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The Profile in Courage Award is a private award given to people who display courage in a similar way to those John F. Kennedy described in his book Profiles in Courage. It is given to individuals (often elected officials) who, by acting in accord with their conscience, risked their careers or lives by pursuing a larger vision of the national ...
Articles relating to courage, the choice and willingness to confront agony, pain, danger, uncertainty, or intimidation. Valor is courage or bravery, especially in battle . Subcategories
Courage UK (originally Courage Trust), a nonprofit evangelical Christian organisation Courage, the mascot and the motto of the Second Cavalry Regiment , an Australian Army Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment
Inauguration in Madrid of a square named after Arturo Barea, March 2017. Barea was born in Badajoz, of humble origins. [2] His father died when he was four months old, so his mother, with four young children to support, worked as a laundress, washing clothes in the River Manzanares, while the family lived in a garret in the poor Lavapiés district of Madrid.
Volume 1: A Study of Courage and Fear (1967) Volume 2: Migrants, Sharecroppers, Mountaineers (1971) Volume 3: The South Goes North (1971) Volume 4: Eskimos, Chicanos, Indians (1977) ISBN 0-316-15162-9; Volume 5: Privileged Ones: The Well-Off and the Rich in America (1977) ISBN 0-316-15149-1
Culture of fear (or climate of fear) is the concept which describes the pervasive feeling of fear in a given group, often due to actions taken by leaders. The term was popularized by Frank Furedi [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and has been more recently popularized by the American sociologist Barry Glassner .
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than one's fear. The timid presume it is lack of fear that allows the brave to act when the timid do not. But to take action when one is not afraid is easy. To refrain when afraid is also easy. To take action regardless of fear is brave." [4]
The Honour medal for courage and devotion (French: "Médaille d’honneur pour acte de courage et de dévouement") is a French decoration than can be bestowed to individuals and whole units. It is awarded for acts of courage during a rescue. The Honour medal for courage and devotion was created on 2 March 1820 by King Louis XVIII.