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Adam Peppel IAH 204 4/11/2011 “It is as a soldier that you make love and as a lover that you make war‚” Antoine de Saint-Exupery. Both Kien and Jimmy Cross‚ used their love back home as a way to escape from the horrors of war. Even though they were from different sides of the world‚ Kien and Cross shared similar experiences during the war. Both found themselves fighting with the same motivation‚ using their love to keep them alive and to survive until the end of war. For one of them
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The Meaning of the Things They Carried Tim O’Brien is a veteran of the Vietnam War and he fought with the United States in that controversial war. Tim O’Brien was drafted into the Vietnam War in 1968. He served as an infantryman‚ and obtained the rank of sergeant and won a Purple Heart after being wounded by shrapnel. He was discharged from the Vietnam War in 1970. I believe that O’Brien’s own past experiences he encountered in the Vietnam War gave him inspiration to write “The Things They Carried
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well being‚ of a lady in her sixties who is living with chronic venous leg ulcers. It will begin with a patient profile‚ and in order to comply with the Nursing and Midwifery Council Code of Conduct (NMC) the name of the patient has been changed to Martha (NMC‚ 2008). Informed consent was gained by the patient prior to this assignment being written. It will then go on to briefly discuss the Roper Logan and Tierney model of nursing which will be used as a framework for this assignment. In order to
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Lieutenant Cross had for a girl named Martha and the past stories of Lieutenants fellow soldiers. O’Brien went back and forth with Martha and the soldiers but most importantly‚ he described all the things the fellow soldiers carried with them before‚ through and after the Vietnam War. 2. I wasn’t surprised with this story much. O’Brien basically described what a person does in the life of a soldier. I could relate to Lieutenant Cross though of how much he missed Martha. I know what it feels like to have
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Cross carrying the letters from Martha in his back is very unique because it shows how truly lonely he is and I believe every soldier can relate to the pain he is feeling. Another unique story from this chapter is the story of Jimmy Cross talking about how he would have forced Martha to do stuff and let him touch her knee all night. This story was more creepy which made it unique and different. Cross changes once Lavender dies. Jimmy Cross stopped thinking about Martha and burned all of her letters
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In chapter one the narrator gives insight on a man named Jimmy Cross describes his love for a girl named Martha. Martha is a girl from New Jersey that Jimmy regrets not taking a chance with. Before Jimmy was sent to Vietnam Martha and him were on date that led to Jimmy placing his hand on her thigh‚ only for her to pull away. Cross did not get to do all that he wished to do with Martha romantically due to his cowardliness and
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814725425 “Material Allies” In the short story The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien‚ First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross leads a band of his men through the hills and swamps of Vietnam while dealing with the psychological agony of both his love for Martha and the safety of his men. In wartime however‚ it is known that your fellow man is anything from safe. Much of the men have camaraderie‚ but know that at any moment the person sitting next to them could be killed. This is where the theme of classification
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beautiful open landscapes and heroic‚ rugged heroes who are set on either conquering or defending them. These iconic actors such as John Wayne‚ Roy Stewart‚ Alan Ladd‚ and Gary Cooper were made famous through being the centerpiece of Western films and series. These heroes and images of the ‘great
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back home‚ Martha. He stresses over and over to himself about how perfect she is‚ and mentions repeatedly that she’s a virgin and that he is head over heels in love with her. As the story goes on‚ you begin to realize that Jimmy is more in love with the idea of Martha‚ than Martha herself. He is in love with the criteria that she presents. It’s clear that he is embellishing some of her qualities just so that he has something to look forward to. Jimmy is using his “love” for Martha as gravitational
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