Alexander the Great
Uploaded by *cutsie_blonde* on Nov 07, 2005
The general characteristics of a great historical figure are leader ship, bravery, intelligence, self-confidence, and loyalty. These are important because if you have no leadership skill then how are u supposed to lead people in times of trouble, your not going to be able to if you are a follower. Its good to be brave so if you are in a war with someone you are not afraid to take a risk or go and fight them. You also have to have bravery if you are going to go and do a task. Say you are asked to go deliver a message to the prison and you are afraid of the people around the prison, then you are not going to be able to get the task done. If you are brave then you wouldn’t mind going and doing the task.
You need to have self-confidence to do just about everything and anything. If you have no self-confidence then you are going to be always asking everyone are you sure this is the right decision, are you sure I should do this, or anything else. You need to be able to make decisions on your own and not have to ask people for their advice all the time. You need to be intelligent to make it anywhere at all in life. If you are stupid then it’s going to get you absolutely no where. If you have intelligence you are going to be able to make the right decision instead of the stupid one. You also have to be loyal to whatever you are serving. Whether it is your country, family, friends, or school. If your not loyal people aren’t going to be able to trust you. Now if your loyal people are going to realize of they are loyal we can trust them. You can get many more jobs and gain a lot more friendships and a lot of more peoples trust if you are loyal towards people and things.
Alexander the great was a cocky guy in my opinion. I thought he was a little too self-confident. I thought that he thought he was the best and better then everyone else. I didn’t like him at all. Sure he was a great leader and was good out on the battlefield but I didn’t like him. He seemed a little too careless when it came to his drinking...