Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

This paper is a review of The Killer Angels is a book by the author, Michael Shaara. The book is about the four days that Battle of Gettysburg took place while the Civil War had been going on. The story is placed during the time when soldiers prepared for battle around the town of Gettysburg and when the battle began to happen. Michael Shaara wrote the book to convey out the significance of Gettysburg. He explained the events that happened during the Gettysburg War. In the book, Michael Shaara…

The Truman doctrine supplied aid to the nations who refused to back down to armed invaders trying to inforce communism. Also it offered finical aid to those who did not give in to outside pressure. The Doctrine also backed those countries politically and it offered military support to those nations. Even if the Nations were engaged in civil war. Truman’s doctrine argued that the U.S. could not just stand by and watching while the Soviet Union took over former fellow democratic nations by force…

Harry S. Truman Harry S. Truman was the 33rd president of the United States. Truman was the Vice President under Franklin D. Roosevelt, when FDR died Truman became president in 1945. He was only FDR’s Vice President for a few months before he was elected. Truman’s first shining moment was when he had to meet with Joseph Stalin and Clement Attlee for the final wartime conference at Potsdam near Berlin. Originally, at the Yalta conference, the Soviets wanted to take reparations from Germany to…

What would you do, if you grew up in a city full of gangs and violence, with barely any parental supervision? S.E. Hinton explains how developing in this types of cities can enhance or destroy the relationships most important to yourself in The Outsiders, That Was Then This is Now and Rumble Fish. Hinton tests the effects of morality, loyalty and evaluation and how it affects what is valued most in ones life. S.E. Hinton clearly has a recurring theme of loyalty and morality between confused…

How Hinton develops the idea that life isn’t fair. - An analytical Essay about S.E Hinton’s “The Outsiders.” By B.E Kolasinac. Since the publication of The Outsiders, a statement has been looming over our heads; “Is it the rich but ignorant, or the poor but aware, that have more struggles.” Hinton dwells into each aspect of this question. The most prevailing theme in the story is that life is unfair, in the novel Hinton has intertwined both the socials and the greaser’s perspective on life.…

LIFE IS ROUGH ALL OVER: In the novel, Ponyboy learns that life is rough all over. Ponyboy states, “Half of the hoods I know are pretty decent guys underneath all that grease, and from what I've heard, a lot of Socs are just cold-blooded mean --- but people usually go by looks,” this piece of evidence shows that Ponyboy thinks that Greasers are judged and thought of as hoods and delinquents merely by their looks. This proves that life for the Greasers is not fair. Life for the Socs is also not…

Has there ever been a time where you felt like you have the worst life ever? Everything doesn’t go your way? Or you have friends that do things that are wrong? Well there’s a book titled The Outsiders by S.E Hinton were all those things happen. This book is a book were many tragedies, conflicts and commotions happen. There are two specific groups that cause these commotions and those groups are the Socials and Greasers. The Socials are a group of west side rich kids who basically do whatever…

The film Grease displays multiple issues that are common during the adolescent stage of development. Grease is a film regarding two 1950s teenagers who fell in for each other over the summer, who each consist opposite identities. Danny Zuko seems to have two separate sides to himself, as the girl he met over the summer Sandy Olsson who later attends Danny’s high school, did not witness Danny’s “greaser side.” This greaser side is the result of social influences of his friend group at school,…

The Outsiders Compare and Contrast We read the book ¨The Outsiders¨ in class then we watched the movie. ¨The Outsiders¨ is about two groups the greasers and socs and none of them like each other and then one night two of the greasers get into something with the socs and one of the socs ends up dead so then the two greasers had to go hide somewhere so they would not get caught and put in jail. But out of the book and movie I overall prefered the book because it was way better by far. It was…

In this world, people are labeled based on their appearance. Everyone is different, but similar in multiple ways. “The Outsiders” by S.E. Hinton is a novel about two different social groups: Socs and Greasers. Socs and Greasers are two groups who live their lives differently from one another. Socs are the upper class: wealthy and treated with respect. But, on the other hand, greasers are the low class: poor and treated like garbage. Socs and Greasers face different challenges in their lives,…