So what exactly is it that makes someone a hero in the modern era? For some it might not take a whole lot. Being a good father or mother to a child could be all a person needs to do be a hero in someone’s eyes. Today’s hero is created just as much out of necessity as feat. People need heroes to give hope. On September 11, 2001, with the United States in shock and awe of what had just taken place, television stations and newspapers showed shots of the brave men and women working around the clock to help find any survivors in the wreckage of the twin towers. These people were heroes in the minds of American viewers and rightfully so. People needed to see these visions to help deal

The main difference seen in the role of a hero over a period time is simple. In ancient times, men were rewarded for mainly courage on a battlefield or long journeys while today’s hero can be an every day man or woman with a normal job and a normal-sized house and family. The word survival works one in one with the word hero. With the change in technology over time, the way people survive changed. In ancient times people who were the best survivors, men with strength and courage, were heroes. They were the most powerful and people looked up to them because of that. Today power and survival are based upon money. Just because someone has money (power) does not make him or her heroic in today’s standards. The normal man can be a hero, even if it’s just for one day.

with the hard times facing their friends, family and countrymen. Stories of firefighters who went back time after time, risking their lives for others gave the prototypical look at what a hero should be like. Red cross workers at a disaster site, doctors in the emergency room, and sometimes even sports start can also be considered heroes in the modern American culture. People do not have to be famed war veterans to have a

Then comes into the debate men like Saddam Hussein or Osama Bin Laden. To their supporters they are heroes, but to Americans they are considered two of the most

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