Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

No one expected the scrawny farm boy from Kentucky to grow up to become a self-taught lawyer. In addition to that, a majority consider him the best president of all time. Abraham Lincoln, standing at 6 ft 4 inches, was not only the tallest president, but was also the most productive. He aspired to end slavery once and for all, and to save the Union in the Civil War. In the Leaving a Legacy unit, many movements or people’s legacies have been researched to share with their classmates. Abraham…

In the story Outsiders a boy named Ponyboy is either going to stay with his brothers or go into a boys home. Did you know 10% of foster kids are abused by their foster parents or they run away. I think that this is why Ponyboy should stay with Darry because he have good grades,he is there for Ponyboy and he does not get in trouble with Darry. Ponyboy says through the hole book that he don't want to go to a boys home that he wants to stay with Darry and Sodapop. Ponyboy should stay with Darry…

In their book, Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination That Changed America Forever, Bill O’Reilly and Dwight Jon Zimmerman provide the readers with information on how Lincoln’s prayer for the Union and the South to become one again led to a disastrous blow to the United States of America. Lincoln prepared many speeches for the “divided” free North and the slaveholding South. Lincoln’s speeches were primarily meant to stop the Southern states from seceding from the Union. Many families…

Throughout “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot, the timeless struggle to navigate society unfolds. As Karen Prior expresses in her evaluation of Eliot’s work, Prufrock parallels the modern hipster. Although the hipster is considered a modern phenomena, the way in which that type of individual comes to life can be found repeatedly in history, “Neither hipsters nor Prufrock would exist without the modern urban setting that bred their sensibilities. It is in the city that the pulse…

This greed is further explored as Marlow becomes closer to meeting Kurtz. When he is discussing Mr. Kurtz and his unbounded greed for ivory, Marlow notes, “You should have heard him say, ‘My ivory.’ Oh yes, I heard him. ‘My Intended, my ivory, my station, my river, my --’ Everything belonged to him” (55). Kurtz thinks everything is his, which is an unbounded greed, but explains how he collected so much ivory. However, he is hollow. Greed is the guiding force for Kurtz, even above relationships…

Niccolò Machiavelli in “The Prince” mentions that “the end justifies the means”. At least once in everyone’s life, at one point they’ve made a dishonest decision. Some have even tried to explain their actions by bending the truth. It doesn’t matter how people reach what they want as long as the outcome is what they had hoped. The end goal doesn’t necessarily have to be good or noble. Though many people believe the end does not justify the means I believe it is acceptable to go to any extent to…

The Outsiders written by S.E. Hinton was a book about a young boy named Ponyboy, two brothers named Sodapop and Darry. Their gang called the Greasers and the rich gang called the Socials. Greasers were boys who had greasy hair, wore leather jackets, drove souped up cars, held up gas stations and who gotten into fights once in awhile. Socials were the rich boys, who drove souped up mustangs, smelled like tobacco, wore checkered shirts and who would get their name in the newspaper for being a…

During Japan’s Ancient Period, culture and arts began to flourish. Poets were among the first important literary figures in Japan. Among them, Yamanoue no Okura stands out as a poet and once Governor of Chikuzen, a province located in Kyushu (Brittanica). Okura’s most notable poem is “Dialogue with the Impoverished” which was included in the Man’yoshu. In “Dialogue with the Impoverished”, Okura utilizes imagery and other rhetorical devices to describe the hardships of poverty in Japan’s early…

Army of the Potomac, led by General Ulysses Grant, made a bloody attack on Confederate Forces. Lee was restrained and taken away by his men after one of his own men was wounded by his forces. Finally, on April 2nd, 1865, Lee gave up Richmond to Ulysses S. Grant. Soon after he surrendered to Grant in Appomattox, Virginia. Lee said, “I suppose there is nothing for me to do but go and see General Grant. And I would rather die a thousand…

By the late 1960s, Japanese bike organizations started testing the European processing plants for amazingness in the motocross world. Suzuki guaranteed the primary big showdown for a Japanese manufacturing plant when Joël Robert won the 1970 250 cc crown.[9] The main stadium motocross occasion was held in 1972 at the Los Angeles Coliseum.[10] In 1975, a 125 cc big showdown was introduced.[2] European riders kept on ruling motocross all through the 1970s be that as it may, by the 1980s, American…