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When I start thinking about the connection that might be between the jousting knights, Napoleon Bonaparte, Japan, which way I look wen I cross the street and the American Independence, there were afew things that came into my mind. I thought about discipline, intelligence, respect, altruism and society, but how all those qualities would relate to each other? That was when I start question me.In fact, I was right, but it was much deeper. Everything was to deal with the history and the left hand side and the right hand side. Everything relates to the book called The Rules of Road: Aninternational Guide to History and Practice by Peter Kincaid. Many of us are right handed, so it actually make sense that we use the right hand for almost everything. For example, when passing strangeron the road, it would be safer to walk on the left, ensuring that the weapon is between myself and the opponent, just like the jousting knight, they hold their lances on the right hand, thus theypassed each other through the right side. Napoleon Bonaparte was left handed, he required his army to march on the right so he could keep his sword arm between him and the advancing enemy. From that pointon in history the French people and any other country colonized by France had to follow the law of having to stay in the right side of the road. On the other hand, Japan was never a British colony,but the traffic was always left. If we think about it, the left side is the side that we tend to look first when we crossing the street because its the side where the traffic is coming. The last thingthat we need to relate is the American Independence. In the early years of English colonization of North America, English driving customs were followed and the colonies drove on the left, graduallychanging to the right hand driving after the independence.

At the end it comes down to the right hand side and the left hand side and how the society (the people) and the history shape up in...