Karen Monrreal

The word courage is defined as mental or moral strenght, venture, preserve, and to withstand danger, fear, or difficulty. In my own words I thinhk that hte word courage means when you are not scared to do something, to stand up for you beliefs. Courage implies to firmness of the mind and will in the face of danger or extreme difficulty. the word is neither Greek nor Latin it's medieval, old french meaning heart and spirit. courage in Italian is coraggio, in Dutch it's moed, and in German its mut. In the book The Giver Jonas gets the courage to runaway from his community. So once again the word is defined on how Jonas felt good about himself and he was confident about what he was going to do. He went ahead and tried to find elsewhere no matter what it took. In the story Shooting an Elephant he has moral courage to go against what everyone believes he should do. In both stories they have the courage to do what not a lot of people do. Here are some quotes in which the word courage is being used: " You dont develop courage by being happy in your relationship everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and adversity." Barbara De Angelis. " Often the test of courage is not to die, but to live." Conte Vittorio, " We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear." Martin Luther King Jr. "Courage is the resistance to fear, mastery of fear not the absence of fear." Mark Twain. Some internet sites that have used the word courage are as follows: www.goodcharacter.com It takes a lot of courage to stand up for what's right when we stand alone. The word courage is being used as a symbol of how strong a person might and should be. www.fastcompany.com courage is like a muscle, the more we exercise it the stronger it gets. The word is being used as a figgure of speech, saying that if we all have alot of courage we will be really strong people. www.stevepavling.com In our day-to-day lives, the virtue of courage doesnt receive much attetion. In this website the word is being used as an example of how people thake courage for granted. www.indianchild.com Courage is not something that comes from flying to your heart in moments of need or in emergencies. This means that you need to be strong enough to have courage that it's not going to come when you need it.