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Date Submitted: 07/19/2010 04:58 AM
What is heroism?
“Be your own hero, it’s cheaper than a movie ticket (Doug Horton).” This famous quote clearly explained that what heroism is. Someone who does something to get better life for the public is the basic definition of heroism. We live in the world, which is changing fast so that we have to accept more information to survive. At the same time, the definition of heroism is changing. Most of modern youth are affected by media and novels that invest too creative qualities for heroism, even people treat stars and movie characters as heroes. It seems like people think less about what is heroism, which is doing something for the public in the real world and can be respected from public.
Through research concerning heroism from the three articles, I sum up the main points and find the definition of heroism. Heroism, as qualities of a hero, means does anything make people get better life even need sacrifice at the same time people can give respect for it. In the article, “Heroism Must Mean More than Sympathy,” Nicholas Thompson takes about the 911 Trade Center accidents. Near 350 firemen sacrificed for saving people, but people just showed more sympathy for their action of heroism. In the article, “Real Superheroes,” Dan Levin pays attention to ask us to find heroes in our daily life. Specifically, he points that firefighters, polices and soldiers are real models who are serving for the public. In the article “True Heroes?” written by David Relin, he make an appeal to public don’t be affected by media. The movie characters and stars’ qualities are not heroism.
The actions with heroism are not reachless myth in the movie; they can happen in our daily life. In the article “Heroism Must Mean More than Sympathy,” the author summarizes two basic qualities for traditional American heroes that are brave and nobility (Thompson). For example, a normal doctor also has heroism. First, he is brave because when he salvages the patient he should have...