Instant Access To 100,000+ Essays!

My definition of a hero is someone who will sacrifice his/her well being to help someone who is in need of help. A hero is not only someone who saves mass amounts of people or discovers a cure for a life-threatening disease, a person can be a hero by doing something as simple as spending an afternoon working at a soup kitchen or helping a child learn to read. Then that person becomes a hero to the person he/she is helping. That is what a true hero is, someone in your life who has helped to overcome a trial. Heroes create history because they change the way things are by doing the unordinary and helping people. Without heroes, there would be no change in history. Things would never change because no one would change them. For example, if it weren’t for the heroes of revolutionary America, we may still be under British control. It takes real sacrifice to fight for what you believe in. Oscar Schindler is a true hero. He did not only save 1,100 Jews out of 6 million saved. “H