What is Heroism? “A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.” (Christopher Reeve). Anyone can become a hero, even someone who was walking down an typical street. However, the difference between a general person and an extraordinary hero is that the hero has the strong will to keep on going even on the hardest obstacles that may not even be beneficial to the hero. Heroes persevere to be able to help others in need, sacrifice their own benefits when others are in a perilous situation, and are not ignorant, but aware of the circumstances around them. Heroism means persevering in any crisis, even though the public and their opinions are against you. For instance, Frederick…show more content… 70). Even though Douglass was a Negro, who were not treated equally, back in the days, he stood up for the rights of other Negroes that were being treated differently than others. Douglass wanted the world to be equal to all and battled for the equalness of all until he died. In addition, Marie Curie was a physicist and chemist. Curie and her husband, Pierre, was the first to discover the elements radium and polonium. For this reason, she received the Nobel Prize for Physics with her husband in 1903. Curie was the first women to ever receive the Nobel Prize. ‘Henri BecquereI‘s discovery in 1896 of a new phenomenon, which Marie later called 'radioactivity.’ Not only did she study and increase knowledge about radioactivity, “Marie Curie decided to find out if the radioactivity discovered in uranium was to be found in other elements. She discovered that this was true for thorium… During World War I, Marie Curie, with the help of her daughter Irene, devoted herself to the development of the use of X—radiography, including the mobile units which came to be known as 'little Curies’, used for the treatment of wounded soldiers…”…show more content… For example, Abraham Lincoln was a hero that sacrificed to help the United States of America and the citizens of the nation. Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States and was president during the Civil War. In addition, he created the Emancipation Proclamation during the Civil War, which took a step towards the freeing of slavery. Later, Lincoln was assassinated by John W. Booth at a theater. Walt Whitman also mourns the death of Lincoln and thanks him for his great deed by stating, “O, Captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done; The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won; The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring: But O heart! Heart! Heart! O the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead” (SB Pg. 69). Even though Lincoln may have not intentionally sacrificed his life, he sacrificed the last of his lives to make the United States a better place in a state of crisis. Lincoln gave hope to the citizens of our nation that America can be a equal and achieve the vision of what the people wish. In the same way, Rosa Parks had sacrificed herself for the equality of Negroes. She was tired of giving in to white and refused her seat to a white on the bus, which was implied as an action that all Negroes
