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     ‘Change’ is the word every politician seems to emphasize in their speeches and pledges. Actually not only politicians, but every single human being is working to change the world, even right now, to make the place somewhere better. Among those people, there are ones who made the big changes that actually drove the whole human society into a particular way. Those are the ‘heroes,’ and there are several of them, changing the world in many ways such as technologically and spiritually. They are the ones who will be remembered forever: it is because people always trace their backs, how the place they are stepping on got to happen, and without those people the story will never go on.

     The significant change in technology can start from Thomas Edison. Thomas Edison, who invented electricity and therefore a light bulb, is the person that will be remembered forever. Human beings could work in nights and in the dark much more conveniently than the fire lamp when the light bulb was invented, and therefore people could work much longer after the light bulb. If the light bulb was not invented, there would have been no available observations on organisms in biology. Then the science wouldn’t have developed much further.

     Not only technology, but the spirit plays a big role to change the world: and there are two notable heroes among the numerous spiritual leaders. They are Henry David Thoreau and Rene Descartes. Henry David Thoreau, who wrote the ‘Walden’ and insisted on ‘Civil Disobedience’, brought Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. into action. The nonviolent resistance term Thoreau introduced to the world is one of the most significant spiritual ideas because it provides a solution to the classic philosophy. Socrates, the hero of classic philosophy, could have his solution from Thoreau’s idea. He could have chosen to resist on drinking the poison without breaking out from his jail.

     Another leader in the spiritual field is Rene Descartes, the father of modern philosophy. He introduced the idea of dualism, which insists the separation between the spirit and the body. That theory was the basis for almost all modern philosophy ideas. Also, he was a significant leader in the field of geometry: he is credited to find the Cartesian coordinates, the important columns of math.

     Thomas Edison, who invented the electricity, light bulb and many other numerous items, played an important role in modern science. If the electricity was not invented, science could never develop like nowadays since they would not be able to see. Henry David Thoreau, who put Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. into action, played a significant role in the spiritual field of the modern world by providing the idea of ‘civil disobedience.’ Rene Descartes, who founded the basic shape of modern philosophy, the dualism, and also the Cartesian coordinates which is a fundamental term of geometry and overall, mathematics. These people are the three among the many heroes that won’t be forgotten forever, because the changes they made in the world are so powerful, that the history will not be explained without them.