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Great Heroes
Terry Fox
Site #1: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2010/09/13/f-terry-fox-run-30.html
He was an ordinary guy who love sports. Although he was not the best of the group, he kept on trying harder and harder. He was encouraged to join the cross-country club by a teacher. Eventually, he studied physical education in collage. Everything seems to be perfect all the way, however, he found out he had a serious pain in his right knees, which was caused by a tumor of bone cancer. Because of this, he had to cut off his right leg up until six inches above his knees. He had no other choice, because there were not much money for research of cancer in Canada in that period of time. He decided to do something about it and make a change to all people who have cancer. He started to practice his favorite sport, cross-country. It was extremely tough for him, because he had to first learn to walk on articial legs. However, for the spirit of not giving up, he started his journey, the Marathon of Hope. He did not stop any moment during his journey. He wanted the Marathon of Hope become a hope to all cancer patients. Unfortunetly, his cancer already spread from the leg to his lung. He only had a chance to finish a little pass half of the marathon. It was not the end of his goal. Isadore Sharp decided to keep this marathon ongoing called the Terry Fox run. It was first held in Canada with no winner, no award, but the goal to raise the hope of cancer. More countries joined the marathon later on, and the marathon become a world wide event held around the world for one and the only goal for raising money for cancer research.
Taryn Davis
Site #2: http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cnn.heroes/archive11/taryn.davis.html
She loves her husband with all her heart. Unfortunately, her husband died in the battlefield of Iraq. She is now carrying the burden in her heart, and she is no longer a happy wife, but a widow. She felt so depressed of losing her love one. She wants to talk about her feeling with others, but no one understand her. It feels even more sarcasm that people tell her that she is still young, she can remarry anytime she wants. She just cannot put down her burden, so she decided to look for a group that she can join and talk out loud what she feels inside without people insulting her. She Google about it, but even Google shut her down but stating, "Did you mean window?" She knows in her heart that she needs to stand up to this, and make a difference. She tried to connect to other military widows that unfortunately lost their husbands or fiancé in Iraq. Many widows like her idea of building The American Widow Project. They set website pages, Facebook pages, for this only goal to achieve-connect to every depressed widow. They plan events in different cities, where couple widows meet together and just have some fun. Taryn Davis gives other widows the power to stand up to their feelings, and let them know that it is not the end of the world, because there are still so many things in the world that they can just enjoy without thinking about the sadness they had.
Mackenzie Bearup
Site #3: http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cnn.heroes/archive10/mackenzie.bearup.htm
At the age of 16, Mackenzie danced on her bed to American idol like any other teenager would, her knee felt a serious pain that she cannot stand up. After another few days, her knee swell very large, then she consult a doctor. The doctor said that she has Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy, which her injury area will continue to tell her pain to her brain. Her pain was very horrible and hard to describe, but she did not give up, so she continue to go back to doctor for cures. She figured out a way to avoid thinking about the pain while being cure, was to read a book. She believed it is true that reading does help her. She wanted to spread this message to kids that are homeless or having serious sickness. Therefore, she started to collect books and give out flyers to fill a center library that had not filled with books yet. She was very active, and she did whatever it takes to help collect books for children. She started out her goal for 300 books, however, she ended up with 3000 books. She filter books into different categories, and she loves helping kids finding books that she loved for the kid's age. She loves helping these children because when she see the smile on the children's face, she does not feel her constant pain anymore.
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