(Salman Rushdie) He tells his audience, in The Things They Carried, a compilation of stories in order to help others understand his whole story about Vietnam. ... Mary Anne first emerges in The Things They Carried within a story called "Sweetheart of the Song Tra Brong-. ... My interpretation of absolute truths includes people, places, things, events, and dialogue. ... "There was a new confidence in her voice, a new authority in the way she carried herself. ... O'Brien's retelling of Rat's story exemplifies the meaning of The Things They Carried. ...

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That makes people unhappy and they become regretful and more and more surround themselves with the dream world rather then reality. When in fact they should be working on making there dreams a reality. ... It is also thought that the more one has been reincarnated the more knowledge is imprinted or carried in his genes. ... Because if we are the only things that limit our own dreams, what is holding us back from becoming the most important. ... So he puts down his deepest yearnings into this hole immortality bid, which gives insight of the common bond of all living thin...

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Kane was depicted as a rich, cold-hearted man, relying heavily on materialistic things as a means to cope with his inability to form relationships with other humans. ... Kane's lifestyle was filled with such exuberant and expensive things, he used it as a way to hide his extreme loneliness. Kane also had a wife and some friends, but they were all seen as more of acquaintances, including his wife. ... There was no one, no son to carry on the family name, no friends to remember him. ... The inability to form relationships with actual humans then led to his complete reliance on materialistic...

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They are actually one of the heaviest burdens for a person to carry. ... A child needs many things, both emotionally and financially. ... They need so many things and so much of a person's time that some people may not be ready to handle it. When they are overwhelmed by the amount of time and attention that their child needs, they do drastic things and suicide is one of them. ... Stress is caused by a variety of things. ...

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There seems to be so many other things to do with my time. ... Reading develops the mind and help people understand things better. ... Once down in the tunnel they talked and talked but when she was ready to leave and continue walking home he became very upset. ... Carrying thoughts about school, to church, back home made me realize the reading not only changes the way you think at school or advances your education at school but it influences your entire life and everything you do daily when you carry that development and imagination with you. ... I can say that once people let go of past fee...

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"It was becoming a habit-this concentration on things behind him. ... He does not know himself, or his past, and he is unable to find flight, life, without knowing those things. ... They stay with you anyway, in your mind.' " (p 208) A person cannot just go on living as usual if he kills someone. ... Only then can the person return to the skies to fly, to carry on with his life. ... Just as the consequences of Milkman's own stupidity would remain, and regret would always outweigh the things he was proud of having done. ...

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They choose how they will carry themselves through life and with that choice they create opinions that will be used to make the decisions that are best for their lifestyle. ... Their lives will have been a pointless struggle and in the end they will only cease to be with no prize awaiting them. ... The man imagining that God will come and carry him to heaven, he speaks foolishly of what others do wrong, even though his own life is full of pestilence. ... The man says that all men, no matter how they live, will receive the same truth. ... After everything you learn there will always be an...

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Everyone wants to believe they have free will. ... It is easy to simply say that because of the vast influence of environment on one's actions, decisions are not being carried out by "you" but by your experiences. ... If a person doesn't learn to not touch a hot stove, they will keep on doing it. ... The things that happen in human life don't simply act to force people around like puppets on strings, they act to guide them like a blind man's seeing eye dog. ... With the exception of things like finger prints (which are developed in the womb), and things like nutrient defici...

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Godot can be understood as one of the many things in life people wait for. ... The fact that none of the characters retain a clear mental history means that they are constantly struggling to prove their existence. ... When Ben comments on how they will receive their orders Gus answers "He might not come. ... He is a god-like figure, integral to the story but absent Wilson keeps the men waiting always in suspense, they never know what their next job might be, only that the orders will come sooner or later and they must carry them out. ... Ionesco wanted the audience to wish they had stayed at h...

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The divine to me is Brahman, making all things sacred and holy. ... It is with that outlook that we see all things connecting. ... That I carry the same traditions and views of my parents and my grandparents and my great grandparents. ... I find encouragement and find guidance in the life of the guru they are truly wise and just. ... I hope that one day I can teach my own children the true meaning of what it means to be Hindu, that we don't take life for granted, and take respect in all living things no matter what they are. ...

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Only two things separate the modern castes from the originals, and the things that separate them are only words. ... The folks that decided to not flaunt their high position they lived normal lives doing things such as being tax collectors or actors pretty much anything they wanted. ... The third leading station did not have time for things as tournaments for brides they were to busy working and managing fields. ... Hated so much and considered so impure, members of the caste would carry "clappers- as to warn off any high caste group of their whereabouts so they may not be polluted. ... They a...

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The adults put meanings on those things that we as youth did not understand. ... That is why no one person's reality is the same because based on your social grouping the meanings that you carry may be different than the meanings of someone else. ... So far I have discussed perspectives and social environment and how they help create the uniqueness in human reality. ... Perspectives, social environment, society, and symbols are all things that I feel help to make the human reality unique. ... Are these people crazy or are they in fact serving a function that is needed fo...

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The adults put meanings on those things that we as youth did not understand. ... That is why no one person's reality is the same because based on your social grouping the meanings that you carry may be different than the meanings of someone else. ... So far I have discussed perspectives and social environment and how they help create the uniqueness in human reality. ... Perspectives, social environment, society, and symbols are all things that I feel help to make the human reality unique. ... Are these people crazy or are they in fact serving a function that is needed fo...

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It begins with the factual claim that we do make judgments about the relative perfection of ordinary things. ... "Things in the world move toward goals, just as the arrow does not move toward its goal except by the archer's directing it. Thus, there must be an intelligent designer who directs all things to there goals, and this is God"(Lowder). ... This means that pretty much everyone believes that there soul has now been released and they are just seeing there physical shape. ... The positive things we do in this life will be the things that carry on for eternity. ...

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Experiencing such things as failure and heartbreak change the ways you deal with life issues and makes you capable of making those ever important decisions when they need to be made. ... Therefore, Henry Thoreau is telling us that if we do not keep up with things that we claim to love, then they might wear off and in the end, we lose passion altogether. ... Faith gives us the strength to carry on when things in life are challenging and it gives us hope that things will always get better. ... They are just scenic routes. ... They help us understand that there are many paths towards finding thin...

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All the different parts of euthanasia are part of good medical practice, endorsed by law, when they are properly carried out. ... There are laws that can penalize people for what they did not do. ... Just because they have some authority to help the sick, does not mean they have the right to call the shot on rather or not someone should live or die. ... Some things are just left up to God. They should stay focused on preserving life not taking one. ...

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No matter what we do, things in life are constantly changing. ... Fire is the source of all things. ... It can break things down into their most simple element. The element of fire is what all things are born from, and all things end up returning to fire. ... We reason things in our world quite a bit through ideas. ...

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The first purpose is to carry on the memory of a beloved professor Morrie Schwartz and to teach a lesson. The lesson trying to be taught is the meaning of life and also that sometimes, even if you have not talked to someone in many years that you can still go back to them and things will still be as if you never left. ... Every Tuesday they would meet to discuss the meaning of life and discuss different aspects of it. ... The book begins with death and then goes back to the first time they met and gradually back to the present. ... It made the reader feel as if though they were getting...

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This short phrase, which was found by Offred in the cupboard in her bedroom, not a notable place at all, carries an ironic meaning. ... By looking at the titles they are given, we can see that the titles of the women are closely connected to their sex, to be more precise, they are derived from their sex. ... Once they have lost their financial independence and other ways to be independent, the only way to survive is to rely on men. ... We know Offred does not like Gileadean society and she "constantly rebels" by doing things which are forbidden like reading and singing, but she dares not an...

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We need to know how to do this, how to live in freedom, not being imprisoned by the future, and not being carried away by things in the present. ... Before the doctor tells the person they had cancer, they had the capacity to enjoy themselves with their friends. However, once the doctor informs them of the tragic news, they have lost all the capacity to sit and enjoy a cup of tea, or enjoy a meal, or watch the stars, because they are so afraid of the moment when they will die. ...

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The myths that were carried on from generation to generation were very imaginative in an attempt to get the interest of young listeners. ... Often as individuals told the stories, they were changed slightly in context or meaning. ... As in every culture, the people of it have the individual that they believe is responsible. Each culture has a myth explaining how man was created that they believe is correct based on their oral tradition. ... Present day myths deal with issues that have factual evidence that can explain why things occur. ...

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After that, things become different for Vito and his mother. ... (Ricci, 74-75) "I spent my time alone now, waiting for something to happen that would restore the normalcy of things, for the festival, for school to begin in October." ... They say that if a woman goes with another man and gets bitten by a snake, then the next baby she has will have the head of a snake. ... His father is in America and everybody in the village knows that the child Christina, Vito's mother, is carrying is from another man. ... He becomes defensive and starts fighting with the other boys in denial of what th...

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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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They feel they leave behind no legacy. He seems to be saying they know they were really not as important as they thought they would be. ... They feel there are many things they have not done because of the way they lived their life. ... Perhaps he wants this because of fear of being alone or perhaps he feels there are many things he wants to say and do before his father dies and he knows he will never have the time. ... The whole poem carries a deep and powerful message. ...

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Marm, and make him feel regret for the things he's done to throw his precious schedule off. ... It was a person dressed in tights, shaved head, a mask on his face, and he carried a wooden sword or wand. ... People don't want to go against the Ticktockman and be turned off so they follow everything they"re told. ... He tried to get everybody to go against the schedule, to change things, but no one listened, they were all to obsessed with the clock. ... They can't accept changes in their normal day to day lives. ...

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