Our subject‚ Jimmy‚ has been using the internet for the past four years. He got started at a friend’s house -- they were young‚ bored‚ and out of money. Jimmy was once an arcade jockey‚ spending long hours in noisy recreational facilities. "Jump‚ man! That barrel’s rolling straight at you!" his best friend would shout. "I am jumping!" But alas‚ he would fall to a gruesome death‚ his on-screen representation a mess of pixels‚ half smashed into the ground. They would go home‚ pockets
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The character I have chosen is Lt. Jimmy Cross from the story “The Things They Carried.” Jimmy Cross is the leader of Alpha Company in the war of Vietnam‚ although he seems like he is not part of it. “He had difficulty keeping his attention on the war […] but then he would slip away into day dreams‚ just pretending‚ walking barefoot along the Jersey Shore” (p.279). This quote clearly shows that he was living in a parallel world between the war that he was living at that moment and his obsessed love
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N’Kole Diggs English 102 January 31‚ 2013 Social Networking Drama Social networking websites gives people an opportunity to connect world-widely and in this way the users have a chance to learn foreign cultures and languages. Nowadays there is a deep rooted need among humans to share. In the past‚ due to geographical distances and economic concerns‚ connections between people were limited. Social networking has always been prevalent. It is just that in these times the face of social networking
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does cocaine‚ his ultimate downfall. Henry gets addicted to cocaine and his whole life falls apart; failure after failure after failure. Hill is arrested for his part in the Lufthansa heist but rats on his crew in return for exemption. Jimmy Burke- “Jimmy the Gent” was the mastermind of most heists; he was an American gangster of the Lucchese crime family associate; who is believed to have organized the Lufthansa heist in 1978.He was also accused of murder(s) many of those involved in the months
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after the election. Protesters on the street. Jimmy was watching the news. “Hello America I’m David Asman from Fox News. Yesterday Donald Trump shocked the world with his win over Hillary Clinton for the White House.” Jimmy turned the TV off. “I am so happy the election is over.” He said to his wife Barbara. “Me too” She Said. As they both sat down with their cups of coffee. “Are you excited for the Avalanche game Friday versus the Winnipeg Jets?” Asked Jimmy. “Yes‚ very excited‚ I saw on the internet
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showing them the reality of Aboriginal treatment. Throughout the Great Depression discrimination and racism were both major issues relating to Aboriginals. Jimmy Munday‚ one of the more outspoken characters in No Sugar is characterised as the activist and lone Aboriginal voice that is constantly challenging dominant white principles. Jimmy is a character shown to constantly rebel against the prejudiced attitude towards Aboriginals. When the officials plan to relocate the Government Well Aboriginals
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reader has a very good idea of what the main character‚ Jimmy Cross‚ was doing. He was just a young kid in love. His problem was that he was thousands of miles away in Vietnam with nothing to do but march. He would yell at his men to spread out or march to the left‚ but Jimmy was just going through the motions. His heart was not in the war and he knew it. As much as the military wishes our soldiers were robots‚ they are humans with feelings. Jimmy Cross made an immature but innocent decision to put his
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character‚ Jimmy Cross drafted into the United States Army where he served as an infantryman in Vietnam. In the beginning of the story O’Brien‚ introduce Jimmy Cross as the Lieutenant who is in love with his college crush‚ Martha. These points lead to the transformation of Lieutenant Cross actions‚ in which he matures from a man deeply in love to a leader ready to take reasonability. To be a lieutenant in the army one has to lead from the front and put their troops first but with Jimmy Cross being
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the story of Sgt. Jimmy Takata who is seeing flashbacks (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) of his experiences in the war. Through his flashbacks we catch a glimpse of his participation the liberation of a French town where he met an orphaned little girl and in the rescue of the “Lost Battalion.” In the French town Jimmy suffers from a head wound caused by a bullet ricocheting off of his helmet. This causes him to be illegible to help in the rescue of the Texan Battalion‚ however‚ Jimmy and his friends
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