THE THINGS THEY CARRIED UNIT TEST NAME_________________________ Part I. Matching (some may not be used) WHO AM I? (2 pts.) 1. ______ I was the young girl who came over to see her boyfriend and eventually fell in love with Vietnam and become one with the land. 2. ______ I offered Tim 200.00 dollars and the opportunity to escape to Canada when we went fishing in my boat. 3. ______ I played Volleyball at Mount Sebastian and wrote letters to Jimmy.
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Evan Wann 5/20/13 Things They Carried Essay For my essay I chose to do it on Henry Dobbins. Henry Dobbins was a soldier in the Alpha Company that had carried physically his girlfriend’s pantyhose around his neck‚ extra rations‚ M-60‚ ammunition and Black flag insecticide. Henry Dobbins figuratively carries the weight of memory and guilt. Henry Dobbins shows that he is feeling guilt and maturing as the book goes on in the chapter “Style”. Throughout the book Henry Dobbins was seen “wrapping his
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Martha was Jimmy Cross’ first “love”. He was obsessed with her even though she only thought of him as a friend. They wrote each other letters in a friendly way but Jimmy Cross thought of it as more than that. “He would sometimes taste the envelopes flaps‚ knowing her tongue had been there… More than anything he wanted Martha to love him as he loved her‚ but the letters were mostly chatty‚ elusive on the matter of love.” (1) Linda was O’Brien’s childhood love. She died at the age of nine because
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an example of a simile. Similes use like and as to make explicit comparisons between unlike things‚ such as eyes and stars. Metaphor Her eyes were pools of liquid light. Again‚ her eyes are literally human eyes. Figuratively‚ they are being compared to pools of liquid light. However‚ the comparison is implied‚ not stated. This is an example of a metaphor. Unlike similes‚ metaphors compare unlike things without explicitly stating the comparison with “like” or “as.” Personification Her eyes followed
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inner self and the hidden messages that we want others to know behinds the wall of arts. Our purposes‚ values‚ goals‚ visions and beliefs can be seen‚ feel through the creations of art; beauty. Based on the article‚ Art Matter written by Brian E. Fogarty‚ he states one of his reasons that art is another form of communication. On November 4‚ 2015‚ St. Catherine presented War is Always With Us by David Byrd‚ an art exhibit that display individual personalities of veterans
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6-1 Absorption costing is a costing system which treats all costs of production as product costs‚ regardless weather they are variable or fixed. The cost of a unit of product under absorption costing method consists of direct materials‚direct laborand both variable and fixed overhead. Variable costing is a costing system under which those costs of production that vary with output are treated as product costs. This would usually include direct materials‚direct laborand variable portion of manufacturing
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REQUIRED: You are required to obtain the 2011 and 2012 Annual Report for Nick Scali Limited. Answer the following questions in Part A using the 2012 Annual Report. PART A – THE COMPANY (11 marks) Question 1 The principal activities of the company is the ___________and _____________. (1.5 marks) Question 2 Nick Scali’s Board consists of _________________‚ ______________ and ______________________. (1 mark) Question 3 How much is the profit after tax for June 2012? (1 mark)
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Luis Vasquez Professor Vosburg English 100 MW 5-7 January 30‚ 2013 Tree Climbing Response “Tree Climbing‚“ by student. Tree Climbing is a descriptive essay in which the author uses figurative language‚ contrast imagery‚ parallel sentences‚ concrete details‚ sensory details and many more different rhetorical terms throughout the essay. The author begins to tell describe her past childhood as a kid growing up in the house of her grandparents. It all begins in her brothers eighteenth birthday
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more horrendous and petrifying in the Vietnam War. The soldiers also worried about the weather‚ land‚ viruses and more important their selves. The many physical and physiological factors of war multiplies the burdens of stress on the soldiers. In The Things They Carried‚ the soldiers had a duty of fighting two wars at once‚ an external war and an internal war. Externally‚ they were combating against the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese. There was no frontline and no sure method of classifying the
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Intro: “They carried all they could bear‚ and then some‚ including a silent awe for the terrible power of the things they carried.” In The Things They Carried‚ O’Brien suggests that the soldiers do not just carry physical items but also emotional loads which burden them more so than anything the war conjures factually. The three soldiers that carry this theme the most throughout the story are Jimmy Cross‚ Norman Bowker‚ and the story version of Tim O’Brien. 1. Jimmy Cross‚ as the leader of
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