Matthew Henson Character Analysis

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Are you a leader?Are you brave?Or are you a risk taker?I would be scared to go to the North Pole or the moon,even a fire would be terrible.But lots of people are confident and will do everything they can to accomplish.These people are some of them. In the great fire daniel pegleg sullivan was a leader,by helping the town get water to put the fire out.That compares to Team Moon because they worked together to make sure apollo 11 and neil armstrong got on the moon so it did not blow up.Onward shows leadership, because Matthew Henson,lead an expedition to the North Pole and could have died but kept leading his team, because he was determined.He could have died of hypothermia. In the great fire

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