If you have a positive mind even when you fall down, you are more of a hero than superman. You don’t have to have powers to be ready for round two to break your resilience. You get stronger each time. While Ulysses was not being a hero when his mind was drifting, Joanne Magee is determined to get through the jungle of life. He couldn’t keep his head from giving up, but Joanne had a positive mind all the way through her journey. Even though Ulysses made it home over 20 years, Joanne made it through a tough two years of two heart breaking events that changed her life.

Ulysses might have made it through hard life struggles, but he is the exact opposite of a hero. He kept falling back down and didn’t get back up that fast, but most of all had a negative mind bringing him down and pulling him off the his goal. In the book “The Adventures of Ulysses” by Bernard Evslin, Ulysses was heartbroken and yelled at his men (on page 40). He didn’t think they might have feelings too about being in view of Ithaca. Ulysses wasn’t thinking about his men and that’s not a heroic trait. His sadness was quickly turned to anger and anger is not good. Now lets stop talking about Ulysses and his non heroic traits and start talking about a real hero. I have a modern day hero in mind and this one is very close to me indeed. This amazing woman is Joanne Magee.

My modern day hero is Joanne Magee. She is a hero because she made it through a tough two years with not one, but two terrifying events. She had a surgery that changed her physically and a loss of her father that changed her mentally. Joanne persevered through these events and came out the other side with a positive mind. She was determined to get through the rest of her life. She was selfless. After three weeks of recovering from her surgery Joanne was back on her spinning bike and after five weeks she was full on running again. Seven weeks later she was back in work like nothing happened. That really shows how much she bounced right back just so the people around her were happy again. You can’t say that that is not heroic of her. She is definitely more of a hero than superman.

Another hero that you should already know of is Neil deGrasse Tyson. He is a hero because he is determined to tell our generation about life and the world we live in. He wants to tell and warn us about the solar system and the universe. Neil is just like us, he has a wife and kids. He wakes up in the morning, goes to work and then comes back home. The only difference is that he is try to make the world a better place everyday by teaching more and more people about our history and our future. Neil has devoted time and effort into learning and teaching about life and he is not giving up on the world. If you don’t think he is a hero than I don’t know who is.

Are there heroes in New York? YES. There are heroes all around us, just no one notices them. You probably see 20 heroes each day. You can’t see a persevering, positive, determined and selfless person just by looking at them. Those traits are invisible. You can’t judge a book by it’s cover goes for humans too.  If we didn’t have those heroes humans would always be sad and angry. We take them for granted. There are some people in life that don’t notice these people, but there are heroes are all around them. They just didn’t look up. If I didn’t have joanne magee I wouldn’t be able to make it through life. When I was little she picked me up when I fell down and now she has taught me to have a positive mind just like her.  I would probably turn into a corrupt person without her.

We wrote the essay to show other people that there are heroes everywhere. They are not superheroes, they are our heroes. They are better.