single man. How can we really know what the truth is? In Tim O’Brien “the things they carried’ what really defines a war story being true? Its never moral‚ the uncertainty‚ or is it the horror and honor? The things that happen in war are never moral. War has a dirty bloody‚ gorier‚ and violent side to it. Well that’s what war is? "War is nuts war is fun‚ war is thrilling‚ and war is drudgery war makes you a
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Pre and Post Transformation of Jimmy Cross In every literature‚ some characters experience some kind of changes throughout the story. The story called The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien talks about a young Lieutenant‚ named Jimmy Cross‚ unable to lead his men because he keeps thinking about Martha‚ ended up cost one of his men’s life‚ during the war. The story takes place in Vietnam and the war is called Vietnam War‚ one of the most controversial military conflict in the U.S history. Tim O’Brien
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to the growth of students’ achievement. However‚ proper questioning tactics are sometimes overlooked. In the article‚ Bowker brings up important points about how to go about questions‚ how to ask appropriate and effective questions‚ and how students can also learn to ask instead of to just answer. In the classroom‚ students typically are asked questions for them to answer. Bowker argues that students should learn how to be able to ask well thought out questions. If students spend the whole class
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Lemon‚ dies while they were playing catch with a smoke grenade. Although‚ the grenade did not kill Lemon and he dies when he stepped on a mine: which blew him everywhere. Kiley blamed himself for Lemon’s death and felt guilty for it. Comparatively‚ Kiowa dies in the poop field when he was hit by a mortar. Tim and Lieutenant Cross blamed themselves for Kiowa’s death. Tim thinks if he never pulled his flashlight out and show a picture of his girl then the mortar will not have any target to hit.
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and do‚ all the decisions and the choices we make. For example human fear many things like fear of flying‚ heights‚ death and etc.. In his book the things they carried Tim O’Brien writes but the theme of fear because the soldiers in the Vietnam War were afraid of making the right decisions. Tim O’Brien and his platoon carry the fear of death and the fear of shame.fear is show in this is characters of Jimmy Cross‚ Norman Barker‚ and Time himself. Jimmy Cross shows weakness and fear. For example
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valor. Rather‚ they were too frightened to be cowards.” “Kiowa who saw it happen said it was like watching a rock fall‚ or a big sandbag or something-Just Boom-then down. Not like in the movies where the dead guy rolls around and does fancy spins and goes ass over teakettle-not like that. Kiowa said. The bastard just flat fuck fell. Boom down. Nothing else.” “What stories can do‚ I guess‚ is make things present. I can look at things I never looked at. I can attach faces to grief and love and
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that guy Mark Fossie who shipped his girl over to Vietnam to spend time with him‚ I couldn’t believe it. He says he saw the whole thing‚ and that he was there when everything happened‚ but I doubt it; Rat is the type of guy who would lie to get his story more interesting. But anyhow‚ I agreed for him to tell me the story even though I was very sceptical about the whole thing. It almost seemed like he was fooling me. So I crossed my arms‚ and let him amuse me with his anecdote. Although
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.......................................................8 Technological..................................................................................8 SWOT ANALYSIS………………………………………………………................10 OBJECTIVES OF HARVEY NORMAN………................................................11 SEGMENTATION………………………………………………………….............12 Geographical...................................................................................12 Demographical
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below: •CAFÉ – such as Gloria Jeans or a local cafe •Fashion – Quicksilver or Roxy or Lonsdale •Transport – Linfox or a local courier company •Or a business of your own. ie location‚ size‚ staff‚ products‚ hours and years of operation Harvey Norman Originally founded in 1982 by Gerry and Ian Harvey. over the past 32 years the size of their business has dramatically increased. with around 230+ stores Australia wide‚ including all capital cites‚ the surrounding suburbs and even in some remote/
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Archie Norman was thirty-seven years old when he took over as chief executive of a supermarket chain‚ Asda. Before joining Asda‚ Norman had no previous experience in the grocery business. He had attended Harvard Business School MBA and had worked for the McKinsey consulting firm. When he took over Asda‚ it was in the brink of collapse. Asda had lost sight of its core customers‚ their competitors were gaining market share and Asda was nearly in $2 billion in debt. Norman was able to turn this struggling
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