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Christopher Columbus Contributions To Society
Legacy as defined in the dictionary is “Something transmitted by or received from an ancestor or predecessor or from the past “, but a legacy is something much more. Not an object, not property, not even money. Legacy is what some is defined as, what they will be remembered as they pass; their contribution to society as a whole and what society meant to them. Though people can be remembered through different ways, Whether what they did was right, wrong, or even debatable. Most people remember Adolf Hitler as a terrible person, being that he was the one to lead the Holocaust, one of the biggest genocides in history. While Christopher Columbus was heavily debated whether he helped give a major contribution to society. Then, there's people like …show more content…
With their ambitions, and not surrendering to difficulty caused great impacts on society whether good or bad. But the greatest kinds of legacy are the breakthroughs, like the person to come up with the drug to cure cancer, or a technological breakthrough in things such as quantum mechanics. Doing these things could lead to even greater things, an extended lifespan, computers being able to do anything from aiding the elderly to fighting in the war, though, all this can only be done with hard work. I yearn to make my mark on the world with a major discovery in technology, a way to improve IQ efficiently. Having this technology would change the world vastly recreate the world, for the better or worse. But the concept for being know for this massive change in the world breathtaking. Being known for changing the world, even after you pass people would have controversial debates over you, if what you did helped shape how the world works. But creating such things would take decades, and going about composing such an inconceivable object would be immensely difficult for a person of my age. But with a good attitude and hard work, that would help lighten the load with its

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