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    Things They Carried

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    Worth The Weight? “War is hell‚” a famous quote from General William Tecumseh Sherman. In The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien‚ we perceive the hell that men in war undergo. This enticing story is about the personal‚ mental‚ and physical hardships of soldiers in the Vietnam War. The title is revealing to the story itself by describing the items the soldiers carried. The tangible items that they lugged around are listed to the reader‚ but we are also shown the emotional burdens that lay deep in

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    Superfluous Things

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    After reading Wen Zhenghe’s “Superfluous Things” and Li Yu’s “ Notes Written in Moments of Idleness”‚ it is difficult to find out the fundamental differences in furniture and interior design between the Ming and Qing dynasties. This happens only because Wen and Li belong to a similar generation: Wen (1585-1645) was a great Ming dynasty scholar and painter‚ who was born is Suzhou; Li (1610-1680) lived in the late-Ming and early-Qing dynasties and born in Jiangsu‚ which is close to Suzhou. That’s why

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    The Thing in the Forrest

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    The Brie Suldo Professor Edwards Newman ENC1102 14 February 2013 TITLE The Thing in the Forrest Sometimes in life when we have an experience that deeply affects us‚ it can change our whole perspective. The story “The Thing in the forest” is a example of how this can happen. The two main characters Penny and Primrose meet when they are children and share a horrific experience in the forest. Then by chance meet back at the scene and briefly reassure one another that what happened really did

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    The Order of Things

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    The order of things We all know about love‚ and we all want to be loved‚ and guess what? Everybody can fall in love. Even people with a wife and children can suddenly fall in love with another woman or vice versa. This is the order of things‚ but it may seem like a truism that everybody at every age can abruptly in the middle of the hardships of the everyday feel the hair-raising feeling of being in love. Love is happiness. When it happens to a settled person it causes him or her lot of ethical

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    Thing and Wallet

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    A wallet‚ or purse for some‚ is a precious item in which most people carry things more essential than money towards everyday life. If some people were to lose that portable safe‚ they may be offset for the rest of that day. The person without that wallet could be cranky or depressed for a while. Maybe something of great sentimental value was in that wallet. This person could stay hold these feelings for a long time‚ until they find their belongings by which case they are filled with joy. I‚ personally

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    Internet of Things

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    com/locate/fgcs Internet of Things (IoT): A vision‚ architectural elements‚ and future directions Jayavardhana Gubbi a ‚ Rajkumar Buyya b‚∗ ‚ Slaven Marusic a ‚ Marimuthu Palaniswami a a Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering‚ The University of Melbourne‚ Vic - 3010‚ Australia b Department of Computing and Information Systems‚ The University of Melbourne‚ Vic - 3010‚ Australia highlights • • • • Presents vision and motivations for Internet of Things (IoT). Application domains

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    The Things They Carried

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    thrilling; war is drudgery. War makes you a man; war makes you dead.” (80) This passage is very significant to the reality of the soldiers in the Vietnam War and brings to life the setting of the entire novel. The soldiers were primarily teenagers and young men in their early twenties who had not yet had the chance to experience life. They soon had found themselves in the midst of an intense war with nothing but uncertainty and fear. They hated it and they loved the fear and adrenaline that ran through

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    Thing and List

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    Everybody people have their own list of likes and dislikes of people. Some people have very specific things they can’t stand in anybody else and others have just a vague idea of what they like or dislike. Anyway‚ it’s pretty important to pin down what it is you like about people‚ because this way you can make the decision if you want that person in your life or not much easier. This kind of list is extremely personal so no two lists will be alike. It’s a fun exercise and I hope that after you will

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    The Things They Carried

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    The Way They Survived by The short story I chose to write my essay on is "The Things They Carried" by Tim O’Brien. The soldiers in the story had to deal with not only accepting the deaths of those they became close with‚ but also dealing with the knowledge that they took another human beings’ life. The author shows how they had to carry not only their equipment; but the emotions that came along with being in a war. The emotions I speak of are ones that come from knowing they were mere grunts-and

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    The things they carried‚by Tim O’brien "Oh man‚ you fuckin’ trashed the fucker. You scrambled his sorry self‚ look at that‚ you did‚ you laid him out like fuckin’ Shredded Wheat." I chose to start off my essay with this particular exert from the book because I think that it very much represents the story in itself. Azar said this‚ after Tim (supposedly) killed a Vietnamese soldier with a hand grenade. It shows that in times of war‚ how callous men can become. However‚ callousness varies‚

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