"The Things They Carried" is a Story What makes a story a story? ... Since the plot of the story seems so accurate, one might argue that "The Things They Carried" should not be considered a story. ... The fact that the story is a narrative is another reason why "The Things They Carried" is a story. "The Things They Carried" shows a change in some characters after they interact with other characters and deal with their problems. ... So there is no reason why "The Things They Carried" should not be considered a story. ...

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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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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 ending of "The Things They Carried" finishes off the duration of the novel, with stories that concentrate on death along with the role of stories and memories in managing the burden of death on a person's conscience. ... Particularly at the end of the book, O'Brien explains that in Vietnam, the soldiers created ways to make the people they were close to that died seem less dead – they kept those people alive in their head with stories, like those O'Brien wrote of his friends Ted Lavender, Curt Lemon, Kiowa, and Linda. ... I think that this is an interesting point becau...

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In "The Things They Carried", Tim O"Brien wrote about the feelings and experiences of young soldiers in the Vietnam War. ... The difficulty of what they carried was best described as" The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity" (O"Brien 713). ... The things that cause the most pain for the soldiers are those they can do nothing about. They can throw away their items that are causing physical pain, and they can burn things that remind them of home. ... In "The Things They Carried", the soldiers have to en...

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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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How did they do that? Why didn't they invent that then? With answering these questions we begin to understand that things weren't as easy as they are now. ... Optimism is one of the most important things I carry because it's what keeps me to be happy. ... Not all humans are able to see the brighter side of things, but because I can, I will continue to carry my optimism everywhere and anywhere I go. ...

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Their success in life will not be based on how many wins they got or how many points they scored in a game, but rather how they carry themselves and how they act when a little adversity is thrown their way. ... I read John Wooden's coaching philosophy where he listed out things that were most important to him in developing his players. I thought of things that I thought would be beneficial to my players. I listed out things that I have learned and picked up from playing basketball as a young kid and now at the collegiate level. ... That is something that I want to carry with me for when I...

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Carrying arrows for the natives weren't on hand to harm the pilgrims, when in fact those bows and arrows were always carried with them (natives) to hunt, and for protection. I believe this because the natives respected all living things and were open minded. They show that they are open minded by actually accepting what to them are "new creatures" on to their land. ... Therefore because of all of that they came to America for religious and cultural freedom, and upon settling they wanted the natives to change their way of life. These pilgrims went against everything they just wanted to...

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A Madman's Insanity Guilt depends on a person's self-conscious; if the mind cannot conquer self, it is weak. The "Tell-Tale Heart," by Edgar Allen Poe, reveals a madman's insanity. He pursues a scheme that will get rid of the problem that is bothering him; the old man's eye. When he is ri...

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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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Upon asking why, the answer was just how I carried myself. ... However, I did carry myself in a manner that was defensive. ... When I started doing this, I became happier and others started saying positive things about me, like I always wanted to happen. ... These are not the type of things I want said about me, or how I want people to look at me. Yet, they do and I can't change that. ...

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But are not ideas just figments of our imagination waiting to be carried out by their creator? ... This can be interpreted literally and signify that someone cannot be in touch with God if they do not have a permanent residence. Or, it can mean that one will not be able to feel that they have a physical state of being or sense of belonging if they do not have a lasting homeland. ... How can someone get the sense of "belongingness" if they never belong to anything except their land? ... With the world full of things to pull people off of their "homeplace", Sanders assures us that the world...

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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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A good poster will be much more complex that just a brand or a slogan, it carried a whole meaning. ... The ideological reason of the puzzle is that the fist nations' culture is the union of many things. ... The colours are soft but they harmonize with the first nations culture. ...

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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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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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A Worn Path In "A Worn Path" the character Phoenix Jackson is a great hero. Through the entire story she has faced conflict after conflict, and through it all she shows dedication and determination. She continues to move ahead through her environment even though she fight...

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This states that even though man had been proven to be inferior to something, he still carried with him this supreme sense of riotousness . 7. ... Two weeks after the Martians had landed on Earth, they quickly died off. This was because their immune systems were not able to fight against the tiny bacteria that man and other living things have grown accustom to over the last 2.5 billion years. ... Also, after reading the "About the Author" blurb, I found that among other things H.G Wells was a biologist. ... Of course if they did have this thought, it was of no use. ...

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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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I believed that they were accepting of all people, regardless of their personal faith, nationality or financial status. ... He wore fitted, skinny legged blue jeans, a pink crew neck sweater, and was carrying a purse; the one that my mother had recently mailed as a gift to his mother. ... We began to talk about all the fun things we were going to do while he was visiting us. ... " "Do you think that they are going to judge me'? ... If they got something to say kill them with your swag because you look good" I replied. ...

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We know two kinds of things about what we call our psyche (or mental life): firstly its bodily organ and scene of actions, the brain (or nervous system) and, on the other hand, our acts of consciousness, which are immediate data and cannot be further explained by any sort of description. ... In the time before Freud, scientific thinking had no way of explaining the behavior of patients who were preoccupied with irrational guilt of a loved one or were so paralyzed with fear that they could not leave their homes. ... Freudian concepts have become so widespread that they reach even those not k...

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Throughout the play, Macbeth doesn't know whether he really sees the witches or if they are an illusion because of their tendency to disappear after announcing what is going to happen to him. ... They become closely related and confuse Macbeth even more. ... Then hearing his wife ring the bell triggers something within him and all of a sudden he becomes determined to carry it out: "I go, and it is done " (l.62). ... All things considered, this analysis shows the importance of the "dagger scene " in the play. ... All of his questions are rhetorical but they help us understand the way he ...

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The coincidence scares him even more when young Soto realizes that they were punished for their action and so will he be. ... Soto suddenly feels everyone is against him, his guilt is clouding the way he sees things. ... Earlier on as he carried the pie out of the German Market, Soto felt that "the pie like a discus" weighed a tremendous amount of adding pressure to his guilty conscience. ... Although, many of these are minute details, they add a certain depth to the paper, which contribute nicely to the style of Soto's passage. ... This passage accurately explains to the reader how a h...

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