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Langan And Oppenheimer: The Path To Adulthood
Langan and Oppenheimer went through similar struggles on the path to adulthood. In their adulthood, both went to college. Langan's poverty made it difficult for him to make a better school schedule. Since his mother missed the deadline for financial aid, he had to quit college. Oppenheimer went through depression his entire life, and it got worse when he was forced in college to attend experimental physics. He eventually tried to poison his teacher, and was put on probation. Langan and Oppenheimer were differentiated by their childhoods. Langan grew up poor, starved, and beaten on. When Langan was in school it was never a challenge for him, so he would sometimes not go. The teachers and his mother didn't care. Oppenheimer always had people
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