Nick Grainger Eng 112 March 16‚ 2004 The Things They Carried Tim O’Brien was an infantryman in during Vietnam War. He used those experiences to write many short stories including The Things They Carried. The story portrays how‚ "the things they carried" were weightless in comparison to their feelings of love and loss‚ fear and shame‚ and the torturous memories of death. "They all carried emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief‚ terror‚ love‚ longing- these were intangibles‚ but the intangibles
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"My Three Favorite Things" My three favorite things are music‚ basketball‚ and writing poetry. In this essay‚ I will write my reasons for choosing these things. Plus‚ how I feel about‚ and while I’m‚ doing these things. I will also mention certain memories from doing these things‚ and while listening to music. We all have our own preferences‚ and these are mine. Music is my life and it keeps me going in every way you can inmagine. My favorite types of music are rap and reggae. In the morning
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The Things They Carried Report “The Things They Carried” was a story about soldiers caught in the confusion of the Vietnam War. There are a lot of apparent themes that are dealt with when writing a story about war‚ especially about death. I enjoyed reading this story; however there were some things about it that I was concerned about. I would like to discuss the author’s style of writing‚ his meaning of the title “The Things They Carried” and the way the author and his characters deal with death
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When I first read The Thing in the Forest‚ I was immediately taken in. I wondered what the thing could be. Was she going to talk about the two little girls‚ Penny and Primrose‚ witnessing the making of weapons‚ the abused lives of other orphans‚ or even the murders of German prisoners? The exposition‚ especially the time when World War II was going on‚ had led me to expect hostility. And my expectations turned out to be right‚ but in a different form. “The thing” was a hideous‚ worm-like creature
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Everybody people have their own list of likes and dislikes of people. Some people have very specific things they can’t stand in anybody else and others have just a vague idea of what they like or dislike. Anyway‚ it’s pretty important to pin down what it is you like about people‚ because this way you can make the decision if you want that person in your life or not much easier. This kind of list is extremely personal so no two lists will be alike. It’s a fun exercise and I hope that after you will
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My winning word-works 2013 :)) hope you like it Living in the world of full of verification‚ there are a lot of things that you’ve gonna believe in. An example of this is a paranormal things here in the world‚ that was been living for a long time aside from us. Most of the people rejecting the truth of it‚ some are believing‚ some are not‚ some are confuse but most of the time they’re all in behalf. They only believe if they can see but if you ask me if I do; well‚ I only want to believe but I
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ending‚ optimistic romance as the subplot. When Susan realizes that her brother has been freed she can hardly believe it (p55 l 57/61). Heywood here plays on the words “amazed”‚ “maze” in the polyptoton. Certainly Susan is used by her brother (the woman as object‚ as in the main plot) as a ploy to catch Acton (p76 l96/7). So‚ from the dangerous maze where one may lose one’s references and even one’s identity‚ we move to the notion of surprise and even admiration (negative--> positive)‚ a word which
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In the novel The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien the author tells about his experiences in the Vietnam war by telling various war stories. The quote‚ "It has been said of war that it is a world where the past has a strong grip on the present‚ where machines seemed sometimes to have more will power than me‚ where nice boys (girls) were attracted to them‚ where bodies ruptured and burned and stand‚ where the evil thing trying to kill you could look disconnecting human and where except in your imagination
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21 January 2013 ENGL 152-14 Crazy Thing 2 Crazy Thing 2 When I almost ran my grandfather over at his house it affected my life by making me more aware of my vehicle. The incident changed me because once I realized what was happening I realized wasn’t in control of my vehicle anymore and couldn’t stop what happened or could have happened. I know that once a person loses control bad things can happen. What could have happened terrified me; the first thing that went thru my mind is ‘I could have
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Andrew J. Rodriguez Professor Hagan English 8 April 16‚ 2012 The Things They Carried During the Vietnam War Jimmy Cross was tasked as the lieutenant in the Vietnam War in Tim Obrien’s The Things They Carried. He took responsibility full of challenges past warfare. The war was a very psychological war for the positioned soldiers in the army. The strange environment that included shady places‚ waiting corners‚ diseases and death other than the problems they carried from home. Every soldier
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