presentation created for the Literature Workshop: Creating a Contemporary Hero

1. HEROES

2. What’s a hero?
“Aquel individuo ilustre y famoso por sus
hazañas o virtudes.”
“Personaje principal de un poema o relato en
qué se representa una acción”.
“En la mitología antigua, el nacido de un dios
o una diosa y de una persona humana:
Hércules, Aquiles,…..”
Diccionario de la Real Academia de la Lengua
Española

3. · Un héroe es todo aquel que hace lo que
puede. Romain Rolland (1866-1944), escritor francés
galardonado con el Premio Nobel.
· Un héroe lo es en todos sentidos y
maneras, y ante todo, en el corazón y en el
alma. Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Historiador, pensador y
ensayista inglés.
· No hay héroe en la soledad; los actos
sublimes están determinados siempre por el
entusiasmo de muchos. Eliphas Lévi (1810-1875)
Mago y escritor ocultista francés.

4. Some HEROES from
the past, the legend,
the science fiction….

5. Aquiles fury. Coypel. S. XVIII.

6. King Arthur
French Rennaissance tapestry

7. El Cid Campeador
Monument in Burgos

8. Thor
Thunder god in northern and german countries

9. Are there still heroes?
The hero in today’s world.
We are prosposing some
examples.
What do you think?
Can we consider the following
people today’s heroes?

10. ¿Pseudo-heroes, celebrities,...or
real heroes?
Cristiano Ronaldo
Justin Bieber

11. Paris Hilton Angelina Jolie

12. Some contemporary
heroes

13. Mahatma
(big spirit)
Gandhi
He was the
preeminent leader
of Indian
nationalism in
British ruled India.
Employing non-
violent civil
disobedience,
Gandhi led India to
independence and
inspired
movements for civil
rights and freedom
across the world

14. Martin Luther King
He was an American clergyman, activist, and prominent leader in
the African-American Civil Rights Movement.

15. Nelson Mandela
President of South
Africa from 1994 to
1999, and was the
first South African
president to be
elected in a fully
representative
democratic election.
Before his presidency,
Mandela was a militant
anti-apartheid activist.
As president, he
frequently gave
priority to
reconciliation, while
introducing policies
aimed at combating
poverty and inequality
in South Africa.

16. Aung San Suu
Kyi
She is a Burmeses opposition
politician and the General
Secretary of the National
League for Democracy. Suu
Kyi received the Nobel Peace
Prizee in 1991.

17. Superbarrio Gómez , the poor
poverty hero
He’s not fast as a plane.
He’s not strong as an
elephant.
He can’t stop a train but
whenever there’s donde
hay un desahucio siempre
estará él,
Superbarrio Gómez is a
social activist in México
belonging to an
organization fighting in
favour of houses for
everybody. In several
interviews he’s declared
that his aim is to defend
and protect ha declarado
que su misión es defender
and protect ordinary
people’s rights

18. Some heroes in 2011
http://edition.cnn.com/
SPECIALS/cnn.heroes/
2012.heroes/index.html

19. Pushpa Basnet
CHAMPIONING CHILDREN
Pushpa Basnet
was shocked to
learn that
children in Nepal
were living in
prisons with their
parents. In 2005,
she started a
children's center
that has provided
support, such as
housing,
education and
medical care, to
more than 100
children of
incarcerated
parents.

20. Benjamin LaBrot
MEDICAL MARVEL
Dr. Benjamin
LaBrot started
Floating Doctors,
a nonprofit that
travels by sea to
provide free
health care for
people in remote
coastal areas. In
the last two
years, LaBrot and
his volunteer
team have
treated nearly
13,000 patients
in Haiti,
Honduras and
Panama

21. Iraq war veteran
Jake Wood
started Team
Rubicon, a
nonprofit that
brings military
veterans
together to help
communities hit
by natural
disasters. Since
2010, the group
has grown to
1,400 volunteers
and carried out
14 missions
around the world

22. EL MUNDO.ES
11-01-2012
So that the diabetes
her daughter and a
13% of the Spanish
population suffer
can still be
investigated, she’s
held charities, sold
T-shirts and has
been able to collect
more than 7.000
euros to pay for the
investigator,Silvia,
salary, until April

23. Here you’ll be able to
nominate somebody to
be your 2012 hero
http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/
cnn.heroes/2012.nom/esp/
index.html

24. Collective heroes
When we are the heroes......

25. The “Arab spring”
Revolutions , popular riots new in history, in favour of
democracy in the Arab world.. started in 2010 in Northern Africa

26. The 15-M Movement
También llamado
movimiento de los
indignados, es un
movimiento
ciudadano formado a
raíz del 15 de mayo
de 2011 con una
serie de protestas
pacíficas en España
con la intención de
promover una
democracia más
participativa y real,
alejada del
bipartidismo y del
dominio de bancos y
grandes empresas
capitalistas.

27. Los estudiantes…
IES Jaume Fluís Vives de Valencia
EL PAÍS. 21-02-2012. “Continúan las protestas contra la
actuación de la Policía Nacional con cargas y detenciones de
alumnos del Instituto IES Luís Vives de Valencia el pasado
miércoles 15 de febrero.”
“Los manifestantes protestan con libros en alto contra la violencia
policial en Valencia”

28. Ahora que ya conocemos
algunos héroes…., ¡a trabajar!

29. Some problems in
today’s world
that require
heroes

30. POWER AND WEALTH
ONLY FOR SOME PEOPLE
HUNGER

31. POVERTY
IMMIGRATION

32. WAR RELIGIOUS CONFLICTS

33. ENVIRONMENT
DESTRUCTION
GLOBAL WARMING

34. DRUGS ABUSE
VIOLENCE AGAINST
WOMEN

35. CONSUMERISM
FEEDING PROBLEMS

36. We already know the
problems and, so, the
possible objetives of our
hero.

37. OBJETIVeS
Allied partners
Antagonistic
enemies
POWERS - QUALITIES

38. Ok, It’s your turn. Work in teams to
create your hero. There are many
options to present it:
-In a graphic way (poster with drawings)
- An oral description.
- A short theatre representation
- Powerpoint
- Vídeo
- Any other way you find it’s interesting.
Cheer up!, we need heroes