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Tim Obrien Vietnam War
967 wordsIt is generally recognized that Tim Obrien's Going After Cacciato (1978) is most likely the best novel of the Vietnam war, albeit an unusual one in that it innovative combines the experiential realism of war with surrealism, primarily through the overactive imagination of the protagonist, Spec Four Paul Berlin. The first chapter of this novel is of more than usual importance. Designed to be a self-sufficient story (Mccaffery 137) and often anthologized as one, this chapter is crucial to the nove...
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Immense Weight Of Duty Weight Of Duty Water
1,053 wordsI heard the cry: plaintive, pitiable wail of a lost and frightened child. It was one of those usual days, when the sun flared like a fiery blaze of a gem in the water filled sky. Feeling not for the first time- the immense weight of duty settling upon me. This would have been daunting if I had not sensed an equally great strength and a will to survive helping to burden. I was an aid worker yet the aid they needed I had none. Like vermin's crawling from the cracks and crevices they emerged, hesit...
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Addictive Substance Alcohol Consumption
829 wordsAlcohol And Advertising By Roberto It is not fair to say that all people drink to gain acceptance, or that all people use drinking to create a new self image. Quite often in life, however, even those who do not form an addiction, about three out of four individuals, have probably drank at one time to ease nerves and not worry so much what others think. Whether this is right or wrong per individual, it is very much a part of the Australian culture. Advertising agencies are definitely not the last...
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Plants And Animals Tropical Rain
1,053 wordsPOLLUTION ~{! 0 ~}Why is this happening? ~{! 1 ~} I say to my mind, ~{! 0 ~}Why is the air so hot and so hard to breathe? ~{! 1 ~}, ~{! 0 ~}Why are trees being cut down when they are a source of life? ~{! 1 ~}, ~{! 0 ~}Why some species of animals are disappearing? ~{! 1 ~} There is only one answer to this question and maybe the most unpleasant for us to hear: man, whose main preoccupation should be the protection of his home, destroys the planet through his harmful actions. Man has interfered to...
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Mother Nature Rainy Season
676 wordsThe year revolves around many seasons, namely- summer, rainy, autumn, winter and spring. Each season brings about a certain change in our lives and leaves its mark on Earth and also in our minds. Mythology has a lot to offer on the subject of the changes in season but now people refer to it as logic. When spring comes, flower begin to bloom, birds begin to sing their melodious songs and the world wakes up to find itself once again under the care of Mother Nature. Spring time is also called exam ...
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Guy Montag Seventeen Year
1,160 wordsWritten By Ray Bradbury "Guy Montag enjoyed his job. He had been a fireman for ten years and he had never questioned the joy of the midnight runs, or the joy of watching pages consumed by flames. Never questioned anything until he met a seventeen-year-old girl who told him of a past when people were not afraid. Then he met a professor who told him of a future in which people could think. Guy Montag suddenly realized what he had to do. Guy Montag was not the same person at both the beginning and ...
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Lord Of The Flies Mother Pig
1,288 words... the human mind, it's just different ways of looking at it. As it goes "A human mind is too complicated for it to understand itself. " Jack in the other hand sometimes tend to get away from that fear. His jokes clearly stand a strong base. As he jokingly says "Use a littles" (pg 115); instead of a pig, we can clearly conclude it's a practical joke being played. He always hated the littles and it wouldn't really be big deal. A serious joke? Even towards the ending, Ralph joking tells Piggy "Yo...
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Car Home Ankle
456 wordstype: Other I had spent almost two days trying to find a simple story to tell for my english class. I watched television and read short stories and still could not come up with a story that was to my liking. That is when I called my friend Mattie and asked her to give me a story that was true and to tell it like it was. That is when she told me about the worst day of her life. One morning I woke up at four am when the alarm clock fell off the shelf and onto my face. I jumped out of bed and fell ...
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Happy Person Good Health
728 wordsAn emotion is an intense feeling. Happiness is one of the many emotions humans experience. It may perhaps be the most important feeling a person can have and it is the one feeling everyone strives to achieve, yet strangely, for the most part, people seem to only get a glimpse of it. Pleasurable satisfaction, a state of well-being and contentment are the more outstanding elements of happiness. Happiness, known more formally as felicity, is good. A state of well-being characterized by emotions ran...
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Mental Institution Poor Communication
642 wordsThroughout the novel, Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger, Holden Caulfields actions conveyed his deteriorating mental health. Holden endured a troubled childhood and adolescence. Several years prior to the opening of the novel, Holden's younger brother, Allie, died of leukemia. Since then, various boarding schools, most recently Peace Prep, expelled Holden because of his poor grades and lack of effort. Instead of confronting his parents with the news of his latest failure, Holden left school a...
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Didn T Doesn T
615 wordsCentennial Book Review 1. Death plays a large role in Michener s book because it is treated so causally. Michener s book is quite long, covering many years, and many places. Ifeach death were to be described deeply then the book would be over twice it s length. Since the book isold over a long period of time, no one person could live throughout the whole thing, so death is inevitable. Michener repeats the concept only rocks live forever presenting the reality in the book. Everyone dies at some t...
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Rest Of The World Soviet Union
765 wordsOn April 1986, Soviets Union Chernobyl nuclear plant exploded letting out a massive amount of radiation that would debate of all Russian citizens for hundreds of years to come. On April 26, 1986 at 1: 21 am, the # 4 reactor exploded and released thirty to forty times the radiation of the Nagasaki and Hiroshima bombing. The exact causes of the explosion are not known, however scientists and researchers, under thorough investigation, have uncovered possible causes to the explosion. The main reason...
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Jump Off Creek Lost Babies Gloss
641 wordsThe Jump-Off Creek introduces the reader to the unforgiving Blue Mountains and the harsh pioneer lifestyle with the tale of Lydia Sanderson, a widow who moves west from Pennsylvania to take up residence in a rundown homestead. She and other characters battle nature, finances, and even each other on occasion in a fight for survival in the harsh Oregon wilderness. Although the story is vividly expressed through the use of precise detail and 1800 s slang, it failed to give me a reason to care becau...
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Part Of China Money To Pay
604 wordsPopulation China is the third-largest country in the world. The population of China is 1222, 017, 000 and growing. Because of this enormous population the government offers jobs to those families who only have one child. If a government employee choice? s to have more then one child, they will loose their job. This is to try to encourage people to be responsible and to try to keep the population down Climate In the northern part of China temperatures can reach down to 13 oF in the winter, and th...
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Western Concert Choir Elements Of The Choir Voices
804 wordsAfter parking out in the wilds of the Western parking-lot system I managed to hike a few miles through the wind and rain to the PAC on a stormy November 9 th in Bellingham. Having shaken myself off I found a comfortable seat in the upper deck and settled in to enjoy the warmth and music of the evening. Minutes after I sat down the choir filed in to form a semi-circle around the conductor. Everyone was dressed up in black and looked striking for the evenings performance. The evenings performance ...
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Fossil Fuels Carbon Dioxide
966 wordsJustin Greenwood May 15, 2001 Thinking Like a Mountain Environmental Issues Project The Destruction of Our Fragile Planet and the Possibility of Reform It is widely accepted that humans have been a major cause of environmental problems since we began creating our cities and especially since the Industrial Revolution of the 20 th century. All aspects of the Earth have been affected by humans desire to conquer and dominate the planet. Our impact has gone beyond pollution to altering the functionin...
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Percy Bysshe Literary Devices
1,349 wordsExplanation of To a Skylark by Percy Bysshe Shelly Percy Bysshe Shelly was born in Sussex in 1792 with scoliosis. He was sent to prestigious schools, first Eton and later Oxford, but he never could settle into the role of a student. Shelly was expelled because of a pamphlet he wrote entitled The Necessity of Atheism. This led to trouble between him and his father, so instead of going home, Shelly went to London. Shelly spent the last few years of his life in Pisa, Italy, where he became great fr...
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Grapes Of Wrath Joad
430 wordsGrapes of Wrath The Grapes of Wrath is an epic story of the Joad's, though it is full of desert and drought, water is the purifier in this novel. It starts with Tom getting out of state prison on parole. When he meets Jim Case on his way home the plot starts rolling. When they reach Tom? s farm they find out that banks and large companies have closed their farms and that everyone is leaving to California in hopes of work. This is the first conflict. The poor against the rich, or the weak against...
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Thunder And Lightning Weird Sisters
600 wordsNature in Macbeth Macbeth, and all of William Shakespeare's other works include several universal themes. Shakespeare incorporates these themes into his works to emphasize meanings and points. Several times in Macbeth nature is out of order which coincides with unpleasant events occurring. This happens many times in Macbeth. Shakespeare demonstrates this using setting, characters, and dialog. One of the major ways Shakespeare shows disturbances in nature is use of setting. Thunder and Lightning....
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Jay Gatsby Englewood Cliffs
1,288 wordsPathetic is a term used to describe someone who is pitifully unsuccessful. Success is not necessarily measured in wealth or fame, but it is measured by how much one has accomplished in life. A successful person is one who has set many goals for himself and then goes out in life and accomplishes some of them, but goes on living even if failing on others. In the novel The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby is a pathetic character because he wasted his whole life chasing an unrealistic dream. Gatsby's dream ...
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