George S. Patton

The Chronicles of Narnia book series, for years, has been under the watchful eye of Christians and Non-Christians alike in search of Biblical parallels. There are the more obvious parallels: Aslan’s death on the Stone Table in The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe/Jesus’ death on the cross, the Rapture/the end of Old Narnia in The Last Battle, and the two creation stories found in Genesis/The Magician’s Nephew. However, there are far more subtle Biblical parallels that Lewis himself might not…

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton is filled with conflicts, but not all of them are clear. Character vs character is obviously very clear, but that is not the only conflict. There are obviously several types of conflicts that characters in The Outsiders have faced, whether they were internal or external. The book The Outsiders is in Ponyboy Curtis’s perspective so his conflicts are very clear. Ponyboy faced many different conflicts in his life, whether they were character versus nature, character…

Chapter 21 is about a study among two different groups of high-school boys (the saints and the roughnecks) in regards to delinquency. The saints, according to chapter 21 are the ones that are "children of good, stable, white upper middle class families that are active in school, active in sports, viewed as good ones by teachers and police as well as well dressed, nice cars and well mannered" whereas the "roughnecks are "the complete opposite raised from less wealthy family home environments,…

Ulysses S. Grant was by far one of america’s generals. He had many battles. Grant’s victory at vicksburg was an amazing win. On May 1, 1863, Grant’s army crossed the mississippi river at the battle of port gibson. Little did Grant know that confederate forces were there. Grant sent a portion of his army under General William T. Sherman to capture the state capitol, Jackson, while setting his sights on vicksburg with a view toward permanently closing the confederate supply base. When initial…

I happen to have a couple of friends, which I meet with regularly, who work at Walmart and are in charge of their respective departments as assistant store managers. They are always speaking of the cost saving measures Walmart rolls out, as well as the social and environmental changes the company is trying to bring forth. I already had a good idea of the work that Walmart was doing with electric and hybrid delivery trucks, as well as many of the sustainability plans that the corporation laid out…

Switchblades, Cars and Hair, are possibly the most important symbols of The Outsiders. In a small town in Oklahoma, a group of 6 poor boys called themselves greasers. They had a bitter rivalry with a group of rich boys called Socs. Johnny, a 16 year old greaser, kills Bob, a rich Socs, in self-defense. Johnny flees the city with another greaser named Ponyboy. The switchblade that killed Bob is a symbol in The Outsiders. Additionally, the Socs’ mustangs are a symbol of their power and wealth.…

Let me tell you a story about Evangelina Padilla-Vaccaro. Evangelina was diagnosed after birth with severe combined immunodeficiency; also known as “bubble baby” disease. Most children with this condition die within the first few years of life. Evangelina was cured as a part of a clinical trial run by Dr. Don Kohn and his team at UCLA, working with a UK-based company called Orchard Therapeutics. The treatment she underwent was called OTL-101, which involves taking the patient’s own blood stem…

Carness Greaser; a group of poor but caring people that everyone thinks differently about. Despite the stereotypes surrounding him, Sodapop is caring towards everyone, mostly his closest friends and family. Sodapop is one of the characters in The Outsiders, a book about a group of teenagers who are greasers. The greasers steal, get into fights, and deal with weapons and other dangerous things that could get them in trouble with the cops,but this is not all true, this is only what almost every…

Fitting in isn't always an easy thing to do. In The Outsiders by S.E Hinton some characters alter their personalities to blend in with others. The common theme that is constantly popping up in this book is, people aren’t always what they seem. Nothing can apply to the real world better than this. In The Outsiders by S.E Hinton many people act different around others than who they really are. One example of this is the character Dallas Winston (Dally). Dally ran into a burning fire to…

Ponyboy: A Boy in the Works In S.E Hinton’s The Outsiders, Ponyboy matures from a sensitive adolescent to a young adult. Ponyboy, being poor and living with his brothers, joins a gang named the greasers. His brothers, Darry and Sodapop, join the greasers too. because the gang protects each other from the rich and spoiled children called the Socs. First, Ponyboy is different from the other greasers because he is sensitive on the inside. For instance, to look tough, he smokes at the age of…