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Someone you look up to, someone you trust who would sacrificed there life or put there life in danger to save someone else. Or used skills they have learned to help others. Those are the kinds of people that make a difference in the world. Someone I feel that fits that description is Mary Edwards Walker. She fought for women suffrage which means the right to vote. She also offered her services as a surgeon or doctor to the Union army for the civil war. She saver many lives and that is why I chose her to be my hero. I could look up to her and trust her. She used the skills she learned to save lives of injured solders. She even got a metal for her serves; she is clearly a hero in my eyes. [] []

She lived from November 26, 1832 to February 21, 1919.She was born and died in a town of Oswego, New York. Mary was fighting for women and there rights to ware men’s clothing. There rights to vote in the women’s suffrage movement. She fought for women in general and she became the fist woman surgeon in the U.S. army and was awarded a metal for her serves, the Congressional Metal of Honor. This was important because she stood up for what she believed in and with out her and enough people like her women today might not have the rights we do now, we could stile be viewed as lesser and not equal to men. [] She took interest in her father’s metical books and after many years of schooling Mary became a surgeon in the civil war. She saved a numerous number of lives and preformed many operations. This act meets my definition of what it means to be a hero by her using the skills she learned to better others and she is caring and companionate. She fights for her country and what she believes in. She studied and when to collage for many years to obtain the knowledge she has to save people who are injured. Clearly the impact it has on people's lives is the fact that she saved many and the can come back to there families and friends because of her. [] Primary Source(s) Her father disliked women’s clothing and encouraged Mary and her sisters to ware men’s cloths and supported women’s rights and wanted them to have an equal education. Mary fought her self for these rights. This fits my definition because she was not selfish in the heroic acts she preformed and she changed everyone lives and help women around the world, she is truly a hero. The men were outraged by a woman doing such a thing. She was actually arrested for "impersonating a man.” She still fought and she was in poverty and died fighting for what she thought was right. After her death rights for women changed and it was because of her and many others who know what was right, women are now equal. [] Primary Source(s) Mary Walker's legacy was that she fought for women’s rights, like the clothing, equal education and the right to vote. She devoted her life to being a surgeon and was capture once as a prisoner but stile she believed and fought and she makes a difference in all are lives. She shows young women that you can make a difference it doesn't matter what the men say. She made a difference in her life that effects us greatly today and I'm grateful to her for the equal rights thing, because I'm a girl and I'm glad to be equal to boys and I owe some of it to her she is a great inspiration and I'm happy to call her my hero.

If your person was alive today what advice would they have for you on how to deal with the problem? We stile have an issue today that was also one back then as well. The issue of are health and the tobacco industries. Mary thought it brought insanity and of course poor health. I'm sure she would probably say something like it makes you crazy, leads to bad health and complications; it can also kill you over time. So why do it? She would not think you should Mary would say to not do it unless you have no disregarded for your own life.