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.
Francisco Pizarro was born around 1474 in Trujillo, Spain. Pizarro’s parents were Captain Gonzalo Pizarro and Francisca González. His father was a poor farmer and his mother was of humble heritage. For most of his childhood he grew up herding his father’s pigs. In 1510,...
Annie Oakley was born in 1860 in Darke County, Ohio. Her real name was Phoebe Ann Mosey. When she was six years old, her father died of pneumonia. After her dad died her family became very poor and she did not attend school. When she...
Elbert F. Cox was born in the segregated school system and his father was and school principal and graduated from Evansville college and worked at Indiana University. The Cox family had great respect for learning, and when cox was outstanding at mathematics and physics and...
Christopher Skase was a businessman born in Melbourne in 1948, and died in 2001. Throughout his life he was married twice and had one step daughter. His career stated as a stockbroker, than a finance journalist. However, his business career began when he bought a...
Jomo Kenyatta, also known as Kamau Ngengi, was a Kenyan statesman and nationalist. He was also Kenya’s prime minister and first president. He played a big role in the development of African nationalism in East Africa. Jomo Kenyatta was born on October 20, 1891 in...
On March 10, 1867, Lillian Wald was born into a German-Jewish middle-class family in Cincinnati, Ohio. She resided with her family in Ohio until 1878 when she moved with her family to Rochester, New York for her father’s career as an optics dealer. Her family...
One of the most skillful speakers and successful politicians of his time, Huey Long was a political leader. Long was elected governor of Louisiana and then a U.S. senator, if he hadn’t been assassinated, he might have had a chance to take Franklin D. Roosevelt’s...
Robert Stroud, the infamously named “Birdman of Alcatraz” was probably the island’s most famous prisoner. Despite the nickname, Stroud had never owned any birds whilst serving time in Alcatraz. In 1909, Stroud was convicted of manslaughter after he had brutally murdered a man who refused...
German businessman Oskar Schindler became an unusual hero when he saved hundreds of Jews in Poland and Czechoslovakia from death at the hands of the Nazis during World War II (1939–45). By employing them in his factory, Schindler protected them from the wrath of the...
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...