Among the many solders in the Alpha Company, there were many things that were carried with them. They carried object such as can openers, knives, dog tags, bug repellent, water, guns and food. ... However, there were a few items that the soldiers carried not because they had to or because they needed it in order to survive physically but because they needed it in order to survive emotionally. ... He also carried pictures of Martha. ... In "The Things They Carried" by Tim O"Brien, the soldiers carried many things but each had a valuable item that gave them intangible comfort that helped th...

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"The Things They Carried" In the short story "The Things They Carried" Tim O"Brien faces Jimmy Cross with the problem of surviving while fighting in Vietnam. ... Jimmy and his men were not very courageous, they did do heroic things, and they did not even fight in many battles. ... "They carried a soldier greatest fear, which was the fear of blushing." ... Everyone in the story had their own things they carried, some carried lucky pebbles like Jimmy and others carried the New Testament like Kiowa. ... They all needed to be soldiers. ...

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"The Things They Carried," by Tim O"Brien is a story about a group of soldiers marching through Vietnam during the war. It describes the men and the things that each of them carries. ... They also carry fear, memories, and the weight of emotions. ... They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity." ...

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In the short story "The Things They Carried" Tim O"Brien faces Jimmy Cross with the problem of surviving while fighting in Vietnam. ... Jimmy and his men were not very courageous, they did not do heroic things, and they did not even fight in many battles. ... "They carried a soldiers greatest fear, which was the fear of blushing." ... Everyone in the story had there own things they carried, some carried lucky pebbles like Jimmy and others carried the New Testament like Kiowa. ... They all needed to be soldiers. ...

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"The Things They Carried" is a short story by author Tim O"Brien. ... "They carried the land itself -Vietnam, the place, the soil They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity." ... Pattern is exemplified with repeated references to the things carried by the soldiers and also the repeated emphasis on the weight of the things they carry. ... They carried infections." ...

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Tough Love in "The Things They Carried," by Tim O"Brien In Tim O"Briens "The Things They Carried," O"Brien describes the blind obsession of Lieutenant Jimmy Cross for a young girl named Martha, a junior at Mount Sebastian College in New Jersey. ... "They would get their shit together and keep it together"(718). ... It's a terrible thing what a man will carry inside him. ... He will lead his men with the kind of love they should be lead with, tough love. ...

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In Arundhati Roy's complex novel, The God of Small Things, Love Laws are presented as rules that people are supposed to follow. ... These love laws shape and hold back these families because of the importance that they hold. ... After Rahel disrespects Ammu, Ammu responds by saying "when you hurt people, they begin to love you less". ... Velutha, now known to Ammu as "the God of Loss, the God of Small Things" has Ammu in limbo, a mix between a possibly ending dream and an everlasting reality (210). ... Estha and Rahel are "bonded by a certain knowledge" that...

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If he is this person's true friend, he must value his relationship enough to sacrifice his own feelings to save the special bond they carry. ... These individuals must be able to share everything they would disclose with their best friend from the same sex. Best friends provide each other with all the support they need. Also, the ability to carry a friendship with the other gender is much easier when one of the individuals in married or in a romantic relationship. Most people believe that having a partner makes it easier not to misinterpret things, which is something that many me...

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If he is this person's true friend, he must value his relationship enough to sacrifice his own feelings to save the special bond they carry. ... These individuals must be able to share everything they would disclose with their best friend from the same sex. Best friends provide each other with all the support they need. Also, the ability to carry a friendship with the other gender is much easier when one of the individuals in married or in a romantic relationship. Most people believe that having a partner makes it easier not to misinterpret things, which is something that many me...

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On the first Tuesday they meet they talk about the world. ... Always dwelling on things they didn't succeed at or didn't get. ... Things aren't always perfect, but you work it out. ... It is such a burden to carry around hate or bad feelings for someone else. ... Morrie's idea on forgiveness boils down to, that forgiving lightens the weight you carry through life. ...

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The abilities of humans have carried the race to the population of nearly every continent, leaving the Earth, and control a power strong enough to destroy all life on Earth at the push of a button. ... Many things can cause someone to not seek out or accept the feeling of love; such as pervious bad relationships, lack of morals, tragic childhoods, etc. ... Genetically they are perfectly capable to love by their psychological problems interfere with their ability to love. ... Love will carry the human race to the end of time. ...

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When they have faith in God they will then be able to open their minds and begin to understand his teachings. ... While those who wear high boots shall not learn his ways and will remain ignorant to his teachings and carry a foolish heart. ... There are some things in the world that we might think as evil. ... In reality we see them as evil because they do not harmonized with the things around us, but they do harmonize with the way the earth works and mother natures functions. ... So what Augustine is saying is that we shall love all things even if the seem to be evil, because they to severe a...

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In "The Things They Carried" by Tim O"Brien, the most important character is a Lieutenant Jimmy Cross. ... Also if he did not change how he was leading the platoon they would not make it out alive. ... He did not care anymore if his soldiers loved him or liked him, but they would be ready for anything that happened. He took away a lot of there personal things that they did not need. ...

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Small things such as these gave me comfort. ... They feel insecure and incomplete without their daily dose of coffee. ... My cousin, Kristen, once commented to me that "Grandpa has this ability to make me laugh at the stupidest things." ... Sometimes they were fun and exciting, and other times they taught us about the history of our town or family. ... He wanted us to carry on his legacy to future generations so everyone might know what life is like through the eyes of a loving optimist. ...

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Here we live in a world where money is the most important thing to everyone, where as honor and how you carry the family name are important to the characters in the book. ... But even though they live in the same culture they do three totally different things. ... Like Kenzo, his honor comes from his feelings for the one they love. ... During this fight things were said out of anger toward the both of them. ... We find that the lifestyles in which they lived in are based on things other cultures don't believe in. ...

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"Things base and vile" this shows that she feels there are things about him that are disgusting or unattractive. ... " To take a spin on that part of her remarks, she says that those base and vile things about him hold no quantity, as if they don't matter because of the admiration she has for him. ... The words "I love you" can ease pain, confuse things, make things difficult, stir up emotion there is a lot of irrationality to love at times. ... Many people claim they don't believe in love for the very reason of the hurt and pain it can cause. ... They are be...

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Evans, a man who worked at the mental hospital, helps Karl get a job fixing things in a neighborhood Car Shop. ... He went through a lot of heart breaking things growing up. ... Karl helps Frank carry his freshly washed clothes to his house. ... Evans will not allow it but ends up getting Karl a job fixing and repairing parts for cars, lawnmowers and other similar things. Frank and Karl meet back up and they get to know each other a little better. ...

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As a young couple, they tried to build a future, defying the hatred that was tearing their country apart."As things got worst in Sarajevo, Admira and Bosko decided to flee to Serbian territory. As they were crossing the no-man's land a sniper started shooting at them. ... "I saw their bodies being hit with Molotov cocktails and they were shooting incendiary bullets to try to burn them, but they didn't suceed." ... Bosko's partner in the black market betrayed him and went off to the other side, "Misa Cuk was disappearing, fleeing out of Sarajevo, carrying with him a gun, a two-wa...

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When they meet for the first time in the play, immediately they try to outdo one another, with put-downs, each trying to have the last word. ... They are both afraid of rejection from the other, preferring to scorn one another, rather than admit their true feelings. ... Making him believe that Beatrice is beside herself, totally in love with him, but cannot bring herself to say anything after all of the horrible things she has said. ... By doing this, she achieves two things. Firstly, getting Benedict to prove his love and also carry out the task that she herself as a woman cannot. ...

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The only other way I can put it is by saying that there are a thousand things running through a person's head when they hear such shocking information, and when that person tries to speak or say something all there is, is silence. ... When she describes these, she uses details as if this is the first time she is seeing these things. ... The next sentence reads as, "It was Brently Mallard who entered, a little travel-stained, composedly carrying his gripsack and umbrella" (KM 73). ... She loved her husband sometimes, but yet things just weren't perfect or complete. ... Chopin leav...

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Love to some people is buying things to make a person happy. ... I have learned that you cannot earn love from buying things for people it just does not work that way. When you buy an object for someone they at first seem to be all adoring of the gift and say they love you for it but in reality they are just satisfied that they got their object. ... I have realized that Just spending time with her had made her happier than when I buy her things. ... Colleen has helped me through many things and there is no doubt that she loves me and I love her. ...

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One of the most important things in her life was not poetry but religion and the love for God. ... Father and husband rose to prominence, and served governor of colony after they went to Salem which later became Massachusetts Bay Colony. ... Even though it was a very up lifting movement they were disliked by Protestants and Catholics, they finally got away from the discrimination and went to Jamestown then moved to Salem, and made a company called Massachusetts Bay Company. They carried eleven ships over to America. ... The most puzzling thing is that they publish it six ye...

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Shylock's hatred for Antonio is introduced in the first act and carries on to the end of the play. ... They adopt the fake identities of a lawyer and his clerk and intend to trick the court into believing they are professionals. "They shall think we are accomplished with that we lack" (act 3, scene 4). Once they have had success they deceive their husbands and ask for their wedding rings as rewards, "I"ll take this ring from you. ... These things do not reflect the qualities of love. ...

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You could tell she was well off or important in the things she wore and the way that Marlow, the narrator of the book, described the way she carried herself and the way the other members of the tribe watched what ever she did. ... This worked and even made the ones closest to the shore fall down flat on their face as if they were dead. ... She wanted to know what they were and said, "Repeat them I want-I want-something-something-to-to live with (p.71)." ... Kurtz played an important role in the live of both women and had a tremendous impact on the way they loved him. Both women were very d...

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Following numerous moving, emotive proceedings, though, they"re reunited and married. Austen shows us how love can overcome any difficulties or obstacles because of the potency it carries. ... The couple in the story, after nonstop arguing over frivolities, breaks away for a bit, as they reflect on how unimportant their quarrel was. After doing so, they return to their loving relationship. ... The most sensible of all ideas, that by the author of "Rope," is one that is ideal in terms of settling things and should definitely be attempted. ...

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