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Hero: Someone who helps other people and knows they will get nothing in return.

A hero can be anyone. Big or little, young or old, or man or woman. A hero can "be the change that he/she wants to see in the world." A hero can be these because anyone that wants to do something in this world can do it if they put there mind to it. My hero is Ulysses S. Grant. I chose him because he was a general in Civil War and the 18th and 19th President of the United States. He lead the soldiers of the war to victory and made the US a better place. In this essay i will prove that Ulysses S. Grant was a hero because he was someone who helped other people and knew he wouldn't get something in return.

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Ulysses S. Grant was born in 1822 and died in 1885. He was a general in the Union Army from 1864 to 1869. Then he was a president from 1869 to 1877. He was born in Point Pleasant Ohio. He was trying to help out America as a general and as the president. He wanted to help out in the war because he wanted to keep America together in tough times in all of the wars that went on. His actions were important because he helped people get an end to the wars and if he didn't do that then the outcome of the war would be different.

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The first heroic thing he did was when he was a general in the Union Army and captured two major Confederate fortresses. These fortresses were Fort Henry and Fort Donelson. When he captured these forts he had help from Andrew H. Foote and his navy gunboats. These forts were located on the Tennessee River (Fort Henry) and on the Cumberland River (Fort Donelson). This impacted the war by helping the Union find an end to the Civil War. Ulysses was the type of guy who wouldn't give up. If both sides considered to be beaten then he would say: " In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins."

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The second heroic thing he did was when he implements his grand strategy in taking Vicksburg. This meets my definition by when he helped people find a way to take Vicksburg. The Confederate army was under command by John C. Pemberton. Ulysses also had help from the United States Navy. He tried to capture the fort in Vicksburg, Mississippi which was on the Mississippi River. This also helped the Union find an end to the war which also helped Americans. In this capture he couldn't turn back, they had push forward and he would say " If you see the President, tell him from me that whatever happens there will be no turning back."

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People who didn't think he was a hero would be the Southern Americans who wanted to keep slavery. On the other hand Ulysses wanted to get rid of slavery. So the southerns where the people who didn't think he was a hero. The southerns wanted to keep slavery and Ulysses didn't want it, so they ended up fighting in the Civil War. They tried to kill him because he was on the other side of the conflict. He used his heroic traits to survive the war and bring an end to the war.

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Ulysses' actions benefited the future because he let blacks vote and with out them voting then we might not get a reasonable answer for what ever the problem is. He also created Black Friday when two men were going to steal all the gold. Ulysses stopped them by selling 4 million dollars in gold ruining their plan. This made the banks almost go bankrupt and created black Friday. Of all of the things he did he made America a better place helping every as a general and as the President of the United States of America.

One problem in the 21st century is that there are alot of people in debt. Some advice that he would give is to try to conserve as much money as possible not buy any thing on Black Friday even though it has great deals. Since he created Black Friday he would know how to spend money wisely. Also kids love to spend money on toys and things they dont need so he would say not to spend money on the very first thing you see witch would help out the parents that might be in alot of debt.