Modern Heroes

                Heroes are people who are admired for their distinguished courage, intelligence, and cunning. Not only are they admired for these qualities, they can be looked up to for them. Heroes also usually fight for a group or a cause to better or promote a common-good. I personally think that heroes are people that fight for something, no matter what the consequences is for them. For example, I find that Martin Luther King Jr. is a hero.  King fought, literally to the death, for a cause that was bigger than just him. With almost an entire country against him he found his beliefs to be evident and fought for them with vigor. This eventually led to bettering America’s civil laws which led to simple human rights that were not before present. He, and others like him, are heroes.

Yet, the road to becoming a hero can also be paved with other methods at hand. People such as Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs, I would also consider heroes. Around the mid-1970s these men, and others, paved the path for modern technology with their own hands. They started by doing things such as building and selling computers from their garage, and now have invented half of the things you use on a daily basis.

Heroes are normally defined for their strength, fighting skills, or things along the physical line of traits. Though, modern times show that the denotation has evolved into something that can encompass both the heroes of the past, and the activists, and scientists who are shaping our world today.

- Connor Elsea