...There’s no doubting Bo Jackson is an awe inspiring athlete, making unbelievable plays in both football and baseball. But is he an Epic Hero? I think Bo easily reaches the requirements to make his story an epic, all except two. Nonetheless, Bo very well could be considered an epic hero, since he meets the others. The first requirement is to be capable of great strength and courage. Bo shows his great strength many times in his baseball career, sending many of his hits out to the fans or even to the top of the royals crown. He also shows this in football, flying by the defense or pushing through lines like it was nothing, such as when the massive defender who had it out for Bo hit him with immense strength, but Bo pushes through. That also shows...
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...Vincent “Bo” Jackson was born on November 30, 1962, in Bessemer, Alabama. He was a constant trouble maker growing up. His cousins and siblings compared his toughness to a wild boar hog, and gave him the nickname “Bo.” It was very obvious early on that Bo was an extraordinary athlete. For example, he could dunk a stick into a basketball hoop in the 8th grade. After Bo and others killed $3,000 worth of hogs, the minister encouraged Bo’s mother to send him to reform school. Bo realized he needed to change his behavior. He turned his anger into energy for sports. Bo Jackson is an epic hero because he is capable of great strength and courage, a great warrior, and humble. Bo Jackson exhibited great strength and courage without having to put in much effort. His natural talent was unremarkable. At a young age, Bo saw practice as a waste of time because he was so far ahead of everybody. Bo showed an incredible amount of courage by choosing Auburn over Alabama. He didn’t care about the Alabama’s winning past. Instead, Bo cared about what impact he could make to help his team. His coaches at Auburn would introduce skills taught in the NFL and Bo would master them in a couple of days. Bo’s first...
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...Vincent “Bo” Jackson, just a boy from Bessemer, Alabama becomes one of the most dominate players in both the NFL and MLB. Not only was he the first to show it was possible to play both sports, he excelled in both of them. Bo Jackson showed through his short lived sports career he was capable of deeds of great strength and courage. On and off the football and baseball field he was a great warrior persevering through injuries, opponents, and people who doubted him. Lastly, Jackson was extremely humble and did what he did not for the rewards but because he loved the games. Bo Jackson gave American Sports something they have never seen before and became an Epic Hero while doing it. Every since he was a kid Bo should greats feats of strength that...
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...Bo Jackson was a real life eric hero. He was one of most strongest and fastest athletes to ever live. What was special about him was that it was all natural. You would expect him to get all his muscle from lifting weights or using steroids. In reality, all that power and speed came naturally to him. Even though Bo Jackson has all the characteristics of an epic hero, the obvious ones were him being capable of deeds of great strength and courage, him traveling over a vast setting, and Bo being a great warrior. Bo Jackson is the definition of great strength and courage. At batting practice for the Royals, Bo hit a ball so far it hit the crown on the Royals scoreboard. No one has ever done that before or after him. One time he was standing in...
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...Bo Jackson has always been a larger than life ideal, possessing many characteristics of an epic hero. He played not one, but two professional sports. He was a superstar in both Professional Football and Professional Baseball. Even at a young age he was doing many things out of the ordinary. For example, he jumped over a volkswagon bug and landed the jump. This is just one of the many things that made him better than a normal person. Although he was born in a small poor town in Alabama, Bo is an epic hero because he is capable of great strength and courage, he possess humility, and he has traveled over a vast setting. Bo Jackson was born with incredible strength and courage. From a young age till his retirement he showcased his strength and...
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...Bo Jackson grew up in a not very wealthy area and had a tough time fitting in. Ever since Bo was a kid he always had something about him that made him different from the rest of the kids. Bo Jackson has multiple stories that are hard to believe to be true but when people consider his skills in life and sports, they all want to believe them stories. People say that he has jumped over a car, dunked a stick in a basketball goal in eighth grade, and leaped over a forty foot ditch after killing pigs with stones. These things are all the types of things that a normal teenage kid would or could do. With the force and skill that Bo has it is easy to see that he falls under the category of being an epic hero. Bo Jackson is considered a hero because of his great strength and courage, his traveling over vast settings, and his humility....
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...Bo Jackson was an epic professional baseball and professional football player who was widely known for his epic, previously never seen feats. When he was young, he could do things most grown men couldn’t. He could do a backflip in thigh high water and land on his feet. His skill made other professional athletes look like minor league players. Even though he came from a poor Alabama family he became a great hero who was strong, courageous and humble. Bo Jackson was extremely strong without working out or training. He was stronger and faster than his opponents. When he was a young child he would participate in crabapple fights with kids in the neighborhood. He would throw the crabapples through screen doors because the other kids would...
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...Vincent, “Bo” Jackson was a phenomenal athlete that excels in almost every sport imaginable, Football, Baseball, and Basketball. You name it Bo plays it, He trampled enemies and gave to the poor. He took his pride to heart but was also as humble as a priest. He loved his mother and his gifts that he claims were straight from God’s personal hand. In this paper I will show you three ways “Bo” Jackson was an epic hero or even Legendary Hero, He was capable of deeds of great strength and courage. He was a great warrior and finally he was extremely humble at heart. Bo Jackson was a man of great deeds and courage as he took down men as a big as mountains without the help of prescription drugs or even lifting weights. For him great deeds were small but meaningful, when he was just a kid he showed great strength and power as he had more special talents than all the other neighborhood kids. He wanted to be good at everything he tried and would accept nothing but greatness just as a boy. As a child he stuttered and when the kids would make fun of him it would just light the fire within him and he would show them all what he could do, if it was throwing rocks through windows...
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...Bo Jackson was the closest thing to a modern day superhero we’ll probably ever get in this lifetime or the next. He was larger than life in both skill and pure size. Bo pushed the limits of the normal human body in his normal life and had little to no problems. At a young age he threw stones at boars and killed them and was said to have jumped a 40ft ditch to get away. With these abilities Bo played many sports and was seen as if he had god-given abilities. By late high school he had colleges sending their best scouts to see if the legends were real, which they were. Bo had done deeds of tremendous strength and courage like no one had ever seen. Toppling a batting cage with a single ball, hitting the crown of Kauffman Stadium on his first ball, and diving over a crowd of burly football players or a final touchdown are only a few of his amazing feats of...
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...When one must describe a hero, he or she will often allude to various admirable qualities, including powerful deeds, a widespread effect placed upon others, or victory in a ruthless battle. However, one man in particular is recognized for his more modest approach to heroism. Though he was born humbly into a lower-income family in Alabama, Bo Jackson became a universally-admired role model for many Americans because of his natural abilities and overwhelming number of heroic deeds. Two-sport professional athlete Bo Jackson ultimately proves to be a hero for his widespread national heroism, numerous great feats and, most importantly, his omnipresent humility. Regardless of his unassuming upbringing and background, Jackson eventually became widely...
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...Under “Western Eyes”: The Personal Odyssey of Huang Fei-Hong in Once upon a Time in China by Tony Williams Rather than being read in exclusively postmodernist terms, Tsui Hark’s series Once upon a Time in China may be understood as a new version of a Hong Kong cinematic discourse involving historical “interflow.” It deals with dispersion, China’s relationship to the outside world, and strategic forms of reintegration designed to strengthen national identity. In Sammo Hung’s Wong Fei Hung Ji Saam (West Territory Mighty Lion/Once upon a Time in China and America, 1997), Master Huang Fei-hong (Jet Li Linjie) travels to the Wild West to visit an American branch of the Po Chi Lam Clinic set up by his student Sol. During the journey, he bangs his head against a rock in a turbulent stream and loses his memory. He is rescued by a friendly tribe of Indians. Moments before we see Huang again, an Indian emerges from a tepee proudly announcing the birth of a child. When Huang recovers, he stumbles around in the Indian camp wearing an Indian costume, and his loose unbraided hair is flowing like an Indian’s. After using his martial arts prowess to defeat a hostile Indian, who ironically mouths racist American platitudes against the outsider—”His clothing is different, his skin color is different, his speech is different”—Huang is adopted into the tribe and given the name “Yellow.” Before this, he attempts to remember events of the recent past. But his vague recollections...
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...GAME CHANGE OBAMA AND THE CLINTONS, MCCAIN AND PALIN, AND THE RACE OF A LIFETIME JOHN HEILEMANN AND MARK HALPERIN FOR DIANA AND KAREN Contents Cover Title Page Prologue Part I Chapter One – Her Time Chapter Two – The Alternative Chapter Three – The Ground Beneath Her Feet Chapter Four – Getting to Yes Chapter Five – The Inevitables Chapter Six – Barack in a Box Chapter Seven – “They Looooove Me!” Chapter Eight – The Turning Point Chapter Nine – The Fun Part Chapter Ten – Two For the Price of One Chapter Eleven – Fear and Loathing in the Lizard’s Thicket Chapter Twelve – Pulling Away and Falling Apart Chapter Thirteen – Obama Agonistes Chapter Fourteen – The Bitter End Game Part II Chapter Fifteen – The Maverick and His Meltdown Chapter Sixteen – Running Unopposed Chapter Seventeen – Slipping Nooses, Slaying Demons Part III Chapter Eighteen – Paris and Berlin Chapter Nineteen – The Mile-High Club Chapter Twenty – Sarahcuda Chapter Twenty-One – September Surprise Chapter Twenty-Two – Seconds in Command Chapter Twenty-Three – The Finish Line Epilogue – Together at Last Index Author’s Notes About the Authors Copyright About the Publisher Prologue BARACK OBAMA JERKED BOLT upright in bed at three o’clock in the morning. Darkness enveloped his low-rent room at the Des Moines Hampton Inn; the airport across the street was quiet in the hours before dawn. It was very late December 2007, a few days ahead of the Iowa caucuses. Obama had been sprinting flat out...
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