This is the reason that causes the characters in a book called, The Things They Carried, by Tim O"Brien to have to change due to their situation. ... The men had many defenses against fear including joking, being cruel, carrying guns, and killing other people. ... They just turned evil, they didn't care, and if they don't care, they can't worry. One of the soldiers, " Norman Bowler, otherwise, a very gentle person, carried a Thumb...The Thumb was dark brown, rubbery to touch...It had been cut from a VC corpse, a boy of fifteen of sixteen."(pg.82) Bowler had been a very go...

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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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If the parent wants the child to stop complaining they can for example take way his TV privileges and teach the child to appreciate the things he has and show him that is worse people in world. If the child is old enough putting him/her on a part time job would teach the child how hard is to earn money and will make him/her appreciate the things they have and they will stop complaining. ... To teach a person to drool when they word "elephant" is said we for example use Observational Learning. ... Secondly the person will remember the behavior then reproduce the action (drooling) and final...

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If the parent wants the child to stop complaining they can for example take way his TV privileges and teach the child to appreciate the things he has and show him that is worse people in world. If the child is old enough putting him/her on a part time job would teach the child how hard is to earn money and will make him/her appreciate the things they have and they will stop complaining. ... To teach a person to drool when they word "elephant" is said we for example use Observational Learning. ... Secondly the person will remember the behavior then reproduce the action (drooling) and final...

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What about the things that a person needs? ... So then a person should think about what they are going to buy before they actually purchase it. As a person thinks about what they are going to buy, they should take in consideration of something that they need more than want. ... So many people need different things to carry out a task. ... Really then again one should take in consideration of what they are going to buy and make sure that it is something they need over something they want...

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First, Maimonides explains that some things will never be completely construed. ... Maimonides says that a man can carry two kikkar, but he is not able to carry ten kikkar. Stronger men may be able to carry more kikkar, but this man is not. ... They are no longer domesticated; instead they are educated. ...

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You grow up and come to realize that things aren't as easy as you expected them to be. ... or to put a whole new spin on things what happens to a "Dream Deferred" when your in "Harlem"? ... (ln. 6) As the reader encounters the strophe of questions they reflect back on their dreams and do a type of self analysis almost. ... It's as if Langston Hughes knows all these things are to come in the future. ... Just as dreams carry a whole new meaning, that is unless they are "deferred"....

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All of these humans are missing out on the grand scheme of things though, because are those things what really matter? ... People lose sight in the fact that looks aren't everything, and also the fact that people in Hollywood don't necessarily look the way they are constantly perceived as. ... Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, "Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it within us or we find it not." ... It is now that cultures around the world, as different as they might be in the perceptions of beauty, somehow they still come together, knowing that inner be...

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Charlemagne's army was all of these things. ... Charlemagne had his personal equipment and the equipment of his bishops, counts, abbots, and nobles carried in carts. ... He says that if they spend so much money and time in restoring churches, they should do the same on schools. ... He may have also thought that by educating his solders they would be more disciplined and have a better knowledge of what they needed to do to accomplish their objectives. ...

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In this paper, I will be discussing how infants are able to develop attachment even though they have a limited long-term memory capacity. ... It is natural that a newborn shows attachment to it's mother, as she was the one who carried it for nine months. ... The brain of an infant is wired so that it remembers things from the past, but over time, the infant can no longer recall the memory if it is not reminded constantly of the memory. ... They smile and laugh more often around the primary caregiver, and are more easily consoled by this person when they are upset. ... They will also show...

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The studies proved that without dreaming they changed they become more anxious and abrasive and it also altered their personalities. ... When a sleeper experiences REM sleep it is almost as if they are watching a series of events, and in turn they are dream what they are seeing. The pathways that carry nerve impulses from the brain to the muscles are blocked, so therefor the body cannot move during dreams. ... Dreams really are amazing things without them we really would be more uptight then we already are. Dreams are a blessing in disguise and a way to figure things out without stressing abou...

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If one learns an idea or concept, how did they know they learned anything if they never knew it was there? The answer is that people know things through experience and memory. ... How does he or she know that 1 + 1 = 2 when he or she doesn't even know what numbers are or what they represent? ... I realized that I learned what everything was, what certain things represented because we were told what it was. ... This theory states that when one is born, they are born as a blank slate. ...

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As the oldest of three sisters, I carry a huge responsibility. ... I worked primarily with children between the ages of five and twelve and assisted them when they needed help, and would also explain to them the mistakes they made and teach them the correct way so as not to make the same mistake. ... This summer I have the chance to see the same things I saw as a camper, but through the eyes of a counselor. ...

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According to Moulton, the purpose of the storm is not confined to marking of emotional climax; it is one of the agencies which assist in carrying it to its height. ... The king physically struggles against the storm which symbolizes certain things. ... There are gusts of rains and winds, and animals must struggle for their shelter, but king is deprived of all these things. ... He calls on them to blow and crack  their cheeks, to drown the churches to the steeples; they can never reach the height of his passion. ...

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Children in preschool most likely just see this time as a free time to do things other than what they would normally do in a learning setting. ... Children not only practice what they already know, they also learn new things. ... All children, especially infants and toddlers, benefit from having many different, safe things to play with and inspect. ... They can also use the objects to help the child with simple math skills. ... When the early foundations of learning are stable enough to carry them through school and into adulthood, children are genuinely prepared to enter school. ...

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Things such as dreams, Loneliness, and phobias. These things all play a big role in why humans act in the way they do. ... In some cases the mind shuts out things it doesn't want to recall. ... They aren't images replaying in his mind but instead they are his minds interpretation of his emotions. ... His case is a bit different because his Deficiency stems from the part not allowing him to carry social relationships and his desired social contacts. ...

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Although Milgram obviously did not obtain informed consent from his subjects, subjects volunteered for the study so they did agree to take part. Secondly the debriefing: Milgram's carried out a thorough debrief to check if the participants were unharmed during experimentation. ... Lastly, Milgram also asked subjects if they allowed for their results to be published and he did keep them confidential, so no rules of privacy and confidentiality were compromised. Ethical issues were raised in Milgram's Experiment, they include the following . ... The main tactics this man faced was pres...

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They also stress how the context or situational forces determines how we perceive our environment and how interaction will proceed. Context carries much of the meaning of speech usage and behavior. ... Without understanding these things a machine will not truly be able to decipher what the conversation was actually about. ... A person outside of this gestalt would not know what a Do A was but they would know that they were not good just from how the speaker said it and how the audience reacted. ...

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She made us pick out a paper from the bowl and they all had a different word. ... Quantz told us that those papers had no meaning to us and that we wouldn't know what they meant. ... Soon they started becoming negative thoughts, for example, I kept thinking about school and how I would get my grades up within the next two weeks. ... It brought a different view of things for me. ... I was raised Catholic, so prayer and faith are something I will always carry with me. ...

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Things that you can't prevent from happening because they're meant to happen, but instead of running away from it, you should embrace it, solve it and learn from it" is very relevant in my life. ... They were so unnoticeable that I probably had several a day and no one would of known, including myself, even in conversation. ... There are wires glued to my scalp with tons of gauze wrapped around my head like a present, and carrying a box that is recording the waves the wires pick up. ... Personally, trying to fix the seizures is making things worse for me. ... They study how ...

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Contrarily, things even people we dont like are "ugly," "bad" or something equally awful. ... In a broad sense, beauty can be any or all things or even thoughts, concepts or ideas that are appealing. Sickness, on the other hand, carries the idea of illness that is a disordered, weakened or unsound condition. ... Psychologically, negative feelings such as self-hatred and depression may arise subconsciously when they obsessively focus on the disliked parts. In addition, they may to some degree withdraw socially and manifest symptoms such as quiet desperation and avoidance behaviors as a resul...

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Like most people, I used to ask the question of meaning of life and always expected things from life. ... It never felt like I had to carry a heavy load because I always wanted to be the best. ... From the day they started their new business, they struggled to keep the business running. ... For the next two or three years, I wanted to know why things in my life went the way that they did, why nothing ever seemed to fall into place. ... I wanted to know what I had done so utterly and completely wrong that all these horrible things happened to me. ...

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Like most people, I used to ask the question of meaning of life and always expected things from life. ... It never felt like I had to carry a heavy load because I always wanted to be the best. ... From the day they started their new business, they struggled to keep the business running. ... For the next two or three years, I wanted to know why things in my life went the way that they did, why nothing ever seemed to fall into place. ... I wanted to know what I had done so utterly and completely wrong that all these horrible things happened to me. ...

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Unfortunately, things did not get any better as time progressed. ... The word "obsession", however, does not carry the same meaning here as it does to a lovesick teenage girl. ... Perhaps obsessions are things that people who do not have OCD see as odd and abstract, but to the people with OCD, they are very real. ... Some people with OCD need to check things up to one hundred times before they are finished (Rapoport, 1989). ... At some point they realize that what they are doing is unnecessary, but they can not stop (DSM, 1994). ...

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And those memories will carry us along life and finally to heaven. ... In addition, they are all on many different drugs; they do not know what to do. ... They think he must have be crazy. ... Then he asks if crazy things happened yesterday. They tell him yes. ...

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