There may have been more defenders of the Alamo, but only 189 are known today. One of them was a black freedman, and nine were Tejano (Hispanic Texans). These nine Tejanos were the only ones listed as being from Texas (Flores, 2010). The others were from other states and even...

Chopin’s The Storm and The Story of an Hour tell stories of events and choices that would certainly be considered immoral from a religious or traditionalist perspective. As such, it would be difficult to label the characters responsible for these immoral choices as “heroes” in the traditional sense. Chopin had,...

1. In fact, when I read the stories about these two courageous men, who sacrificed their lives in 9/11 tragedy, I think of what I do on the daily basis. There is a single world that could best describe what both John Ryan and Welles Crowther did, which is COURAGEOUS....

As I was watching The Timeless of the Hero’s Journey, one of the speakers Robert Sharma said that all greatest works of literature and philosophy have what Joseph Campbell called “a hero’s journey.” It reminded me of the philosophical work I had read some time before. It was Voltaire’s Candide....

In his influential text The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell proposes the modern mythos of the hero’s journey, an archetypal structure that Campbell finds to be common to many literary narratives, dating back to the classics of western civilization and ancient oral traditions. Essentially, Campbell finds certain defining...