A not-so-little-something I had to write for my American Lit class…my (including but not limited to) reflections on a passge from Ralph Waldo Emerson:
“What I must do, is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness [...]
“Greatness”
The Great Hero Debate
A heroic deed is, in my opinion, an act that positively impacts the life of another. Although one deed may be seemingly smaller than another (for example giving up your window seat on an airplane so that a newlywed couple can sit next to each other, versus donating an organ to a dieing man), to [...]
