When people think of courage, they think of courageous people such as firefighters, soldiers, and many more people. When they think of courage they also think of courageous acts such as saving a baby from a burning fire, volunteering to protect a country, and lots more. But what does it really mean to be courageous? Does saving a life cut it? How is it really defined in our daily lives? Does what we think as courageous, really courageous?
These are some of the many questions one may ask about courage. Courageous may be many people’s titles, a description of a story, or something else. The meaning of courage according to the Oxford American Dictionary is “The ability to do something that frightens one”. That basically states that when someone …show more content…
For example, when Irena Sendler, a Poland Jew helped get about 2500 children out of a walled in ghetto they were rounded up into by the Nazis during WWII. She was also to sneak food and medicine into the ghetto, leading to her getting tortured and her legs broken. Another example was after the Fukushima disaster when there had to be clean up and containment done, 72 year-old Engineer and cancer survivor Yasuteru Yamada started the Skilled Veterans Corps, a volunteer force of elderly Japanese engineers help to take place of the young. He was able to successfully gather 400 volunteers immediately, and lived by the fact that he and many other elderly men will pass away before the nuclear radiation got to them, therefore they should help at the plants. But when Zachary Compton stole $3,500 in a bank robbery and soon caught afterward, that represents hurting the greater good and promoting the worse. I think that the two reasons were valid and and the last reason was invalid based on my …show more content…
For instance, when Desmond Doss’ was drafted into WWII, his religion forbade him from carrying a gun or threatening another human life. But he was still able to be a non-combatant and save seventy-five men in a ambush from Japanese as a medic. Another instance was when Jacklyn Lucas was patrolling the Iwo Jima ravines during WWII when the Japanese attacked and threw two grenades at is position. He took one grenade and played it in the ash, laying the second one beneath him, living afterwards. But when Witold Pilecki purposely got himself in a Jewish concentration camp to gather information to the allies, that may have been brave, but was voluntarily. The first two acts where voluntarily, registering them as courageous. Therefore many of the acts above are invalid, but are still courageous in some ways and should be
These are some of the many questions one may ask about courage. Courageous may be many people’s titles, a description of a story, or something else. The meaning of courage according to the Oxford American Dictionary is “The ability to do something that frightens one”. That basically states that when someone …show more content…
For example, when Irena Sendler, a Poland Jew helped get about 2500 children out of a walled in ghetto they were rounded up into by the Nazis during WWII. She was also to sneak food and medicine into the ghetto, leading to her getting tortured and her legs broken. Another example was after the Fukushima disaster when there had to be clean up and containment done, 72 year-old Engineer and cancer survivor Yasuteru Yamada started the Skilled Veterans Corps, a volunteer force of elderly Japanese engineers help to take place of the young. He was able to successfully gather 400 volunteers immediately, and lived by the fact that he and many other elderly men will pass away before the nuclear radiation got to them, therefore they should help at the plants. But when Zachary Compton stole $3,500 in a bank robbery and soon caught afterward, that represents hurting the greater good and promoting the worse. I think that the two reasons were valid and and the last reason was invalid based on my …show more content…
For instance, when Desmond Doss’ was drafted into WWII, his religion forbade him from carrying a gun or threatening another human life. But he was still able to be a non-combatant and save seventy-five men in a ambush from Japanese as a medic. Another instance was when Jacklyn Lucas was patrolling the Iwo Jima ravines during WWII when the Japanese attacked and threw two grenades at is position. He took one grenade and played it in the ash, laying the second one beneath him, living afterwards. But when Witold Pilecki purposely got himself in a Jewish concentration camp to gather information to the allies, that may have been brave, but was voluntarily. The first two acts where voluntarily, registering them as courageous. Therefore many of the acts above are invalid, but are still courageous in some ways and should be