Sand creek massacre- Date November 29‚ 1864 Location Colorado Territory Present-day Kiowa County‚ Colorado Result United States Army massacres Native Americans. Belligerents United States Cheyenne Arapaho Commanders and leaders United States John M. Chivington Black Kettle Strength 700 [1] 60–200 Casualties and losses 24 killed‚ 52 wounded[2] 70–163 killed[2] *the aftermath-The Sand Creek Massacre resulted in a heavy loss of life‚ mostly among Cheyenne and Arapaho women and
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the silent is broken by two of O’Brien’s fellow soldiers. First Azar speaks‚ his apathetic ways are much too cruel‚ since he compares the soldier to shredded cereal‚ this also shows he feels pleasure from the man’s death. The second voice is from Kiowa‚ who in fact sympathizes wit O’Brien but still urges him to move on and tries to make him see that the young soldier’s death was necessary‚ because if he hadn’t killed him‚ O’Brien would have been the one
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1) Name of Tribe- The name of my tribe is Apache. 2) Name of Culture Group- the name of the Apache culture group is Native American. 3) Where did they live? (What part of North America)- The Apache tribe originally lived in the Southwest deserts in Arizona‚ New Mexico and Texas. Some Apache people were also located across the border in northern Mexico. 4) What sorts of food did they eat? - The Apache people mostly had a diet that consisted of buffalo‚ deer‚ antelope‚ and small game (the Apache men
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backs‚ but they also have different emotions weighing on their hearts and minds. The story takes place in Vietnam‚ where First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross and his platoon are in the fields. His platoon includes Mitchell Sanders‚ Rat Kiley‚ Henry Dobbins‚ Kiowa‚ Norman Bowker‚ Ted Lavender‚ Dave Jensen‚ Lee Strunk‚ and a few other soldiers that O’Brien does not name in the story. The platoon would follow Lieutenant Jimmy Cross across the hills‚ valleys‚ rivers‚ and anything else imaginable. Each soldier
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“Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having‚ even if the parting has to come sooner or later.” These words to live by from Alice Munro would have been very beneficial to Jimmy Cross in Tim O’Brien’s‚ The Things They Carried. Although he was a symbol of Jesus Christ‚ Cross knew he could have been a better leader‚ especially with how absorbed he was in his love‚ Martha. By burning his letters and photographs of Martha‚ though‚ Jimmy Cross came to terms with a reconciliation emphasized
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Readers experience the essence of Vietnam through each of O’Brien and his squadron’s vivid memories: Rat Kiley’s loss of a friend as Curt Lemon stepped into his last ray of sunlight and was blown up into the trees‚ Norman Bowker resigning to letting Kiowa slip under the mud and out of this life‚ and the “dainty young man” with his jaw in his throat and his eye as a star-shaped hole that was O’Brien’s only kill. Though portrayed as true life experiences‚ these events and even most of these characters
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War is a terrible 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
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lives of Native Americans during the period 1860–90 and evaluate the role of the federal government in those effects. Use the documents and responses to each document to construct your response. Document A Santana‚ Chief of the Kiowas Source: Santana‚ Chief of the Kiowas‚ 1867. U.S. Bureau of Ethnography Annual Report‚ 17th‚ 1895–96. “A long time ago this land belonged to our fathers; but when I go up to the river I see camps of soldiers here on its bank. These soldiers cut down my timber; they kill
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Partly [because of] rapture…” (O’Brien 105) she becomes obsessed with the thrill of killing‚ symbolizing the transformation of soldiers who are warped into murderers. • In the chapter “In the Field‚” three soldiers blame themselves for the death of Kiowa‚ for reasons such as Jimmy Cross’‚ “he knew for a fact he had made a mistake setting up here” (O’Brien 166)‚ representing the soldiers who suffered from survivor’s guilt‚ none of these
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Personal Response “If you travel with fraud‚ you reach your destination‚ but are unable to return” (Ghanaian proverb). What are the assumptions underlying this quote? How possible is it to undo the bad we do? This proverb describes one of the significant themes in The Things They Carried. It describes the mental and emotional burden the soldiers are forced to carry throughout their lives as a result of the atrocities they committed during the Vietnamese War. This proverb is assuming
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