Wednesday, September 19, 2007

View on heroism

What are the qualities that makes someone a hero and what does that person need to do for people to see him or her as a her are always asked by people. For a long time even in ancient times hero's were viewed as people as who would in the face of danger and adversity or from a position of weakness they would show a great amount of courage and the will of self-sacrifice for the greater good. There have been many book written about heroism all from Beowulf, The Odyssey and other ancient and modern books have as the hero a male person even though as time went by people have changed there view on what a hero is for a long time a her has been view as a male person. As time went by and even now as times are changing people are now viewing that both male and female can become hero's even though for many years men have been view as hero's.

People in old times view women becoming hero's as a joke something that could never happen that only a man could be one. You don't always hear in literature a woman as hero's. I believe that it doesn't matter if the hero is a male or a female as long as they are willing to do whatever is nesasary for the greater good. Hero's even in this day and age can be found anywhere even if they aren't super humans as long as they do whatever to help there fellow man then they can be considered a hero, a hero can be from anyone from a police officer, fire fighter to someone in the army those are true hero's.

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