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 What is a Hero?


 * I think a hero is someone who goes out of their way to help someone unselfishly. I also think that they had to make a positive impact on someone's life. **

1) I think that a hero is someone who goes out of their way to help someone unselfishly. I also think that they had to make a positive impact on someone's life. According to my definition of a hero, Abraham Lincoln is a hero. He was the sixteenth president of the United States; he was the president during the Civil War, in 1861-1865. He led our country through the one of the hardest times.  2) I find him to be a hero because he helped all of the slaves in the South. He was trying to stop slavery. ** He felt that it was not fair to have other people as slaves. **I think that this is important because if Abe Lincoln had not been around then there is a good chance that slavery would still be around today. ** I say this because in January of 1837, the House of Representatives agreed that certain states have right to have slavery. The score was 77 to 6. Abraham Lincoln was one of the only six people that voted against it. ** http://media.graniteschools.org/Curriculum/mt_rush/lincoln.htm

3) Like I said before I think that a hero is someone who goes out of their way to help someone unselfishly. I also think that they had to make a positive impact on someone's life. Abraham Lincoln went out of his own way to try and help all of the slaves become free. He was not just helping one person but a bunch of people and by doing this he made a positive impact on their lives. When Abraham Lincoln decided to run president, he was deciding to make a difference. When he was making the choice to vote for no slavery in any states, going against all of the seventy seven other people that voted for slavery in some states. He was one of the six that decided that slavery was not right. He wanted to make a difference; he wanted everybody to be equal. He saw that there was no need to have people working for other people for nothing.  3) What makes your person a hero--you must prove that your person meets the criteria of your own personal definition (this is the meat of your wiki page and your submission to the My Hero website-your looking at a good four paragraphs here--focus on that spark, that moment the person decided to be heroic or do heroic acts

4) President Lincoln left an amazing legacy behind. He left something that will never be forgotten. He is known for being the President that led out country through the Civil War. 4) What is the person's legacy?

5) If Abraham Lincoln was to give advice for today’s youth, he would definitely say that kids should not do what everybody else is doing. 5) What advice would they have for today’s youth?

[|Abraham Lincoln]