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Ava is a form heart transplant recipient. She was at the brink of death when she was able to receive her transplant, ever since she has been devoted to helping others going through the recovery process. Her non-profit organization, Ava's Heart offer services like food, gas, co-payments for medication, and housing to patients. Without post-transplant housing patients cant be listed for a transplant. She owns two locations that house up to five patients at a time at no cost. Thanks to her organization she has been able to help over 175 people with housing. Because Ava has been such a selfless and generous person, she is viewed as a hero to society. Her fight against the odds of a patient not being able to get a transplant is the stem of her heroicness.

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Shirley Raines estimates that there are around 8,000 people sleeping in the streets and shelters. Her organization Beauty 2 the Streetz provides food, clothing, cosmetic services, and health/hygiene items to thousands of homeless people. Because Shirley struggled with financial insecurity, and grief after the loss of her son she was able to relate to those she helps. She understands how judgemental others can be and strives to help the people she can. Shirley is extremely kind, empathetic, and giving to her community which makes her a hero. She fights to lower the stigma around homelessness every day by helping people.

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At 38 years old Heather was running the Boston marathon when the bomb exploded blowing her into a restaurant which led to her getting a below-the-knee amputation. Insurance only covered the basic prosthesis but not the kind that would allow her to live a normal life, with the help of donations from organizations she was able to receive the prostheses she wanted. She claims that is what kept her sanity intact and let her do the things she loved. Because prostheses can range anywhere from $10,000 - $100,000 a lot of people can't afford the ones that allow for anything more than walking. She created the Heather Abbott Foundation that has helped more than 42 amputees receive prosthetic devices. Heather is very caring and devoted to helping amputees which makes her a hero. Her fight to help people go back to a normal life is what pushes to help as many people as she can every day.

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Mr.Beast is a famous YouTuber with over 69 million subscribers. I've been watching his videos for over 3 years and have witnessed him helping his community time after time. Some of his actions include planting over 20 million trees, buying and donating enough food to fill multiple food banks (he does this regularly), adopting every dog from a shelter and finding them owners, buying cars and houses for the less fortunate, giving 200,000$ to people who lost their jobs during the pandemic, and giving 10,000 Christmas presents to kids in foster care and homeless shelters. Overall he is a very kind and generous person, he goes out of his way to help those in need and expects nothing in return. He fights against things like climate change and poverty which makes him a hero to me.

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Altruism is the unselfish concern for other people; doing things for a desire to help; not because you feel obligated out of duty, loyalty, or religious reasons. I believe altruism is an archetypal quality of being a hero but that it's not required. This is because some heroes (ex. A Knight) only save people because they are required to by duty, not because it's just something they want to do. I agree with the cognitive explanations for altruism, I am a very empathic person and when I see others struggling I imagine that if I were in that same situation I would want someone to help me therefore I help them. I also believe the way you were raised plays a big role in it, my family has always been less fortunate but they're the most caring and generous people I know, even when were struggling we still help everyone around us.

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This passage acknowledges the scientific hypotheses for altruism but states he beliefs it is based on empathy and connectedness. He says it could be a biological trait passed down from when humans lived with smalls groups of people or that we do it for praise but he doesn't necessarily agree with those statements. Pure altruism is doing something for the sole purpose of helping someone, not for any benefit towards yourself. He believes the root for it is empathy and connectedness. He tries to convince us that pure altruism is real and doesn't always have to have a deeper meaning than wanting to help someone.