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Journal #13 Both Ms. Dubose in “To kill a Mocking bird” by Harper Lee and Florence Nightingale the pioneer nurse are courageous heroines. From my point of view, both of them are outstanding because they chose to do something right but really hard for their conscience’s sake. For example, when Jem was obliged to read to Ms. Dubose every afternoon, her head made its regular sweep towards the kids, but when Jem asked “Ms. Dubose are you all right?”, she did not hear him(Lee 143). Ms. Dubose’s hardship in combating her addiction does good to herself but made the kids suffered. But Florence Nightingale, the woman who was born into a rich, upper-class, well-connected British family, chose to be a pioneer nurse in the ruthless Crimean War. She chose to be unprivileged than any working class woman because she considered cruelty as a sin and her passion for medicine and nursing. Analogous from Ms. Dubose, Nightingale’s behavior made herself ramshackle but did good to numerous soldiers. Still, both of them are heroines because they want to be helpful and virtuous toward themselves or the others instead of living as it was in peace. In conclusion, I think people's own belief and conscience make their career and life journey courageous. And a Chinese proverb is descriptive toward brave people like them, as it goes: “going deep into the mountain, knowing that the tigers are in there, is so called a hero”.