Curt Lemon‚ Kiowa‚ Norman Bowkerevery one of O’Brien’s fallen comrades is able to live on through his stories; their lives are "saved." Linda‚ O’Brien’s deceased childhood sweetheart‚ explains in "The Lives of the Dead" that being dead is like being a library book
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killed in the Vietnam war. The character in this story focuses on the dead man’s physicality and the story he has fabricated for him. The character in this story seems to be in shock because he does not speak or stop looking at the dead soldier‚ “Kiowa shook his head. There was some silence before he said‚ “Stop staring...Talk to me” (p.797-798) In the story “The Lives of the Dead”‚ the narrator is Tim O’ Brien who tells the story of his first love who happens to be his first death. This story is
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uncertain of his action. It was either: letting the enemy win or let his side gain victory. ""All right‚ let me ask a question‚" he said. "You want to trade places with him? Turn it all upside down—you want that? I mean‚ be honest."" (O’Brien) When Kiowa‚ his fellow soldier‚ asks him the question‚ Tim already knows he is in war. He knows his life was on the line‚ therefore‚ he kills the Vietnamese soldier out of survival‚ although he feels guilty. Tim and the speaker feel differently and have a different
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Chapter 17-The West: Exploiting an Empire Time Period: 1850-1900 1. Beyond the Frontier -line of white settlement at MO timber country by 1840s What’s in the West? What land? -“The Great Plains”/Prairie Plains: rich soil and good rainfall (Wisconsin down to Texas) -High Plains: rough‚ semiarid (Montana down to NMex.) -Rockies: formidable barrier (Alaska to NMex.) -Western Basin: home to many NA‚ desert‚ held in by the Cascades and Sierra Nevada‚ MOST travelers here (Idaho and Utah)
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A. Park The Things They Carried The symbols in Tim O’Brien’s “The Things They Carried” are essential to understanding the soldiers and their lives during the Vietnam War. At the opening of the story‚ Lieutenant Jimmy Cross would dig into his foxhole and read the letters while imagining romance with Martha; however‚ at the end of the story after the death of Ted Lavender‚ he “crouched at the bottom of his foxhole and burned Martha’s letters” (402). The inner feelings of Cross would be mistakenly
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In reading excerpts of Michael McGerr’s A Fierce Discontent‚ it appears that the goal of Progressivism was a middle class agenda to transform America to the middle class life style. The middle class appeared to be afraid that they were going to be stuck in the middle of the big corporations that had sprung up and the vast number of new immigrants. It appeared that their goal may have been to turn the immigrants into middle class citizens like themselves. It seems that the Progressive Party of
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Vicki Hinton 03/21/2011 The Administration Process SEC/370 Michael Scott University of Phoenix Operating Budgets Paper Budgets are systematic plans that organizations use to manage objectives and goals. They are important documents that bring out important aspects of the organization and provide information to direct that organizations activities (Johnson‚ 2005). They are basic planning tools that help managers make decisions within the organization. Budgets vary in different organizations
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The story of “The Things They Carried” took place during the Vietnam War. The author‚ Tim O’Brien describes each character by the things they carried. All of them carried necessary things which could help them go through the war – some were common‚ some were different‚ and depending on the soldier. Lieutenant Cross carried photographs of Martha‚ the girl with whom he fell in love. Due to an unclear relationship and a great distance‚ the more Lieutenant Cross thinks about Martha‚ the more he suffers
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gives him an eternal sense of guilt over his actions. This showed how emotionally fragile Vietnam soldiers were and the amount of stress and tragedy being put on them on a day to day basis. Another example of this is when Cross’s fellow soldier‚ Kiowa‚ dies in an accidental explosion. Cross is found squatting in the muck of a lake‚ almost in a daze‚ contemplating the death of all those around him and what it means and who is to blame. He tried to tell himself that “No apologies were necessary‚
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Dobbins carried a couple of his better half’s pantyhose around his neck every time he went to battle. Kiowa carried with him generally a Bible from his dad‚ a need to get past every day. During this war‚ men couldn’t stand to carry anything that was not important to their survival. O’Brien illustrates to us the need for every man to be associated with their
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