Heros+(what+it+means+to+be+one)

 No two people in the world will have the same hero for the same reasons, or the same definition of heroism. My personal definition is "someone who goes out of their way to help others, and is quiet in their heroism." I would count the forger we listened to the TED talk about a hero. This is because he put himself at great personal risk to save others in danger, and even cut himself off from his family to keep them safe. While I don't doubt it was hard on them, it would have been far worse if they had been interrogated and used as bait to capture the forger. When he was called up on stage by his daughter, he was trying to leave as soon as he could, because he wasn’t comfortable being considered a hero by all the people in the auditorium. For one of the same reasons, Nelson Mandela is also a hero to me. During the Apartheid rule in South Africa, he was jailed for 36 years for plotting to overthrow the government. During his time in jail, he was offered his freedom in return for denouncing what he had said against the Apartheid government, but he chose to remain in jail and continue to fight against the government’s racist policies. He was finally released in 1990 when the western world heard about his story and put pressure on the government to release him. He is a hero to me because of his refusal to denounce what he had said against an unfair, racist government, despite being offered freedom. That is what a hero is to me.