Role Models

By definition, a role model is one whose behavior, example, or success is emulated by others. Today, athletes and other sport stars are looked up to by people of all ages. Everyone loves them, they appear on television with the entire world watching. Athletes are known for their wealth, talent, and fame. We admire them as our leaders with their determination and confidence. No wonder we always make heroes out of favorite athletes. They are seen as role models because they can do what we cannot.

Today, athletes are known for wealth, privilege, and fame, because of their talent, salary, and positions as leaders, it’s inevitable that we admire them. We can learn quite a lot from role models like determination and confidence because we try to be like them, you have to love a sport in order to do it well. Michael Jordan, a man who seems to be without a weakness, makes a great role model for youths and adults. He shows that he is also a great person off the court by the way he has given his money to charities and has dealt with the difficulties in his life. This is a person who is looked up to and admired by people everywhere. Michael Jordan is a role model, just as all athletes in the spotlight. When people become professional athletes or any kind of athlete that is brought into the public eye, they become a role model. A role model can set good examples by being educated, having good morals, and by staying drug free; or they can set bad examples by doing the complete opposites of these actions. As role models it is important that athletes show the youth of today the importance of getting an education.

Michael Jordan was an athlete seen all over the world on prime time television and stole the hearts of every sports lover in the world. Not only did Michael Jordan change American culture, but changed the cultures many other countries through out the globe. Using his endorsements, the big screen, and commercial advertisement, Michael Jordan created a new perception of America’s sports stars. His incredible talent and child like innocence was an attraction to children and parents everywhere. When I was in elementary school, Michael Jordan was coming back to basketball after a short retirement to follow in his fathers footsteps of being a baseball star. He was in his athletic prime and everyone loved him. It was a “wrong-doing” to step out of your house without a Nike swoosh at least 5 body parts. He was the star in one of my favorite childhood movies, “Space Jam,” and I cannot

remember turning on ESPN and not seeing or hearing Michael Jordan’s name. He was everywhere, and he was someone I wanted to be.

I still remember sitting in front of my living room television and watching him score a buzzer beating three pointer from long range to win the game. After that game, everyone in school wanted to wear his trademark shoes and you started to see his body figure, in slam dunk form, on every Nike t-shirt made. Michael Jordan’s career will always stay in my memory and his hard work and determination will always play a strong role in the way I will model my life.

There are also many musicians that have played a strong impact in my life. Famous Musicians are brilliant people who have always changed American culture in many ways through expression of their own beliefs and