Talk to your parents or your grandparents. Find out what problems they had to overcome.

Look at people like Terry Fox, and Rick Hansen, who both overcame huge adversities. Fox died in the cause of raising money for cancer research – and the foundation founded in his name has raised something like $800 million for cancer research and made huge inroads into leukemia cancer.

RIck Hansen travelled around the world in a wheel chair, after an automobile accident left him paralyzed. He promoted (and still promotes) better treatment, better access, and more research into spinal cord injuries. There are many, many stories like that — check with the newspaper in your own home town and find a local hero, one you can interview and get some genuine insights from. King and Keller were great – but they have been written about so many times you won’t find anything original to say about either of them.

Anne Frank (German Occupation)

Senator John McCain (Prisoner of War Camp)

Joni Earickson Tada (Parapalegic)

Michael J. Fox (Parkinson’s Disease)

Paul of Tarsus (1st Christian Missionary)

Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt (Depression Polio Pres./Wife)