Ty'Sheoma Bethea
The student that stimulated a nation, Ty'Sheoma Bethia, is an ordinary eighth grader with an extraordinary message of hope. She wrote the president saying: "We are just students trying to become lawyers, doctors, congressmen like yourself and one day president, so we can make a change to not just the state of South Carolina but also the world. We are not quitters." Her youthful idealism reminded a country of the optimism that has carried it through crisis after crisis in History. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)