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Courage is bravery , doing something new or being strong. Every time I go to Washington, Georgia I visit my cousin. When I see her , she cries. She cries because I look like her daughter who died at the age three because of being very ill. I’m always strong enough to not cry with her, all I do is walk over there , smile , and give her a hug. The opposite of courage is being a coward, chickening out of things, not standing up for yourself. Everyone has once , in their life backed out of something because they were scared. Going skydiving is something I would back out of myself, plenty of other things too. Skydiving is very life risking, if you are not paying attention when it's time to pull the string. The reason people are cowards are because they are too scared and they want to be more careful. …show more content…
He had cancer, but he hasn't gone five years without so no one knows if it gone for sure. He stands up for himself a lot, which shows a lot about a person. On page seventeen in the book “After Ever After” Jeffery says, “When we were in the seventh grade, this one kid named Tim said it wasn't fair, and had just lost his mind right in the middle of social studies. He was all like , “Not fair? Oh, Im sorry i get this lovely laptop when all you get is the ability to walk, control your hands, and know youll probably survive until your eighteenth

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