In this world, ordinary people view criminals as “the bad guys”. But this does not mean that those criminals are bad people. In the book The Outsiders, it focuses on a band of outlaws called the greasers. Even though the greasers are criminals, throughout the book they make honorable decisions. So the question is raised, is there honor among the lawless. Throughout the book, the greasers protect one another, commit acts of bravery, and defend others. For instance, the greasers stick up for or help
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Lincoln: The Nation’s Strongest President The word “strong” has a different meaning to each individual. Some think of someone who can bench-press 500 pounds, others think of a tree that can withstand even the strongest hurricane. Rarely do people realize that true strength comes from within, and there is no better example of this than former president Abraham Lincoln. Morally sound, humble, and honest, Lincoln possesses the qualities of someone who is truly strong. Some may argue that a man who
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In the book The Outsiders, written by S.E. Hinton, a character named Ponyboy is unlike the others in his gang, the Greasers, and he goes through many struggles throughout the story. The book, which is fiction, focused on the many struggles between the rich and the poor. The author described the Socs as a gang that had the opportunity to go to college while the Greasers discontinued their education during or after high school. The three topics discussed in this intriguing novel are the fight between
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Military Genius of Ulysses S. Grant and His Forces during the Vicksburg Campaign. Ulysses S. Grant was unsuccessful at taking Vicksburg during the summer and winter of 1862-63, but renewed his efforts in the spring with one of the Unions most successful campaigns of the war. The first attempt at taking Vicksburg, also called the First Battle of Vicksburg consisted of a prolonged Union naval bombardment, which ended when the ships withdrew. At this moment Major General Ulysses S. Grant was moving his
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What Life Lessons Can We Learn? What life lessons can you learn in an extraordinary time in your life? During the novel The Outsiders Ponyboy learns numerous life lesson, and also learns multitudinous thing about the people he is closest to. In this essay we will explore three different life lessons Ponyboy learned and how they influenced him. The first life lesson is nothing gold can stay. Johnny gave Ponyboy his copy of Gone with The Wind before he died. Inside was a note were Johnny told Pony
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average general conquered the well known general in what seemed to be an underdog victory.The Commonlit article, “The Siege of Vicksburg: A Tale of Two Generals,” by Mike Kubic, describes why the battle between opposing generals John Pemberton and Ulysses S. Grant may not have been an underdog victory. The article describes each general’s past, uprising, and the battle between them. Grant and Pemberton both attended West Point Military Academy and during their time there, they both nearly flunked out because
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I have found Eleanor Roosevelt to be a truly fascinating woman. I have found myself wanting to learn more about her. I have always known she did great things for not only women, but all people. She was beyond caring. I didn’t know anything about her upbringing. Her life was not an easy one, as one normally assumes of the wealthy. She was born into wealth, with parents who were socialites in their time, yet I don’t think either of them were very happy people. Apparently, her mother, Anna Roosevelt
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Finishing near the bottom of his graduation class in West Point, Ulysses S. Grant was a talented equestrian who experienced many highs and lows in his life. Given his background, one would have never known about Grant’s accomplishments in the bloody war. In fact, Ulysses S. Grant’s career in the military was an accident. In 1839, Jesse Grant, Ulysses S. Grant’s father, enrolled his son into the military at West Point. His father believed it was the right decision, and Ulysses “thought so too, if
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I am a movie fanatic and a book worm. I love reading and watching the book and movie. "The Outsider" is one of my favorite movie come books, but it was really surprising after reading and watching the book and the movie are pretty different mainly in the rumble, the reuniting and argument\soda running away scene. The rumble scene was very different in the book and the movie. The setting in the movie had a racing background and the fight was near a camp, unlike the movie, the book's setting took
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The outsiders is a book about two juvenile gangs. The lower class are the Greasers from the east side and the upper class are the Socs who are from the west side. This story takes place in Tulsa, Oklahoma in the 1960's. Ponyboy Curtis and his two brothers Darry Curtis and Sodapop Curtis are living on their own because their parents recently died in a car accident. Ponyboy was leaving to the movies when a group of gang, the Socs jumped him. His two brothers Sodapop and Darry rescued him from the
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