10 percent what makes a hero

Martin Luther King Jr. When you hear these names, what do you think of? To many people, all of these men are heroes and have helped our beloved country become what it is today; Benedict Arnold should be right up there with them. He becomes often associated with the image of a perfect, almighty warrior, able to prove his fame in any situation. However, the foil characters can do more than purely illuminate his positive values.

Take Kevin, who had a disease, from the book Freak the Mighty, he opened up the world to a boy named Maxwell Kane, he was his brains. These people, both fictional and true, are life changing heroes. People are called heroes because they are selfless in doing actions that need to be done. Heroes do. Everyone who reads the story can easily see that he is a strong, powerful hero-type that saves a community from a monster.

However, if Barney Stinson read that same story, he would come up with the same conclusion that I had: Beowulf is a bloodthirsty, vainglorious superhuman who values killing and fame more than the saving of a community or the vanquishing of a terrorizing.

Some people cheer superheroes while the law hunts others as criminals, but both kinds of heroes have the same goals: a better world. So, what makes them different? Superman, Flash, and Captain America are all viewed as great heroes who consistently save lives and there are those such as Batman, Green Arrow, or Daredevil. This latter group is often considered by law enforcement as a threat as bad as the evildoers the heroes battle. Why is this? The answer is rather simple and is found in two concepts: proactive and reactive.

Everyone has a hero that they look up to and sometimes even expect the hero to save them when they are in trouble. That is what heroes are for; the service of the people. Jerusalem Post.

Most of us wonder whether we would ever act heroically, but director Yoav Shamir has actually made a documentary on the subject. Little did director-cinematographer Yoav Shamir dream, when embarking on an Internet campaign to raise funds for his latest movie, that he would hook the biggest fish of all: Oscar-winning filmmaker Michael Moore.

Never before has the acclaimed and controversial Moore agreed to participate in producing a movie which he himself is not directing.

Israeli Films- Review. Like the tortoise in the fable of the tortoise and the hare, Pamplin says, the true hero "goes along meekly and quietly and correctly, and wins out in the end. We need to exemplify those types of situations.

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From ordinary heroes to freedom fighters, primates to humans, behavioral scientists to geneticists, even Ayn Rand to Raelians, Shamir leaves no stone unturned, and along the way unveils the fundamental truths of human nature. Documentary Adventure Biography News. Add content advisory. User reviews 1 Review. Top review. The deepest and most serious comedy on human nature ever. Yoav Shamir tries to find out what makes a hero and if it is possible for him to become one himself. He travels all over the world to find the answer to this question.

He does this by talking to heroes, the family of those heroes and authorities on the subject. The first scenes of the documentary are weird, to say the least. It starts with a short introduction on how he came up with the question in the first place and an interview with his mother, alternated with simple, animated sketches. Especially the way he interact with his mother makes it easy to mistake Shamir for an amateur movie maker.