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We answered general questions about the heroes in our lives.
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We watched a David Letterman interview on Wesley Autrey who saved a person from getting run over by a subway train.
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We listened to Ms. Allen read a passage about the heroism of a military hero named Roy Benavidez from John McCain's book called "Why Courage Matters" .
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We watched Ms. Allen and Ms. Simmons interview a Peace Corps volunteer named Kristi Quillen, who is stationed in Costa Rica.
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We discussed our hero projects and I decided to write about a hero from India.
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I talked with my father about different Indian heroes and narrowed my list down to two: Kapil Dev, and Sachin Tendulkar, both being cricket players (a sport of choice in the Indian world). In the end I chose Sachin for he is the one who led India to their first World Cup in years, is regarded as a hero by all Indians, and is a household name in all Indian homes.
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I ordered the Biography, Sachin by Gulu Ezekiel from the Barnes and Nobles website.
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We saw modern day examples of heroes in our everyday lives. I thought the insurance commercial and the Badly Drawn Boy's song were particularly heroic in their messages as they seemed to fit my definition of what a hero is.
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The real work of my project began. I wrote a paragraph about why and how I chose Sachin Tendulkar as my hero and posted it to Posterous.
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In class we listed books to help remind us of all the heroes we have read about. This reminded me of such novels as Harry Potter, Les MIserables, and To Kill A Mockingbird, and how their seperate heroes inspired me.
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I finished my second post on Heroes in Literature and posted it to Posterous.
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We listened to passages from different people's books in order to further understand that everyone's definition of a hero is different.
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I speak with my dad about who I should interview and he giddily states that using his "contacts" he will try to get Sachin Tendulkar himself for me to interview. I tell him that that is highly improbable but he just says that if Sachin doesn't accept, I can interview one of Sachin's teammates on the Indian World Team who was once my uncle's classmate and friend.
