Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman is a heroine. For one thing, the woman has never backed down. She was a humanitatian, an abolitionist, and a conductor of the Underground Railroad. She helped free over seventy slaves by helping them cross the border into the north. She risked her life and freedom to help many people improve their lives. She is known as a heroine, not only for her great deeds or intent, but also because of her conquest over the obstacles against her at that time.
Being a woman was hard at that time she lived. Her rights were already limited as an African-American. Imagine that you glass is full. You are a human. Now you’re a black human, you’re glass is half full. Now you’re a black woman, and half of that is gone. You have a glass, one fourth full of rights. That is what Harriet Tubman had, and she went beyond it. She broke the laws of the time to achieve something greater, which is that all human life is real and should be respected.
I have a soft spot for females in history. I took a Women’s History class last semester, and it opened my eyes to how very few times women are mentioned in history. It also opened my eyes to the world from a woman’s perspective. I should’ve known the perspective, but suddenly I found myself questioning these laws, questioning from what people say is wrong and what is actually right. When I was young, I knew that Harriet Tubman was important and why, but I never understood what it meant for her to be mentioned in history. She was, in fact, a heroine known for her courage and great deeds.
Sammy pales in comparison to Harriet Tubman. Why, to even suggest that the two profiles be placed next to each other is an insult to Harriet Tubman. Yet it is good apply the word to numerous levels of good deeds and sizes of courage. However, I don’t perceive as Sammy to be a hero. I perceive him to be a fool. Sammy quits his job in the defense that the manager treated the girls unfairly. It sounds like a good reason at first, but a second thought makes it sound like a silly reason. The argument and the humiliation was over bathing suits and lewdness, not over lives. No one was hurt by the crime they were reprimanded for, but no one but a girl’s feelings were hurt by the reprimand. I’m sure there have been numerous times where Sammy has felt differently than the manager. Only now, does Sammy actually do something about it and only because there are pretty faces involved.
If Sammy possesses heroism, it is biased and unhealthy. He tells himself and others he does it for “little people” but really he is doing it to gain recognition and praise because he has led a mundane existences in a supermarket. Did Harriet Tubman free seventy people and more because she lack praise and attention? I don’t think so.