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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the only things and the home they had ever known and dropped into a foreign place where the situation was “kill or be killed.” They had no other choice but to be exposed to the unimaginable horrors that awaited them. Cases of people with PTSD are famous for their abuse of drugs or alcohol; however‚ ex-soldiers have an additional addiction that often lands them in trouble‚ or jail: an addiction to adrenaline. The one thing that caused them to have this condition may very well be the one thing that decides
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like‚ but that awful song just keeps playing over and over and over‚ in your mind. Now imagine that song as your most horrific memories‚ and it never stops. This is how Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder makes most people feel. The author of The Things They Carried‚ Tim O’Brien‚ is one of the men who was with the other soldiers‚ meaning that he experienced the events in the story first-hand. He himself also suffers from PTSD‚ and has chapters about his thoughts‚ feelings‚ and family intervention when he
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Response to: Foul Shots In Foul Shots‚ Rogelio R. Gomez writes about his Chicano background and the neighborhood he grew up in. Furthermore‚ he describes himself being stereotyped as one of the “barrio boys” basically meaning that he is considered inferior to the Anglos. In high school‚ the writer states that he was on a basketball team and that there was one day when his coach announced that his team was to “buddy up” with the opposite team. The opposite team was all White and therefore had a
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Milove Pierre SYD3020 Response Essay Three of the most pressing issues facing the world today in my opinion are Poverty‚ Healthcare and Global Warming. Poverty is an important issue to address because poverty provokes crime. For example‚ most of the drug dealer and abusers are associated in some way with poverty. People who steal property‚ and end up in prison are also associated with poverty. The poor are easier to get sick due to the unhealthy conditions. The more poor people we have the greater
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Response Essay The Stay-at-Home Husbands’ Feeling The Article Wall Street Mothers‚ Stay-Home Fathers –As Husband do Domestic Duty‚ These Woman are Free to Achieve-“ by Jodi Kantor and Jessica Silver-Greenberg is in most way neutral towards the two genders of this role reversal. The article shows both the perspective of husbands and wives‚ and it looks like that kind of role reversal is fine. However I believe it is unfair for the husbands. This is because sometime the husbands can feel both unhappy
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and condition. The purpose of this essay is to compare and contrast the poem of Juan Delgado and the story of Tim O’Brien. The conflict identified in the story “The things they carried” by Tim O’Brien and “A Point West of San Bernardino” by Juan Delgado centers on the struggle people can go through while trying to live in the world. Which represents in some cases how we see the world and what we carry along with us‚ showing that humans there are many things that we carry with us that we don’t
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The majority of the people will feel guilty when they do bad stuffs like lying and cheating. They will feel even guiltier when their friend dies because of them and when they kill somebody. Tim is like that way; he felt guilty when he experiences the death of his friends and enemies. In Vietnam‚ people are dying everywhere‚ including their friends. Rat Kiley’s friend‚ Curt Lemon‚ dies while they were playing catch with a smoke grenade. Although‚ the grenade did not kill Lemon and he dies when he
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little do most Americans know that soldiers during the Vietnam War were corrupted by the conditions of the war and left with no choice but to use hard drugs such as heroin in order to cope with their pain. Looking through Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried the troops in his novel were guilty of using hard drugs in order to cope with the war. The Vietnam war was a highly disputed war in the United States many Americans were against the fact that we were participating in this war in the first place
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that even in the war‚ there are some peace and calmness. As chaotic and hectic as the war gets‚ there are times of tranquility. The church is sacred. A church symbolizes purity and religion. “You don’t mess with churches.” (113) Messing with a sacred thing can affect the “karma”. For example‚ the ying & yang‚ one has the good in bad and the other has the bad in good. The pagoda is the good in the bad & the war is the bad in the good.
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