Essays on Hero

Not until recently, people portrayed extreme sports participants as unskilled risk seekers, who don’t appreciate life and usually have either addiction to danger or an unhealthy desire to prove themselves. Although the majority held a negative attitude on extreme sports when extreme sports first emerged,...

What comes to mind when you hear the word ‘hero’? Now, when most people hear that word, a variety of different images and concepts come to mind. Superman, Optimus Prime, Wolverine; the list goes on. What if I told you there are a film and...

According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the definition of a hero is “a person admired for achievements and noble qualities.” While this may be true, I don’t believe the definition of what makes someone a hero can be so simply determined. A person’s morals and what...

My greatest hero is my mother. Before her, my entire family was living in the countryside. She moves out to the city when she was only 18. She literally started with nothing. After she met my father, they started to run a clothes shop with...

Andrew Carnegie was quite a huge believer of giving away wealth and prosperity to the people in need throughout the course of their life. From his statement, it is common: the man who dies so rich dies in disgrace. The essay by Carnegie is simply...

Andrew was born in Dunfermline, Scotland on November 25, 1835. He was not wealthy, his parents did sewing work. In 1848 his family moved to America. Carnegie went through many jobs. He was a messenger in a telegraph office, and secretary and telegraph operator of...

Andrew Carnegie is the most outstanding entrepreneur and philanthropist in the American industrialization era, one of the most important leaders of the rapid rise of the steel industry in the United States at the end of the 19th century, and one of the most important...

Andrew Carnegie was not only a steel tycoon but also one of the most influential leaders of his time. Carnegie built the largest steel company in the United States, Carnegie Brothers & Company. He was an American industrialist who had a considerable fortune and was...

Bill Gifford gives account of Chris McCandless’s decision to journey “Into the Wild”, and includes various locations and people he met along the way. After summing up his adventure, Gifford gives justification as to why McCandless was “frightfully unprepared mentally and physically”. He includes McCandless’s...

Elon Reeve Musk, born on the 28 June 1971, is an engineer, industrial designer, and technology entrepreneur. He is a citizen of South Africa, USA, and Canada and is the son of Maye Musk, a model, and Errol Musk, a electromechanical enginee. Musk was a...

Heroes are a constant topic in any given language arts class, considering the fact there are many different types of heroes. Examples of which include, the classic, tragic and epic hero. Each type referring to a different era, style of writing, authors and even characteristics...

They are both spies and fictional literature characters. James Bond is more athletic and skilled fighter compared to Sherlock Holmes, but Sherlock Holmes is more intelligent than James Bond. When it comes to character Sherlock is portrayed to be more outstanding than James Bond. Holmes...

As Katherine Johnson worked to make her unequivocal contributions to America, she also had to be extremely strong in order to battle discrimination and disrespect because she was an African American.  She beat these odds and still earned her place on NASA’s team at a...

For many years tons of people have made a huge difference in this world and they have not gained the recognition they deserve. If you think about it everyone gets their knowledge from something or someone. Everything we discover has already been discovered by our...

Have you ever wanted to learn about the guy who created Mickey Mouse himself? Well, Walter Elias Disney was his name the creator of Disney films. Walt Disney had a very hard childhood with his brother and his sister. Disney is famous for all of...

Sir Timothy John ‘Tim’ Berners-Lee, also known as ‘TimBL,’ is a British computer scientist, the inventor of the World Wide Web. In March 1989, he presented a suggestion for an information management system and successfully implemented the first communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)...

Not many people know who he is, yet we use what he made almost every day: Google, one of the most used websites on the internet. Google is a search engine which, ‘organizes the world’s information and makes it universally accessible and useful for the...

Have you ever known that when Elon Musk in 12 years old, he sold his first software (Blsatar) for about 500$. In 1992, after he studied at Queen’s University. He left Canada to study concurrently in business and physics at the University of Pennsylvania and...

Henry Chang-Yu Lee is my hero. Lee has been doing great work for the forensic department since the year 1975. He is and always has been a hard-working man and that is what I love most about him. Dr. Henry C. Lee has his bachelors...