the traumatic circumstances have caused soldiers mental stress. Research shows the brutality that the soldiers of the Vietnam War went through‚ the novel Fallen Angels and the video series “Dear America: Letters Home” are very similar in this depiction‚ but also have slight differences. Fallen Angels and "Dear America: Letters Home" both focus on the Vietnam war and giving us a look into the lives of a soldiers. Fallen Angels is a novel that gives readers insight into a soldiers mind. Throughout
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Alison Bechdel’s memoir‚ Are You My Mother recounts her extremely difficult and painful relationship with her mother as well as the struggles she endures due to her queer identity. For individuals that identify as homosexual‚ disclosing their sexual identity can often be a negative experience that works to oppress rather than liberate them. This memoir illustrates how a deep‚ almost obsessive attachment‚ to a queer individual’s parent can work to further complicate‚ worsen and intensify the common
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The song “Are You Gonna Be My Girl” was song by an Australian rock band — the Jet. The Jet‚ formed their band in 2001‚ dissolved in 2012 but reformed again in 2016. Before they dissolved‚ they had produced four albums over a decade and their first debut album Get Born was released in 2003 and actually made its band’s popularity rocketed. The most popular song in the album Get Born was actually the song I chose‚ Are You Gonna Be My Girl. It was voted number one in the 2003 Triple J Hottest 100‚
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Unconditional Love. We all have someone that we could love even if they were a complete stranger. In the poem “Even If You Weren’t My Father” by Camillo Sbarbaro‚ is about how a young girl states that she would love her father even if he was a complete stranger. This is a sonnet and the theme of this poem is unconditional love. The literary devices that are used are diction and imagery. When I first read the title of the poem I grasped a good understanding of the message and theme. This poem made
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How My Life Got Better After the Revolution October 12th 1949 Hey there! My name’s Lu Xiao Mei and I’m 16 years old. I’m from Liu Ling‚ but since I’m a woman and only 16 I don’t have a career. Instead I live with my husband‚ Wang Huang-Fu whose 19 years old‚ and his family and help clean up around the house and care for the youngest. In my family I have my mother‚ Liu Shou Mou‚ and my father‚ Liu Da Nu. Also I have my little sister‚ Lu Tan Rong‚ whose 8 and my older brother and his fiance‚ Li
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In 1981‚ six years after the official end of the Vietnam War‚ Mayor Edward Koch of New York City appointed a task force of twenty-seven leading citizens of the city to develop a framework for a fitting memorial to Vietnam War veterans. The memorial was to be a glass-block structure etched with excerpts of letters sent to and from servicemen during the Vietnam War. Due to the overwhelming response to the commission’s request for letters‚ Dear America: Letters Home From Vietnam came to be. Consisting
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It was a few days after moving to Ohio. I was going to my first day of school. I was and still am a incredibly shy person. I didn’t know anyone an no one knew me. I was scared that no one would talk to me and that I would never make any friends. My mom said to just talk and find people with the same interests as me‚ but that’s hard todo when you’re shy. The first day of school rolled around and I was so nervous. I was standing in the front office. I got assigned a tour guide you could say. She showed
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Dear White People Movie is about the very important point of view of the modern era. Justin Simian illustrated the main point of view that it is very difficult for the black students to study into the white campus. They face many problems such as if they are involved in the political party then they are considered the main cause of discriminatory particularly on the basis of religion or race. The main purpose of creating a movie is to finish the discriminant between the white and black and creating
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that I have set for myself after high school. The scholarship would allow me to become one step closer to go to a great medical school and help me achieve my ultimate goal of becoming a neurosurgeon. This scholarship will also help make the colleges that I am considering more affordable‚ which will increase my chances of meeting my goals. Winning this scholarship can greater my chances of becoming the first person in my intermediate family to go to college right after finishing high school. I am
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remember the first day at school. It gave me a terrible feeling of fear and anxiety as I went to school with my father. It was my mother who first thought of sending me to school. Of course I was of the school going age. When my mother expressed it I thought that she was a heartless woman. My mind was disturbed at first. Although I had heard about school‚ I had not visited it earlier. My father took me to school which was an unknown place for me. Teachers and students were strangers to me. When
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