1. I would consider Diana Latiker, from Chicago, to be the most Heroic. In a city where violence is strong, especially among African Americans, Latiker offered her home to keep teenagers off the streets and getting into trouble. Latiker, like many, in her youth, dropped out of school and began having children, but she was able to turn her life around and was able to use her life experience and love for children, to connect with teens off of the streets. Her effort in the Roseland community, may afforded someone their life, kept someone out of jail or in gangs or off the streets. She provides teens with the experience to do something better, and that's heroic. 2. My hero of 2011, and al my life, would be my mother. My mother has devoted her whole
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