Nicolina Mannino English 11 Period 2 May 29‚ 2014 The Things They Carried “War is nasty; war is fun. War is thrilling; war is drudgery. War makes you a man; war makes you dead.” O’Brien would say the Vietnam War was a negative experience for those involved because soldiers struggled with the loss of others‚ coping with those losses and witnessed graphic death scenes at the ages of 18-23. The Things They Carried is a book written by Tim O’Brien that contains semi-autobiographical stories about
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Jackson Hagerman Make-To-Order vs. Make-To-Stock Make-To-Order (MTO) is a strategy used by manufacturers to make custom orders for customers according to their specifications. These products are usually made in only low volumes. Make-To-Stock (MTS) is a strategy that involves holding items in stock for immediate delivery to minimize customer delivery times. This is very feasible for standardized products with high volume demand and displays fairly accurate forecasts. This model is suited
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Karnataka Internet of Things: A Birds Eye View Notion of Internet of Things Internet of things (IoT) is a fast growing‚ user friendly technology which allows everything to be connected together and also allows effective communication between the connected “things”. These “things” can include any object ranging from a small pen to a big car. This technology has expanded to such an extent that even living organisms are considered as the part of Internet of things. In IoT‚ intelligent devices
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Cassandra Reed S. Matthews Comp II 3 March 2014 The Things They Carried The Things They Carried by Tim O’ Brien is a collection of twenty-two short stories about the mental and physical endeavors that the American soldiers in the Vietnam War that comes together in one short novel. In this collection O’ Brien often blurs the lines between fiction and reality in order to push the reader to sympathize with the soldiers as they carry guilt‚ shame‚ cowardice‚ malice‚ and confusion. Many of the
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fight in defense of these values have them taken away because of their experiences at war. The negative effects are just as big as the positive effects of war. A nation can never really win in war because of this. Instead war just stays a neutral thing. There are many people who instead of staying in the middle‚ gravitate to either end of the spectrum. Some who fall on the far right believe that war is extremely necessary and disregard the negative aspects all together. Pacifists say that war understand
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and explaining everything that they carry when they are in battle. It explains everything the soldiers have in their bags and what things they have that relate to war and things that relate to more sentimental reasons. This chapter goes over all the soldiers and gives you a brief feel of what kind of person they are. It also lets you know what they carry and what makes them unique. I believe that the story of Jimmy Cross carrying the letters from Martha in his back is very unique because it shows
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9/9/2010 3 things essay If I could change three things in the world to make it a better place‚ the things that would be my first priority to change would be to provide an equal education for everyone‚ fight to prevent greenhouse gases and global warming‚ and to work toward world peace. An education is the most important thing that you go through in life and benefits everyone and everything in the end. Slowing the effects
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Company / Organisation | Executive Summary of Marketing Campaign | Wants or Needs? | Figure No’s: | Result | Reference | Halifax – ‘Taking on the high street banks by communicating like a high street retailer’. | Halifax transformed from ‘being a building society’ to an aggressive competitor of the big four banks in just 12 months.Halifax believed that focusing their company as a ‘human’ organisation was a powerful platform. From this they combined ‘human’ and ‘value’ as key points. They branded
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Nikita Keenan 7/14/12 Throughout Tim O’Brien’s novel‚ The Things They Carried‚ the persona of the author often serves as a medium between the translation of emotion felt by characters in the story to the reader of the book. By developing fictitious versions of events that transpired while serving in the Vietnam War‚ O’Brien’s character is able to revive memories from the past as well as spark feelings of understanding and empathy in others. Surprisingly‚ the tone of the narrator rarely peals
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"The things they carried" In "the things they carried" Tim O’Brien defines a fine line between fiction and non-fiction in the form of story telling and the memories he has accumulated from his participation in the Vietnam war the way they "seemed" rather than "what happened" because that’s how you tell "a true war story" and that’s how the book effectively engages the reader throughout the whole book because nothing is ordinary‚ not even the way the book is put together‚ you just can’t anticipate
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