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    Slaughterhouse Thesis

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    processing industry need a fast approach. Public slaughterhouses were made to be able to accommodate the number of meat products and the escalating volume of livestock in a community. The slaughterhouse emerged as a unique institution as a part of larger transition from an agrarian to industrial system in the Philippines. Prior to the point animals were slaughtered for consumptions on diverse places in the country. Hence‚ cleanliness of the public slaughterhouse must be monitored for the safety of the meat

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    Student Press”‚ the talk about how in local television can talk about abortion‚ teen suicide‚ AIDS and runaway kids‚ but once the topics begin making headlines in school newspapers‚ high school principles often feel compelled to ban them. More than five hundred cases have opened up about censorship battles from student editors around the county. This to me is a dumb reason of a case because‚ we should have the liberty to write what we please about those types of topics‚ and we are in a mature age

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    The Story of War

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    And here is the essay: The concept of peace plays an important role in John Knowles’ novel A Separate Peace. As World War II rages in Europe and in the Pacific‚ the sixteen-year-old boys at the Devon school enjoy a sheltered existence knowing they are not yet subject to the call of duty. On the surface‚ "a separate peace" refers to this placid and protected life at a New England boarding school. The novel has darker psychological undertones‚ though‚ as it explores Gene’s savage nature and his journey

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    War Story

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    The Hump In his story The Things They Carried‚ Tim O’Brien weaves his tale around the concept of what a person carries emotionally and physically in the war scenario of the jungles of Vietnam. The story is set in the Vietnam War. It is a story written from the perspective of First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross. He is the Infantry Platoon leader. It becomes quickly apparent that he is using his method of accounting for everything carried as a coping mechanism for the stress of this war. He calculated

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    Slave: My True Story

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    Mende Nazer is one of those 14‚000. The thing that sets her apart is that she escaped and had the courage to tell her story to the world. Slave: My True Story‚ the Memoir of Mende Nazer‚ depicts how courage and the will to live can triumph over oppression and enslavement by showing the world that slavery did not end in 1865‚ but is still a worldwide problem. In Slave: My True Story‚ Nazer personally and vividly chronicles her life‚ which began in the Nuba Mountains of southern Sudan. Her early life

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    “How to tell a true war story”-Character Analysis Tim O’ Brien’s “How to tell a true war story” construes the relationship between the war experiences and the ways of storytelling. O Brien’s story telling as a narrator shows that the storyteller has the power to form his listener’s experiences and opinions. His way of describing situations are unique because his story distorted the reader’s perceptions of beauty and ugliness by making different situation and scenes seem pleasing‚ even though it

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    Tell A True War Story” (1987) were written about sixty two years apart and portray different experiences after the war settling back into everyday American society‚ both works have similar situations‚ a setting of war‚ and experiences. In “Soldier’s Home”‚ Harold Krebs‚ a nineteen year old soldier‚ fought in the Belleau Wood‚ Soissons‚ the Champagne‚ St. Mihiel‚ and in the Argonne battles of World War I‚ while the soldier in “How to Tell a True War Story” is deployed during the Vietnam War. Both of

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    have written war stories and about the effects of war on a person. Two of these writers are Tim O’Brian and Ernest Hemingway. O’Brian wrote "How to Tell a True War Story"; and Hemingway wrote a short story called "Soldier’s Home". Both of these stories illustrate to the reader just what war can do to an average person and what‚ during war‚ made the person change. The stories are alike in many respects due to the fact that both authors served time in the army; O’Brian in the Vietnam War and Hemingway

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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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    but entertaining and understandable stories‚ they usually exercise a good deal of artistic license.! ! Cinematic historians exercise a good deal of artistic license because they make stories entertaining and understandable. ! ! Filmmakers compress time‚ collapse several figures into a few principal characters‚ and imagine dialogue when the historical record is inadequate. Kathryn Bigelow‚ director of "Zero Dark Thirty‚" explained that her story had to represent 10 years of the intelligence

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