Question 1: How do we define the personality traits of a hero?

• Courage and strength• honesty• Kind, loving, and generous• Skill, expertise, and intelligence• Risk taking• Objects of affection (“How to be..”)• APPROACH.  The hero and newfound allies

prepare for the major challenge in the Special world. (“Campell’s Hero’s journey”)

Question 2: How does matthew dicaprio go above and beyond as a doctor?

• The setting influences the development of heroes because their surroundings and the people they grow up around influence the people they become. The way people act around them teach them behavioral traits.(using in essay)

• “When we first suspected something was wrong, everybody was terrified, but Dr. DiCaprio was the first person that day that wasn’t scared,” Marc said.

Shelly felt the same, and even after getting a second opinion with some of the world’s best doctors in Boston, the Shinebargers decided they felt the most comfortable and safe with DiCaprio (“sarcoma awareness day”)

• Patients’ Choice – Patients’ Choice recognizes doctors who make a difference in the lives of their patients. This honor is given to those physicians who have received near perfect scores as voted by their patients. For 8 ratings, Dr. Dicaprio has an average overall score of 3.5 stars. (“Dr.Matthew…”)

Question 3: how does a hero reflect his particular culture and society?

Medical Culture:• Dedicated to providing medical care.• Be professional and honest at all times• Respect the law• Must continue to study with the advances of medicine.• Must support medical care to all people. (“principles of..”)

• Good to have a trusting and humane community. (“american medical..”)

Question 4: How does a hero represent his time period and geographical area?

• Doctors in america are highly paid because they are viewed highly.

• Doctors are the highest paid because there arent that many doctors in America. (Drum)

• Medical field in America is always changing and growing. (“medical field..”)

Question 5: How do various cultures reward or recognize their

heroes?• The highest paid doctors in america get

paid approx $500,000 a year. (“principles of..”)

• In france, orthopedic surgeons get paid approx $154,000 anually (“Medical news..”)

Question 6: How did My hero decide the idea to replace bone

with bone?• There are many benefits of replacing bone

with bone such as: You don’t need drugs to suppress the immune system, The bones don’t need to be compatible between patient and donor, and the body recognizes bone as natural bone.(“Bone Transplant”)

Question 7: What hardships did he go through in his journey?

• He went through 4 years of regular college, 4 years of medical school, and 5 years residancy with 1 to 2 years of a fellowship in order to become an orthopedic surgeon.

• He said it was difficult deciding when to get married and when to start a family. (Dicaprio, interview)

• Medical school is difficult. (Herigon)

Question 8: Was there a certain person that inspired him to become

a doctor? And why?• Dr. DiCaprio said that he was inspired to

become an orthopedic doctor when he was a junior in high school. He hurt his shoulder wrestling. He visited various orthopedic doctors and became fascinated with the science of it all. (DiCaprio, Interview)

Question 9: Is my hero working on any new surgerys today? If so, what are they?

• Matthew DiCaprio is working with a team of oncologists, pathologists , radiologists and surgeons at Ellis Medicine, to treat sarcomas and other rare tumors in the musculoskeletal system that are typically in children/ young adults. (“Musculoskeletal…”)

• He isn't working on any new surgeries that we know of at this time.(“interview”)

Question 10: What is my Hero’s life like now?

• Dr. Dicaprio works at schenectady regional orthopedics and ellis hospital.(“Schenectady regional..”)

• He has a family who he is very active in.

• He had his children his second year in medical school. (“interveiw”)