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    Tim Burton Essay Tim Burton films are mostly made up of dark humor‚Johnny depp‚ Sadness‚ and bright colors. Tim burton’s films are happy but yet disturbing in a interesting way. Almost all of his films have Johnny Depp in them. Johnny Depp and Tim Burton has been friends for almost over 25 years. The films i am going to talk about today is Batman‚ Beetlejuice‚ and Vincent Tim burton has been making films since 1982‚ He has been making movies ever since. He is known for his dark

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    The majority of the people will feel guilty when they do bad stuffs like lying and cheating. They will feel even guiltier when their friend dies because of them and when they kill somebody. Tim is like that way; he felt guilty when he experiences the death of his friends and enemies. In Vietnam‚ people are dying everywhere‚ including their friends. Rat Kiley’s friend‚ Curt Lemon‚ dies while they were playing catch with a smoke grenade. Although‚ the grenade did not kill Lemon and he dies when he

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    Due to this fact‚ people emphasize the importance of one upholding a respectable reputation‚ One of the central themes in The Things They Carried‚ is that fear of ruining one’s reputation served as motivation to the soldiers during the Vietnam War. Tim O’Brien conveys this theme using anecdotes about Curt Lemon‚ Rat Kiley‚ and himself as examples. Curt Lemon’s experience with the dentist during the war shows that his fear of losing his honorable reputation motivated him to take a risk that he normally

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    Full of fantasy‚ romance‚ beauty and almost always an out of proportion prop‚ each image of Tim Walker’s is full of genius imagination that takes us in one look to an idyllic scene. Born in Gulidford‚ England in 1970‚ Walker is often criticised for being ‘very English’. ‘I’m just cutting and pasting various British icons together to create a montage of pure Britishness. These photographs are rather romantic visions of an England past’ (WALKER‚ 2008‚ P9). Walkers’ upbringing in Guildford‚ surrounded

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    “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien is a short story base on the lives of a group of soldiers during the later years of the war in Vietnam. In this story‚ O’Brien examines the burdens of the soldiers and the effects that these burdens can have on man in life-threatening situations. The author describes these burdens referring to the weight that the soldiers carry. These soldiers have to go trough great physical strain but also mental and emotional difficulties that weigh them down immeasurably

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    Tim Burton will probably do just fine destroying Disney’s Alice Through the Looking Glass on his own but if he can’t do it‚ Minecraft will pick up the slack. Sadly enough‚ all it takes are a couple of strange games to make something more entertaining than Burton’s sad‚ debauchery of a classic. MINECRAFT SHOWS THE BENEFIT OF DRUGS Negative effects aside‚ drugs are known to ignite wild creativity in the artistically inclined. Miles Davis‚ Andy Warhol and Martin Scorsese are all prime examples of

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    practiced as far back as history dates. Everyone one is unique‚ and brings up different feelings and emotions to different people. In The Things They Carried‚ by Tim O’Brien‚ O’Brien lives upon narrative tales. Ever since the death of his childhood love‚ Linda‚ O’Brien uniquely uses the magic of storytelling in almost every facet of his life. Tim O’Brien ends his book about the Vietnam War with an anecdote about Linda in order to show how his relationship to the dead. Linda helped him emotionally experience

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    Tim O’ Brian and Nathaniel Hawthorn are very profound writers and authors. Tim O’ Brian is best known for his fiction novels and stories he writes. Nathaniel Hawthorn is also an American novelist who writes short stories. They both have short stories that deals with the effect of loneliness of people. By comparing and contrasting “On The Rainy River” by Tim O’ Brian and “The Minster’s Black Veil” by Nathaniel Hawthorn‚ one can see that loneliness has an profound role in humans. The theme is one way

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    Why did Tim O’Brien wrote this book: This novel is very different from the others that I have read. Tim O’Brien wrote this book to show how it was at Vietnam and what soldiers have to go thru. However he wrote this book under the genre of fiction because this way he could write things that were not true and still make it billable to the reader. Rather than him just saying things as they are. Perhaps if he told things as they really happen then the reader might not be interested of what was going

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    The Things they Carried is seen as one of the most honest depictions of the Vietnam War that has ever been written. Tim O’Brien has a way of creating Vietnam around the reader. However‚ despite the clear depiction of war‚ this novel raises the question‚ “What is true?”. Through analyzing this novel‚ it is clear the author believes that the happening-truth of a story is far less important than the emotional-truth. One of the central chapters of the novel is titled‚ “The Man I Killed.” However‚ only

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