Myths and heroes

I have to present the notion of «myth and heroes»

Firt of all i would like to give a quick definition of that notion. A myth is a story that may or may not be true. There may not be records or other proof that they happened, but at least some parts of myths may be true.All culturs have myths and this mythology has been developped over time. Mythology inclused the legends of our history, our religions, stories of how the world was created, and our hereos. A hero is a person who is admired for their courage, outsanding archievements, or noble qualities. It can be the main character in a book or a film or a person with superhuman qualities. It can also be a modern-day hero, a person who has performed a heroic act or simply our own personal hero, our role model, who we look up to.

Now I going speak of Rosa Lee Park, she is an iconic figure in the fight against racial segregation in the United-States. In 1st december 1955, Rosa Lee Parks a seamstress aged 42, get on a bus and take a seat at the front, to come back at her home. The bus was full and all ranks reserved for blacks were occupied. Since the nineteenth century, the "Jim Crow" laws imposed a strict segregation of society, forbidding people of color to marry whites or share the same seats in public transport. At this moment a white man get on a bus and the bus driver demands that she give him the place. Rosa lee parks tired of giving way, refuses. She is immediately arrested by the police and fined $ 14. "Some say I did not get up just because I was tired," she said in an interview a few years ago. This is not true. I was not physically tired, or at least no more than after any other day of work. But I was tired of giving up. " The next day, Edgar Daniel Nixon, a leader of the black community with whom she had collaborated, comes to pay her deposit. He then organized the Montgomery bus boycott with the help of a still unknown Baptist young pastor named Martin Luther King Jr. In order to bring together the many civil rights initiatives that are emerging, the Association for Montgomery's progress (MIA) is created. Luther King takes the lead and continues, with Rosa Parks, the struggle for the civil rights of black citizens. This boycott during more than a year. The Mayor of Montgomery then appealed the decision, but on November 13, the Supreme Court upheld the verdict. Segregation in public transport is declared unconstitutional, and the boycott ends the next day. But violent quarrels erupt between segregationists and civil rights advocates. Martin Luther King began to preach the use of non-violence. After this event, in 1957, Rosa Parks and her husband, who had been threatened, had to leave Alabama. They settled in Detroit, Michigan. She dies on October 24 2005. Rosa Parks will remain a big name in the history of the fight against discrimination.

In my opinion the courage of this woman testifies that each of us has the ability to help build a better and more just world. And I suppose that without it and without this struggle against segregation there might never have been a black president.

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