Hero: this paper is about the meaning of a hero and why you shoud and shouldn't admire someone. It also decribes a black female leader to emulate.

Essay by flawless15University, Master'sA+, February 2004

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Hero?

Many people have heroic qualities but being a hero and having heroic qualities are completely different. No one can learn how to be a hero and no one can teach it. A hero should know how to decide what is right, what is wrong, and what to stand for. A hero is someone that you see as being higher than you in strength, greatness and confidence. You wish someday that you could be just like them. And when you get to their point of greatness you long to go higher. You look past the fame and the media to what is inside. No one else may see it but you know that it is there, greater than anything. They may not think of themselves as heroes or great, but to you they are. You see them as perfect through their bad times and good. You wish someday, somehow, if only for a minute, you could be as great as them.

A hero gives you something to live up to. But a hero is not perfect and therefore most always will do something that knocks them down a notch in your eyes. I thought long and hard about who my hero should be. There are plenty of people who I admire, but I admire them for all the wrong reasons. There are plenty of people who I wish I could be like, but once again I want to be like them for all the wrong reasons. To me, a hero is unrealistic. I strongly believe that the only hero one has is the one they find in themselves. I've never depended on anyone and never wanted to. I've never looked at someone and could truly say that I wanted to be like them in every aspect. I set goals for...