Make groups of two or three people. Talk about an unknown  hero. Describe different aspects of his/her life. Find a picture and a video if there are any. Insist of all the qualities that this hero has. Speak for approximately 2 minutes each. Add a picture or a video if you can. For the video click on the link symbol(the third one). for the picture, add it to the document(first icon). 

He was born on 19 may of 1909 in London and died on 1st July 2015 in Slough in United Kingdom. He was a broker who saved the life of 669  jewish childrens before the Second World War.

Behind this hero hide a son of jewish parents . He lived in United Kingdom with his family. During the first World War, their surnames was hard to wear so they make the decision to change multiples times. They change from Wertheim to Winton to hope a better integration in the United Kingdom . Both of  his parents was intellectuals and comfortable off. But when his father died his family wasn’t have enough money for living. He has family who live in Germany.

https://youtu.be/6_nFuJAF5F0

She also have a cancer touching only children : alexandra scott

It all started with one front yard lemonade stand.

When she was just four years old, Alex held her first childhood cancer fundraiser in her front yard and raised over $2,000. By the time of her death in 2004, Alex raised $1 million and inspired a legacy of hope and cures for childhood cancer. 

Alexandra “Alex” Scott was born to Liz and Jay Scott in Manchester, Connecticut on January 18, 1996, the second of four children. Shortly before her first birthday, Alex was diagnosed with neuroblastoma, a type of childhood cancer.

On her first birthday, the doctors informed Alex’s parents that if she beat her cancer it was doubtful that she would ever walk again. Just two weeks later, Alex slightly moved her leg at her parents’ request to kick. This was the first indication of who she would turn out to be — a determined, courageous, confident and inspiring child with big dreams and big accomplishments.

ROCKLEIGH, N.J. – As the founding sponsor of Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation (ALSF), Volvo Cars of North America (VCNA) is launching an ongoing giving program starting Sept. 1. With the purchase of every new Volvo, participating Volvo retailers will donate $10 to ALSF, an organization that raises money for pediatric cancer research. September is National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, and Volvo is taking the opportunity to increase support and raise awareness for a cause close to the company’s heart.

The non-profit was started by Alexandra “Alex” Scott who, at the age of 4, held a lemonade stand to raise money to help find cures for other children with cancer. In 2004, Alex died of neuroblastoma, a cancer of the nervous system that occurs in infants and young children. Since Alex set up her first lemonade stand in 2000, the organization has raised more than $55 million to help children with cancer.

“Volvo’s incredible support dates back to the company’s role in propelling Alex to achieve her dream of raising $1 million toward the battle against childhood cancer,” said Jay Scott, Alex’s dad and co-executive director of ALSF. “Volvo has proven that it will continue to walk alongside us as we strive to reach Alex’s mission to cure all kids’ cancer. Their willingness to donate funds per-car-sold beginning in September is only further proof of this commitment.”

“Alex and her cause have touched our employees in a very emotional way for many years now,” said VCNA President & CEO John Maloney. “With this new program, every new Volvo sold helps support her dream. Our hope is that through our collective efforts we will be able to help medical experts get closer to a cure.”

Volvo will support the program with Public Service Announcements and TV, radio and print ads. Across the country, Volvo retailers will be hosting their own lemonade stands to raise awareness and solicit donations from the local community to benefit ALSF.

Alex Scott and her lemonade stand first caught the attention of Volvo in 2002 when she received an inaugural Volvo for Life Award nomination. The awards program honored hometown heroes doing extraordinary things in their communities. Alex’s determination and unwavering support for pediatric cancer research earned her a Volvo for life Award at the 2003 ceremony in New York City. Despite her deteriorating health, Alex continued to raise money through her stands.

Shortly before her death in 2004, Alex set a remarkable goal: she wanted to raise $1 million to fight pediatric cancer. Following Alex’s inspirational example, thousands of lemonade stands and other fundraising events began popping up around the country to support her efforts. Sadly, Alex died August 1 at the age of eight, having raised an amazing $700,000. Before she died, Volvo promised to help Alex reach her $1 million goal, and along with other sponsors, the company’s employees and retailers did so in October of that year – by selling lemonade.

By the end of 2004, one little girl had made a world of difference, raising $1.5 million. To empower others to keep Alex’s legacy alive, Volvo is seeking to raise more money through their $10 Contribution Program to fund cutting-edge research projects into new treatments and cures for pediatric cancer. 

Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation (ALSF) emerged from the front yard lemonade stand of cancer patient Alexandra “Alex” Scott (1996-2004). In 2000, 4-year-old Alex announced that she wanted to hold a lemonade stand to raise money to help find a cure for all children with cancer. Since Alex held that first stand, the Foundation bearing her name has evolved into a national fundraising movement, complete with thousands of supporters across the country carrying on her legacy of hope. To date, Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation, a registered 501(c)3 charity, has raised more than $55 million toward fulfilling Alex’s dream of finding a cure, funding over 250 pediatric cancer research projects nationally. For more information on Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation, visit AlexsLemonade.org.

Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation has grown into a Foundation that has raised more than $250 million for childhood cancer and funded over 1,000 research projects that have saved the lives of kids fighting cancer with no treatment options left. Learn about our journey.

Many of you think of Alex as a hero – the sweet and courageous lemonade girl who inspired others to help children with cancer. Although she did not get the chance to live a long life, she showed us what it means to live a full life. Her bravery, strength and love of life continue to inspire us every day. She is indeed our hero!

Since Alex was diagnosed in 1997, more than two million more children worldwide have suffered because of cancer. These kids all have hopes and dreams of long lives. They have parents, brothers and sisters, grandparents and cousins who cherish them. They all inspire those who know them with their bravery, strength, and love of life. They are all heroes.

Alexandra "Alex" Scott was born in Manchester, Connecticut on January 18, 1996. Shortly before her first birthday, Alex was diagnosed with neuroblastoma, a type of childhood cancer.

On her first birthday, doctors informed Alex's parents, Liz and Jay Scott, that if she beat her cancer it was doubtful that she would ever walk again. Just two weeks later, Alex slightly moved her leg at her parents' request to kick. This was the first indication of who she would turn out to be - a determined, courageous, confident and inspiring child with big dreams and big accomplishments.

By her second birthday, Alex was crawling and able to stand up with leg braces. She worked hard to gain strength and to learn how to walk. She appeared to be beating the odds, until the shattering discovery within the next year that her tumors had started growing again. In the year 2000, the day after her fourth birthday, Alex received a stem cell transplant and informed her mother, "when I get out of the hospital I want to have a lemonade stand." She said she wanted to give the money to doctors to allow them to "help other kids, like they helped me." True to her word, she held her first lemonade stand later that year with the help of her older brother, Patrick, and raised an amazing $2,000 for "her hospital."

While bravely battling her own cancer, Alex and her family – including her two younger brothers, Eddie and Joey - continued to hold yearly lemonade stands in her front yard to benefit childhood cancer research. News spread of the remarkable sick child dedicated to helping other sick children. People from all over the world, moved by her story, held their own lemonade stands and donated the proceeds to Alex and her cause.

In August of 2004, Alex passed away at the age of 8, knowing that, with the help of others, she had raised more than $1 million to help find a cure for the disease that took her life. Alex's family, friends and supporters around the world are committed to continuing her inspiring legacy through Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation.

https://www.alexslemonade.org/hero/alexandra-alex-scott

This act, immortalized by a video, makes the buzz on social networks and earns Mamoudou Gassama several marks of recognition including a reception by the President of the French Republic, Emmanuel Macron at the Élysée, by the President of Mali, Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta at the palace of Koulouba and obtaining French nationality. His status as a foreigner in an irregular situation at the time of the facts feeds the French public debate on the migration crisis. 

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But sadly, his determination and his strength haven’t been understood by everyone.... Actually a hunter thought that Berry was a menacing wolf and shot him. He died and finally has been stuffed and preserved in Bern’s museum.

[Woman Saves Family of 6 From House Fire - Bing video]

[melty - Cette femme a sauvé la vie de ses voisins ! - Bing video]

 

On the January 1st of 2021, in Arizona (united states of America), Carolyn PALISCH helped saving her neighbours. She is a nurse of sixty-three years old, and one morning she woked up early and saw some smoke from the house of her neighbours. She quicly realise that the house was on fire, and she immediatly tried to rescue the victims of this fire.

 

She wasn’t even dressed, only a bathrobe, but she didn’t care : she ran to the house and banged on the door loudly to wake up her neighbours, a family of six with four children.

 

Then she went inside and looked for each member of the family, to make them going out one by one, before they get hurt.

 

Nicole Salgado, one of the victims, said she was glad Carolyn was sp persistent and keep tried to wake up them and didn’t give up. 

Gavin was drying off on the poarch of his house when he heard a spash. His mom, Lori Keeney, was swimming by herself in the pool, began convulsing and started to drown. He ran over to help, jumped in the water and took her to the ladder while keeping her head above the water so she could breathe, keeping her safe until her father arrived to help.

He was awarded a prize for saving a life by the local police department, in front of his classmates. Gavin’s mom considers him her hero as Gavin saved her life once before.

The firemen belong to an army of unfortunate people, called "liquidators", who will follow one another on the site of the power plant and around - where an exclusion perimeter of 30 kilometers was decided - in order to decontaminate everything.

A prolonged drought in the deep south of the island has left 1.3 million people struggling to find food and 28,000 facing starvation. Some have called it the world's first famine caused by climate change, though this has been disputed.

But Loharano's village, Tsimanananda, where she is a community leader, has been spared the worst.

Loharano's smile lights up the space around her. She is short and gentle - not the first person you would pick out as the leader in her neighbourhood. 

But she quickly invites me into her compound, making me feel at home. 

"We suffered a lot from hunger. We planted but it failed every time," the 43-year-old says, reflecting on a previous drought that started in 2013. But with the help of a local charity, the Agro-ecological Centre of the South (CTAS), this time things are very different. 

Shortly after I arrive, Loharano leads a short class under the shade of a tree. 

Armed with a poster illustrating farming techniques, she talks to her neighbours, and her husband Mandilimana, about drought-resistant crops and techniques to revitalise the soil.

The recent influential World Weather Attribution report on the drought in Madagascar, which included work from Dr Rondro Barimalala, a Malagasy climate scientist, disputed this.

Researchers found that though the recent rains have been poor and the probability of future droughts may be on the rise, the change in rainfall cannot be attributed to human impact on the climate. 

Regardless of the exact cause of the lack of rain, there is no doubt that hundreds of thousands of people will be living with its impact for years to come.

Through her work to improve her village, Loharano is happy her community has avoided the disaster many are facing right now.

But it hurts her to see many more cannot be helped. 

"I feel sad for them because they could die of hunger. One day, somebody had nothing and I asked her why. 

"She said that they hadn't eaten since the day before. So I told her to take some of my peas and feed her kids."

Narongsak Osotanakorn and his team rescued twelve trapped boys and there coatch from the Tham Luang cave (Thailand). 
 These rescuers are heroes because they put their lives in danger to save these trapped youngsters.

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Rebecca Lee Crumpler was the first African American woman to receive a Medical Degree (MD) in the US, Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler fought the prejudice that forbid African Americans and women from doing a medical careers. Dr. Crumpler and her life story is still being written.

Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler was born in 1831 in Christiana. Her childhood was spent with an aunt in Pennsylvania. Her aunt frequently help sick neighbors, and Crumpler accompanied her aunt on her workplace. In her book, she published in 1883 these experiences with her aunt who inspired her to go into medicine. Crumpler wrote, “Having been reared by a kind aunt in Pennsylvania, whose usefulness with the sick was continually sought, I early conceived a liking for, and sought every opportunity to be in a position to relieve the sufferings of others.”

Women played important roles during World War II. They Not only give their sons, husbands, fathers, and brothers to the war, they gave their time, energy, and some even gave their lives.

During WWII women worked in factories producing munitions, building ships, aeroplanes, in the auxiliary services as air-raid wardens, fire officers and evacuation officers, as drivers of fire engines, trains and trams, as conductors and as nurses.

Roger Gower

He was an anti-poaching pilot and he was killed in his helicopter by poachers on the end of april in 2016 in Tanzania. He was saving the life of his colleague before him, but unfortunately he died before the help could arrive.

He was working for the association Friedkin Conservation Fund. This association track down and arrest elephant poachers.

Friedkin Conservation fund (treasured-memory.com)

He was born into a poor family in Akure, Nigeria, in 1954. Despite his passion for mathematics, he had to drop out of school because his family, now war refugees, could no longer afford to send him to school. He earned a general education certificate from the University of London, and later degrees from George Washington University and the University of Maryland.

Having grown up in an oil-rich country and understanding how oil is drilled, he decided to make this problem the topic of his doctoral dissertation. Emeagwali decided that rather than using eight expensive supercomputers, he would use thousands of microprocessors to perform the calculation. Through his research, he found a machine called the "Connection Machine" at Los Alamos National Laboratory, and obtained permission to access this abandoned machine for nuclear experiments.

The key to his discovery was that he programmed each of the microprocessors to communicate to six neighboring microprocessors at the same time, which allowed him to speed up the process.

In addition to correctly calculating the amount of oil in the simulated reservoir, the machine was able to perform 3.1 billion calculations per second.

The success of this record-breaking experiment meant that there was now a practical and inexpensive way to use machines like this to communicate with each other around the world. Within a few years, the oil industry picked up the idea, then called the Hyperball International Network, creating a virtual global network for ultra-fast digital communication.

This discovery earned him the Gordon Bell Award from the Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers in 1989, considered the Nobel Prize of computing, and he was later hailed as one of the fathers of the Internet.

After that, He is one of the most respected people in France because wining the world cup make french people very enthousiatic so he become a national hero. Unfortunately, he also known for a bad action, the sadness but well-known « coup de boule » on Materazzi, an Italian player who insulted him during the 2006 world cup final. Because of his nervous reaction ,he sented off the game and France losed the game. We forgave to him very quickly because he stayed a people we love very much. This game is iconic because that was the last game of zinedine zidane’s career . 

10 years later , he became the Real Madrid’s manager and won 3 champions league(most famous competition in europe) with them. His performance make him entered easily in football history. He’s also the godfather of the ELA association lutting against leukodystrophy, a disease who destroys nervous system.

Finally , Zinédine Zidane is not just a football player, he is (in France) a person we love for his personnality and his charism.

The angel of Nanjing

His name is Chen Si, he was born in Suqian in 1968 ;

every week-ends he does 1500 metres of the big bridge nanjing on Yangtze.

He saved someone for the first time from suicide only at the age of 22, and dedicated his life to this job since 2003.

during an interview, he claimed that he saved around 412 people.

He did not do only one heroic act, he dedicated his life to it.

He even made a special room in his house for suicidal people who don’t have a place to sleep.

He lived in poverty as a child,wich permitted him to be more understanding about people’s desesperation. Then he left for nanjing and started an independant fruit stand wich was working really well

This bridge is the most popular place to commit suicide in the world because of its high

One time he saved a 68 yo lady,

He saves around 26 lives every years .

Chris Kyle was a Navy Seals soldier in the United States of America. He was considered like the best sniper of his generation. He killed 255 peoples in the 2003 Iraq War. . He was dead in February 2nd 2013 at Texas. 

Chris Kyle was born in Odessa, Texas. His father bought him his first firearm at the age of seven. He then gave him a shotgun with which they hunted pheasant, quail and deer. 

Kyle thought about becoming a professional cowboy and rodeoing wild horses, but in 1999 he joined the United States Navy. The terrorist attacks on the United States, particularly those of September 11, 2001, were a major reason for his involvement in the 2003 Iraq War. 

He made his first long-range kill during the initial battle, when he killed an Iraqi woman who was approaching a group of Marines with a live grenade in her hand.

During the Second Battle of Fallujah, when the Marines were facing several thousand insurgents, Kyle killed forty enemy fighters. Because of this record during his deployment to Ramadi, the military nicknamed him "The Legend", while the insurgents referred to him as "Al-Shaitan Al-Ramadi", in English : "the devil of Ramadi" and put a price on his head for 20,000 U.S. dollars, an amount that would later be raised to 80,000 dollars. They also posted signs highlighting the cross on his arm as a way to identify him. 

Why consired like a hero ?

He was consired like a hero because in America, he was liked by all the population because he was the best sniper of American History. 

He saved a lot of lives during the 2003 Iraq War. He killed a lot of terrorists and killed one of the best Sniper of Al-Qaïda. 

 
Today we are going to tell you about three heroes, doctors who have done actions worthy of a hero. 

Birma Kunwar, Emmanuel Cosmos Msoka et Judith Candiru. 

 
Source :  The unsung pandemic heroes | UNICEF

 
In the morning, Judith Candiru  heads to the maternity ward where she cares for premature babies. Through UNICEF-supported training, she’s able to support sick infants and ensure they thrive. 

 Throughout the pandemic, after consultations and finishing her rounds on the ward, she’ll head out into the local community either on a motorbike or on foot. 

Equipped with a megaphone, Candiru has been amplifying the message that COVID-19 vaccines are safe and important.

 
Birma Kunwar has been weaving her way up mountains and across suspended footbridges for years now. With a box of vaccines perched on her back, she ascends hilly pathways in the remote part of Nepal’s far west.  

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, Kunwar would collect lifesaving vaccines in the town of Khalanga, which is the district headquarters of the Darchula District.

Is not only a job for her, it’s a duty.  

 Emmanuel Cosmos Msoka is an innovator and an activist. It’s no coincidence that the 18-year-old from Tanzania invented a crucial hygiene tool during the pandemic that has a water theme to it.

His idea: a handwashing machine that uses foot pedals to function, in turn reducing the chance of spreading the virus. Since developing the technology, he’s been able to supply over 400 handwashing stations across northern Tanzania.  

when he was young, he was 11 years old, he left Salvador with his grandfather to go inthe USA to join his mother. He begin the travel in bus toward direction USA but he is undocument. So they should stop to the mexican border. They should cross the desert in the middle of the night, by foot with other people who were with the same problems. 

It’s very long and dangerous especially because it was very cold and they wasn’t prepare for temperature change. They had not good shoes for the travel, and it was uncomfortable. He remember that he could hear women crying, and complaining of pain in their legs. 

Among the group, there was Modesto, a man who share their story with Walter. Suddlenly Walter can’t continue to walk. Modesto help him, he pulled him up, put him on his back and started walking.

veterinary
An unsung hero is somewone who help people when they need help. Hero don’t need to have superpowers like Spiderman or to wear a cape like batman.An hero is kind,, courageous, calm and loves help people. It’s the volunteers who are the real unsung heroes of this event.

Our hero : Veterinary

The veterinarian is a doctor for animals. They vaccinate animals, administer anti-parasite products and treat all common illnesses suffered by animals.

doctor, american

 

 

UNSUNG HEROES
 
An unsung hero is somewone who help people when they need help. Hero don’t need to have superpowers like Spiderman or to wear a cape like batman.An hero is kind,, courageous, calm and loves help people. It’s the volunteers who are the real unsung heroes of this event.
 
 

Our hero : a veterinary
 
 

-          A veterinarian is a doctor for animals. They vaccinate animals, administer anti-parasite products and treat all common illnesses suffered by animals.

 

·         Meriem is a 31 years old french veterinarian. Since she was a little girl, she has dreamt of caring for wild animals. After seven years of study, Meriem has worked for twenty animals care centers. In 2018, she launches a project : a fifteen- month tour during which she went to meet passionate veterinarians like herself. Through the project, Meriem and her team have saved hundreds of animals of all species, including turtles, leopards and even elephants! Meriem always fights to save wildlife in a passionate ans comitted way, she is an unsung her .

Sadio Mané is a Senegalese soccer player born on April 10, 1992 in the village of Bambali, near Sédhiou. He plays as a winger and center forward for Bayern Munich.

 

He is currently considered one of the best players in the world and probably the best player in the history of the Senegalese soccer team.

 

He is known for his dribbling skills, speed, technique and vision. In 2009, he joined AS Génération Foot where he was quickly spotted by the partner club FC Metz. He signed his first professional contract with the French club in early 2012. The same year, his team was relegated and Mané left for Red Bull Salzburg.

 

In Austria, the Senegalese completely reveals himself and scores more than a goal every two games. He won two championships in as many seasons, even signing the double with the National Cup in 2014. Southampton FC signed him and Sadio confirmed his talent in the Premier League, continuing to score more than ten goals a year. In 2016, Liverpool FC made him the most expensive Senegalese player in history. He quickly imposed himself and completed his trophy cabinet.

 

Mané won his first major competitions with the Austrian championship in 2013 in Salzburg and the league and cup double the following year.

https://youtu.be/UsHoeAjzsnE?t=17

 

We want to present you the Melyna’s uncle, Yoann, because he is a heroe. When he was teenage boy, he went to the Mali for a humanitarian mission. It’s generally refers to a volunteer project abroad in the social field aimed at contributing to the common good: education, health, social justice…  The objective of this mission was to build housing for nurses. 

Mali is a state in West Africa Mali has often been confronted with difficulties: recurrent droughts and famines, dictatorships ect…

 

Today, we're going to tell you about Philipe B, a former member of the Gign. 

Born in 1979, Philipe was a bullied child. Mocked by his friends because of his atypical style, he was a withdrawn child. 

On December 26, 1994, at the age of 16, he followed live the assault by the GIGN men to put an end to the hostage taking of the Air France flight 8969 in Marignane. This was the decisive moment for him, he found his vocation.

In 2008, he had to neutralize a hostage taker in the prison of Fleury-Mérogis.

 

Unsung heroes :

It’s a person who helps strangers in real life. Who is helpful, who loves take care of everyone and someone who wants peace in the world. Also, is someone who is brave and don’t  going to hesitate to run for saving people.

Our hero : Simone Veil
Introduction :

Simone Veil was born in Nice in the Alpes-Maritimes on July 13, 1927 and died on June 30, 2017 in Paris. She is a French magistrate and stateswoman. Born into a Jewish family from Lorraine, she was deported to Auschwitz at the age of 16, during the Shoah, which is an extermination center against Jews by the Nazis at the time of the Second World War, where she lost her father, her brother and her mother. Simone Veil married Antoine Veil in 1946 and, after studying law and political science, joined the judiciary as a senior civil servant.

Why we think she’s a hero :

She created the law on Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy which represents her fight on behalf of women. In 1974, she was in charge of presenting a bill decriminalizing abortion. This text, which will earn her the thunderbolt of a part of the political class, is adopted on November 29, 1974 and comes into force on January 17, 1975.

The young man is a hero. A modern-day hero, rather. Bastien did something incredible for his young age. Indeed, while on holiday, the teenager did not hesitate to save two drowning adults. 

The young man was on his paddle when a swimmer called him. 

The young boy did not hesitate to help strangers in need. "He said to me 'I need your help, there is someone drowning'," Bastien explained. 

At that moment, the young hero reached the person in question, a man in his forties. The 13-year-old boy does not think. The man in question was actually trying to end his life. Indeed, he had hung a bucket full of stones around his neck ! Even though Bastien has trouble pulling it up, he finally manages to do so and lifts it onto the rocks beside them. 

But he quickly goes back to the first swimmer who had given the alert. Indeed, the latter also seemed to be having difficulty swimming. 

Finally, the second man managed to hold on to the young man's paddle. They will be safe until the end. 

This young hero was congratulated by the fire brigade and the lifeguards at sea. He even received the medal of the town of La Croix-Valmer for his heroic act. 

Sadio Mané is a hero because he gives  450 000 € to his country for build school, hospital, mosque in his home village. He took time to go in his home village despite the fact that there is little time to travel.

In his village named Bambaly Sadio Mané is a model for the habitants because he is humble, peaceful and nice. 

He is very appreciated by the people in his village.

"I did rather help people than have ten ferrari", Says Sadio MANÉ

Unsung hero : Mamoudou Gassama

introduction

Mamoudou Gassama, born on 1 January 1996 in Yaguine, in the Kayes region of Mali, is a naturalized French Malian personality. He became famous after climbing, on May 26, 2018, four floors of a Parisian building to save a four year old child clinging to a balcony.

This act, immortalized by a video, makes the buzz on social networks and earns Mamoudou Gassama several marks of recognition including a reception by the President of the French Republic, Emmanuel Macron at the Élysée, by the President of Mali, Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta at the palace of Koulouba and obtaining French nationality. His status as a foreigner in an irregular situation at the time of the facts feeds the French public debate on the migrationcrisis.

More detals:

On May 26, 2018, around 8 p.m., a crowd was formed in the 18th arrondissement of Paris. Passers-by see a child clinging to the outside of the railing of a balcony in a 4th-floor apartment, 20 m from the ground, after falling from the fifth floor and catching up to the floor of the dessous6. A man, Mamoudou Gassama, rushes, and in about thirty seconds manages to save the boy, 7 with the help of a neighbor, positioned on a adjoining balcony, which secures the child’s arm.

The investigation revealed that the four-year-old had been left unattended by his father to go shopping. A few months later, he was sentenced to three months in prison with a conditional sentence for taking away his parental obligations.

The rescue is filmed by mobile phones and the videos quickly go viral on the Internet, accumulating several million views in a few days8. The main television media also broadcast these videos massively.

Reconnaissance

On May 28, 2018, the President of the French Republic, Emmanuel Macron, receives Mamoudou Gassama at the Elysée Palace to personally thank him for his act of courage. He presented her with the Medal of Honour for her act of courage and dedication and announced her upcoming naturalization while telling her of the willingness of the Paris fire brigade to welcome her into its midst. On June 4, 2018, he received the Grand Vermeil Medal, the highest distinction of the city of Paris, from Mayor Anne Hidalgo.

On 16 June 2018, five years after leaving his native country, Mamoudou Gassama returned triumphantly to Bamako, where he was greeted by a cheerful crowd at the international airport and then received by the President of the Republic of Mali, Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta at the Koulouba palace. June 24, 2018. He obtained French nationality on 12 September 2018. Gassama also obtained accommodation in Montreuil.

 

Why did we choose this hero ?

we have chosen to speak of mamoudou gassama because we will consume his act as particularly heroic from a physical but also mental point of view, he showed strength and courage. And we also mean the child can also be considered a hero.

James Forman
We are going to present to talk about James Forman.

James Forman was born the 4th October 1928 in Chicago and died the 10th january 2005 in Washington. James Forman was an important African-American leader in the civil rights movement. He was active in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Black Panther Party, and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers.

He was born on 19 May of 1909 in London and died on 1st July 2015 in Slough in United Kingdom. He was a broker who saved the life of 669 jewish childrens before the Second World War.

Behind this hero hide a son of jewish parents. He lived in United Kingdom with his family. During the first World War, their surnames was hard to wear so they make the decision to change multiples times. They change from Wertheim to Winton to hope a better integration in the United Kingdom. Both of his parents was intellectuals and comfortable off. But when his father died his family wasn’t have enough money for living. He has family who live in Germany.

Shortly before Christmas 1938, Winton was planning to travel to Switzerland for a skiing holiday. Instead he decided to visit Prague to help his friend Martin Blake who is a teacher to assist in Jewish welfare work. Alongside the Czechoslovak Refugee Committe, The British and Canadian volunteers such as Winton, worked in organising to aid children from Jewish families at risk from the Nazies.

Back to London, he works with multiple associations to implement the Czech Kindertransport. It’s a humanitarian operation that consist in put jewish childrens from Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakian in English host family. The goal is to save them from concentration camp. The childrens make the trip in wagon and unfortunately some of them didn’t arrive at destination. All the childrens didn’t survive but a least he save 669 of them.

For his actions, Elizabeth II make him knight and in 2007 a movie who relate his story won an Emmy Awards. Also, he met some of the childrens he save and was really happy to see them. They childrens who grow and became adults were really grateful.

https://youtu.be/6_nFuJAF5F0

On the may 26th 2018, near 8pm, a crow formed itself at the bottom of a building. In fact, they’re all looking at a baby holding at the railing of a balcony on the 4th floor. At the same time, Mamoudou Gassama, after leaving his car, starts climbing the building, and in 30 seconds, manages to reach the baby, and save him with the help of a neighbor

The investigation revealed that the four-year-old child had been left without monitoring by his father who had gone shopping. A few months later, the father was sentenced to three months of suspended prison.

The rescue is filmed by cell phones and the videos quickly go viral on the Internet, accumulating several million views in a few days.

After that, On May 28, 2018, the French President, Emmanuel Macron, received Mamoudou Gassama at the Élysée Palace to personally thank him for his courage. He gave him the medal of honor for acts of courage and dedication and announced his upcoming naturalization while informing him of the Paris fire department's willingness to welcome him into its ranks. On June 4, 2018, he received the Grand Vermeil medal, the highest distinction of the city of Paris, from Mayor Anne Hidalgo

The firemen belong to an army of unfortunate people, called "liquidators", who will follow one another on the site of the power plant and around - where an exclusion perimeter of 30 kilometers was decided - in order to decontaminate everything.

 

We want to present to you the Melyna’s uncle, Yoann, because he is a heroe. When he was teenage boy, he went to the Mali for a humanitarian mission. It’s generally refers to a volunteer project abroad in the social field aimed at contributing to the common good : education, health, social justice…  The objective of this mission was to build housing for nurses better living conditions and attract more nurses to come.

Mali is a state in West Africa, and has often been confronted with difficulties: recurrent droughts and famines, dictatorships ect…

This project was organized with the ile de France and the town hall of his city thanks to the association Prevert . So he went to Mali for a month and he found that people had a simple life and that they were more united. He slept in a hut, on the floor . 

When he returned from his trip he felt happy to have done a good deed and to have helped the Malians and the nurses. He is a real heroe.

 

Fun fact, it was so hot in this country that in the morning, when it was 26 degrees, the children wore a down jacket because for them the temperature was not warm enough.

 

 

 

He’s considerate as the best boxer player in the world, he won 56 victories for a total of 61 fights. Nicknamed The Greatest, he becomes 3x world champion in his category. In 1999, he was crowned "Sportman of the century” and too "Sport Personality of the Century”.

Even if he won a lot of fights, it was for the fun because there was only one fight of which he could be most proud, the one of the civil rights movements.

 He refused to join the American Army to fight in Vietnam: “My conscience will not let me go and kill my brothers or poor starving people in the mud.” (M. Ali)
Samuel N. and Baptiste B.

Vladimir Tchachenok and Valeri Kodemtchouk. Their names will not mean anything to you. These men are however the first official victims of the explosion of the Soviet nuclear power plant of Chernobyl (Ukraine). Both were part of the handful of firefighters who came to extinguish a fire that they thought was commonplace. The first was extracted from the rubble, burned and irradiated, before indicating in a last breath where his colleague was standing. 

The firemen are part of an army of unfortunate people, called "liquidators", who will follow one another on the site of the power plant and around - where an exclusion perimeter of 30 kilometers has been decided - in order to decontaminate everything. 

 

They are heroes because thanks to their action as "liquidators" they have allowed the radiation not to spread beyond the delimited area, which allowed to save a great number of lives, to avoid another explosion and that the food or water is not contaminated which would have had as a consequence that people would have had an easier time developing cancer.

Niece of Kubilai Khan , who was a Mogolian emperor.The princess Khutulun was a woman warrior.

She was the best on her speciality which was the fight . Against female and male. 

Intelligent and powerful , she scared and impressed the other male of the tribu.

She was tall , and had a lot of muscles , raised as the traditional way of the mongolian , with archery , horse riding and wrestling , she became quicly the best of all her tribu.

As Hua Mulan , a chinese woman who became general of the chinese army and , on the war against  the nomadic tribe RuanRuan. She showed to male that woman can be strong like and even more that a man. Smart like them and even more. 

Khutulun is the representation of a hero to us when we heard her history.

To us an hero is someone who inspired us , with his kindness or his strenght or his fights or his intelligence and what he represents.

Khutulun represents strenght with how she fights. 

On the front she was fighting with her body and only her body .

She was fighting man with only her body and her intelligence.

Khutulun represents feminism with just how she was.

She said to her dad who wanted to her to marry someone , that she will only if he can win against her , and if he fails he will give 100 horses , and , in her life she accumulates more that 10 000 HORSES.

She represents intelligence. 

She was the military strategist of the tribu of her dad.

She was stronger , she was smarter she was better than the other , man and female and she prooved it on her life.

She is a role model for everyone , men and women , boys and girls.

Her life and her exploits give the message that you can do if you want , that this is not your gender who will changes anything , that you can have and that you need someone or a situation that you deserve. And to us , this is impotant.

 

 

[Woman Saves Family of 6 From House Fire - Bing video]

[melty - Cette femme a sauvé la vie de ses voisins ! - Bing video]

 

On the January 1st of 2021, in Arizona (in United States of America), Carolyn PALISCH helped saving her neighbours. She is a nurse of sixty-three years old, and one morning she woked up early and saw some smoke from the house of her neighbours. She quickly realized that the house was on fire, and she immediately tried to rescue the victims of this fire.

 

She wasn’t even dressed, only a bathrobe, but she didn’t care she ran to the house and banged on the door loudly to wake up her neighbours, a family of six with four children.

 

Then she went inside and looked for each member of the family, to make them go out one by one, before they get hurt and before the house burns. All this heroic action has been filmed by the doorbell, which had a camera.

 

Nicole Salgado, one of the victims, said she was glad Carolyn was so persistent and keep tried to wake up them and didn’t give up. She added that the roof of the house collapsed, and smoke invaded the interior of the house.

 

Carolyn stayed with the family while the firefighters were putting out the flames. She said that when Nicole had an emotional panic attack, she "activated the nurse mode”. 

 

When the firefighters said to the family that if they weren’t gone out when they did thanks to Carolyn, they would be dead, Nicole Salgado said “We are so grateful to that angel who saved our lives”.

 

Usually, an unsung hero is someone who does great deeds but receives little or no recognition for them. But Carolyn received a lot of recognition: from the family but also from the entire world, because of the mediatization of the situation. A neighbor published a viral video on the social media TikTok, so many people knew the brave action. But still, that lady is a hero, because she saved lives without wanted anything back: she just did the right action in the right time.

We are going to tell you the story of our Unsung heroine.

Her name is Alexandra Scott, or « Alex », she was born in Manchester, Connecticut on January 18, 1996. 

Shortly before her first birthday, Alex was diagnosed with neuroblastoma, a type of childhood cancer.

On her first birthday, doctors informed Alex's parents, that if she beat her cancer it was doubtful that she would ever walk again.

By her second birthday, Alex was crawling and able to stand up with leg braces. She worked hard to gain strength and to learn how to walk. She appeared to be beating the odds, but the next year, her tumors had started growing again. 

In the year 2000, the day after her fourth birthday, Alex received a stem cell transplant and informed her mother, "when I get out of the hospital I want to have a lemonade stand." She said she wanted to give the money to doctors to allow them to "help other kids, like they helped me." True to her word, she held her first lemonade stand later that year with her older brother and raised an amazing $2,000 for "her hospital."

While bravely battling her own cancer, Alex and her family continued to hold yearly lemonade stands in her front yard to benefit childhood cancer research. News spread of the remarkable sick child dedicated to helping other sick children. People from all over the world, moved by her story, held their own lemonade stands and donated the proceeds to Alex and her cause.

Shortly before her death in august of 2004, Alex set a remarkable goal: she wanted to raise $1 million. 

Alex passed away at the age of 8, knowing that, with the help of others, she had raised more than $1 million to help find a cure for the disease that took her life. Alex's family, friends and supporters around the world are committed to continuing her inspiring legacy through Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation.

About Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation

Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation (ALSF) emerged from the front yard lemonade stand of cancer patient Alexandra “Alex” Scott (1996-2004). In 2000, 4-year-old Alex announced that she wanted to hold a lemonade stand to raise money to help find a cure for all children with cancer. Since Alex held that first stand, the Foundation bearing her name has evolved into a national fundraising movement, complete with thousands of supporters across the country carrying on her legacy of hope. To date, Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation, has raised more than $55 million toward fulfilling Alex’s dream of finding a cure, funding over 250 pediatric cancer research projects nationally.

Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation has grown into a Foundation that has raised more than $250 million for childhood cancer and funded over 1,000 research projects that have saved the lives of kids fighting cancer with no treatment options left.

Many of you think of Alex as a hero – the sweet and courageous lemonade girl who inspired others to help children with cancer. Although she did not get the chance to live a long life, she showed us what it means to live a full life. Her bravery, strength and love of life continue to inspire us every day. She is indeed our hero!

Since Alex was diagnosed in 1997, more than two million more children worldwide have suffered because of cancer. These kids all have hopes and dreams of long lives. They have parents, brothers and sisters, grandparents and cousins who cherish them. They all inspire those who know them with their bravery, strength, and love of life. They are all heroes.

“Volvo’s incredible support dates back to the company’s role in propelling Alex to achieve her dream of raising $1 million toward the battle against childhood cancer,” said Jay Scott, Alex’s dad and co-executive director of ALSF.

The story begins in 1951, James Harrison is only 14 years old, yet he has just undergone major chest surgery that forces surgeons to remove a lung. When he learns that his survival is due to the many transfusions he has received, he decides to become a donor himself and save lives. But why is James Harrison's blood so special? The antibody it naturally produces prevents haemolytic disease in newborns.

 When the mother is Rh negative and her baby (still in the womb) is Rh positive, an adverse reaction occurs. At that time, Australian law did not allow minors to donate blood and James had to wait four years before he could do so. Doctors discovered that his plasma contained the antibodies needed to make an injection that would save the lives of thousands of babies. Until 1967, 17% of pregnant women were affected by haemolytic disease of the newborn (HDN), causing thousands of infant deaths. This disease causes miscarriages or the birth of babies with severe brain damage. This injection has proven to be effective in 99% of cases. 

With a total of 1,173 plasma donations

Since blood plasma can be donated every 2 weeks, he made his 1000th donation in May 2011. he has donated blood on average once every 3 weeks for 57 years

On the occasion of World Blood Donor Day on 14 June, let's take a leaf out of James Harrison's book: let's give blood too.

Ironically, James Harrison had a panic fear of needles. But he made a promise to himself that was bigger and more important than any fear. 

 

Finally we are going to describe this picture, its a picture of his last blood test. It happened the 11 may of 2018 in a local of the red cross. He looks happy and proud of this latest catch and hopes that this record he brought will be broken to help the population. 

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Rebecca Lee Crumpler was the first African American woman to receive a Medical Degree (MD) in the US, Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler fought the prejudice that forbid African Americans and women from doing a medical careers. Dr. Crumpler and her life story is still being written.

Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler was born in 1831 in Christiana. Her childhood was spent with an aunt in Pennsylvania. Her aunt frequently help sick neighbors, and Crumpler accompanied her aunt on her workplace. In her book, she published in 1883 these experiences who inspired her to go into medicine.

By 1852, Crumpler had moved to Charlestown, Massachusetts to begin her medical career as a nurse. In the 1850s, there was no school where one could become licensed as a nurse (the first one opened in 1873), so she performed her medical duties without any formal education. Crumpler assisted several doctors in the Boston area for eight years. Her in life in Massachusetts ; Crumpler married Wyatt Lee, a Virginia laborer, in 1852 in Charlestown.

 In 1860, Crumpler became the first African American woman accepted to the New England Female Medical College in Boston. The College, established in 1848, was the first to award women. It was also unique in that it allowed Crumpler to attend as most medical schools barred all African Americans both men and women from attending. Crumpler worked diligently at her studies but had to take a leave of absence after two years to attend to her sick husband. After Wyatt died of tuberculosis in April 1863, Crumpler asked to re-enroll. Some of the faculty expressed worry regarding the amount of time it was taking her to finish her studies and were hesitant to let her come back, but several of the school’s patrons—who were all abolitionists advocated for Crumpler. On March 1, 1864, Crumpler received a “Doctress of Medicine” from the New England Female Medical College. She was 33 years old. She remains the only African American woman to receive a medical degree from the school, since in 1874 it merged with Boston University Medical School. Dr. Crumpler began practicing medicine in Boston. According to historian Vanessa Northington Gamble, at the time Dr. Crumpler received her degree, there were 54,543 physicians in the country; 270 of them were women all white and 180 were African American men.

In 1865, Dr. Crumpler married Arthur Crumpler in Boston. Arthur was a fugitive slave who had arrived in Boston in 1862 and then served in the Union Army during the Civil War. The Crumplers would have one daughter, Lizzie Sinclair Crumpler, in 1870, but it is believed she died young. Arthur would go on to work as a porter at West Newton English and Classical School. Arthur was also a student, taking night classes to learn to read and write at age 74. In 1891, the Boston Globe reported these classes made him the oldest student in Boston. Arthur died in 1910.

Dr. Crumpler received her degree just as the Civil War was ending. Millions of newly emancipated African Americans were in need of support, including medical care, and Dr. Crumpler wanted to help. The Crumplers went to Richmond where she worked with the Freedmen’s Bureau and other charity and missionary groups to care for formerly enslaved men, women, and children. The majority of her patients had no access to medical care beyond what the Freedmen’s Bureau and volunteers were willing to provide due to poverty, lack of resources, lack of connections, and racism. Dr. Crumpler felt Richmond would be "a proper field for real missionary work, and one that would present ample opportunities to become acquainted with the diseases of women and children." Dr. Crumpler continued to work despite the extreme sexism, racism, and rudeness she experienced from colleagues and others to treat her patients. The discrimination these African American patients experienced encouraged an increasing number of African Americans to pursue medicine.

The Crumplers returned to Boston in the late 1860s where Dr. Crumpler continued practicing medicine. Moving to Beacon Hill, a mainly African American neighborhood at the time, Dr. Crumpler saw patients in and around her house on Joy Street. She treated her patients regardless of their ability to pay. She also treated patients despite her troubles getting prescriptions filled by pharmacists, ridicule from administrators and doctors, and no admitting privileges to local hospitals because of her race. In 1880, the Crumplers moved to the Hyde Park neighborhood of Boston where Dr. Crumpler stopped practicing. In 1883, Dr. Crumpler published a book based on journal notes she kept during her years of practice. A Book of Medical Discourses is believed to be the first medical text written by an African American author. It described Dr. Crumpler’s experience as a doctor and covered topics such as maternal and child health, pregnancy, nursing, and teething. Scientific American magazine describes it as the forerunner to the famous What to Expect When You’re Expecting (1984).

Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler died of tumors on March 9, 1895, at age 64. She was buried in Fairview Cemetery in the Hyde Park neighborhood without a headstone. In 2019, a fund-raising campaign was started to give both Dr. Crumpler and Arthur, who was buried next to her, headstones; 125 years after her death, in 2020, those headstones were installed. Due to her work, Virginia’s governor declared March 30, 2019 “Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler Day.” Her Beacon Hill home is now a stop on the Boston Women’s Heritage Trail and one of the first medical communities for African American women is named the Rebecca Lee Society. Today, only 2% of practicing physicians identify as African American women.

There are no surviving pictures of Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler. Her perseverance and dedication to those in need still serves as an inspiration.

At the age of thirteen and out of school, Freda Josephine McDonald left the family home and was already working as a waitress. Three years earlier, she had already won her first dance competition.

At the age of fifteen, her distinctive dancing attracted so much interest that she was hired for a vaudeville show with the St. Louis Choir before heading to New York. On Broadway, she performed in revues such as The Chocolate Dandies in 1924.

 

The artist was 33 years old when the Second world war burst. She was French two years ago and she was ready to give her life for her country. Joséphine Baker was committed to the Free France(France libre)and against the Nazism. 

She wanted to help France so she asked the intelligence officer how she could help and she said: “Sir I want to give myself to France. Do with me what you want”. She had played the spy, she was all over Europe and passed sensitive documents to relays of the resistance in her suitcases or on her scores with invisible ink. 

And all her actions during the conflicts were rewarded to her, she got the medal of the French Resistance, The War Cross and the Legion of Honor.

At the end of the war, Josephine Baker returned to the United States to tour, but fell victim to the segregation in force at the time. This injustice led her to become actively involved in social justice in Europe as well as in America. In 1963, she participated in Martin Luther King’s march on Washington and gave a speech in he French army uniform, she was the only woman to give a speech. 

There were 12 of them and history has described them as the "rainbow tribe". Twelve children adopted in different parts of the world by the Bouillon-Baker couple between 1952 and 1964.

Having no children of her own, at the age of over forty, she formed the project of creating a family with children of all colours and raising them in fraternity and universalism.

In 1954, she brought Akio and Teruya from Japan, then Jari from Finland and Luis from Colombia. The couple then adopted two French children: Jean-Claude and Moïse. In 1956, they took in two children from Algeria: Brahim and Marianne, the family's first daughter. From his tour in West Africa in 1957, the artist brought back Koffi, a baby from the Ivory Coast. In 1959, after Mara, a Venezuelan Amerindian, Noël, so named because he was found in a bassinet in a Paris street at the end of the year, was taken in. Finally, a few years later, Stellina, abandoned at birth in France by a Moroccan friend of Joséphine Baker, became the second daughter and the twelfth child of the "rainbow tribe". All the children are raised with respect for their origins and the religions that Joséphine Baker has assigned to them.

At the age of thirteen and out of school, Freda Josephine McDonald left the family home and was already working as a waitress. Three years earlier, she had already won her first dance competition.

At the age of fifteen, her distinctive dancing attracted so much interest that she was hired for a vaudeville show with the St. Louis Choir before heading to New York. On Broadway, she performed in revues such as The Chocolate Dandies in 1924.

 

The artist was 33 years old when the Second world war burst. She was French two years ago and she was ready to give her life for her country. Joséphine Baker was committed to the Free France(France libre)and against the Nazism. 

She wanted to help France so she asked the intelligence officer how she could help and she said: “Sir I want to give myself to France. Do with me what you want”. She had played the spy, she was all over Europe and passed sensitive documents to relays of the resistance in her suitcases or on her scores with invisible ink. 

And all her actions during the conflicts were rewarded to her, she got the medal of the French Resistance, The War Cross and the Legion of Honor.

At the end of the war, Josephine Baker returned to the United States to tour, but fell victim to the segregation in force at the time. This injustice led her to become actively involved in social justice in Europe as well as in America. In 1963, she participated in Martin Luther King’s march on Washington and gave a speech in he French army uniform, she was the only woman to give a speech. 

There were 12 of them and history has described them as the "rainbow tribe". Twelve children adopted in different parts of the world by the Bouillon-Baker couple between 1952 and 1964.

Having no children of her own, at the age of over forty, she formed the project of creating a family with children of all colours and raising them in fraternity and universalism.

In 1954, she brought Akio and Teruya from Japan, then Jari from Finland and Luis from Colombia. The couple then adopted two French children: Jean-Claude and Moïse. In 1956, they took in two children from Algeria: Brahim and Marianne, the family's first daughter. From his tour in West Africa in 1957, the artist brought back Koffi, a baby from the Ivory Coast. In 1959, after Mara, a Venezuelan Amerindian, Noël, so named because he was found in a bassinet in a Paris street at the end of the year, was taken in. Finally, a few years later, Stellina, abandoned at birth in France by a Moroccan friend of Joséphine Baker, became the second daughter and the twelfth child of the "rainbow tribe". All the children are raised with respect for their origins and the religions that Joséphine Baker has assigned to them.
https://youtu.be/qMpGADWbXhY

Mali is a state in West Africa, and has often been confronted with difficulties: recurrent droughts and famines, dictatorships ect…

This project was organized with the ile de France and the town hall of his city thanks to the association Prevert. So he went to Mali for a month and he found that people had a simple life and that they were more united. He realized that in life there are many futile things like the phone that ultimately does not allow him to fully enjoy life. He slept in a hut, on the floor and it was a strange experience because  he always had the habit of sleeping in a bed .

When he returned from his trip he felt happy to have done a good deed and to have helped the Malians and the nurses just because he wanted to and not out of obligation. . He is a real heroe.

Fun fact, it was so hot in this country that in the morning, when it was 26 degrees, the children wore a down jacket because for them the temperature was not warm enough.

For me, a hero is distinguished by his outstanding qualities: moral qualities such as courage, generosity, sense of justice but also by his actions. He rarely fights for himself, for his own glory: he defends values, his country or a person he loves.

A leading figure of the Resistance during the Second World War, Jean Moulin was the youngest prefect in France in 1937. He opposed the German occupier from 1940 and created, under the aegis of General de Gaulle, the National Council of the Resistance. Tortured by the Gestapo, he died on July 8, 1943 in the train that took him to Germany.

Jean Moulin, born on June 20, 1899 in Béziers, studied law at the University of Montpellier. At the end of the First World War, he entered the prefectural administration, for which he became an example, before becoming its flag bearer. A man of many gifts, a scholar, a talented painter, a prestigious administrator, he showed a sovereign ease in all the fields of the mind and knew how to make himself loved by those who approached him, by his simplicity, his courtesy, and his passionate idealism. 

For me Jean Moulin is a hero because he fought for peace and freedom of France against Nazi Germany. He never gave up his ideals until his last breath.

In August 2018, a 13-year-old teenager, thanks to his courage and his paddle, saved the lives of two adults. The latter were drowning in La Croix-Valmer, in the Var. 

The young man is a hero. A modern-day hero, rather. Bastien did something incredible for his young age. Indeed, while on holiday, the teenager did not hesitate to save two drowning adults. 

The young man was on his paddle when a swimmer called him. 

The young boy did not hesitate to help strangers in need. "He said to me 'I need your help, there is someone drowning'," Bastien explained. 

At that moment, the young hero reached the person in question, a man in his forties. The 13-year-old boy does not think. The man in question was actually trying to end his life. Indeed, he had hung a bucket full of stones around his neck ! Even though Bastien has trouble pulling it up, he finally manages to do so and lifts it onto the rocks beside them. 

But he quickly goes back to the first swimmer who had given the alert. Indeed, the latter also seemed to be having difficulty swimming. 

Finally, the second man managed to hold on to the young man's paddle. They will be safe until the end. 

This young hero was congratulated by the fire brigade and the lifeguards at sea. He even received the medal of the town of La Croix-Valmer for his heroic act. 

 

 

 

 

Now, our next heroes, of the world war two: Between June 18 and 25, 1940, 9 French alpine fighters killed 5000 Italian soldiers during the battle of Pont Saint-Louis 

At midnight on June 10, 1940, the phony war came to an abrupt end on the southeast front. After months of inaction, Italy finally decided to launch an offensive on the French Alps. The casemate on the Pont Saint-Louis was on the front line, yet the atmosphere was calm. Messages were sent to invite the French to surrender, while everywhere else, the fighting continued.  

Behind the reinforced concrete walls, the nine men  were awaiting their orders. Buried in 12m2, they heard Pétain through their radio, their only link with the outside world. The Marshall called for a halt to the fighting. Although they no longer had running water and rationing had stopped, the soldiers were relieved by this news. But they will not leave their positions without direct orders from their superiors. The war is not over. 

In fact, the conflict had just begun for them. On 20 June at 8.00 am, seven Italians appeared on the other side of the bridge. They were greeted by gunfire from the alpine hunter Guzzi outside. Shortly afterwards, the armored gate was definitively locked as two hundred attackers launched an offensive. 

A shell exploded in front of the casemate, followed by a deluge of bullets. At the control of a machine-gun, Private Pétrillo returned fire but the weapon soon jammed. The enemy had to be prevented from crossing the bridge barrier at all costs. Otherwise, the fighters would no longer have a clear shot. Surrounded, the casemate would become their tomb. Support was requested from the artillery positioned at Cap Martin. The bombardment repelled the attackers. Such resistance was unexpected. 

The next day, around noon, Italian was heard from outside the casemate. The enemy was very close. A dozen men, led by an officer, surrounded the building. 

The French machine gun eventually pushed them back. On June 22, now assured of the French determination to defend the bridge, the enemy concentrated on other fronts. Deploying the bulk of its forces, it invaded Menton. The Pont Saint-Louis casemate, the last French defense, was isolated. 

On 23 June, the radio stopped working. But the fighters did not give up. They slid their grenades into the chutes. Firing their anti-tank guns, they blocked the way of the armored tanks. 

But on 25 June, calm fell on the whole front.  The armistice had been signed. 

At the other end of the bridge, the white flag was raised. 150 Italian soldiers paraded to celebrate their victory. Incredulous, Second Lieutenant Charles Gros finally came out of the pillbox to lay down his arms. Saluted by the enemy, the last nine defenders were cited in the Army Order.

But sadly, his determination and his strength haven’t been understood by everyone.... Actually, a hunter thought that Berry was a menacing wolf and shot him in 1806. He died and finally has been stuffed and preserved in Bern’s museum, where everyone can admire this hero.

 

 

Harriet Tubman (born Araminta Ross, c. March 1822^[1] – March 10, 1913) was an American abolitionist and social activist. Born into slavery, Tubman escaped and subsequently made some 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 enslaved people, including family and friends,^[2] using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad. During the American Civil War, she served as an armed scout and spy for the Union Army. In her later years, Tubman was an activist in the movement for women's suffrage.

Born enslaved in Dorchester County, Maryland, Tubman was beaten and whipped by her various masters as a child. Early in life, she suffered a traumatic head wound when an irate overseer threw a heavy metal weight intending to hit another enslaved person, but hit her instead. The injury caused dizziness, pain, and spells of hypersomnia, which occurred throughout her life. After her injury, Tubman began experiencing strange visions and vivid dreams, which she ascribed to premonitions from God. These experiences, combined with her Methodist upbringing, led her to become devoutly religious.

In 1849, Tubman escaped to Philadelphia, only to return to Maryland to rescue her family soon after. Slowly, one group at a time, she brought relatives with her out of the state, and eventually guided dozens of other enslaved people to freedom. Traveling by night and in extreme secrecy, Tubman (or "Moses", as she was called) "never lost a passenger".^[3] After the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was passed, she helped guide fugitives farther north into British North America (Canada), and helped newly freed enslaved people find work. 

 When the Civil War began, Tubman worked for the Union Army, first as a cook and nurse, and then as an armed scout and spy. The first woman to lead an armed expedition in the war, she guided the raid at Combahee Ferry, which liberated more than 700 enslaved people. After the war, she retired to the family home on property she had purchased in 1859 in Auburn, New York, where she cared for her aging parents. She was active in the women's suffrage movement until illness overtook her, and she had to be admitted to a home for elderly African Americans that she had helped to establish years earlier. She became an icon of courage and freedom.

 

Niece of Kubilai Khan , who was a Mogolian emperor.The princess Khutulun was a woman warrior.

She was the best on her speciality which was the fight. Against females and males. 

Intelligent and powerful, she scared and impressed the other males of the tribute.

She was tall, and had a lot of muscles, raised as the traditional way of the mongolian, with archery, horse riding and wrestling, she became quickly the best of all her tribu.

As Hua Mulan, a chinese woman who became general of the chinese army and, on the war against the nomadic tribe RuanRuan. She showed to men that women could be stronger than a man. Smart like them and even more. 

Khutulun is the representation of a hero to us when we heard her story.

To us an hero is someone who inspired us , with their kindness, their strenght, their fights or their intelligence and what they represents.

Khutulun represents strenght with how she fights. 

On the front she was fighting with her body and only her body.

She was fighting men with only her body and her intelligence.

Khutulun represents feminism with just how she was.

She said to her dad who wanted to her to marry someone, that she will only if he can win against her, and if he fails he would gave 100 horses, and, in her life she accumulates more that 10 000 horses.

She represents intelligence. 

She was the military strategist of her dad's tribu.

She was stronger, she was smarter she was better than the other, men and women and she prooved it on her life.

She is a role model for everyone, men and women, boys and girls.

Her life and her exploits give the message that you can do if you want, that this is not your gender who will changes anything, that you can have and that you need someone or a situation that you deserve. And to us, this is impotant.

After that, He is one of the most respected people in France because wining the world cup make french people very enthousiatic so he become a national hero. He has been for 6 years the favourite personality of french people. Unfortunately, he also known for a bad action, the sadness but well-known « coup de boule » on Materazzi, an Italian player who insulted him during the 2006 world cup final. Because of his nervous reaction ,he sented off the game and France losed the game. We forgave to him very quickly because he stayed a people we love very much. This game is iconic because that was the last game of zinedine zidane’s career . 

10 years later , he became the Real Madrid’s manager and won 3 champions league(most famous competition in europe) with them in a row. His performance make him entered easily in football history. He’s also the godfather of the ELA association lutting against leukodystrophy, a disease who destroys nervous system.

Finally , Zinédine Zidane is not just a football player, he is (in France) a person we love for his personnality and his charism.

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Hello everyone, first we are going to define what is an unsung hero for us. After we are going to presentate our hero and finally we are going to comment on a video of our hero.

An unsung hero is for us a person who helps strangers in real life. Who is helpful, daring, courageous who loves to take care of everyone and someone who wants peace in the world. Also, is someone who is brave and doesn't hesitate to run to save people’s lives.

 

Our hero : Simone Veil

So our hero is Simone Veil. She was born in Nice on July 13, 1927 and died on June 30, 2017 in Paris. She is a French magistrate and stateswoman. Born into a Jewish family from Lorraine, she was deported to Auschwitz at the age of 16, during the Shoah, which is an extermination center against Jews by the Nazis at the time of the Second World War, where she lost her father, her brother and her mother. Simone Veil married Antoine Veil in 1946 and, after studying law and political science, joined the judiciary as a senior civil servant.

 

Why we think she’s a hero :

We think she is a hero because she is a courageous woman in her tragic teenage years, Simone Veil is one of the most popular French political figures but she isn’t very well known in the rest of the world. Legalizing abortion in 1975, she was the first president of the European Parliament in 1979 and the first woman Minister of State in 1993, but also a member of the Constitutional Council in 1998.

 

Indeed, in 1968, she took over the direction of Civil Affairs at the National Assembly. She fights for equality between men and women, especially in the management of the couple's property. In 1969, under the presidency of Pompidou, she joined the cabinet of the Minister of Justice and distinguished herself in the debates in the Assembly on the family.

However, she created the law on Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy which represents her fight on behalf of women. This text, which will earn her the thunderbolt of a part of the political class, was adopted on November 29, 1974 and came into force on January 17, 1975.

Finally, thanks to all her achievements, Simone Veil entered the Pantheon on July 1, 2018.

comment video:
This video comes from Euronews which is a multilingual European television channel of international information. So the video is about a short summary of Simone Veil’s achievements. We can see her doing a speech. After she is in a catholic church and at the end we see her with the ex-president of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, at the moment who she was elected to the French Academy in 2008.

His story takes place in Swiss Alpes, where he saved many people during an avalanche. 
 The dog named Barry was born in 1800 in Switzerland. He is a Saint bernard. He was trained by a lifeguard dog handler. 

 In 1806, in Switzerland, He saved 41 persons during an enormous avalanche. The snow was falling fastly and Many many person did fall and get blocked in the snow. The snow rescue was called and Barry was one of them. He was brave and searched everyone to save them.He quickly became a national hero and he’s now known to be a courageous savior everywhere in Switzerland. 

 

But sadly, his determination and his strength haven’t been understood by everyone.... Actually, a hunter thought that Barry was a menacing wolf and shot him in 1806. He died and finally has been stuffed and preserved in Bern’s museum, where everyone can admire this hero.

There a plenty other stories about Barry who shows his courage and kindness.

 One of them recounts how one day during a terrible storm, Barry found a child asleep in a frozen cavern of ice. Barry licked the young boy to awaken him. Then the 7 years old boy grabbed hold of the dog, who carried the boy on his back to the monastery.The boy was brought back to full health and returned to his parents !!

Gavin Keeney, a 10 year old boy from Oklahoma, saved his mom from drowning after she had a seizure.

Gavin was drying off on the poarch of his house when he heard a splash. His mom, Lori Keeney, who was swimming by herself in the pool, began convulsing and started to drown. As their security camera footage shows, he runs over to help, jumps in the water and takes her to the ladder while keeping her head above the water so she could breathe, keeping her safe until her father finally arrived to help. 

Afterwards, Gavin’s mom says she is very proud of him but also heartbroken and fearful while seeing the footage.

Gavin was awarded a “Saving a Life” plaque by the local police and fire department, in front of all his classmates. Lori Keeney, Gavin’s mom, said he is used to helping her with her seizures and actually saved her life once before, and so she’s glad he’s getting some recognition.

Here is another case, this one on a dog that stops traffic to save her seizing owner.

Haley Moore had taken her dog Clover for a walk through the neighbourhood of Stittsville, Ottawa, when she suffered a sudden seizure.

Footage of the incident, from a neighbour’s security camera, shows Ms Moore walking with Clover on the side of the road when she appeared to stumble and fall onto a driveway. Clover, a large white Maremma mix, immediately checks on her owner and stands guard over her. Shortly after a first car passed, a second vehicle approaches from the other direction and Clover springs into action, moving into the middle of the road to block the driver’s path and forcing him to stop. The driver who stopped exited his truck and went to check on Ms Moore, with the dog keeping a close eye on him. 

Clover caught the attention of a second neighbour, who called 911, before running to Ms Moore’s home to get more help from her parents.The paramedics arrived shortly after and Ms Moore recovered from the incident, but it is still not known what caused the seizure. However, she is confident that if that ends up happening again Clover would be there to keep her safe. According to Mr Moore, Clover was rewarded for her quick action in saving her owner with steaks. He initially thought the steaks were for his dinner when his wife Diane returned home with them, but she told him: “No, it’s for Clover for doing such a great job.”

These were two of our heroes, courageous, altruistic and most of all, kind hearted.

Vladimir Tchachenok and Valeri Kodemtchouk. Their names will not mean anything to you. These men are however the first official victims of the explosion of the Soviet nuclear power plant of Chernobyl (Ukraine). Both were part of the handful of firefighters who came to extinguish a fire that they thought was commonplace. The first was extracted from the rubble, burned and irradiated, before indicating in a last breath where his colleague was standing. 

The firemen are part of an army of unfortunate people, called "liquidators", who will follow one another on the site of the power plant and around - where an exclusion perimeter of 30 kilometers has been decided - in order to decontaminate everything. 

The firefighters respond to the scene without special equipment. However, nuclear materials cannot be extinguished with water. The firemen, seriously irradiated, were evacuated and most of them died.

 

They are heroes because thanks to their action as "liquidators" they have allowed the radiation not to spread beyond the delimited area, which allowed to save a great number of lives, to avoid another explosion and that the food or water is not contaminated which would have had as a consequence that people would have had an easier time developing cancer.

13 peoples from the plant and 15 firemen died as a result of the Chernobyl accident through direct contact with radiation. 15 civilians died of cancer due to radiation exposure

In the week following the accident, the Soviet authorities evacuated more than 135,000 people from the surrounding communities, who had to be relocated later.

Photos of Chernobyl firefighters are exhibited in the Chernobyl Museum in Kiev.

He invented several techniques and medical methods such as a valve which is a kind of non-return valve, which allows the evacuation of blood and air from the thorax in the event of hemothorax and pneumothorax, it will be used a lot during the Vietnam War. He also invented a method of airway clearance that bears his name: the Heimlich method. In 2009, the New York Times estimated at 100,000 the number of people saved thanks to his famous maneuver in the United States alone. Thanks to his many techniques, methods, he saved more than 100,000 lives and that is why he is considered a hero. In June 1974, he will post an article that will make him famous. Heimlich chose to publish an article in the Journal of Emergency Medicine entitled "Pop Goes the Cafe Coronary," in which he proposed expelling bothersome objects by applying upward pressure to the stomach cavity to artificially compress the diaphragm and lungs to mimic the effect of a violent cough. In 1981, his wife helped him write the book Homeopathic Medicine At Home, where she gave homeopathic advice for treating minor injuries. In 2014, Heimlich published a memoir entitled Heimlich's Maneuvers: My Seventy Years Of Lifesaving Innovation.