There are instances when imaginary stories are more powerful than those that actually happened. The fictional reality present in O’Brien’s The Things They Carried adds more realism to his writing than any amount of actual details every could. Even though the stories recounted in the book didn’t physically happen‚ they still hold as true as any actual war story. Furthermore‚ many of the characters and experiences found in these stories have been created from composites of real people and places. Essentially
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Tim O’Brien‚ an author and avid reader‚ grew up near the borders of Iowa and South Dakota in Worthington‚ Minnesota‚ a typical small town in Midwestern America. He was born on October 1‚ 1946‚ making Tim a member of the post-World War II baby boomer generation. As a scrappy 18 year old‚ O’Brien traveled to St. Paul and enrolled at Macalester College. Throughout his years in college‚ O’Brien came to oppose the war in Vietnam. He didn’t launch violent protests‚ as some radical activist groups had
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Cover Letter Mrs. Dawalt‚ The majority of the feedback I received addressed my formatting. I knew when I completed my first draft that that would be the case considering formatting definitely isn’t my forte. I feel like I have learned a lot more as to how to format well by writing this. I’ve gotten much better at inserting headers‚ footers‚ and page numbers. I knew how to do it before but I almost had to re-learn it every time. I only received one peer review. The main thing that was brought
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The Vietnam War last from 1964-1975 for America and was it longest war. Throughout those eleven years many stories and letters were written and many more would come long after the wars end. While officially the conflict was considered to be a police action‚ many consider it be just rough and brutal as any other war fought in modern history. The majority of soldiers who did return home came back to an America far different than the one they left behind and were subject to the hatred of anti-war protestors
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operations using Information Technology (IT) systems. The implementation of the systems requires a management program for the IS applications development. Susan Brock (2003) supports that as the data into valuable corporate information has become more viable through information technologies‚ the application of IT based projects has risen too (Susan Brock‚ 2003). The organisations use Information System Projects for either updating‚ or either upgrading or changing the existing system in order to meet
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Tim O’brien’s the Things They Carried is a collection of fictional war stories based on his own time in vietnam. Each stories features a role in a continuous narrative‚ fractured pieces of one squads experiences in vietnam. O’Brien throughout the novel continuously shits narration‚ from person to person giving the reader insights into each soldier’s perspective. One of the most powerful perspectives came from a character named Tim O’Brien. Throughout the novel his perspective is consistently boyish
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When one begins to read the story‚ it does not seem that the narrator and protagonist is Tim O’Brien. This is due to the fact that the entire story is written in first person except for the first chapter. This can be misleading to the reader about who the story is truly about. It is also confusing because the beginning of the book gives the impression that the narrator’s job was to merely tell stories of different soldiers. Only when one reads further into the book does Tim’s integral role become
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Prompt: "You can tell a true war story if it embarrasses you. If you don’t care for obscenity‚ you don’t care for the truth; and if you don’t care for the truth‚ watch how you vote. Send guys to war‚ they come home talking dirty" (O’Brien 69). Drawing on your reading‚ knowledge‚ and experience‚ write a carefully reasoned essay defending‚ challenging‚ or qualifying O’Brien’s view of the relationship between truth and obscenity. Obscenity in Truth Truth and obscenity have a direct
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