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    War‚ it can mean two countries fighting‚ or it can mean conflict between people‚ resulting in one side winning and one losing‚ In my two books “Reached” the third part of the matched trilogy by Ally Condie and “Bomb The Race To Build The World’s First Atom Bomb” by Steve Sheinkin‚ they both show the same motif of war. These books show this by how they’re both at war in a way and they end up having to work together with others in order to fight the war‚ and they also get betrayed. These are some the

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    2. Introduction Trench warfare played a major role in the outcome of world war one (WW1). Millions of soldiers died due to this method of fighting and many more were wounded. Since then they have not been used in wars dues to their ineffectiveness against modern technology such as planes‚ helicopters and nuclear weapons. 3. The Trenches and why they were Employed Trenches are ditches in which soldiers can fight. The trenches in WW1 were built about two – three metres deep and measured two metres

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    Warfare is one of the most dangerous‚ violent and most physically and mentally traumatic atrocities of our world‚ accounting for hundreds of thousands of deaths and costing nations billions of dollars in supplies‚ weapons development and other war-time needs every year. In the Twenty-First Century‚ one of the biggest “frontiers” in weapons development has been the idea of chemical weapons‚ especially those in the form of weaponized gasses. These weapons‚ which are defined as an “ammunition or device

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    Tim O’Brien’s decision to go to Vietnam was out of the fear from disappointing his family and community. How does shame affect and play a role in the life of the soldiers in The Things They Carried? The Things They Carried is a book set in Massachusetts but the core of the book is based in Vietnam. A group of Soldiers go to war and Tim O’Brien decides to document the true effects of war but beneath his words‚ there were a lot of factors and double meaning to them. The motif ‘Shame” played a huge

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    The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien Plot: 1. RISING ACTION • In the summer of 1968‚ Tim O’Brien receives a draft notice. Despite a desire to follow his convictions and flee to Canada‚ he feels he would be embarrassed to refuse to fulfill his patriotic duty and so concedes to fight in Vietnam. CLIMAX • During their tour of duty‚ the men of the Alpha Company must cope with the loss of their own men and the guilt that comes from killing and watching others die. FALLING ACTION • After he returns

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    The book‚ ‘The Killing Zone’ by Frederick Downs‚ is an autobiography of his own experiences in the war of Vietnam 1967. He splits the book into multiple sections and is in the format of diary inserts describing his journey from start to finish of his time in Asia and his physical and mental incidents. The first chapter is titles ‘The Bridges’ and his journal entries start September 8‚ 1967 when he arrives to Vietnam. He describes looking down at the war zone and being surprised by how many lights

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    Enrique Camacho-Moreno American Literature Museaus‚ Steve Essay The Red Badge of Courage‚ by Stephen Crane‚ and The Things They Carried‚ by Tim O’Brien‚ are two novels set a century apart‚ yet they both connect to one another. Tim O’Brien’s novel illustrates his experience in the Vietnam War‚ while Stephen Crane’s novel demonstrates his experience in the Civil War. These two novels focus on the image one gives himself while going into the war and image one gets going out of it‚ whether one makes

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    Randolph “Andre” Rivera Mrs. Moreland English 11 April 16‚ 2012 The Things They Carried In the book‚ The Things They Carried written by Tim O’Brien‚ the challenges faced by war are explained in the form of stories. The effects that war can have on a soldier in Vietnam are not solely limited to the physical state‚ but also the mental state‚ as is shown when O’Brien introduces the character Mary Anne Bell in chapter nine. The corruption that war brought to an individual’s life led to

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    Truth and War Stories Almost everyone has lied at one point in their lives. Some lies may be big and others small but they still tell the lie. Most people only lie to make their stories sound better. For example‚ war veterans love to tell their stories and the stories they tell are usually exciting and wouldn’t need to lie when they are telling their stories or at least one would believe they are not lying about the stories they are telling. According to Tim O’Brien in one of his many stories he

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    In several stories from The Things They Carried‚ by Tim O’Brien deals with the way that American soldiers of the Vietnam War related to being "in country‚" or out of their own country and halfway across the world. O’Brien creates the concept that Vietnam‚ and the war there‚ is of "another world" throughout his stories. None of the soldiers he writes about feel at home in Vietnam‚ and none of them successfully adapt emotionally to being so far from home. O’Brien subtly introduces the concept of

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