January 20: Our Hero's

 We all have our heroes in our life whether it be your parents or a doctor. How I define a hero is someone who is willing to sacrifice something important to them for the benefit of someone else. This involves giving up time, energy, knowledge, and even one's life. With this definition we are surrounded by heroes that we often don’t think about. The word hero has taken on this form of someone greater than anyone else, someone who could never possibly make a mistake. Which I don’t think is far or a reasonable belief that we have. I believe this because even the heroes that we as a country recognize have many flaws. I think that the reason that the people of Mexico don’t have some great national hero is because they have many people that played major roles in the fight for their independence but because they are humans they have flaws and made mistakes. If these natural flaws are seen and acknowledged it is hard to see people as heroes.

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  1. Lexie HartnagleJanuary 21, 2022 at 11:28 AM

    Hi Victoria, I really enjoyed your definition of a hero because it opens it up to so many more people. Instead of it being about someone who does something really big that impacts a lot of people it can just be a smaller, but still extremely important action that may only have a big impact on one person. How many people a hero affects doesn't change how important their sacrifice was or the good that they did. I think it could also be an influential outlook because more people could believe they too could be a hero without having to do something groundbreaking.

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  2. Professor StarkFebruary 3, 2022 at 2:21 PM

    Thank you, Victoria, for the post. I like the point made about anybody can be a hero, even a family member. You left me wanting to read more about Mexico and their lack of a hero. Do you believe it is because of flaws the independence leaders may have had or could it be due to how independence was achieved?

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