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World War Ii 20 Th Century
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Things They Carried Playing Basketball
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860 wordsReflections on "The Things They Carried" Analyzing the storys craftsmanship Tim OBrien wrote a story that is known as "The Things They Carried. " It is a carefully crafted, detailed account of a Lieutenant and his men, the time period being right in the middle of the Vietnam war. In most war stories the author spends most of his or her time describing actions and events to the reader, trying to really put the reader "right there" in the middle of everything that is happening. However, OBrien dri...
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1,484 wordsThe Things They Carried Tim OBrien wrote an interesting story about soldiers of the Vietnam War, called The Things They Carried. The main theme of the story is the weight of the objects that American soldiers had to carry on them during their passes through the enemy territory. These things included not only the armor and burdensome objects but also their confusions, grief and heavy emotions of desire. The central point of the story groups around the death of Ted Lavender, who was one of the sol...
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Things They Carried Place In The World
1,822 wordsThe Things They Carried by Tim OBrien: Adult in Adolescence For the young men that fought in the Vietnam War, seeing the death and chaos of intense jungle warfare was more than they could handle. Coming to grips with the actions they had to carryout during this war was physiologically challenging for all of them. Even after the war was long done with, the veterans of the Vietnam war were still suffering, but on another level. Many war veterans had chosen to forget their days of war and move on w...
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Machine Gun Fire World War Ii
4,307 wordsD-Day D-day is the term for a secret date on which a military operation is to begin. Peacetime planning of military operations is also based on supposed D-days. Terms such as D-plus- 3 (three days after initial attack) and H-hour (the hour of an attack) are used to plan the sequence of operations. The term D-day became current during World War II. , when it defined dates set for Allied landings on enemy-held coasts. The most famous D-Day is June 6, l 944, when the Allies invaded Normandy. (World...
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World War Ii 20 Th Century
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Chiang Kai Shek Cuban Missile Crisis
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3,678 wordsSummary of Symbolism Presented by Vietnam/War In reading Philip Caputo's book, A Rumor of War, I discovered that he strongly presented a similar idea to that of Tim OBrien in his book, The Things They Carried. This is the idea that war can not bring or cause good, it only produces varying amounts of evil. Philip Caputo volunteered for the Marines because he was looking for a way to prove himself, and he saw the Marines as an honorable way to do so. He also originally saw the war as glorious. How...
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Things They Carried Convey The Idea
1,515 wordsTim Obrien's The Things They Carried is not a novel about the Vietnam War. It is a story about the soldiers and their experiences and emotions that are brought about from the war. OBrien makes several statements about war through these dynamic characters. He shows the violent nature of soldiers under the pressures of war, he makes an effective antiwar statement, and he comments on the reversal of a social deviation into the norm. By skillfully employing the stylistic technique of specific, consc...
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Things They Carried Deal With Death
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