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    Umberto Eco’s quote‚ “The real hero is always a hero by mistake…” means that genuine heroes are not those who anticipate specific deeds in order to become a hero‚ but rather those individuals who are confronted with unexpected situations‚ and develop into accidental or unintentional heroes. People that have these characteristics should have no reason to be called heroes. Those characteristics would make them the so-called “hero by mistake”. Two books that are associated to this quotation are The

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    frame lenses have a bigger image circle than the image circle on crop lenses. This is the key difference between these two lens types and we have seen this in the many examples of cropped vs full frame. As I said earlier‚ full frame lenses have no problem adjusting to cropped sensors because the image circle is big anyway. On the other hand‚ if you were to put a cropped lens on a full frame sensor the image circle would be too small to cover the entire sensor and‚ as a result‚ you would get blackened

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    Ethical Lens Inventory Results for DESIREE  Your  preferred lens is: Rights and Responsibility Lens You use your reasoning skills (rationality) to determine your duties as well as the universal rules that each person should follow (autonomy). Your Core Values: Autonomy and Rationality You prioritize the value of autonomy over equality. Your primary concern is protecting individual rights. You believe this is the best way to assure that everyone in the community is treated fairly. You prioritize

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    Last Name 1 Name Professor ’s Name Course Date The Symbolism of Weight in “The Things They Carried” The title of Tim O ’Brien ’s collection of short stories employs the use of weight. However‚ this is both in the physical and psychological sense. This book‚ published in 1990‚ explores in depth the theme of weight in regards to physical objects such as rations and cigarettes‚ while delving deeper into the emotions of fear‚ reverence and admiration that “weigh” on these soldiers. O ’ Brien gives

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    Vazquez ENC 1102 T-TH 12:30 – 1:45 11 February 2013 “Coping through what they carried ” Tim O’Brien’s “The Things They Carried” was set in the time of the Vietnam War‚ and portrayed that each of the soldiers had something they carried. These things that each of the men carried represented them and how they coped when they were in the war. They needed these things as a necessity. Sometimes the things would get in the way of their thoughts and cause them to be distracted from their duties

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    The Things They Carried‚ By Tim O’Brien Tim O’Brien’s novel‚ The Things They Carried‚ provides an incredible realization of what life was like for an American soldier who fought in Vietnam from perspectives before‚ during‚ and after the war. The story’s power draws you in. It makes the events in the story seem real and provides the reader with a sense of what it feels like to be one of the soldiers. O’Brien’s talent as a writer made a fictional story more than believable to the reader. When reading

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    The Fresnel Lens Do you know what the largest light house in America? Or how many steps it takes to get to the top? I do. It’s Cape Hatteras light house in Buxton‚ NC. It was completed in 1971 and stands 193 feet in the air. It takes 268 steps to climb to the top. I visited this light house in August of 2010 I had the pleasure of seeing the 6‚000 lb. bronze and crystal lens. In 1803 it was replaced due to being damaged by vandals. Light houses from the 18th century used burning candles‚ oil lamps

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    consequences for this war were grave and dire. Millions from both sides lost their lives for a seemingly unreasonable cause. In his novel "The Things They Carried"‚ Tim O’Brien changes the glorified way in which media and textbooks portray war‚ telling gruesome stories illustrating the irreparable damage war inflicts on the lives of young soldiers. The "things" the characters carry both concrete and emotional. Woefully‚ the ladder catapults the men into a lifetime of struggling to cope with the crushing

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    What is a Gender Lens? Think of a gender lens as putting on spectacles. Out of one lens of the spectacles‚ you see the participation‚ needs and realities of women. Out of the other lens‚ you see the participation‚ needs and realities of men. Your sight or vision is the combination of what each eye sees. Gender is about relationships between men and women. Gender equality is about equal valuing of women and men - of their similarities and their differences. We need equal‚ respectful partnerships

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    In the first chapter of The Things They Carried‚ “The Thing They Carried”‚ Tim O’Brien uses the motif of intangible weights the men carry and how they have the strength to alter one’s performance and emotional state at war. The intangible weight of Martha’s love is like a barbell Jimmy Cross can never seem to let go of. Continuously carrying extra weight‚ Cross expresses how he "love[d] Martha more than his men" (6)‚ which results in the death of one of his men soldiers Ted Lavender. Cross’s love

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