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Final Essay- KatieD. Movie Storyboard- KatieD My definition of a hero is someone who inspires you to do something. A hero to me needs to posess the characteristic of leadership and needed that quality to have done something in the 19th century that helped accomplished a goal that could help the centuries to follow after. Abraham Lincoln-
 * During the civil war, lincoln was a commmander in cheif
 * He thought that he could make a change by abolishing slavery in America


 * Paragraph 1--Intro to your 19th Century Hero **


 * 1) __Start with personal hero sentence__- My definition of a hero is someone who inspires you to do something. A hero to me needs to posess the characteristic of leadership and needed that quality to have done something in the 19th century that helped accomplished a goal that could help the centuries to follow after.
 * 2) __Explain__- People who inspire other people to do things are known as heroes because imagine if Rosa Parks hadnt stood up for her rights. If she hadnt done that, there might still be segragation because she started a chain reaction so when one person stood up for something, many others followed.
 * 3) __Name of your hero__- My heros name is President Abraham Lincoln.
 * 4) __Summary of why they are a hero-__ He is a hero in my view because President Lincoln was and important part in stopping slavery. During the civil war, Lincoln was a Commander in Cheif.
 * 5) __Thesis "In this essay I will prove that X was a hero because s/he (fill in with your definition of a hero)__.- In this essay I can prove that President Abraham Lincoln was a hero because he sacraficed his life to fight for the rights of slaves by fighting against the South.


 * Paragraph 2 -- **** Put hero's life into perspective--when did they live, where, who were they trying to help, why, how, why was this important? **

Lincoln lived for 56 years and was elected President in 1860. He died five years later. Lincoln was born in 1809 in Hardin County, Kentucky then later moved to several places President Abraham Lincoln took pride in fighting to free slaves because he thought that he could make the change and he inspired many others to fight in the civil war because no person shpuld be treated the way slaves were just because of their skin color or race. Lincoln thought that no one should be treated the way slaves were. Every day they had to follow their owners orders while the owner just sat there ordering them around. Today, many of us would think that thats a horrible way to treat people while others would love to sit around and have other people do the work that was meant for them to do. His actions were very important because he gave many people lives by abolishing slavery and he inspired more and more people to open there eyes and relize that slavery is a very bad way to treat someone just because of their color or race.
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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-you’re looking at a good two to three paragraphs here--focus on that spark, that moment the person decided to be heroic or do heroic acts **
 * Paragraph 3 & 4-- **** What makes your person a hero?

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
 * 1) __First action/or type of activities you are going to focus on__-
 * 2) __How does it meet your definition?__
 * 3) __Detail__
 * 4) __DetailFirst action/or type of activities you are going to focus on__
 * 5) __Detail__
 * 6) __What impact did the above have on people’s lives?__
 * 7) __Quote__
 * __Secondary Source(s)__ - []
 * __Primary Source(s)__
 * 1) __How does it meet your definition?__ - This event meets my definition because during this Lincoln stated how he could lead the U.S. to a healthy and safer future.
 * 2) __Detail__ - Yes by fighting this war many lives were being lost, but it was worth fighting for what they believed in.
 * 3) __DetailSecond action/or type of activity you are going to focus on__ - During the speech, Lincoln never talked about sides.
 * 4) __Detail__ - He spoke of the sacrifices of __our__ nation and never of the enemy. He spokeof retaliation. Both sides sacrificed their men to fight for what they believed in.
 * 5) __What impact did the above have on people’s lives?__ - That had made all the difference. Fighting for your beliefs had saved many thanks to Lincoln and the others he inspired
 * 6) __Quote__ -
 * "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. **
 * "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. **
 * __Secondary Source(s)__ - []
 * __Primary Source(s)__


 * Paragraph 5-- ** **The other side of the story**


 * 1) __Who would have not thought your person was not a hero?__- Many people from the South might not have thought of Lincoln to be a hero. They were siding with slavery while the North and Lincoln were siding against slavery.
 * 2) __What did they do?__- Lincoln could have been the good guy to people because he fought to give slaves equal rights to them. He also could have been the bad guy because Lincoln was taking away the slaves that many people relied on to do most of their work.
 * 3) __How did they try to stop your hero?__- In order to stop the North from suceeding in abolishing slavery, the North and South fought over. This war was called the Civil War.
 * 4) __How did you hero avoid being squished?__- Lincoln was able to avoid being squished because he was able to lead people and inspire others to help because it only took that one person to make a huge difference to many people who were suffering of slavery.


 * __Secondary Source (s)__ - []
 * __Primary Source (s)__ - " As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master."

A legacy is something you leave behind that will benefit others-perhaps those yet unborn. How did the person’s actions benefit all those who came after them.This is your conclusion based on your research. It needs to reflect your research and not be an "off the street" answer.
 * Paragraph 6-- **** What is the person's legacy? **

Identify a 21st century problem. If your person was alive today what advice would they have for you on how to deal with the problem. This is your conclusion based on your research. It needs to reflect your research and not be an "off the street" answer.
 * Paragraph 7-- **** What advice would they have for today’s youth for dealing with a current issue? **