CIA: The Concept Of Courage

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You’re in the CIA when your partner just got shot, she tells you to leave without her and you’re trying to decide what to do, but you don’t have enough time because you hear upcoming footsteps... What is the concept of courage? “The concept of courage the ability to do something that you know is difficult.”(© 2014 Merriam-Webster, Incorporated).
My main topics are about what is courage, a story of bravery, and the concept of courage.

To begin with, what is courage? Courage is “1. The quality of mind or spirit that enables a person to face difficulty, danger, pain, etc., without fear;bravery. 2. The heart as the source of emotion. 3. Have the courage of one's convictions, to act in accordance with one's beliefs, especially in spite of criticism.”(©
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There’s physical, social, intellectual, moral,emotional, and spiritual courage. “Physical courage is pain, hardship, torture, and death.”(Indigoz). “Social courage is very familiar to most of us as it involves the risk of social embarrassment or exclusion, unpopularity or rejection. It also involves leadership. Intellectual courage speaks to our willingness to engage with challenging ideas, to question our thinking, and to the risk of making mistakes. It means discerning and telling the truth. Moral courage involves doing the right thing, particularly when risks involve shame, opposition, or the disapproval of others. Emotional courage opens us to feeling the full spectrum of positive emotions, at the risk of encountering the negative ones. It is strongly correlated with happiness. Spiritual courage fortifies us when we grapple with questions about faith, purpose, and meaning, either in a religious or nonreligious framework.”(Lisa Dungate and Jennifer Armstrong).Courage can mean many things. From physical courage to intellectual …show more content…
the interior glass ceiling shatters as the S.W.A.T team breaks through. BANG! BANG! BANG!. The enemies shot first. The first bullet hits one element on the right side of his chest as he jerks back. Another slightly misses an element and the third bullet hits another in his left arm. A shootout has just begin. Lionel, the enemy leader, was killed instantly, and his most important scientist, Dr. Swann, was fatally wounded. Ben Gates, the S.W.A.T leader, pulled out two Glocks and killed 4 perpetrators in quick order and two S.W.A.T assaulters take out eight perpetrators. At the end the rest of the felons fled for their lives, leaving 3 elements dead and 7

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