Throughout the story, the author gives us examples of what the land was like, the actual things they carried, and the things each one needed to keep them sane. ... " The setting of the story "The Things They Carried", is one of the elements that prove that the Vietnam War can be mentally challenging. ... The story as a whole shows things that the men carry and what they represent. Underneath the physical things they carry, lie the things they mentally carry. ... Each man has a different area of concern pertaining to the things that they carry and it shows through their actions...

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The God of Small Things received England's 1997 Booker Prize making Arundhathi Roy the first Indian citizen to ever win the honour. ... Though Estha and Rahel are the central characters of the story Ammu also play a very important role in The God of Small Things. ... When she smiled, her dimples looked as though they hurt. ... Chacko carried her dead body in a dirty bed sheet, laid out on a stretcher and hired a van to transport it to the electric crematorium. ... She is the most unforgettable character in The God of Small Things. ...

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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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Deceit, extortion, and even the thought of murder can very well influence someone to get what they want. ... "With the valor of her tongue, " she encourages him with her advice to carry out this act without fear. ... She reassures him many times, to leave it up to her and that she will take care of things. ... She desires his power to gain the ultimate, and he desires her strength to carry out the actions needed to get there. ... However it is the final carrying out of the plan that Lady Macbeth had long desired, that finally drives her to insanity, and eventually suicide. ...

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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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In line 256 she says, "Women are angles, wooing;/ Things won are done." ... And when a man has her "things won"than "they are done." Once a man has sex with a women his conquest is over and they move on to someone else. ... Because they do this only when they will separated forever, it interesting what they choose to give to one another: Troilus gives Cressida a sleeve and Cressida gives Troilus a glove. Each of these tokens are common object to exchange, but carry an image of superficial and temporal love. ...

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Naturally, the history of prom proposal has been carrying speechless proposals, with amazing ideas, but they were in blank. So they started shopping and decorating their presents. That night, they went to each house where they supposed to do amazing things to get the "yes", from their prom couples. ... They had only two months until the great day comes. ... Now you are in love with my best friend, you almost gave your little treasure that you carry down there. ...

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Diotima teaches Socrates that the lover of good things wants to possess them so that he might be happy (204e). This definition of a lover applies to everyone, for Diotima's assumption, supported by Socrates, is that "everyone wants good things to be his own forever." (205a) There is a need to refine this broad definition which would include as lovers those who try to attain the good by any means. ... Heterosexual relations and the child a woman bears as a result of them are a beautiful end of love because they perpetuate man. ... Diotima says that men who try to gain the immortality they ...

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All of these views are arguable and they all have references made to them throughout the movie. ... They are placed throughout it in order to get the difficult concept of the movie across to people. ... Like Peter, Neo has to be reborn in order to change the way he sees things. ... Second, the people of today's culture tend to have difficulty accepting things, especially things of biblical tie (i.e. ... Along with The Nebuchadnezzar's crew, Neo carries out a biblical-like conquest that ends with a formula being found that will work to rebuild the world. ...

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Day by day things progressively worsened, since my Nana was staying in our home everyday I saw her progress go down hill. ... Being that Bubbly Little girl I always was carried me through the hard times I have recently went through. ... If I cant I direct them to the proper place/person whom they should submit to. ... Grant it I will do anything for anyone if and only if they are deserving of my time. ... If my house went up in flames and I had 30 seconds to get out the three things I would take with me would have to be, Jewlery,Pictures,and my Puffalump. ...

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Some of the ways they have been able to convey their story's is through literature, folk tales and other forms of story telling. ... They moved to Eatonville where Jody instantly gains social status by filling many important positions in the black community. ... The things that Jody was able to provide for her such as wealth and social status, seemed insignificant to her. Janie realizes that she has now become more of a silent observer, as Jody continually restricts her from attending most of the social affairs carried out by the town. ... Not even a year after Jody's passing, Ja...

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From the moment the baby is born, parents make major decisions because they always want what is best for their child, and this might even carry on through the child's adulthood. ... Children need more than the basics, desiring encouragement and support from the people they love. ... They may make good decisions with successful results and this may be a good stimulus as they would be driven to continue to choose healthy decisions. ... A parent can provide guidance, encouragement, protection and so forth, but if they don't do these things with love, it won't go over so well.... Al...

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They are from two different social classes, and Lucy is engaged to Mr. ... They are definitely from a lower class but Lucy is beginning to see that does not necessarily mean that they are worse people for it; "About old Mr. ... No, he is not tactful; yet, have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful?" ... George offers no apologies for his father; ".. he is kind to people because he loves them; and they find him out, and they are offended, or frightened." (45). ... This carries over to the relationship between George ...

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They are often seen having serious conversations together. ... When they separate and Paula tours around the East she writes him letters, "When he saw a man's name in her letters he felt more sure of her and a little disdainful- he was always superior to such things."" ... He manipulated her as well, even though he also admits that she meant nothing to him, "He was drinking rather heavily, and he pretended for a week that he was falling in love with her In the spring he was weary "he wanted to renew his life at some other source "moreover, he saw that either he must break with ...

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Second, after marrying and moving to Elyria, Ohio, Anderson had a mental breakdown due to two things. ... The grotesques are the people who have become obsessed with an idea or mannerism, such that, they have lost contact with their fellow Man. ... Because Biddlebaum is accused of having molested students that he taught, his hands embody the shame that he carries. ... The people became grotesques when a disastrous experience happened at the exact moment that they were trying to express love and feeling. ... All the grotesques in the novel feel comfortable and see George Willard as a communicat...

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When one seeks justice against another's wrong doings, they must be careful to be rectitude in dealings with others.... Revenge can often be associated with justice, however vengeance carries with it a sense of cruelty. ... Not only were her intentions misaimed, but they were also guided by her blinding love of revenge. ... As we know, women in ancient Greece were viewed as many things, except being equivalent to males.... Davis 2001, p.61) They were usually portrayed as being submissive, domestic, and controlled. ...

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Freud states: "Where they love they do not desire and where they desire they cannot love.""1 This debasement definitely disadvantages women, as they can never be sexually satisfying to their husbands. ... According to Jung, "Every man carries with him the eternal image of woman The same is true of the woman: she too has her inborn image of a man an image of men.""2 Note that while the woman's archetypal image is of numerous different men, the man's image is of one ideal woman. ... (Nietzsche 147) These things result in the woman once again feeling as if she has done something w...

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This is a great Disney movie where they go outside the box and add twists and turns. ... Let's start with music, which sets the tone for a lot of things in movies. ... I feel that if it was possible Jolie could have carried some parts of the movie alone. ... I wanted to incorporate these things into my acting for all of the Sleeping Beauty fans out there. ...

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As to keep this brief, one thing led to another as they say, rather quickly too. ... But as it is with all things-- the passage of time, the changing of maturity, the differences of desire things begin to change. ... Two bags that carried the weight of my entire world. ...

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Friendships, romantic relationships, infidelity, marriage, lust, and love: all these things are founded on the deeper need of survival of the species. ... What a person desires is usually influenced by the atmosphere they are raised in, so desirable traits can vary from place to place. ... It is this quality that is shared with humans as well as certain animals that leads to family units, packs, pods whatever they are called they all share a common goal: to provide a better chance of survival and strengthen the species as a whole. ... Needless to say these animals" defects do not carry onto ...

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They meet at a Laundromat and Karl helps Frank carry his laundry home. ... Once Karl and Frank meet, they are almost inseparable (the exception being when Karl has to work). ... Karl is a role model for Frank and is always correcting him when he curses and stating, "you are too young to hear bad things". Karl relates to Frank since they both went through a lot at a young age. ... They both look out for each other and do their best to make the other happy. ...

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Twain is simply telling things how they were, back when slavery still existed in our country. ... Stanley finally has enough so he puts on his special pajamas and attacks Blanche and carries her into the bedroom, but the scene ends there and like most plays the violence is done offstage. ... Throughout the play, Willy has flashbacks of when his two boys were young and he thought that they were going to be successful. ... When many Americans are having troubles in their life and they have nobody to turn to, they turn to their religion for help. ... Later, Miss Lonelyhearts begs his friends to p...

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They had said to themselves, "thank God I ain't never had one of them graveyard loves" (128). ... Aside from all the pain Milkman has caused her, the "graveyard love" she possesses for him leaves her "paralyzed" (130) and unable to carry through with killing him. ... She forces herself to believe that Milkman desires all the things she is not and dies with this notion. ...

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Gabriel is insulted, however does not confront her, but justifies to himself a reason why confrontation would be a poor decision, "He wanted to say that literature was above politics, but they were friends of many years, he could not risk a grandiose phrase with her." ... Gabriel seems to have it all - money, intelligence, and marriage, things most would consider essential aspects to living a happy life. ... Gabriel ultimately realizes that the only difference between Michael and himself, is that although Michael's life was cut tragically short, he lived a spiritually rich life, where Ga...

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