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Introduction
In order to set someone up as a hero or to qualify a person of being heroic, some prerogatives are required: a majority of people, as a collective conscience, has to share an ideal, an intellectual representation of what a hero is. This majority has to value the same qualities. The status of hero depends on other people’s point of view and judgement. To raise someone at the level of a hero is thus a partial act. On the one hand, the hero must possess qualities recognized by all as exceptional and on the other hand his actions prevail. We may wonder which exceptional qualities a hero must have.

Who can become a hero and how? However, nowadays, the image of the hero is highly distorted by the media. Are they creating a myth or a simple amalgam between being famous and being a hero?

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The Pilgrim Fathers, the Mayflower and Thanksgiving              2             

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The Pilgrim Fathers, the Mayflower and Thanksgiving              2             

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Myth of the Witches of Salem                    3                     

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Myth of the Witches of Salem                    3                     

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Myth of the Frontier and the Conquest of the West  4

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Myth of the Frontier and the Conquest of the West  4

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Myth of the Space Conquest                                 5

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Myth of the Space Conquest                                 5

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Bruce Springsteen Wrecking ball American land

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Rags-to-riches stories
Builders and titans

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Al Capone: gangster, self-made man and philantropist               10.c

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Al Capone: gangster, self-made man and philantropist               10.c

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Alphonse Gabriel "Al" Capone (1899 –1947) was an American gangster who attained fame during the Prohibition era as the co-founder and boss of the Chicago Outfit. His seven-year reign as crime boss ended when he was 33 years old.

Capone was born in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City to Italian immigrants. He was considered a Five Points Gang member who became a bouncer in organized crime premises such as brothels. In his early twenties, he moved to Chicago and became bodyguard and trusted factotum for Johnny Torrio, head of a criminal syndicate that illegally supplied alcohol– and that was politically protected through the Unione Siciliana. A conflict with the North Side Gang was instrumental in Capone's rise and fall. Torrio went into retirement after North Side gunmen almost killed him, handing control to Capone. Capone expanded the bootlegging business through increasingly violent means, but his mutually profitable relationships with mayor William Hale Thompson and the city's police meant that Capone seemed safe from law enforcement.

Capone apparently reveled in attention, such as the cheers from spectators when he appeared at ball games. He made donations to various charities and was viewed by many to be a "modern-day Robin Hood". However, the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre of gang rivals, resulting in the killing of seven men in broad daylight, damaged Chicago's image - as well as Capone's - leading influential citizens to demand governmental action and newspapers to dub him "Public Enemy No. 1".

Capone is one of the most notorious American gangsters of the 20th century and has been the subject of numerous articles, books, and films. His personality and character have been used in fiction as a model for crime lords and criminal masterminds ever since his death. (Scarface/ the godfather)

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firemen 9/11
Hero II Ben Turnbull

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Myth of Fama

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Non-Heroes, gangsters and anti-heroes                      10.a

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Non-Heroes, gangsters and anti-heroes                      10.a

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Reality shows /Al Capone/Anti hero: Bernie Laplante

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The antihero or anti-heroine is a leading character in a film, book or play, who lacks the traditional heroic qualities such as idealism, courage, nobility, fortitude, moral goodness and altruism. Whereas the classical hero is larger than life, antiheroes are typically inferior to the reader in intelligence, dynamism or social purpose.

For example the main character of the movie “Hero”, Dustin Hoffman alias Bernie Laplante is an anti-hero.