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The Things They Carried By Tim Obrien
1,000 wordsWhat did they carry? Was it just their standard issued gear? Was it relics from the world? Or was it something more sinister? Tim OBrien explores these ideas and many more in his heart stopping, breath taking, uniquely sad but true book, The Things They Carried. OBrien, a victim of the Vietnam War himself, shares with us stories that he endured while in the Nam. Moreover, I believe that this book of his was much more than a collection of stories. I believe this book was not meant to entertain ou...
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History And Culture Multicultural Society
751 words00. 01 The purpose of this paper is to focus on history and culture. This is also the required paper four for English composition 1301. 00. 02 The thesis is this that this essay analyzes and interprets five essays on history and culture in terms of understanding the meaning, evaluating the strategy and appreciating the language as suggested by The Sundance Reader. 01. 01 In the first essay by Matthew Arnold he writes about the two influences in our world, which are Hebraism and Hellenism. Hebrai...
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Descriptive Rhetorical Mode Lost Tribes Lost Author
760 wordsN. Scott Momaday's The Way to Rainy Mountain glorifies the Kiowa culture and describes its traditions. N. Scott Momaday in his reminiscence demonstrates nostalgic longing for a time that cannot be salvaged and is gone forever. The author reminds us of lost tribes, lost religions and lost hope. A persons heritage is a very important aspect of himself. If a persons heritage is somehow lost or destroyed, that person will be missing a very big component of him. The author uses his grandmother as a s...
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Lieutenant Jimmy Cross Bonnie And Clyde
1,716 wordsFirst Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from a girl named Martha, a junior at Mount Sebastian College in New Jersey. They were not love letters, but Lieutenant Cross was hoping, so he kept them folded in plastic at the bottom of his rucksack. In the late afternoon, after a day's march, he would dig his foxhole, wash his hands under a canteen, unwrap the letters, hold them with the tips of his fingers, and spend the last hour of fight pretending. He would imagine romantic camping trips into ...
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Lieutenant Jimmy Cross Things They Carried
1,718 words... h-as-catch can. At various times, in various situations, they carried M- 14 's and CAR- 15 's and Swedish K's and grease guns and captured AK- 47 s and Chi Com's and RPG's and Simon carbines and black-market Uzi's and. 38 -caliber Smith & Wesson handguns and 66 mm LAW's and shotguns and silencers and blackjacks and bayonets and C- 4 plastic explosives. Lee Strunk carried a slingshot; a weapon of last resort, he called it. Mitchell Sanders carried brass knuckles. Kiowa carried his grandfa...
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Lieutenant Jimmy Cross Ted Lavender
1,743 words... es of ammunition. You want my opinion, Mitchell Sanders said, there's a definite moral here. He put his hand oil the dead boy's wrist. He was quiet for a time, as if counting a pulse, then he patted the stomach, almost affectionately, and used Kiowa's hunting hatchet to remove the thumb. Henry Dobbins asked what the moral was. Moral? You know- Moral. Sanders wrapped the thumb in toilet paper and handed it across to Norman Bowker. There was no blood. Smiling, he kicked the boy's head, watched...
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Bride And Groom Extended Families
1,236 wordsThe Way to Rainy Mountain combines personal, familial, and tribal stories about Kiowa Indian history. Monday juxtaposes his personal memories of Kiowa culture and traditional tribal narratives to create an impression of the Kiowa way of life that is both mystical and well-grounded. Today we try to discuss some cultural and tradition of ancient tribes. Once long ago, on the shores of the great lake, there lived a hunter who had ten beautiful young daughters. Their hair was as dark and glossy as t...
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Things They Carried Ted Lavender
1,339 wordsThe Things They Carried In his story The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien describes a group of soldiers marching through Vietnam. He does this by describing the items that each of them carries with him during the march. The things that the soldiers carry with them are both tangible and intangible items and what these things are depends upon the individual soldier. They carry the basic necessities for survival (if one can consider such things as chocolate a necessity) and the bare minimum to make...
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Harper Amp Row Quot Quot
2,475 wordsN. Scott Momadays: Biographical, Literary, And Multicultural N. Scott Momadays: Biographical, Literary, And Multicultural Contexts Kenneth M. Roemer Momaday's Major Works The Journey of Tai-me. Santa Barbara: Privately Printed, 1967. House Made of Dawn. New York: Harper & Row, 1968. The Way to Rainy Mountain. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1969. Angle of Geese and Other Poems. Boston: Going, 1974. The Gourd Dancer. New York: Harper & Row, 1976. The Names: A Memoir. New York...
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