Brittney

Research Topic  ** I am doing my research topic on is there still heroes in America? Questions I am trying to figure out about this topic are, Who is a hero? What is a hero? Why do we have heroes? When do we realize he/she is a hero? What is it that makes someone want to be a hero? Why do we look up to our heroes? Can anyone be a hero? What does it take to be a hero?
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**Annotated Bibliography** [|www.ask.com]  This site tells you all about books on heroes. It also explains a lot of the questions I am asking. ​ [|www.google.com] This site tells you about defenitions and it has great images to get off of it. [|www.yahoo.com]  This site explains the news and real life stories about heroes in America. [|www.bing.com]  Just type in the question what makes a hero, and you will see why I picked this site to explain it. [|www.wikipedia.com] Type in the greatest American hero and explore this website, because it has real life news and stories on how he became the greatest hero. [|www.msn.com] This site was all about MSNBC news for me, and I liked getting information off of the news because then I know it is usefull and real. [] I really liked this site because of it's tv heroes because a hero is more than just your family or friends it can also be someone off of the TV that you have admired your entire life, and now it shows they can be heroes. [] This was a biography on a real life hero. It is about Peter H. Gibbon. This seems to probably the most important one to find my information from so far. [|www.heroes.org] This is very good one because it has honoring the heroes and shows a slide show on how hard it was. [|www.helfulheroes.com] This is stating the headline news about how important and how hard it is to be a hero so we should all thank them because they are putting their lives on the line for all of us.



**Source Suggestions** Other group members should add suggestions of sources to look at here. Each group member should have at least 5 sources suggested here (suggested by someone other than them!).

[]- from Shawnee, I think this can help you distinguish between being a hero, or just doing your job, or being both.

[]- from Shawnee, This is great it will help you a bit on what a hero is, and what is considered a hero.

A real Soldier- from Shawnee I think if you could talk to a real soldier it would help you determine whether or not they are heroes or not.

[]- from Shawnee, this shows a essay wrote about real people being heroes instead of comic book heroes, because they are not real.

[]- from Shawnee, this shows really good examples on how people judge so called heroes, and how people determine if a person truly is a hero or not.

http://www.myhero.com/myhero/go/directory/directory.asp?dir=animal -From Kaitlin. Here is a good website that lists some non-human heroes. It shows the heroic acts that some animals have performed, sometimes saving human lives, and is a good example that you don't have to be a human to be a hero.

http://www.freedommag.org/english/vol35I1/page19.htm -From Kaitlin. This website is the story of one of the 9/11 Firefighters. You might want to talk about them and those who gave their lives on that day.

1st or 2nd hand stories -From Kaitlin. I like Shawnee's idea for a real interview. It reminded me of a story I heard from my uncle. He's a captain in the Navy SEALs. He told me how once one of his men threw himself on top of a live grenade to save his comrades. The soldier obviously didn't make it, but he gave his life to save those of his friends. That is quite a heroic act in my opinion.

[]- From Clint- This gives some examples of types of heroes.

[] - This shows polls on what people thought about what makes a hero. [] From Ariel. This is an interesting site that is a presentation about what characterizes a hero. [] From Ariel. This site is an essay written by another person that shows their opinion on what a hero is. You could probably incorporate it into your essay to show what a hero is to other people.