CNN's top 10 Heroes

Check out this article full of some amazing people who have done some incredible things for society

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The Ideal Role Model- Your Parents

You may not always think it, but everything your parents do is with your best interest in mind. One of their main goals in life is to make sure that you become the best possible person you can be.

Susan Burton

Burton is the founder of the program A New Way of Life Reentry Program. It is designed to help out females that are just released from prison. Most of these offenders would usually end up back in jail, but Burton's program gets them off this path and provides a sober place to live and other support services. Burton has helped over 400 women become clean, and the only thing she asks for in return is that they stay clean, attend 12 step meetings, and enroll in school, get drug treatment or find work. As a former offender herself, she dedicates her life to helping these other women turn their lives around like she did.

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Pilot Chesley Sullenberger

After both engines went out on US Airways A230 bound for Charlotte, North Carolina, pilot Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger had very few options of what to do. The lives of all 155 passengers rested in his hands. Thinking quickly, he directed the jetliner toward the Hudson River. In order to safely land the plane on the river, Sullenberger had to hit the water at an angle less than 10 degrees. Unbelievably, the cool-headed pilot was able to perfectly land the plane and all the passengers survived.

Who are the Role Models of Today?

With scandals such as the ones involving athletes Tiger Woods, Ben Roethlisberger, and Brett Favre occurring so frequently with modern day celebrities, it becomes difficult to trust people of fame to serve as proper role models. But this does not mean we live in a world in which such role models do not exist. There are those out there that make huge sacrifices for a cause that is bigger than themselves. People who look more to help others than to help his or herself. We must teach the values and lessons presented to us through the actions of such people rather than celebrities such as Favre.

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Tiger Woods

When the police answered a call late Thanksgiving night in 2009 to the neighborhood of golfer Tiger Woods after Woods had apparently ran his car into a neighbor's tree, speculation began to arise that Tiger's wife Elin Woods had chased her husband out of the house with a golf club. After a few weeks of investigation and confusion, Tiger admitted to having had an affair. We later learned that Woods had cheated on his wife with several different mistresses. One of America's most famous and respected athletes had now earned his spot on the country's list of top five most hated athletes.

Ben Roethlisberger

Twice within the last couple years, Roethlisberger has been involved in sexual assault accusations. The first time occurred in July of 2008 when Nevada casino employee Andrea McNulty claimed that the steelers quarterback sexually assaulted her in his hotel room. The second occurred in March of this year when a twenty year old college student in Milledgeville, Georgia claimed that Roethlisberger raped her in a bar bathroom. Although Roethlisberger was not charged in either case, the fact is he should have never put himself in these situations in the first place. Thousands of fans admire the star quarterback and this behavior is simply unacceptable.