We've tried to showcase talents and contributions of our artists and our inventors, of students and masters, of exalted heroes and ordinary citizens of every age and every background.

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Ordinary people can get very attached to their television heroes, so if their favourite character in Friends drinks Budweiser then they will want to too, the theory goes.

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Where The Heroes shines the most is in its examination of ordinary soldiers, both veterans and recruits, and their observations of both the war and one another.

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The Jersey Shore kids are regular guys and gals who hit it big just by being themselves and during this our Great Recession, that makes them the perfect folk heroes in an otherwise bleak day and age for ordinary people.

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Instead of heroes and villains, it shows vividly the confusion of battle and the tragedy of ordinary people trapped by events.

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There are quiet heroes among us who embody the power and promise of the American spirit ordinary men and women who have devoted themselves to uplifting the lives of others.

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This is a reference to the fact that nationalist sentiment over the wars in former Yugoslavia remains strong, with many ordinary Croats opposed to the UN war crimes tribunal's prosecutions of Croat fighters whom they hail as war heroes.

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