Everyday Hero Stories

Where did your values come from?

We've all had people in our lives who have made a positive impact on us. A parent or grandparent, a sibling who was there for us, or maybe even just a guy who shines shoes for a living? Whoever they are, tell us their story so they can inspire us even more.

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JUSTICE
WHOA IS ME...NOT!!! My roots are ingrained in helping other people. When I was employed, my beliefs were put to the test. I was fired from my company for assisting another injured employee. The result of this firing was my election to a full-time Union Rep by my peers in 12 states, and as a result, their best interests are now...
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MIA CLAYTON COMPASSION
MIA CLAYTON Mia Juliette has been a force of nature since birth. She has a big personality and even bigger heart. The summer before Kindergarten Mia decided she needed to change the world. She was inspired by Kid President and had a desire to help needy children in our community. Over the past year Mia had donated over...
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OVERCOMING
SHE STILL INSPIRES ME It was 1978, I was of 10 years old and used to stay in Calcutta, I could not forget that year as this city faced a disaster that year, flood in Ganges river hampered the normal city life, our school remained closed, one of school friends named Sandhya used to stay in ...
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ROBERT ZUNDEL LOVE
ROBERT ZUNDEL My hero is my husband Robert, He loved me when I thought no one would. We have been married for three years and when we first met it was difficult. I spent years in abusive relationships and I did not trust anyone. He was soft spoken and kind but yet I was afraid. I would not let him in my heart until the day he...
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DETERMINATION
NEVER GIVING UP IN SCHOOL When I was younger back in elementary school when I was in preschool and kindergarten, I struggled in school. Mostly I had trouble with reading and writing and I mostly cried a lot at school because I didn't like school. I always get in trouble when I was younger and my parents would always get mad at me but then...
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MICHAEL AND CHRIS  SHANNON AND TROKEY TEAMWORK
MICHAEL AND CHRIS SHANNON AND TROKEY Michael Shannon is a doctor that was told that a baby (Chris Trokey) had a 50/50 chance at surviving and decided to stay with Chris until he got better and he did. About 30 years later, Chris, as a paramedic, helped save a man from a terrible car accident that caught on fire. When they rushed to the hospital to...
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KINDNESS
SHOW HONESTY One day I was out with my family and we came back from shopping and we were on our way to our car. We had to pass the street to get to our car so in front of us was a man he was taking his phone out and he accidently dropped his money he had. I was the only one who saw this so I picked up the money so I thought...
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PASSION
MY MUSIC I started out playing a recorder in elementary, wanting to learn how to read and play music. The only thing was, I was far behind the class, so I couldn't read or playing the notes in order to make a sound. Over and over again, I tried my very best to understand and learn how to play the recorder. After time...
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DETERMINATION
READING IS THE WAY TO GO When I was a kid I didn't like to read. I didn't get a lot of accelerated readers point. When I was in 3rd grade I used to get in trouble that I didn’t read and I didn’t have enough points. When I was in 4th grade I wasn’t in the in the gate class for the first week and then after the first week the moved me up...
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HARD WORK
WORK HARD I am always working hard because I want to have a good life in the future. I do my best to do my homework and play basketball. Although I have a hard time in my house because of video games, I try to finish my homework before anything else. In basketball, I try not to lose the ball and make my shots. I try my...
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CHANN  JONES HARD WORK
CHANN JONES Chann Jones is my mom and growing up life was hard for her but it got easier later on. My mom was born in Cambodia but only lived there for a short period of time due to the Khmer Rouge War. She had to run away with her mom and two siblings while her dad was fighting in the war. At the time my mom was seven...
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BELIEVE IN YOURSELF
NEVER GIVE UP NEVER GIVE IN I didn’t know what talent I had I tried everything acting, band, art but nothing. I was ready to give up. when one day we had to run the mile for P.E and I was good I was the first one done. I got a time of 6:29 my teacher was so proud of me he wanted me to try out for the track and cross country team. So I took...
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PERSISTENCE
SPEECHES I'm in 7th grade and I have an AVID class. At first, I dreading having to present and make speeches to the class. I've only had that class for a trimester, but we've done at least 6 speeches and I think I've become way better at presenting. It was really awkward and I kept making mistakes on my 2nd presentation,...
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GENEROSITY
MONEY One day i was walking with my mom out of Target and we found a 100 dollar bill so we picked it up and we went to the parking lot and this lady seemed to be looking for something and we asked her if that was her money and she said yes, she was so glad that we gave it back to her and she gave us 50 dollars back for...
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DETERMINATION
THE HARD LIFE My life has been rocky ever since my mom and dad got a divorce. Now I live with my dad and a horible step-mother. She was only really nice to me before she married my dad and for a little while after my mom died of liver cancer that spread. Well now I don't talk to her at all. This is all because her and her...
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OPTIMISM
LOSING YOU My aunt and I had a very special bond. I would always fly out to Mexico to visit my aunt whenever I was on vacation. She was a teacher and I would go with her to work to help her out with the students and even taught them some English. I enjoyed spending time with her and never would've imagined losing her. But...
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FITNESS
BASKETBALL BROTHERS My friends and I have a unspoken rule that every Sunday we go to the park and play basketball until the park manager closes the park which is about 7.This started about a year ago when we went one Sunday and it transformed into a weekly thing.We're all thankful that we can play together because our parents...
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JAMIE RUSH SACRIFICE
JAMIE RUSH Jamie is truly the most inspiring strong person I've ever met. She's the kind of person that is a model of overcoming adversity. Jamie has overcame a childhood and past that Would have broken any other person. Yet she today is the most beautiful Caring strongest girl. Jamie is my hero for that but not only that....
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TESS SCHWEITZER WATSON APPRECIATION
TESS SCHWEITZER WATSON Hi my name is Michelle Nelson and I would like to nominate a special friend of mine named Tess, Tess has two wonderful boys, One who is in Heaven and the other is still with her, in her heart. Tess had a son who died of Cancer when he was just 7 years old, he passed away shortly after his 7th birthday, Devon...
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HOPE
AMAZING MOTIVATIONAL STORY OF YOUNG EGYPTIAN MAN ANWAR ELKAMONY WHO PROVE TO WHOLE WORLD THAT NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE During the time between day & night Anwar found himself between life & death…After his body stopped moving, a body which was accustomed to moving a lot, right and left….To running behind his lovely small ball till he caught it and beat it with his racquet… the racquet representing an extension of Anwar’s...
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BELIEVE IN YOURSELF
MY YOUNGER HARD LIFE AS A KID When i was in elementary school i was transferred to another school. I was mad and at the time when i went to the other school i felt like a black sheep in a white hired and at the time i was there i didn’t care about anything. During school i was shown a video that was shown to the whole class. The video showed...
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BELIEVE IN YOURSELF
MY HERO Everyday I am just in bed watching television or listening to music. I never had nothing to do in my life. I never had nothing like homework or nothing. My dad started to get tired of looking at me the whole time in my room. I was trying to find a sport that i would love. My whole enter life i thought that i...
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APPRECIATION
APRECIATION Everardo Garcia 4B 5-27-15 Apreciation “Grab the drywall” my dad said, as I grab it and take it to him. I hold the drywall while he measures it, and cuts the drywall so quickly and accurately. Then I hold the drywall up against the ceiling while, he nails the drywall to the ceiling. While holding it my...
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COMPLIMENTS
ESSAY I am in 2nd period and the class was reading so I was reading like I was told to so I did and then a new kid comes to class and he came from a different school so then I remember what it was like to be the new kid in a class full of strangers. I am in school in reading class. I’m sitting at my desk quietly and...
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FRIENDSHIP
FRIENDSHIP It is Monday morning and like every Monday morning I am not in the mood to be at school, I mean who wants to be at school so early anyways. As I walk in to my first period class, I sit down in my normal sit, I look up at the daily starter, it reads “Students today we will be writing about someone who once had a...
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ACHIEVEMENT
DUNNO I was watching TV and saw NBA Finals and it was the Miami Heat vs Ock this was back in 2012. And before the game there was a documentary about Lebron James and how his life was, and I saw how bad his life was and what he had to do to make his dreams come true. And one of his big let downs was getting cut from his...
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FRIENDSHIP
FRIENDSHIP I just moved to the U.S.A, leaving all of my friends in Canada I don't know what is to come at the high school I will be attending soon. I am more focused on the yearbook than the future. I come across one of the notes Clarissa left there for me. As I read what she left for me from grade 7 tears escape my eyes...
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APPRECIATION
NARRATIVE I am watching my dad mow the lawn and I decided to go help him out and I ended up mowing the lawn but, it was my own choice because I remember him telling me about how hard he worked to get to where he his now and to support us even if he is not rich. I remember it just like it was yesterday because it was...
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LOVE
MY HERO, MY ROCK, MY DAD. One day after school I was just finishing up some math homework. My dad had just gotten off of work. He had came and sat right beside me, looking over my homework with me. We were making corrections and, in a way, tutoring my dad about math. After that we were just talking and my dad says,” I will always...
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KINDNESS
JUDGMENT I am arriving to my last class of the day. As I sit down in my seat the teacher approaches me she says “We have a new student and I would like you to help her get use to the class and the students.” I say “Sure.” The girl walks over and sits next to me. She looks shy but I smile at her and I see the her face...
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FRIENDSHIP
TRANSFERRED CLASS Transferred Class In March near the end of the year in seventh grade one of my classes got transferred and that class had all of my friends in it. My new class, which was english was really noisy and obnoxious. The teacher had to tell them to be quiet multiple times and got mad at them almost every day. Also I...
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INCLUDING OTHERS
INCLUDING OTHERS Its a normal day for me wake up go to school repeat, but today is a different day. I notice there is a non-familiar person sitting in the back of the classroom; that’s when the teacher points her out “ Who are you?” “Oh im Lily the new student”. So the teacher goes on with her instructions and asks us to go into...
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FAMILY
MY NEW LIFE I am watching a movie with my mother and in the movie this lady kidnap a baby who was not hers. And that baby grew up not knowing that that lady was not her mother. Through out the movie it reminds me of what happened to me but not the kidnapping part. I got adopted when I was 2 ½ even though I ...
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