My Hero Research Paper

Tom Brady was born on August 3, 1977. When Tom hit high school, he excelled in the sports football and baseball. After Tom graduated in the year 1995, he decided to pass up the opportunity to go straight to the professional level and play football and attend Michigan University and play for their football team and get an education. In Brady’s first two years of college he spent minimal time on the football field. During his junior season, Tom threw for over 2,500 yards on 350 attempts. The following year Tom helped his team to an Orange Bowl victory. When Tom graduated from the University of Michigan, he was drafted in the sixth round of the 2000 NFL draft. In Tom’s rookie season he served as a full time backup and only played in one game in the

Simone’s struggles started early in her childhood. Her mother was a drug and alcohol abuser; she did not even know her dad. Her grandparents took her in, and she knew them as Mom and Dad ever since then. Having a strong relationship with her mom has been a very positive thing in Simone’s life. Who knows what would have happened if she did not have a support system as well as she does now?

Debi Mazar is an actress who stated, “A hero is somebody who is selfless, who is generous in spirit, who just tried to give back as much as possible and help people. A hero to me is someone who saves people and who really, deeply cares.” Heroes are relevant to everyone, because at some point, everyone has had a hero. Sadly, today’s society degrades the meaning of the word “hero”. Heroes are an important aspect of life, but famous people are not always heroes. Scott LaBarge’s essay “Heroes: Why Heroes are Important” is well written because he effectively uses pathos, logos, and karios when explaining heroes to his audience.

Everybody has challenges, everyone has some obstacles in their life. Some are bad, some are little and then there's some like Cancer. I can provide some devastating examples of a life obstacle like cancer.

Judy Brady’s “I Want A Wife” is a revolutionary piece that attempted to reveal the unequal roles men and women held in society. She goes through her prose by listing all the responsibilities her wife must have and the ways to make her happy. Brady’s whole article is satirizing these roles and is, in general, very sarcastic in her tone. She mocks a society that has given women an impossible standard and she starts with the deprivation of her education then continues with the role her wife should play in domestic ways, and then finishes with the expectations the sexual aspects of their relationship. I believe that Brady’s underlying message was and still is important for the development of equality in our nation.

In the 80’s and 90’s the san francisco 49ers won a total of five super bowls under Joe montana and steve young. Over the span of two decades this team dominated its competition from montana to young, there seemed to be a steady rate of success through the years. This success caught the attention of a young boy by the name of Tom Brady who idolized the legendary Joe Montana and inspired him to become the quarterback he is today. But just as montana was replaced by a younger Steve Young we are faced with the same predicament in the aging Brady and the younger, fresher Garoppolo.

Peyton Manning’s forehead isn’t the only thing that’s big in his life. Peyton Manning has been a huge football star and continues his legacy even after retiring. In the Leaving a Legacy unit, many social and historical movements, as well as people and their legacies have been explored. Although he retired, Peyton Manning’s legacy is still seen today.

My personal Michigan hero is my seventh grade social studies teacher, Ms. Dokter. Though I am not a personal friend of hers, per say, she had a tremendous impact on my life. She made me laugh, told me that I could do whatever I put my mind to, and was an amazing educator.

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot has so far been very interesting to me. Even though I do not read often, the first fourteen chapters of this book have really made me want to know more. Rebecca Skloot has actually won many awards for the writing of this book. In 2010 she won the Chicago Tribune Heartland prize for nonfiction, the 2010 Wellcome Trust Book Prize, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Award for Excellence in Science Writing. The awards continued to come in 2011 when Rebecca Skloot won the 2011 Audie Award for best Non-Fiction Audiobook, and a Medical Journalists’ Association Open Book Award. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks was actually featured on over 60 of the critics’ best of the year lists. I think for this being her first book and winning all of those awards is really fascinating and that she accomplished something really big.

Peyton Manning has just recently announced his retirement from the NFL. Everyone is sad to see this football star go, and we saw it fit to honor his leave with a ranking of his best achievements. In honor of this great footballer’s career, we have finally come to present you with his top six career highlights!

By the time he died of cancer in 1970, after one season in Washington during which he transformed the Redskins into winners, Vince Lombardi had become a mythic character who transcended sport, and his legend has only grown in the decades since. Many now turn to Lombardi in search of characteristics that they fear have been irretrievably lost, the old fashioned virtues of discipline, obedience, loyalty, character, and teamwork. To others he symbolizes something less romantic: modern society's obsession with winning and superficial success. In When Pride Still Mattered, Maraniss renders Lombardi as flawed and driven yet ultimately misunderstood, a heroic figure who was more complex and authentic than the stereotypical images of him celebrated

Cold Mountain is a book written by Charles Frazier in 1997. The book starts off as Inman( the main charter) is in a hospital in Virginia healing from his injuries. He is depressed by what he saw while fighting in the army wants to see Ada, the woman he loves. One day send a letter to Ada that he is coming back home. That night, he leaves to go back to North Carolina. Inman and Ada knew each other for a little time before Inman left for the war. His hope of seeing Ada again makes Inman desert the army and go on his back.

Troin Bellisario, from Pretty Little Liars is such a great leader, because she is integrity, self-assured, and last but not least commitment. She has motivated many people to never give up on their dreams.

Would the statement, all heroes and heroines are originated from the same basis be true? Most likely, ones favorite hero novel would follow the hero’s journey which is the cycle of the hero’s adventure involving different archetypes. A hero novel does not necessarily have to involve supernatural powers and the hero does not necessarily have to save the world; a hero can go through the hero’s journey to save one person or to reveal a hidden truth. If a story follows the hero’s journey, it includes the three categories of the archetypes—character, place, event. Midwinterblood written by Marcus Sedgwick is one example of a novel that fits into the hero’s journey archetype.

A hero is “Any person admired for qualities or achievements and regarded as an ideal or model” (“Hero”). When someone hears the word ‘hero’, they most likely think of firefighters, police officers, or soldier. However, the person who comes to my mind when I think of a hero is my mother, Becky Harper. She goes above and beyond each day, displaying characteristics of a hero. My mother can brighten up anyone’s day simply with the beautiful smile that is always on her face.