role model: somebody to be copied, a worthy person who is a good example for other people
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Despite living as a girl in a traditional Chinese community she still tried to find her own self, her own personality. When everyone is trying to tell her what she must do and society deemed her as one of the lower gender status, she still stays strong and believe in her own worth as a human. Even though she's a mere girl, she took her father place and defend her country by posing as a man. I learned of her existence when I first saw the Disney animated version of Mulan. She posed as a striking heroine to me, in short, she is awesome. Unlike other Disney princesses that played the damsel in distress waiting for the prince to come, she took an action and decide her own future. She may or might not be a real person, since so far her existence is only known from the Ballad of Mulan, but she is truly an awespiring figure.

She is famous as the national heroine of France, a peasant girl who, believing that she was acting under divine guidance, led the French army in a momentous victory at Orléans that repulsed an English attempt to conquer France during the Hundred Years’ War. Captured a year afterward, Joan was burned by the English and their French collaborators as a heretic. Her contribution to the history of human courage is perhaps greater than her significance in the political and military history of France. And her contribution as an ongoing inspiration for me is priceless.