"The Things They Carried" 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 do heroic things, and they did not even fight in many battles. ... "They carried a soldier greatest fear, which was the fear of blushing." ... Everyone in the story had their 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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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 Things They Carried 1) "War stories are about the human heart and the choices we make or fail to make" Everyday in life we are faced with choices and decisions that have to be made. ... In the book The Things they Carried, written by Tim O"Brien takes place in the Vietnam era. ... They all were faced with the issue. Some felt like they could avoid it, some were "sissy" enough to go north to Canada to dodge the draft. ... "Blind and obsessive duty for the sake of honor" The Things They Carried the sanctity of the oldest male law, courage comes from the the choices we have made and th...

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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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The story goes through the physical things these men were forced to carry, weapons, food etc. But I think the central theme is the things we carry that we can't dispose of. ... In the story it talks about things that they no longer needed, they just dropped on the trail and walked away. ... Throughout the story, a major topic is about what they carry physically and individual weight of each item they are forced to carry. ... He captured, by stating the physical things they carried and their weights, the weight of the mental things they carried, the conflict in carrying that, and the hidin...

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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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The first two stanzas carry an enjambment into the third to accentuate the progression and development of the thatcher's work; and the fourth brings a conclusion to the poem signifying the thatching being complete. ... He imagines the people's astonishment for they will be left "gaping" (l. 16) at his work's perfection. Heaney compares him to Midas - creator of beautiful things, whose touch turned everything to gold. ... He talks a lot about plain things such as the soil, referring to "sods" in "Digging" and "Follower". ... The simple language and reference to everyday life carr...

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They knew that they could express their sexuality so they did. ... These girls knew what they had and with that they got away with there lustful actions. ... There could be no shield for them against the chilling realities of human nature, "It's like somebody sentenced her to death and carried out that sentence in, like, cold blood. ... These things are in all of us and once me make the decision to carry these things out we do not care who somebody is, or who their parents are or how much money they make. This is because once we decide to follow our primal urges our brain cannot compre...

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They are the vision and they direct everything that goes on within the company. ... Most importantly, I love having things organized. It makes things easier to run if everyone knows their job. Each of the 3 different styles of managing are unique, they each carry their own pros and cons if you do decide to use any of them. ... A manager for a startup business is all it takes to get ideas and the power to create a strategic plan while carrying it out by themselves. ...

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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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Part 2, the realistic part, will offer things to do while you're waiting for that friend or family member who's never on time. ... A large tote bag or a smart leather briefcase will carry a passel of undarned socks. And those little sewing kits they sell at hardware stores are so cute. ... Or you can carry a notebook and pen and write a curmudgeonly essay on how you hate to be kept waiting. ... And there are some things for which I really don't mind waiting. ...

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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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Success is a number of things resulting in the various levels of adventures on which we embark, but can be bring it to life. ... Like an actor in role, they read a script to embody a character, an emotion, a concept if you will of how they need to carry out that scene. ... I started thinking of other things in my life I wanted to do and become. ... I was thinking outside the box as they say. Looking at new and inventive ways to improve documents and ideas for carrying out simple things like customer service. ...

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Physical appearance was at the top of the list, but also mentioned were things like how a person carried themselves, how they spoke, body language and so on. ... The way they were attracted to others and how they acted on it often varied from what I experience in the United States. ... All the males seem to be attracted to what their culture held as beautiful and showed signs of feeling success when they acted on that attraction. ...

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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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If you own a puppy, you will know that when they are newborns and separated from their mother recently, they cry the whole night, just as babies do when they can't talk and they are hungry. ... However, babies will carry on our exsistance and make human life continue. Dogs will never be productive members of the family unless trained otherwise but they will be expenses for their owners. ... However it takes a lot more training to make a dog simple things us humans learn in secounds or naturally. ... You have to manually feed the dogs every day, no matter how old they are...

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Hobbes even said, "If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors." He didn't know that people would do things out of their own good will. ... If everybody wanted something in return then we would not do some of the things we do to other people. ... Hobbes had a horrible sense of believing and needed to actually know what happens to start making judgments on all things living in nature. ... He believed that people did things with their evil side, they had no faith in each other or anything, and that democracy was an ...

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It would be difficult to understand how others behave if communication was not properly carried out between cultures. ... This involves developing good thinking habits, exploring evidence to check if the claims are true, asking questions about things that do not sound right and not being one-sided about issues. ... They demonstrate that they have knowledge and skills. With the knowledge they already have, they will tend to build on it as they gradually learn new things in college/university. ... The only way to know that they are listening is when they take notes, ask good questions and demons...

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While in highschool I remember how underclassmen used tok ask upperclassmen where a certain class was or how to get somewhere and they used to give them the wrong directions on purpose and that was pretty mean. And now that I am here the first thing that ran through my mind was what if I asked someone for directions to one of my classes or something and they give me directions somewhere completely different. ... I was told that they just get in front of the class, talk the whole period, and while they talk we take notes and take the test. I am used to a teacher who takes the time an...

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While in highschool I remember how underclassmen used tok ask upperclassmen where a certain class was or how to get somewhere and they used to give them the wrong directions on purpose and that was pretty mean. And now that I am here the first thing that ran through my mind was what if I asked someone for directions to one of my classes or something and they give me directions somewhere completely different. ... I was told that they just get in front of the class, talk the whole period, and while they talk we take notes and take the test. I am used to a teacher who takes the time an...

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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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They will do incredibly evil and cruel things just for the sake of keeping a routine. ... In this story, it is obvious that all those people are doing something wrong, that we as outsiders can see that, and which, in their opinion, is nothing but carrying out the tradition. ... They do not object to what they are told to do. They simply fall in with the majority and they believe they are doing the right thing. ... They are all eagerly and with excitement picking up the stones and carrying on the "tradition" for another year. ...

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Every individual carries "a pot" in which there are many different and even new emotions involved that come to life when each person reaches a tender age where various changes occur. ... Now, what comes to the surface is the issue of differentiation from parents because many times parents believe different things from what we believe. All our lives, we are raised up by our parents and they instill in us the moral and practical principles they see fit, but that doesn't make it necessarily right. In the movie Billy Elliot, Billy carries a passion for dancing, but he faces obstacles from ...

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Sometimes good people are assigned to bad lives that lead them into carrying out bad actions, but that does not define them as bad people. ... Since Johnny had been jumped by the same band of Socs, he knew that they would not stop until they were fully satisfied with the outcome of their little task. The quote, "Brain cells and connections are only being lost in the areas controlling impulses, risk-taking, and self-control." from Startling Finds on the Teenage Brain states that brain cells are only being lost in the reflexive side of the teenage brain, meaning that teens will often react to th...

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