THE THINGS THEY CARRIED UNIT TEST NAME_________________________ Part I. Matching (some may not be used) WHO AM I? (2 pts.) 1. ______ I was the young girl who came over to see her boyfriend and eventually fell in love with Vietnam and become one with the land. 2. ______ I offered Tim 200.00 dollars and the opportunity to escape to Canada when we went fishing in my boat. 3. ______ I played Volleyball at Mount Sebastian and wrote letters to Jimmy.
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Phoniness vs. Loss of Innocence In the novel‚ The Catcher in the Rye‚ by J.D. Salinger‚ the protagonist Holden is scared of losing his innocence because he doesn’t want to have to deal with his problems in a mature way. Throughout the book Holden is afraid of losing his innocence and believes that once he does he will no longer be the same person. Holden refers to the people that have fallen off the cliff of innocence as “phonies” to disassociate them from the people that he feels have real emotions
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After Colin’s death‚ Mark goes into a state of denial and his build-up of guilt causes him to have a mental breakdown along with signs of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Deep into the novel‚ Mark retells the story of the ’Boy from Beirut’ to Joaquin and he explains how it was his fault that the boy is dead. This affected Mark in many ways as it left in an emotional trauma and self-isolation state that
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Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental health disease that is triggered by a traumatic event. I have been struggling with PTSD‚ major depression‚ and anxiety for the past seven years of my life. It stinks to have to live with a mental illness. There’s so many people that just push them aside and just think they’re all make believe. They aren’t in my shoes. They haven’t been through what I’ve been through. What triggered my PSTD was that my father passed away when I only ten years old.
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the job the government asked them to do and now they‚ not the government‚ were taking the blame for it. Despite all of this‚ the Vietnam War has affected veterans and their families to an extent where several have suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder. Even today‚ after more than 30 years‚ the after-effects of the Vietnam War‚ still remain. Subsequently after the veterans returned‚ some of the men desperately wanted to talk to someone about what they¡¦d been through‚ but they were hardly
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Behaviour Change This assignment will reflect on psychological theories which impact on behaviour. Becker’s (1974) Health Belief Model and DiClemente and Prochaska’s (1983) Behaviour Change Cycle will be discussed in relation to the role of Health Visitors in promoting health and changing behaviours. The standards of proficiency for Specialist Community Public Health Nurses states‚ that one of the ten key principles of public health practices is working with communities to improve their health
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Running head: VETERANS DISCRIMINATION 1 Discrimination: Veterans in the Workplace xxxxxxxxxxx National University HRM-439 Professor xxxxxxxxxxxx 23 December 2013 VETERANS DISCRIMINATION 2 Abstract Discrimination against veterans and those who serve in the reserve forces of the United
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According to the National Veterans Foundation‚ “According to the RAND Center for Military Health Policy Research‚ 20% of the vets who served in either Iraq or Afghanistan suffer from either major depression or post-traumatic stress disorder” (National Veterans Foundation‚ 2016). Esteban Santiago is no exception… On Friday‚ January 6th‚ veteran Esteban Santiago was coming home to Florida from his travels in Alaska. Santiago had legally boarded his firearm concealed in his firearm case empty. He later
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“They carried the common secret of cowardice barely restrained‚ the instinct to run or freeze or hide‚ and in many respects this was the heaviest burden of all‚ for it could never be put down” (O’Brien 216). This is the common theme among the men in the two stories “Guests of the Nations” by Frank O’Connor and “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien. The setting of the first story is during the Irish War for independence involving two Englishmen held hostage by the Irish Army and the interactions
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that are experienced from the American and Vietnamese soldiers on both sides of the war. Both sides underwent brutally effects of the war such as trauma‚ psychological disorders‚ and physical weaknesses. Both sides witnessed deaths of friends and innocent civilians. The war caused a widespread affliction of Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome on both sides. The main characters in both books are very much alike. In “Rumor of War‚” Caputo enters the war with notions of being a hero with thoughts of
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