What would you do if you were presented with a difficult task? Would you run away and never have to face it, or would you stand up and take it head-on. Knowing that the task is difficult, you still muster the courage of doing it not for yourself, but for the best of others around you. This is the definition of Heroism, to take action into even the most difficult of tasks, heroes face the challenge head-on for others, they are able to face fear straight in the face, and they are never the people who take the easy path.
Heroes face the most difficult of challenges not for themselves, but for others as well. For example, Frederick Douglass, a slave who fled to the north, wanted to free his fellow brethren from slavery, he wrote in his autobiography, "From that time until now, I have been engaged in pleading …show more content…
For instance, Welles R. Crowther, an equities trader during the 9/11 attack, decided to save as many people as he can in the South Tower of the World Trade Center, like Ling Young, "He said "I'm going back up," cause he knows there's a lot of people up there on the 78th floor that needed help, I mean he could've continued going down with us, but he didn't, he decided to go back up."(Ling Young) Welles R. Crowther sacrificed himself for others that were stuck and afraid in the South Tower during that difficult moment. Likewise, soldiers, like Tristan Eugene Segers, in the military also display heroism, "Tristan Eugene Segers, a 2002 graduate of Lake Stevens High Schools, was driving his armored patrol vehicle when a homemade bomb exploded in the road underneath Seger's floorboard"(SB 58). Every day, Soldiers sacrifice themselves in order to keep their country and its people safe from threats that would destroy their nation, even when they know the consequences of doing so. Heroes can be ordinary people, like Crowther and soldiers, who just have to reach in and face their
Heroes face the most difficult of challenges not for themselves, but for others as well. For example, Frederick Douglass, a slave who fled to the north, wanted to free his fellow brethren from slavery, he wrote in his autobiography, "From that time until now, I have been engaged in pleading …show more content…
For instance, Welles R. Crowther, an equities trader during the 9/11 attack, decided to save as many people as he can in the South Tower of the World Trade Center, like Ling Young, "He said "I'm going back up," cause he knows there's a lot of people up there on the 78th floor that needed help, I mean he could've continued going down with us, but he didn't, he decided to go back up."(Ling Young) Welles R. Crowther sacrificed himself for others that were stuck and afraid in the South Tower during that difficult moment. Likewise, soldiers, like Tristan Eugene Segers, in the military also display heroism, "Tristan Eugene Segers, a 2002 graduate of Lake Stevens High Schools, was driving his armored patrol vehicle when a homemade bomb exploded in the road underneath Seger's floorboard"(SB 58). Every day, Soldiers sacrifice themselves in order to keep their country and its people safe from threats that would destroy their nation, even when they know the consequences of doing so. Heroes can be ordinary people, like Crowther and soldiers, who just have to reach in and face their