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My Hero

A hero to me is a person who will help save the world and/or someone else. A person who will be themselves and act in a way that they think is right to save the world and someone you can look up too. A hero is someone who does't have to succeed to make a difference, but to try and show that their hardwork can lead to something right. A person who is brave and inspirational for others to make a difference.

1)Intro to your 19th Century hero

2)Put hero's life into perspective--when did they live, where, who were they trying to help, why, how, why was this important?
 * was born on May 9 1800
 * died December 2 1859 ( was hung)
 * was born in ohio --- --- born in torrington connecticut
 * He was trying to help the slaves. He was trying to free them and bring them to the north. he wanted to kind of sneak them away from their owners and bring them back without anyone noticing. he did this because there was an argument going on.the united states was expanding westward and there was a problem. The north didn't have slaves but the south did. the south believed that having slaves was the right thing to do. The north didn't want to have anymore land to be slaves.
 * Why he did this was because he wanted to help the slaves. he thought slavery was wrong and he wanted to help them and make them free so that when they did expand, slavery wouldn't be expanding even more to the west. he thought that there were enough slavery going on.
 * how he did this?first, he killed five men who thought that slavery was right.
 * then, in october 16 b1859 in harpers ferry virginia he planned on taking the slaves in that region and arm them, give them weapons and lead them in rebellion
 * he did it but was soon captured and hung
 * message from god to help them

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
 * 1) he is my hero because he tryed bhelping to save the slaves. He tried saving the world i guess you can say by tryibng not to have war and stop slavery so that non one else would have to die, the slaves.
 * 2) he did make a difference because he tried to make a ifference by letting the slave be free and he wanted to help people in need. Doing these actions, he kind of did succeed because he did arm the slaves but it didn't last very long and died fr what he believed in and it made a difference because o thers can look up to him and see, OH, he trying helping these poeople, his idea didn't work but MAYBE, he could try and do this.....
 * 3) he was brave knowing that he is goinmg against the south's beliefs but still crossing the line and trying to help them and get them to save them. He might have inspired others to stop the nonsense of slavery and help others who are like him on the inside. he show3ed a difference is needed in the world today.

4)What is the person's legacy? His legacy is that he was a kind helpful person that cared for others of what they looked like on the inside and not the out. He led others to believe that beating people for what they look like is wrong.

5)What advice would they have for todays youth? i think he would have a lot of advice for today's youth. There has been racial issues and bullying and i think that if he did come back here and talked to us he would talk about how it isn't fair to bully people because they look different. He would maybe talk about how lucky we are today to be able to have people mixed and have people treated equally. HE would tell us that everyone's skin color changes in the sun, you get tanner or redder, so all because someone has darker skin doesn't mean they are someone different on the outside and if you really have a problem with something, go for what you believe in, but the right thing to do is to get away from fighting and bullying.

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Here is my actual essay on John Brown Presentation set-up