not alone. We are alone together.
Samah Al Jundi,
Motafawqeen School,
iEARN Syria.
So, WE suggest making use of this grand web and consider ourselves as spiders that spin TRUTH and PEACE around the world.....
We at MY HERO have made a conscious choice to allow young people to express their ideas on this web site as long as they do not use "swear words" or "hate" or "violence" as attributes of their heroes.
Children and teenagers are encouraged to express themselves on this web project and to learn from one another that there are other "choices." We believe that we can provide young people with examples of many diverse role models in the process.
If you look closely at the entries about " Eminem" I believe you will see that many of the teens who consider him a hero, do so because of the obstacles he has had to overcome to achieve his dream of being an "artist."
EXAMPLES FROM THE MY HERO GUEST BOOK re: Eminem.
DOM wrote: ..." (" Eminem")made a life for himself when he had nothing, if you ask me that's inspirational. He did it, he made it, he achieved his dream when all odds were against him. He's just and ordinary guy who did the extraordinary. Eminem is a hero.
Ethan wrote: "eminem had to overcome many things like having a mother who was apparently a drug addict and his dad walkin out, he became notice by dr. dre in a time when being a white rapper was praticlly unheard of. he is often thought of as a person who has no feeling for others and is often discriminated against for his color and atitude. he loves his daughter, Hallie and tries very hard to take care of her, this is why i think eminem is a hero."
Lacey wrote: ....In his songs i think his you can tell he cares about his family because he always mentions his daughters in every song and also he has this song called Guilty Conscience where it tells you to think about what you do before you act on something.
What I have learned as producer of this site for the last 7 years is that "heroes" are human beings. We cherish our heroes for what they have accomplished not for their failures. So in the eyes of many young people, Eminem has overcome a rough past and used his talent as a singer and writer to successfully express his point of view.
I believe that many children in this country are abandoned by their parents and find hope that some one like " Eminem" has "succeeded" in spite of his difficult childhood. He has learned to use "words" to express his anger, and this is a skill that could help many angry young teens.
We at MY HERO are proud of the thousands of stories that are shared on the website that do inspire young people and provide them with examples of people of all ages who are making a difference.
I hope that you will return to MY HERO and continue to add your voice to the project.
You cannot do much to help them except be a friend. If you give them a sheet of paper, then their guardians might find it. They may not be able to call kid's help line without someone overhearing. But what they can do is go on the Internet.
If advertising could pop up asking if someone is being abused or neglected, it could link to advice or counselling pages. IT MUST ALSO TELL THEM HOW TO DELETE THE HISTORY ON THEIR COMPUTER INCASE SOMEONE CHECKS TO SEE WHAT SITES THEY HAVE BEEN ON. We could get people to volunteer to be counsellors by email or something. Anything. In that way, we would be helping to make peace in the world.
