COURAGE leads starward, fear toward death,” wrote Seneca. Man needs courage simply to live in spite of knowing that he must die. He needs it to live richly—to take risks and thereby define himself.

My children and I always hold hands whenever we cross the street. Always. Every time. Anyone who has ever had a three year old knows that you have to be absolutely consistent every time or every ...

BOSTON – Few in academia might want to spend their down time grading papers, but Merry Conway, of Marion, did just that in early March as part of student literary event aimed at helping students ...

The cost of courage in Aztec Society -- 'Fierce and unnatural cruelty': Cortés and the conquest of Mexico -- Disciplining the Indians: Franciscan ideology and missionary violence in sixteenth-century ...

“Courage, we all have, right?” asks North Yarmouth Academy sixth grader James Feeley in his essay titled “Words.” Feeley’s essay won a national essay competition facilitated by MAXCourage, a ...

This collection of essays, short pieces and interviews is an exercise in exemplary courage; the courage to call out the authoritarianism of the regime and the inequities of caste that have plagued ...

Chloe Swagger, a seventh-grade student at West Middle School, and Uchechi Mba, an eighth-grade student at Sykesville Middle School, were among 20 winners in the Champions of Courage Black History ...

The John F. Kennedy Library Foundation announced today that the national John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Essay Contest, with a first place prize totaling $10,000, is now open and accepting ...