Courage Essay Examples

Winston Churchill declared, “Courage is what it takes to stand up and do something. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen” (qtd. in Steinberg 1). In “Speaking of Courage” by Tim O’Brien, Norman Bowker is a Vietnam War veteran who is returning to his hometown. He suffers from survivor’s guilt because…

As Socrates said, “He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.” Beowulf showcases great courage throughout this epic poem that is crucial to his success and earns him his fame and pride. He does these courageous acts with loyalty to his people…

The book To Kill a Mockingbird contains many interesting subjects and topics, but the one I want to focus on in my first essay… was courage. One of the first situations in which the subject of bravery comes to the forefront is in Chapter 10. We learn that, unlike other fathers in Maycomb, Jem and…

“When something bad happens to you, you have three choices. You can either let it define you, let it destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you.” Said by Unknown. The person who had said this meant that if something bad happened to someone, they can either let it always be there, haunting them…

“Have notI commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest” (Josh. 1:5-7, 9). Christ is the perfect example of being courageous. He was the most courageous person that has every lived on the face of the…

The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan illustrates the story of Percy Jackson and his friends trying to protect Mount Olympus from the evil Titan Kronos. The Titan Kronos had got out of the underworld and took over Luke’s body. Kronos/Luke had decided that they wanted to destroy Olympus. Percy and his friends were the only…

NameProfessor American History 1301DateA Brief Look at Stephen E. Ambrose’s Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American WestUndaunted Courage is a very detailed account of what Ambrose considers the most important expedition in American history, Lewis and Clark’s exploration of the west. Ambrose attempts to project Thomas Jefferson’s vision of…

John F. Kennedy, the author of Profiles in Courage, felt there were many politically courageous people. Kennedy seemed to define courageous as someone willing to risk one’s personal assets to stand up for he believes is right and good. Eight different people, including John Quincy Adams, Thomas Benton, and Sam Houston, are illustrated in this…

In 1939, on the eve of the Nazi Holocaust, the great German playwright Bertolt Brecht wrote Mother Courage and Her Children. For the setting of his play, he chose the Thirty Years’ War, the senseless 17th century European conflict that pitted Protestants against Catholics and laid waste to whole lands and peoples. Spanning the years…

Fear, worry, anxiety, curiosity, distress, nervousness; all emotions of a young, naive soldier entering war for the first time. To the reader, this is exactly what Henry Fleming represents. Because Crane never tells us what he looks like, just how old he is, or exactly where he comes from, and usually refers to him as…