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    has a bond of mutual affection.” Despite there being a concrete definition‚ friendship has no terminology because everyone’s view on it is distinct and miscellaneous. The pure definition of friendship is defined on one’s own notion. In The Things They Carried‚ Rat Kiley and Curt Lemon had a bona fide friendship that was equivalent to no other friendship. Mark Fossie and Mary Anne Bell also had a friendship that was beyond than just a friendship. Both relationships were so complementary but yet contradicted

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    Summary of “The Order of Things” Recently‚ the ranking system of U.S. News and World Report is increasingly being questioned. “ The Order of Things”‚ an article written by the bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell and published in the prestigious New York magazine‚ criticizes the methodology used by U.S. News and World Report. According to Gladwell’s article‚ some fundamental changes should be made in the U.S. News ranking system to improve the fairness and accuracy of the rankings. The first change

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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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    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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    Cole Ruch ENC II D.Chapman April 22‚ 2013 Literary analysis #1- The Things They Carried‚ by Tim O’Brien This prolific and award winning story by Tim O’Brien‚ focuses on the hardships faced by soldiers during the Vietnam War. O’Brien chronicles the lives of several soldiers as they battle through the jungles of the Vietnam. They story gives the readers the ability to go through the solders inability to accept the reality they are facing. The title of the story plays an important function in

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    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 pity and God. I can be brave. I can make myself feel again. ’Daddy‚ tell the truth‚ ’Kathleen can say‚ ’did you ever kill anybody? ’ And I can say‚ honest‚ ’Of course not

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    Many people think that most of the teenagers in our generation are very confident and happy‚ especially because we believe that they don’t have anything to worry about. For Zits things are very different‚ due to the fact that shame is a painful feeling that plays a big role in his life. Zits says “I’m dying from about ninety-nine kinds of shame. I’m ashamed of being fifteen years old. And being tall. And skinny. And ugly. I’m ashamed that I look like a bag of zits tied to a broomstick” (4). In a

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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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    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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