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What is a hero?

What is a hero?. For each photo or video, list the qualities you think the people in this group, location, and/or time believe are heroic based on the character depicted. Use the What is a hero? Handout. Hercules Sculpture: 4 th Century BC. Hercules Painting: 1475.

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What is a hero?

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  1. What is a hero? For each photo or video, list the qualities you think the people in this group, location, and/or time believe are heroic based on the character depicted. Use the What is a hero? Handout.

  2. Hercules Sculpture: 4th Century BC Hercules Painting: 1475

  3. Thor: Norse God of Thunder • Could throw lightning bolts & fought with a hammer • Wore special iron gloves & rode in a chariot

  4. Paul Bunyan: 1800s America • Could chop forests in a single blow • Took 17 storks to deliver him as a baby • Thought to have caused such natural phenomenon as Grand Canyon

  5. Hero http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srFhXDZhUZI

  6. 193os America Seabiscuit:Undersized, knobby-kneed horse given to lots of sleeping and eating. Considered lazy and given up on by owner is sold, paired up with a no-name jockey and becomes racing sensation. James J. Braddock: Dubbed the Cinderella Man, a man struggling to feed his family in Great Depression compensates for injured right hand by developing left and becomes unlikely champ.

  7. Rosa Parks:Refuses to give up her seat on a segregated bus. Jackie Robinson:First player to break the color barrier in Major League Baseball. 1940s-1950s

  8. 1965: The Sound of Music 1964: Mary Poppins

  9. 1982: Rambo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjptQSfuTy8 1976: The Outlaw Josey Wales http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=en9rfsUGDkc

  10. 1981: Raiders of the Lost Ark Indiana Jones 1977: Star Wars Luke Skywalker

  11. 1994: Forrest Gump 1990: Home Alone http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK2Btk6Ybm0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdsMqRaz2WY

  12. Lord of the Rings: Frodo Baggins Bilbo Baggins Spiderman 3 2000s Shrek

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