Prompt 2

Think carefully about the issue presented in the following excerpt and the assignment below.

Heroes may seem old-fashioned today. Many people are cynical and seem to enjoy
discrediting role models more than creating new ones or cherishing those they already have.
Some people, moreover, object to the very idea of heroes, arguing that we should not exalt
individuals who, after all, are only flesh and blood, just like the rest of us. But we desperately
need heroes—to teach us, to captivate us through their words and deeds, to inspire us to
greatness.

Adapted from Psychology Today, "How To Be Great! What Does It Take To Be A Hero?"

Assignment:

Is there a value in celebrating certain individuals as heroes? Plan and write an essay in which
you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and
examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.

In the childhood, children usually considered some popular cartoons as heroes because usually
those heroes inspired them courage and greatness. However, in adulthood this idea changes
because senior people consider the most outstanding militaries as heroes because their
military acts in battle.

I consider that instead to find heroes, people should try to identify some people as reference
in order to copy their values, however, the principal question to answer is who should be
considered as a reference? I opine that a reference may be anybody who has great values,
achieved important goals and most important a person who want to share his knowledge and
experience with others, for example, I consider that a good reference may be a great athlete, a
scientist or a very close relative.

I think that the main difference between heroes and references is that heroes are idolatrized
and project the idea that there are unreachable, and references are considered reachable and
they usually exhort the rest to it.