“What is fundamentally beautiful is compassion for yourself and for those around you‚ that kind of beauty enflames the heart and enchants the soul.” -Lupita Nyong’o Lupita Nyong’o was born In Mexico City‚ Mexico on March 11983. Although‚ she was born in Mexico‚ both her parents are Kenyan and she was raised in Kenya. Lupita Nyong’o is a Mexican- Kenyan filmmaker and actress. Lupita Nyong’o went to college in the United States of America‚ in Amherst‚ Massachusettes‚ where she graduated from Hampshire
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In the short‚ story “How to Tell a True War Story” Tim O’Brien‚ the author‚ confuses the reader with his unique idea on how to tell a real story. Despite the fact‚ that O’Brien was drafted to go to the Vietnam War in 1969 he uses his friends and partners’ stories throughout his war years‚ to tell the world that everything about war is mistaken. Throughout his collection‚ The Thing They Carried (1990) he emphases that fear is what motivate soldiers to go to war. Indeed‚ fear drove him; he went to
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The Paths of Life Exhibit on the O’odham people displays all four aspects of the Peoplehood Matrix. The land is seen in most of the text and photographs‚ describing how the Tohono O’odham live in the desert west of Tucson‚ and the Akimel O’odham live along the Salt and Gila Rivers‚ and how the scarcity of water impacted their day-to-day life. “The world would burn without rain.” History is shown in the section about the Nawait ceremony and the summer rains‚ which also is about ceremony‚ as the name
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A Lottery that You Don’t Want to Win “I remember opening up the letter‚ scanning the first few lines‚ feeling the blood go thick behind my eyes. I remember a sound in my head. It wasn’t thinking‚ just a silent howl.” – Tim O’Brien‚ The Things they Carried Have you ever taken the time to think about how you feel about the draft? Do you feel it is the government’s right to tell you to serve in the military? In times of war there is always the possibility of a draft. Drafting for military purpose
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Based on Tim O’Brien’s‚ “How to Tell a True War Story‚” the depiction is that in a war environment‚ civilians and soldiers have different perspectives; it is hard for soldiers to tell a true war story because the truth is not just a simple matter of seeing things
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Grace O’Malley was born in 1530‚ in Ireland‚ the daughter of the clan chieftain. Well educated and considered to be a formidable woman‚ she learned the sailing trade from her father. She inherited her father’s shipping business‚ as well as land from her mother. At 15 years old she married her first husband‚ Donal O’Flaherty and bore him three children. When her father died‚ she inherited his property and became a wealthy woman. O’Flaherty had taken a castle from the Joyce clan and when he died they
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In Going After Cacciato‚ Tim O’Brien uniquely combines the gritty reality of combat with a dreamlike‚ or surrealistic‚ state. Surrealism is a mean of uniting conscious and unconscious realms of experience so completely that the world of dream and fantasy joins in the everyday rational world. From the beginning of the novel‚ the surrealistic experiences obviously occurred‚ but as the story continued‚ the story went passed surrealism and almost became delusional. The main protagonist‚ Paul Berlin‚
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Robbie O’Brien Structural functionalism is the idea that everything that operates in a society has a certain function and role that it plays in order to make a large society work. I think that it can be broken down like a Car. a car has many parts‚ that all work together in order to make the car go‚ for example a car has the engine part‚ but a car won’t move without all the other parts that officially makes it a ‘car.’ Just like a society‚ if we were to just have the giant corporations‚ and the
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Kailyn Withers Redo Unit 3 Assignment This week we read many short stories but the story I think was the best was “The Things they carried “by O’Brien. Why? Because they it had amazing setting‚ tone‚ and impression on the story. The story had a nice background and many characteristics. The main characters in the short story are Martha‚ Ted‚ and O’Brien. With the story “The things they carried “it comes with many different types of question you are wondering. Like what is the setting‚ what is the
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In the short story‚ “Two in One” there was a big detail orientated story about the boss and his co-worker that worked as a taxidermist. Flinn O’Brien brings in two men with two different attitudes and has a job where they both can do something they like. O’Brien describes the job in detail for the reader in just short of length. Murphy was the type of man that did his job but hated his boss as being a taxidermist. Kelly was a “swinish‚ overbearing mean boss‚ a bully‚ a sadist” man that would do
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