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    thing. It destroys lives and can forever change the landscape of the mind and soul. Harold Krebs from Ernest Hemingway’s story “Soldier’s Home” and Norman Bowker from Tim O’Brian’s story “Speaking of Courage” both show that coming home from a military lifestyle and reintegrating themselves into a civilian lifestyle can be both difficult and emotionally draining to one’s self esteem and psyche. Harold Krebs wants the simple life. He’s tired of the lying and the feeling he gets from having

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    Norman Bowker

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    In the chapter named “ Notes”‚ we can see how Norman Bowker wrote a letter‚ in which he tells‚ how he was not able to know how he was feeling‚ because he had no one to talk about what happened in the war. He was repressing his feelings and thoughts about the war all the time‚ which didn’t make him‚ do better. The letter had a passage that said “ A guy that cant get his act together and just drives around town all day and cant think of any damn place to go and doesn’t know how to get there

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    Harold Krebs Character

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    solitude after returning home from the war. Harold Krebs‚ a World War I veteran‚ attended school at a Methodist college in Kansas but enlisted in the Marines in 1917. Krebs now lives at home with his father‚ mother and two sisters where he spends his days reading books or playing pool. Krebs is careful to keep his life simple due to the fact that he isn’t fond of change. Is Harold Krebs apprehensive to making a change in his daily lifestyle? When Harold Krebs returns home late‚ his return is not celebrated

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    From these two chapters‚ it helped shows real character of Norman Bowker because he’s one of the person that doesn’t like to express his feelings too. From what I read he’s a very caring because the death of his friend caused so much pain for him where he didn’t let it go even after the war due to he wasn’t being a good leader. “The truth‚” Norman Bowker would’ve said‚ “is I let the guy go” (147). This shows that he took a while to tell the real reason why he wasn’t able to earn the Silver Star because

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    Jeremey Hansen Mrs. Smith December 10‚ 2013 Honors English III Norman Bowker “You can’t patch a wounded soul with a Band-Aid.” Within a war‚ there are two battles fought: the battle inside each individual soldier‚ and then what is actual done on the battlefield. These internal and external conflicts are equally detrimental‚ the only difference between the two is that when the physical engagement is over‚ the gruesome battle with

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    by the name of Harold Krebs. Who is getting back home prior to filling in as a marine in World War 1. All through the story we learn he is having a few challenges with conforming to the post-war way of life. Because of the fact that he returned home a year after being out of the war made his "welcome home" have to a lesser degree a "hometown hero" feel and was more of a "was he truly in the war?" for those that lived in the place where he grew up. The mistrust of others made Krebs more dreadful and

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    Soldier’s home In the short story called Soldier’s home‚ by the Nobel Prize winning author Ernest Hemmingway‚ the main character Krebs has just returned from a war. A war can changes a human completely‚ which also is in common for Harold Krebs. All the values he has constructed in his life are now collapsed and suddenly he has to relate his life to the new values. It could be difficult to return to their home‚ because in their families’ opinion the soldier’s are the exact same person who left

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    years on the field of World War I to the ordinary everyday life of a small Oklahoma town can be tough. Harold Krebs in Ernest Hemingway’s Soldier’s Home‚ has a tough time adjusting to his home life than most soldiers would when they return home. Krebs was expected to conform back into society’s expectations with not much time to adapt back into his life not being surrounded by war. Harold Krebs ignores his surrounding

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    Krebs Cycle

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    Several things occur in the Krebs cycle. It takes place in the mitochondrial matrix. The electron transport chain is located in the cristae of a mitochondria. The enzymes used during the Krebs cycle are found within the mitochondrial matrix excluding succinate dehydrogenase‚ which is bound to the inner mitochondrial membrane. Protein complexes located in the inner membrane perform the transfer and the gradual release of energy is used to pump protons into the intermembrane space of the mitochondria

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    Dyer and Bowker & Star

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    constantly striving to simplify and organize society. Classifications make that possible by metaphorically placing all objects in society into boxes so that there can be “knowledge about which thing will be useful at any given moment”(2). Geoffrey C. Bowker and Susan Leigh Star in “To Classify Is Human” state that “classification is a spatial‚ temporal‚ or spatio-temporal segmentation of the world” (10). Stereotyping is our way of placing human beings into classification’s metaphorical boxes. Richard

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