Lincoln "emerged from the Kentucky woods determined to become a statesman." Having to start from the beginning and building up from there is very difficult and makes Lincoln and Reeves similar in this way. Both very successful men, they showed others to work towards their dreams.
All these sentences use the word "so" correctly except "Flies breathe through holes in
<span> their abdomen or thorax, so do bees.</span>" So should either begin a new sentence of be preceded by "and".