Bravery In The Lakota Way

People face many different kinds of fear and have got to be brave. Police officers, firefighters, Emergency Medical Technicians (EMT’s), paramedics, and soldiers all have to be courageous to help people when they are in need. Police officers have to be bold every time they pull someone over and step out of their vehicles. Firefighters have to have bravery when they run into a burning house to try to find somebody. The EMT’s and paramedics have to be on the site of collisions or infernos or accidents; they must be exceptionally brave to be able to do their jobs. Soldiers are willing to fight for our country and protect it with their lives. Bravery is in everyone that has ever admitted to overcome a challenge in life. Many people think the only brave people are superheroes or people from the past who have accomplished great things in their lives. Bravery is more than just heroes and villains contending against each other in a movie; bravery is in

Bravery has many faces, it just depends on where you are looking; it might be in a student who has to stand up and speak a speech in front of the classroom, or in the everyday things.To face, wake up and deal with the same struggles people have everyday it takes courage. In the book The Lakota Way it speaks about bravery. The book tells about a boy named Hoka who became stronger than the rest of his tribe and was deadly with a bow, however, they made him stay back in the village instead of getting to go with the hunters. Hoka was brave enough to stay home and defend bear and coyotes from getting his tribe’s food supply. He had to do it alone and was something that needed to be done when no one else wanted to. Bravery is a great virtue because all of life has to have it whether it’s a broken heart, a tough decision, or a lost opportunity people are forced to be brave and overcome many