Reflections
Having completed a rather general analysis of the culture which raised me, I sat down and began to reflect. I had learned much of my people, found more similarities between my friends and I than I knew existed, and begun to identify the Russian and the American components of myself and began to differentiate between the two. Towards the end, I was able to dilute my reflections into two laws which were hammered into me for the entirety of my academic career, Newton’s Third Law of Thermodynamics and “Don’t judge a book by its cover”.