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    with the present time. In this stage‚ philosophers are rampant. I have to admit it‚ but I do belong in this club. With our little minds containing limited information‚ a question to our teacher will be answered by n impertinent and out of this world things. We’re very conscious to our surrounding and ask our parents about our queries. Sometimes‚ they come up with wrong answers just to stop us on asking them. Reminiscing our hobby before was a total package of laughter; Remembering wiping our nose by

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    Lailani's point of view

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    a log-on name and password‚ which the student will use for his or her entire stay in the school‚ will be provided once he or she has accomplished a short electronic admission form. A validated log-on name and password will allow the student to view onscreen the various courses the university offers. After the student has chosen his or her preferred course‚ the subjects required and available for that course and the corresponding matriculation fees will automatically pop up with another click

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    disorder. In the novel The Things They Carried‚ written by Tim O’Brien‚ the author paints a portrait in the readers mind of all the realities of the war atrocities. O’Brien tells a different short story each chapter about characters and all the struggles and difficult encounters they face. Each character carries three things during the war. The first thing the soldiers carry is the physical items necessary for survival: M-16‚ M-60‚ grenades‚ ammo‚ etc. The second thing they carry are personal items

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    O’Brien characterizes the soldiers as reluctant to kill‚ dying dreadfully when he says‚ “Men killed‚ and died‚ because they were embarrassed not to.” (#) In plain text‚ this quote explains that men killed and died because they would feel a sense of shame if they did not. However‚ by providing embarrassment as an explanation for killing and dying‚ the reader is challenged to consider each soldier as an individual who chose to kill people and chose to die. Generally‚ a war itself is considered responsible

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    Assignment 1 In Tim O’Briens The Things They Carried‚ the character of Mary Anne‚ in the chapter Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong serves as a metaphor for the loss of innocence that the soldiers lose during their time in the war. “The guys sometimes liked to kid her...- but Mary Anne would just smile and stick out her tongue”(96). As a child‚ you would stick out your tongue to make fun of someone or use it as gesture towards someone who was making fun of you. In the beginning‚ when Mary Anne

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    Point Of View Essay

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    Beautiful Day There is this place just a few blocks away from my house where I like to go to get away. It’s called The Rock in Pawnee Rock. Early in the morning it can be so peaceful and quiet with beautiful wet dew still on the grass. As the sun comes up you see the colors surrounding the bright sky. Nothing more radiant as the sun on a bright morning. As I look around I can see every house in this small town‚ plus the long stretch of highway from great bend to larned. You see cars buzzing by on

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    O’Roukes part. He practically interrogated Riley every second of the day. It got to a point that Mr. O’Rouke didnt eat with the family and Riley followed suit soon after. Eventually Mrs. O’Rourke had to force them both into a room to talk to each other. After what seemed like hours of talking they both decided on an ultimatum .If Riley

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    I ascend from my stunning‚ horrid swampland while the darkness covers the mysterious‚ gloomy lake I call home. The night seems to match my soul as the darkness consumes around me and the moon hides behind the misty clouds. I march forward on the path that will guide me to my fate with monstrous‚ heavy steps. The very thought of those men‚ drinking and laughing and carrying on all night long at the great hall made me so full of blind‚ red fury. It spread throughout my body. I can already

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    O’Brien’s novel‚ The Things They Carried‚ paints a vague mental image of people carrying something – an image that is not yet complete for the reader to grasp the purpose of the novel. ‘Things’ are often assumed to be physical‚ in this novel‚ the ‘things’ that the soldiers carried were the mental burdens during and after the Vietnam War. Through the use of narratives of the different soldiers‚ O’Brien is able to follow each characters physical and mental weight that they carried. The

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    of himself‚ I think‚ that was too high for his own good.” B.) A periodic sentence is a sentence that has the main point at the end‚ but at the start of the sentence‚ it serves to build suspense to create emphasis on the end of the sentence. The “he had an opinion of himself” serves as a bit of information that would lead to how the author feels about Curt Lemon which is the main points saved towards the end of the sentence. C.) O’Brien uses a periodic sentence to create an emphasis on how little he

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