Steve Rogers is the best leader in Marvel Comics, he is always ready to guide his team in any conflict. Captain America is great in a leadership role, but he has also worked incredibly well with just a sidekick to help him out. Bucky Barnes is certainly the best sidekick for Captain America. The two characters were best friends before either of them had any powers, so their bond is incredibly strong.
Both characters have enhanced strengths and stamina, making them a powerful duo against any criminals. As the friendly neighborhood Spider-Man , Peter Parker is oftentimes one of the few masked superheroes with a truly secret identity. Unlike many of the heroes who are rich and have plenty of resources to help them fight crime, Spider-Man has always been down to earth.
Peter Parker must balance crime-fighting and relatable life experiences like getting to class on time. While Peter always gets along with other heroes, Spider-Man definitely excels when he is able to swing his away around the city on his own. His enhanced spider senses allow him to be one step ahead and he performs best when he is fighting solo. Tony Stark is often brash and arrogant compared to the other Marvel heroes. He is one of the wealthiest heroes and he definitely does not shy away from flaunting his wealth.
At first glance, Iron Man seems like the ideal hero to fight solo. However, Iron Man is at his best when he has his sidekick fighting by his side. War Machine is certainly one of the most iconic sidekicks in Marvel Comics and he has also made a spectacular impact in the MCU. Iron Man and War Machine make a stylish and extremely powerful team as they fly into any conflict. The god of thunder can travel not only around the universe but he also has access to all of the other unseen realms that are blocked to the other Marvel heroes.
With his hammer in hand, Thor is an extremely powerful force that can give a tough fight to any villain in the universe. It is highly debated whether he is the strongest Avenger, but regardless, he is nearly unstoppable at the height of his powers. Thor is also one of the more reckless heroes, and he would not wait around to strategize with a sidekick before diving into battle. He is a good team player, but Thor definitely excels when he has all of his strength ready to charge into a fight on his own.
Brent Arwine is a freelance writer who has written for several different video game review websites. In addition, Brent also writes about television shows and comic books. The remedy to that power imbalance is education, through which the oppressed regain their sense of humanity and agency.
By addressing those imbalances, we move toward partnerships in which all partners are truly empowered and thus in the best position to contribute to lasting change. Let us recast our roles as multifaceted, empowered partners and leave behind the notion of community-campus partnerships as binaries that often devalue half of the partnership.
Let us take care in our rush to provide assistance and right wrongs that we not assume a role that disempowers and reduces agency. As Illich reminds us, the road to hell is paved with good intentions: Good intentions without consideration of community voice can create damaging power structures.
It is only through mutual empowerment and transformative reciprocity that we can work toward a future that is co-created and just. First, we must establish the context within which we operate and which gives rise to our thinking about partnerships. Marla has worked with refugee resettlement agencies in Allentown, Pennsylvania for over a decade and is currently the director of the Refugee Resettlement program for Bethany Christian Services, the sole refugee resettlement agency in the Lehigh Valley.
Sarah is a faculty member and director of the Center for Community Engagement at Lehigh University, located in neighboring Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. We have worked together over the last six years to provide meaningful, reciprocal SLCE opportunities to Lehigh students, our new neighbors, the resettlement agency, and ourselves.
While our roles have shifted and agencies have come and gone over the years, the constant has been our partnership: weathering the changes through our commitment to strong communication and empowerment of all stakeholders.
Through our partnership, we have catalyzed deep learning, research, and engagement from first-year projects to senior capstones. Each semester we formally evaluate the SLCE activities and impacts, address concerns, and make changes to maintain flexibility and responsiveness to new opportunities.
Our partnership process includes frequent meetings to check in and share concerns, lessons learned, new information, and opportunities.
Programming is co-planned and supported through grants identified and pursued together. Further, Sarah participates in reviews by the state and the State Department to represent the partnership and connect the work that is being done under the auspices of the partnership as part of a larger effort to provide holistic services within a wide network of support systems e.
This partnership has also helped our community maintain focus on the most important issues facing refugees resettling in the Lehigh Valley.
Attention to the influx of Syrian refugees in and to the area has piqued new interest—positive and negative—within the academy on a national level. Evidence of this is found in a plethora of new classes, conference presentations, research projects, and initiatives such as Every Campus a Refuge, which houses refugee families on campuses.
It has illuminated a wide variety of kind-hearted, motivated individuals who seek to help as well as a lack of knowledge about the refugees who have been coming to the Lehigh Valley and the process of resettlement. The process by which they come to the United States is rigorous, with pre-arrival checks from a variety of agencies, which can take years.
Most had rich lives in their home countries and are highly educated professionals. They are individuals who have agency, confidence, and a determined spirit. The partnership between the resettlement agency and the university has been intentionally asset-based to nurture both empowerment and transformation for our stakeholders and new neighbors as they transition to life in our community.
We have three high priority goals for the future of the SLCE movement in mind: the need to cultivate humility and reciprocity, avoiding the narrative of heroes and protectors, and the difficult task of illuminating when service can be a disservice. At the center of these goals is the balance of power to ensure that transformational reciprocity can take place when power and agency are held in different measure by multiple stakeholders.
Valuing humility in our students and ourselves needs to be a top priority as we navigate the waters of reciprocal, meaningful community engagement. Humility is also a necessary element of adopting a more democratic form of SLCE and thereby honoring power sharing, asset recognition, and a shared sense of responsibility to one another for successful and ethical community partnerships.
Hand-in-hand with humility is reciprocity, a moral norm first introduced in academic literature by Gouldner when he described it as a pattern of mutual benefit and gratification between parties. In the context of SLCE, the term reciprocity holds and communicates an essential value of our work. Sigmon focused the concept of reciprocity on reciprocal learning, affirming that meaningful service-learning is realized when stakeholders—community partner and educational institution alike—are transformed by the experience.
So, how do we cultivate transformational reciprocity? Critical reflection, disorientation, and critical thinking are essential to the concept of praxis, which provides learners—students, educators, and community partners alike—with a continuous cycle of learning and growth. As a constant cycle of re-evaluation of our values, mistakes, and triumphs, praxis can cultivate a sense of a larger purpose in the world and responsibility to one another.
This is particularly valuable when working with the knotty and multi-faceted issues of equity and inclusion for refugees. For instance, students who may be grappling with long-held political beliefs that have heretofore been unchallenged meet refugee families face-to-face and, because of this experiential connection, may reconsider their attitudes, perspectives, and beliefs.
They may then receive information about differences in refugee resettlement processes between the U. Such challenges to their established understandings invite ongoing making and remaking of their place in the world and their beliefs.
In addition, appreciating our differences and holding in tension different beliefs in order to move toward a shared goal strengthens attitudes and behaviors of humility and reciprocity. The refugee resettlement agency has volunteers and supporters from many different religious and political traditions. Evangelical Christians, observant Muslims, and liberal atheists may work side-by-side, called to resettlement work for very different reasons and intersecting in some ways while diverging in others.
Open lines of communication and shared decision-making are key to ensuring each partner has an equitable investment in the partnership. Further, the praxis mentality the two of us cultivate within and through our partnership ensures that each stakeholder feels valued and that there are mechanisms to continuously solicit input and feedback to sustain a healthy, engaged, and peaceful community. Without consulting those who are already providing language services, the students contact the resettlement agency directly with a curriculum of their own creation and a request for space to hold classes.
Such planning and design that happens outside of the partnership relegates the community partner to a powerless or supporting position.
Wanting to never see this sort of injustice happen again, he grabbed some guns, put on his now famous skull t-shirt, and began to rid the world of all forms of scum and villainy. Different from the others on this of superheroes without sidekicks, The Punisher is an anti-hero.
As an anti-hero, he has no qualms about killing or brutalizing his enemies. Moon Knight Marc Spector has multiple personalities, each of which when in control, sees him act and speak in manners all to themselves. As a millionaire, Grant is usually found at charitable functions rubbing shoulders with the rich and famous.
He has a short fuse and is known to use less than admirable measures to get what he wants. Lockley patrols the world at a street-level and as such, often becomes aware of activity well before it happens.
Knight is a newer addition to the Moon Knight story. Whereas Moon Knight uses force, violence, and brutality to get what he wants, Mr. Knight typically acts within the confines of the law. Because he works within the confines of the law, he can often be found helping the police. The original Dr. Fate first appeared inside the pages of More Fun Comics 55 back in He was created by the now legendary team of Gardner Fox and Howard Sherman.
Fate is one of the most powerful characters in comics. Rather than being born with his powers, Dr. Fate is a trained Sorcerer whose powers are augmented bu Nabu and the Helmet of Fate.
Thor is a God.
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