What is a hero? What makes a person a hero? Is my hero everyone’s hero? According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word hero is defined as “A man (or occas. a woman) generally admired or acclaimed for great qualities or achievements in any field” (Pearsall et al., 2014, parp. 3b). I think a hero or heroine is an individual who is caring, inspiring, selfless and who make a difference and sacrifices their time to someone else. However, the person that I call my hero does not have to be everyone’s hero, because everyone has their own personal preferences, values and opinions. Moira Kelly and Audrey Hepburn are my heroines, but I think Hepburn was more inspirational in bringing about change to the world.
Due to many causes, Moira Kelly, an Australian humanitarian worker and ambassador for Carers Victoria, devoted her life to help the wounded and sick children in the world. The first reason, according to Kile is that as a child Kelly was influenced by Mother Teresa’s documentary, so
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One important effect is that both of them inspired many organizations and people to make a difference to help those in need. Hepburn’s sons, Sean and Luca created Audrey Hepburn Children 's Fund to continue her work (Ferrer, 1994). Second, Kelly saved and changed countless lives and communities from suffering and death around the world. According to Carers Victoria (2013), Krishna Emmanuel, Ahmed Mustafa and the former conjoined twins Trishna and Krishna were all in orphanages and she became the legal guardian and mother for them, which made a difference to their lives. In the same way, Hepburn helped children with water, food and medical services in several countries (Karim, 2014). Another result is that Hepburn and Kelly worked tirelessly to help those less fortunate, and made people around them feel happy and proud and gave them hope wherever they