Greek Heroes, History Heroes, & Today's Heroes!

What is a hero?
http://www.raproject.org/blog/entry/what-really-is-a-hero-anyway

Heroes are people who transform compassion (a personal virtue) into heroic action (a civic virtue). In doing so, they put their best selves forward in service to humanity. A hero is as an individual or a network of people that take action on behalf of others in need, or in defense of integrity or a moral cause.

Heroic action is:

• Engaged in voluntarily;
• Conducted in service to one or more people or the community as a whole;
• Involving a risk to physical comfort, social stature, or quality of life; and
• Initiated without the expectation of material gain.

Greek
http://www.mythweb.com/heroes/heroes.html
http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/heroes/tp/TopHeroes.htm

Jason and the Argonauts!

Hercules and his 12 Trials!

Achilles and his Immortality

Theseus vs. the Minotaur and his Labrynth

Odysseus with the Trojan Horse

Perseus defeats Medusa

Bellerophon ride Pegasus, and kills The Chimera

History
http://historysheroes.e2bn.org/heroes/suggested

Abraham Lincoln

Mahatma Ghandi

Helen Keller

Neil Armstrong

Charles Dickens

Michael Jordan

Archimedes

Vincent Van Gogh

Jimmy Hendrix

Moses

Today's
http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/01/us/top-10-cnn-heroes/

Dale Beatty

Georges Bwelle

Robin Emmons

Danielle Gletow

Twanda Jones

Richard Nares

Kakenya Ntaiya

Chad Pregrackle

Estella Pyfrom

Laura Stachel