In Tim O"brien's short story, "The Things They Carried," he describes a certain platoon humping through the jungle of Vietnam. He portrays the setting and characters by describing the varies items each man would carry. The things each soldier would carry were both tangible and intangible items. ... They all carried the basic essentials for survival of war and the things that would make living possible by carrying the bare minimum of what they absolutely had to have. ... The soldiers in "The Things They Carried" carried many things with them on their humping missions. ...

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The nineteenth century had authorial intervention and authors wrote about things they had never experienced, where as the twentieth century had a lot of hidden symbols and images and writings were more generally based on events in which the authors had been a part of. ... Even the smallest things, like the alcohol, symbolized old ways (beer) and something new (Anes del Toro) in the two peoples relationship. ... When it says "he picked up the two heavy bags and carried them around the station to the other tracks" it is telling you that they changed their minds, chose the different path, a...

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It is pleasure we all seek, and it is this pleasure that turns normal things or activities into an addiction. ... There is loss of control when a person is drinking or drugging more than they intended to. ... But after the activity has been carried out, the person may feel remorse, regret or may even be overwhelmed by the consequences. ... Example: Kleptomania (compulsive stealing), Pyromania (compulsive setting of fires), Gambling, Trichotillomania (compulsive hair picking/ pulling), etc. ... They all have their extreme and moderate effects, as they affect the physical aspects of a person as ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate