What makes a hero? Most people say it involves honor, bravery, a willingness to take risks, and put others’ safety and well-being above your own. Can someone be a hero and a law-breaker at the same time? Depending on where you stand on a particular issue, a man involved can ...Read More
What makes a hero? Most people say it involves honor, bravery, a willingness to take risks, and put others’ safety and well-being above your own. Can someone be a hero and a law-breaker at the same time? Depending on where you stand on a particular issue, a man involved can be a terrorist or freedom fighter. Where do you stand? The open-ended nature of this question makes it fodder for any number of different essay angles. As the question of what makes a hero is extremely wide, choose an issue or individual to research and outline for an essay, develop the introduction, body and conclusion, and compare your notes against samples of papers before making a final draft.
Walter Jerry Payton was born on July 25,1954, in Columbia, Mississippi. Walter Payton grew up in Mississippi with his family. He was one of three siblings, two boys and one girl, the children of Peter and Alyne Payton. In his younger years, Payton was never...
Born: January 26, 1892 Atlanta, Texas Died: May 1, 1926 Jacksonville, Florida African American aviator Bessie Coleman was the first African American to earn an international pilot’s license. She dazzled crowds with her stunts at air shows and refused to be slowed by racism (a...
Who was the man that had been the only three-time Royal Rumble winner? Who was the man that had first started off as a referee before becoming a famous wrestler? Who is the man that started the famous chant “What?” That man is none other...
Misty May is a famous beach volleyball player, she has attended many Olympic games for, beach volleyball. Misty May and her teammate Kerri Walsh are considered the greatest beach volleyball team of all time, after they won three straight Olympic medals, in 2004, 2008, and...
The athlete that I am going to write about is Bo Jackson. Bo Jackson is arguably the greatest athlete of all time. I decided to write about Bo Jackson because of all of his great accomplishments, and since he is the only man to be...
Power has many definitions. If we look at the some of the definitions from political science arena there are six definitions of power. First there is a physical force and a capacity for violence, control of the means of force, power is at its primal....
Booker T. Washington was one of the best leader of black community. He felt that blacks could not be a in a position to improve their standing until their communities reached a level of development that made equality undeniable. he had a different opinion about...
Booker T. Washington focused on having education for real life jobs and not asking for equality from the whites. He just focused on getting help from the whites and accepting their place as blacks on earth. WEB Dubois focused on the exact opposite things that...
Oliver Cromwell was born in Huntington on April 25, 1599 to Robert and Elizabeth Cromwell. Although he wasn’t a direct descendant of Henry VIII’s chief minister, Thomas Cromwell, Oliver Cromwell’s great-great-grandfather, Morgan Williams, married Thomas’ sister Katherine in 1497. It was Morgan and Katherine’s children...
Haig was born in a house on Charlotte Square, but it was known as 19 Hope Street, the side street to the south-west. He was not an aristocrat by birth, or landed gentry. His father John Haig was middle class, and as head of the...
Sitting Bull was the Native American chief that the Sioux tribes united in their struggle for survival on the North American Great Plains. Following the discovery of gold in the Black Hills of South Dakota in 1874, the Sioux came into increased conflict with U.S....
Walter Payton was the one of the greatest NFL football players of all time. He was born July 25 1954 in Columbia Mississippi. When he was he was a kid he was in boy scouts, little league, and active in his local church. When he...
Diogenes of Sinope: The dogged Philosopher Within the Greek philosophers, we have many well-known ones, such as Aristotle, Plato, Socrates and so on. Most of these are common knowledge yet many are forgotten by the normal people. One such philosopher is Diogenes, commonly called the...
Batman as a Cultural Icon The superhero has permeated American culture for more than a century. Graphic novels depicting heroes like Superman, Green Lantern, and The Flash grab the imagination, tapping into both the reader’s deep seated longing for the ideal and his fantasies of...
Erma Bombeck was a great and funny woman. She had many ups and downs in her life, but she never let them get to her. She just laughed them off. Erma Louise Bombeck was born February 21, 1927 in Dayton, Ohio. Her mothers name was...
Ann Charters Ginsberg, Allen (3 June 1926-6 Apr. 1997), poet, was born in Newark, New Jersey, the younger son of Louis Ginsberg, a high school English teacher and poet, and Naomi Levy Ginsberg. Ginsberg grew up with his older brother Eugene in a household shadowed...
Horace Mann Horace Mann, born in 1796, was born into a life of poverty. He pursued the career as a lawyer and legislator in Massachusetts, which means he was able to see life from both classes. This is one of his many reasons for taking...
The sun was at the peak of noon with temperatures rising over 25 degrees Celsius. It was Daniel’s 3rd day at Brisbane Grammar School. He sat on the bench in front of the Ladies Toilets waiting for someone with sympathy to sit next to him....
Thomas Jefferson was a man of great moral character, who has been excoriated regularly over the last 30 years by historical revisionists and presentists. Hiscommitment to America and his vast contributions to the framing of society as it is today are overlooked in favor of...