Influence Of Nathan Bedford

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Our Influences: Our Choices Nathan Bedford was not born a racist. Raskolnikov was not born a murderer. If Nathan Bedford was born into a union family, he likely would not have started the KKK. If Raskolnikov wasn’t born into his family or did not have the same influences, he would likely not have murdered two innocent women. But both these figures like John Jay and Razumihin had a choice, and they disregarded their integrity and chose to follow negative influences, as opposed to positive examples. We may go through life without realizing how we are changing until we are someone else completely. We are different, because nobody grew up with the same influences and examples. If someone completely different had the same exact life as Raskolnikov