War requires unity behind a cause and a war without a cause leads to chaos. In Going After Cacciato‚ Paul Berlin‚ a soldier is faced with the harsh reality of war in Vietnam and imagines his journey to Paris‚ a place that stands for peace and hope. The author‚ Tim O’Brien‚ depicts Paul Berlin’s ambivalent views—whether to stand by his obligation to serve his country‚ even when it leads to destruction or to follow his own values to gain a sense of his true intention of gaining a sense of tranquility
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Dear Luisa‚ For a while I have been wondering what I should do after I graduate high school. I have different alternatives but am still stuck on reaching my conclusion. There are so many different things to do after you turn 18 and graduate high school. It is very hard coming to a conclusion on just one thing that you think that is the best for you. I have to see while making my decision what my opportunity cost is going to be and see what outweighs the costs and benefits. The things that it took
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school graduation and on their own with the future to think about; that person was me. I decided that I was going to wait a couple of years before I went back to school and I really wish that I wouldn’t have. If I wouldn’t have waited‚ I would already be done with my degree and making good money. Students should attend college immediately after high school to better their education‚ achieve independence‚ and earn higher wages. Students who choose to go to college in the fall after graduation have
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Why I am going to college There are many reasons why I decided to go to college at this point in my life. I want to make my whole family proud of me‚ and become a better role model for my daughter. I also want to get a better and more stable job for the future‚ and further my education to improve my own personal well-being. I feel the most important reasons for me to go to college is making my whole family proud of me and becoming a better role model for my daughter. After I graduated high school
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"For the first time since the plantation days artists began to touch new material‚ to understand new tools and to accept eagerly the challenge of Black poetry‚ Black song and Black scholarship."1 By 1934 the economic destruction wreaked by the Great Depression had put between eleven and fifteen million people out of work. Ten thousand of these jobless citizens were artists. A year earlier‚ Franklin D. Roosevelt‚ the newly elected president‚ had signed into legislation the Federal Emergency Relief
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My Graduation as a Samoan Child It was time‚ Chapin High School would no longer be my home as of June 15‚ 2013. The joy of knowing at the very moment I stepped across that stage I would feel as something I have never felt before‚ and after I knew it was time. A day to remember was in the making. I could remember it like it was yesterday morning. Waking up to the smell of the barbeque that all my cousins were making for my graduation party. All the loud voices coming from the kitchen from my
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musician who is unable to escape the ghetto‚ and a character suffered from his heroin addiction. In the absence of their parents (after their parents’ death)‚ the narrator tries to be a father figure to Sonny‚ but the father figure narrator is not able to save his brother‚ Sonny from the heroin addiction. The drug kills‚ Sonny‚ but according to the narrator‚ his sufferings were what that had fueled for Sonny’s music. The narrator‚ at the final part of the story‚ reaches out to Sonny’s music and through the
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Fear and Duty in Going After Cacciato Tim O’Brien’s Going After Cacciato might be set during the Vietnam war‚ but at its core it is a novel about fear. The main character‚ soldier Paul Berlin‚ is completely motivated‚ controlled‚ and surrounded by fear. When Paul Berlin first arrives at the war he feels annoyed by the derision he receives from his superiors but at the same time admits that “...the war scared him silly‚ but this was something he hoped to bring under control” (O’Brein 38). This statement
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what is it that makes graduation so important to so many people? A graduation is important because it is a rite of passage to many people. When a person graduates‚ it signifies the move from a previous point to a more mature person . Graduation helps to tie different parts of a life together. A graduation is not just an end‚ it is a new beginning tha start of a new chapter in a person’s life whether it be another school year‚ or the entry into the workforce.Graduations help people remember
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drowned out by the infinite murmurs of the enormous crowd. The lights were almost blinding as my eyes filled with tears. I tilted my head back to keep them from ruining my mascara. My heart was so full of excitement and glee‚ it felt as though it was going to burst out of my chest or launch out of my throat. Then‚ I sang with my choir family for the last time. I have been with the same group of people for four years‚ helping each other grow and develop vocal skills. Even in that bittersweet event‚ my
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