The Important Role Of Courage In Nonfiction Literature

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To change other passions with your own, however reasonably or unreasonable each one is it is hard. Fighting fire is with fire can sometimes be the only way a person can go by a problem. These people changed the world with their passion and courage. Courage is a power you can have when you have none. Courage is what conquers the powerful and is the essence of act in adversity. Like to stand up to a bully or friend even if you’re scared. Melba, one of the 9 teenagers that went to school as a target. Temple, someone who learned to understand herself and helped the world understand her as she changed it. Ted Conover, a reporter to threw himself into another world to find out who the true villains and victims were in prison. Nonfiction literature is important because
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She had threats spat in her face daily and her and her friends lives were consistently on the line. They were all in danger and so they were provided guards to protect them daily. She had gotten very close to a guard named Danny who had talked to her and respected her like a normal person would. They became something like friends and Melba came to look up to Danny and really did admire him. Later though the government decided to give her school the responsibility of taking care of the little rock nine. This was a problem because it was obvious to the little rock nine that the school did not care for their welfare. After Danny was taken out of the school with the other guards Melba and her friends were exposed to the dangers of their fellow students proposed to them and as you could have guessed she was scared. She wanted to run away and never go back but she stayed at school practically risking her life for the mission placed before her. She was there to stop segregation which would change the lives of future children. She knew that what she was doing was important but she was scared, and so she leaned on Danny’s words to give her courage. “Danny had

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