COVER PAGE SCHOOL: BON AIR SECONDARY SCHOOL OUR TOPIC: COMMUNICATION SATELITES‚ NETWORKS‚ EXTRANETS DATE: 08/10/12 CLASS: 3:3 SUBJECT: COMPUTER STUDIES TEACHER: P.GRANSAM GROUP MEMBERS: KYLE‚ ISAIAH‚ NICQUAN‚ HANNAH‚EMMANUEL COMMUNICATION SATELLITES A communication satellite is an artificial satellite sent to space for the purpose of telecommunications. Modern communications satellites use a variety of orbits including: geostationary‚ molniya orbits‚ elliptical orbits‚ and low (polar
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CHARACTER in The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien The narrator - Ultimately‚ The Things They Carried is more about its narrator than anybody else‚ and although it feels at times like a book about war‚ it is ultimately a book about the narrator’s coming to terms with his past. Although the narrator is frequently called "Tim‚" or "O’Brien‚" the author and the narrator are not entirely the same person. Unlike O’Brien’s work If I Die in a Combat Zone (Box Me Up and Ship Me Home)‚ The Things They Carried
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How to Tell a True War Story How to Tell a True War Story has an unnamed narrator telling the story of what happened to one of his squad members. He starts by mentioning Bob Kiley‚ Rat‚ and that one of Rat?s friends died. The narrator goes on to tell how Rat wrote a letter to his friend?s sister. After two months‚ Rat is disappointed to have not received a letter from her. Afterwards‚ the narrator says that a true war story should not leave the reader feeling uplifted. He then mentions
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for Rat Kiley. Every so often‚ maybe four times altogether‚ he trotted back to check me out. Which took courage. It was a wild fight‚ guys running and laying down fire… but Rat Kiley took the risks”(page 180). As a medic Rat Kiley is constantly playing the hero‚ crossing through gunfire to attend to his soldiers’ wounds. Consistently repressing his emotions and fear it comes with no surprise that Kiley suffers from a psychotic break. In the chapter Night Life‚ the war becomes too much for Rat Kiley
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Carried‚ Rat Kiley and Curt Lemon had a bona fide friendship that was equivalent to no other friendship. Mark Fossie and Mary Anne Bell also had a friendship that was beyond than just a friendship. Both relationships were so complementary but yet contradicted each other sufficiently.
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reader. The effects of war can be very harmful to a soldier’s life‚ and he or she can be scarred forever. When Bob Kiley’s friend‚ Curt Lemon‚ dies at the beginning of the story‚ Kiley takes the time to write Lemon’s sister. He wrote about what a good guy Lemon was and the many adventures that he took. Kiley explained that Lemon was a dare devil and a soldier that loved what he did. Bob Kiley did not have to write to his friend’s sister at all‚ but he did it out of kindness. He poured his heart out
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Vietnam‚ a war that ended in 1975 was a war about the prolonged struggles between the nationalists forces that were trying to attempt the unification of Vietnam as a country under a government of communism and the United States attempting to delay or stop the spread of communism. To the Americans‚ this war seemed pointless and the Americans saw that there was no way of winning so the government lost the support for this uncalled war. In "The Things They Carried‚" Tim O’Brien wrote a novella about
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“The Vietnam War was arguably the most traumatic experience for the United States in the twentieth century. That is indeed a grim distinction in a span that included two world wars‚ the assassinations of two presidents and the resignation of another‚ the Great Depression‚ the Cold War‚ racial unrest‚ and the drug and crime waves.”(Donald M. Goldstein) Tim O’Brien‚ the author of the book‚ The Things They Carried‚ goes into his memory to his time serving in The Vietnam War. It explains his experiences
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Mitchell Sanders telling about six men going crazy. They went crazy in the forest because they been up there for days not talking‚ not talking. Another of the stories he used was about Rat Kiley losing his best friend Curt Lemmon. He tells us how he saw Lemmon die in a surreal way. The more surreal story he uses is what Rat Kiley did to a baby water buffalo after
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