Essays on Bravery

In Harper Lee’s best selling novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout, a young girl tells the story of her early life in the small town of Maycomb, Alabama, in the 1930s. The story takes place during the trial of Tom Robinson, a black man who...

World War 1, also known as The Great War, began in 1914 and lasted until 1918. It was a global conflict. Described as ‘the war to end all wars’, it caused over 15 million deaths and left many more permanently and severely disabled. The Australian...

The C.I.A. Headquarters in Virginia is a big, concealed campus surrounded by woods. The C.I.A. collects and organizes intelligence. On the C.I.A. website, their primary mission is, “to collect, analyze, evaluate, and disseminate foreign intelligence to assist the President and senior US government policymakers in...

An upstander is a person who recognizes the difference between right and wrong and chooses to do the right action even when it may not be popular at that time. An upstander stands for what is right and fights to help and support those that...

Courage can be defined as being courageous or brave. It refers to the act of doing something that might be frightening, yet choosing to act anyway. Many people aspire to be courageous, as being courageous does not come naturally. Courage is an attribute of good...

One fine day in April, as the shimmering, coppery sun, glowed through the pearly clouds, a ragged, quivering mass of bones staggered across the humongous and towering building. Yes you got that right, that petrified little soul was me. An innocent soul deprived off all...