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Are We All Heroes? Eleana Victoria Sotelo Ortiz 3o Secundaria
6 When someone asks me the definition of a hero, I
Another remarkable person is Valery Legasov. He
do not picture a strong man with an awesome
was the living representation of cleverness when he
cape and tons of superpowers; for me, a hero is
evacuated the Prípiat population after the reactor
the kind of person who is courageous enough to do
explosion in Chernobyl. As he discovered the issue
something helpful for others even though he would
with the nuclear reactor, he tried to mitigate the
not get anything back. Based on this, not everyone
consequences of the detonation and exposed the
can
negligence
be
a
hero,
but
they
can
come
from
the
government.
He
saved
an
immeasurable amount of lives, not only around the
certain features, yet nowadays, there is a vast
Soviet Union, but all over Europe.
variety in everyday heroes so that anyone who supports the others can be considered one.
With these two examples, we can conclude there is not only one type of everyday hero. The diversity of
James C. Harrison is one of the kindest and
everyday heroes stay on the variety of their
interesting persons I have ever researched about.
actions, yet, they all have something in common:
He is a blood donor who has saved more than two
their unstoppable determination to help. Remember
million
without
that you can be one of them, you just have to bring
expecting anything in return because of his blood
out all your qualities, and try to do something for a
which includes strong and strange RhD antibodies.
cause that you believe in.
babies
and
pregnant
women
He is so heroic that he did not stop doing it even when he knew it was risky; donors are supposed to donate until they are sixty-five while Harrison did it at his eighty-one years old. Definitely, not everyone has gold blood, but the importance of his story remains on his determination to save human lives even before he was conscious of the awesomeness of his blood. 94
of
everywhere. It is a fact that you would need
