After she saw India’s poor and had an epiphany, Mother Teresa heroically devoted her life to serving the needy. As she opened many clinics and shelters, Mother Teresa demonstrated that she had the capacity to serve. She had a moral objective and brought “solar light” into the world. According to Joseph Campbell, these characteristics would contribute to her achieving the status of a hero.…
Louie Zamperini, an olympic runner, WW2 officer, and a survivor. Louie ran in the 1936 Olympic games in Germany. Not doing as well as he expected, Louie planned to race again in 1940, but his dreams were displaced with the start of WW2. Louie then joined the air force and was later a castaway due to the plane crashing over sea. The book Unbroken, written by Laura Hillenbrand, focuses on the strong character traits of Zamperini such as his resourcefulness and determination.…
Unbroken is about Louie Zamperini, an olympian who has to join to join the army and fight in world war 2. Louie later gets captured by the Japanese and gets abused in the POW camps for two and a half years. This book is broken into five parts and the part one is about Louie early childhood. “At five, he started smoking, picking up cigarette butts while walking to kindergarten.” Louie childhood was rough, he was know for making trouble and always getting in fights with his bullies. Louie was the middle child and his mother loved Louie’s older brother Pete so this fueled Louie’s anger even more. Louie always got compared to Pete and Louie hated that. “Pete had big plans for Louie.” Pete saw the potential in Louie, he was the first one to believe…
“A lifetime of glory is worth a moment of pain.” (Hillenbrand p.34) Louie Zamperini was a young and rising track star. He was dreaming about the Olympics,but that didn’t go as planned. It is 1943 in May Louie Zamperini’s plane had crashed in the pacific ocean during WW||. Ahead was thousands of miles of ocean with attacking sharks,thirst,and starvation/. He was caught by someone not very pleasant. But do it go away? Find out by reading unbroken By:Laura Hillenbrand. Unbroken has 298 fascinating pages that is a biography written in third [erso. Unbroken is about Louie’s interesting and sacrificing life.…
Louie Zamperini grew up as a troublemaker. He would steal food, and dreaming of running away from home. His older brother Pete was the one who turned his love from running from trouble into running in track. His brother helped him find his passion and love for running. In high school Louie broke all of the running records and he went to the Germany Olympics for running.…
In Unbroken, Louie’s dignity is tested while he is an American POW. For example, “A door slammed, a lock turned...The floor was strewn with gravel, dirt, and maggots, and the room hummed with flies and mosquitoes, already swarming on him.” From this, it can be inferred that Louie is getting his dignity taken away from him. Being locked in a tiny, dark cell with nothing…
Unsung hero, Mary Jo Vogel of Colton, South Dakota received a Spirit of the Community award on October 9, 2016. Mary Jo, grandmother to 18, has worked hard, served the community, and is a model citizen. Mary Jo Vogel, 74, aspired to be a nurse since she was a young girl. At a time when women had little opportunities, Vogel, then Zitka, informed her high school guidance counselor she wanted to be a nurse. Her counselor informed her she did not have the grades and would never become a nurse. Although she struggled through her courses in high school, Zitka was determined accomplish her goal. She graduated Presentation School of Nursing highest in the class.…
Heroic action involves being engaged in an activity voluntarily, taking risks, and conducting in service to one or more people. However, in the article, ¨Lucky Louie Zamperini” by Martin Jacobs, most of the activity by Louie did not display him as a hero based on the mentioned definition of heroic action. The basis behind this is due to the instances of escaping death, rather than saving one’s life. Nevertheless, the article does signify heroism towards Louie after informing the reader about Zamperini’s involvement in inspiring people. An example of this is in quote, “Today, Zamperini travels the world as an inspirational speaker.”…
Louie is extremely confident and has an excellent determination to survive and to keep going on, even know it was difficult and hard. One important event about Louie’s life, was when Louie went to the Olympics to race. Another enormous thing that happened in his life, was when he crashed in the ocean and had to spend many weeks on a small raft, with 3 people in it. In the book Unbroken, the author states that even know Louie got through the POW camp with the bird beating on him constantly, He still has nightmares about the bird, and can’t get him out of his head. With so much stress on him, he starts drinking alcohol to try to forget about the bird.…
The most defining characteristics of Louie Zamperini, from the book Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, are resilient and defiant. When Louie was a kid, he was always getting into trouble, but he was resilient so he started running and was a troublemaker no more. Louie also had a long record of defiance from stealing food to talking at the prison camps, which doesn't seem like much, but every act of defiance was his way of fighting the war. Throughout his life, Louie Zamperini had the chance to break, to die, but through his resilience and defiance, he was…
Clara Barton, born in Massachusetts in 1821, influenced individuals worldwide. She was an educator and nurse who continually helped children and patients. While in Europe, Clara Barton worked with The International Red Cross. The experience of aiding injured individuals in Europe inspired Clara Barton to begin her own association. When she returned to America, Clara Barton visited President Rutherford B. Hayes to have her treaty approved. However, he declined this appeal. Even though there was much opposition, even from the president, the treaty was signed in 1881. With that, Clara Barton formed the organization notably known as, The American Red Cross. For 23 years, until 1904, she led this association. As the leader of The American…
Unbroken shows the endurance of Louie Zamperini as he struggles as a P.O.W. but also his will to live. He wishes to run once more, and to see his mother and taste her cooking. These things drive Louie’s fight for survival and freedom.…
Miné is fighting back and trying to be a someone in this country even with the cultural barriers that were being put up. “She took a chance by entering a Berkeley art contest through the mail, and she won. As a result, across the country, the editors of New York’s Fortune magazine saw some of Miné’s artwork.” Miné was not going to tolerate being in a camp all her life so she chose to enter a national contest, and she was nationally recognized. In turn she was given many job opportunities that she was allowed out of her camp for. The Bird was a guard who would beat the prisoners tenfold than any other guards. There was numerous times that the bird beat Louie to unconsciousness and gave him impossible tasks that beating was the punishment for failure. “The conspirators discussed who would join the group that would capture the bird and throw him to his death” The POWs decided to attempt to kill the bird so that they wouldn’t be beaten as much and that they would be safer. The POWs wouldn’t get enough food to maintain good health so they had to take measures into their own hands. “Sometimes darting away to steal vegetables from fields when Ogawa’s back was turned.” The Japanese-American internees and the POWs may have been dehumanized and beaten, but they did not lose hope. The people kept fighting and tried stop this…
Courage can be defined as the quality of mind or spirit that enables a person to face difficulties without fear. Few people understand courage until put into a situation requiring service above self. On the other hand, for veterans, courage plays an important role everyday while deployed. It takes a lot of a person to leave home and say goodbye to loved ones. Even more courage is required to defend and risk death or injury for a greater cause. Courage is the drive that thrusts veterans through their difficult journeys. Imagine sleeping in tents every night, but not being able to sleep thinking, “Will I survive tomorrow?” Furthermore, courage motivates veterans to keep trying, no matter what. Veterans share an assortment of fears, from getting shot to being disabled. Veterans have to use courage to mask that fear time after time, even when they thought they had none left. When looking in a dictionary, having courage seems pretty easy, however, when times require true sacrifice, one’s reaction displays the true character of an individual. Behind the stories of our United States veterans, courage defines the greatness of our country.…
The bravery and hope signified by the bird is evident because it shows up in all climates, even in the storms. This shows that hope will always appear, no matter how much danger or despair torments the human spirit.…