come with a college education but‚ I will also face my challenges while pursuing my degree. Therefore‚ I must utilize the expert advice that is available to me and develop strategies to ensure my success. According to Robert S. Feldman’s article‚ "Why Go to College‚" in my ENF textbook‚ students have many reasons for attending college (27). The most important reason for me is to make my family proud and to be the first son to graduate a college. A college degree will help me earn a better living and
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thrilling; war is drudgery. War makes you a man; war makes you dead.” (80) This passage is very significant to the reality of the soldiers in the Vietnam War and brings to life the setting of the entire novel. The soldiers were primarily teenagers and young men in their early twenties who had not yet had the chance to experience life. They soon had found themselves in the midst of an intense war with nothing but uncertainty and fear. They hated it and they loved the fear and adrenaline that ran through
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What things do I hate the most? Why do I hate those things? Do I need to adjust with it? Why Should I? Is it possible for me to like these things? I’ll be sharing my own opinion in this essay. I’m so sensitive and irritable person. And for me‚ there are a lot of things to hate. Look at your left and right side‚ there are something that you don’t like. You don’t want to see. There are also things that you don’t want to feel‚ to think and to happen. And every person who lives in this world hated
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Why go to College? College can be so dreadful and boring to an extent where many people feel it is a waste of time. On the other hand‚ there are many people who make it a goal to attend college and earn a degree. A few years ago‚ I was one of the many people that dreaded the thought of going to college. That is until I realized I could no longer get promoted into the position I wanted at my most recent job. For most people‚ going to college can be very beneficial and awarding. Going to college can
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The Nature of Things Michelle Davis ACI1248F Introduction to Literature 1/17/2013 Using nature to symbolize feelings or thoughts in a poem or short story gives the reader an idea of what the author is describing‚ but it also gives them a picture to imagine as they read. The Oak by Tennyson might symbolize strength and wisdom and uses simile style to describe an object. The Road not Taken by Frost might symbolize the way certain choices affect our lives and uses a persona
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21 January 2013 ENGL 152-14 Crazy Thing 2 Crazy Thing 2 When I almost ran my grandfather over at his house it affected my life by making me more aware of my vehicle. The incident changed me because once I realized what was happening I realized wasn’t in control of my vehicle anymore and couldn’t stop what happened or could have happened. I know that once a person loses control bad things can happen. What could have happened terrified me; the first thing that went thru my mind is ‘I could have
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In the novel “The Things They Carried” written by Tim O’Brien‚ he discusses the weapons and equipment’s that each American soldier carried during the Vietnam War. The things that the soldiers carried with them are both tangible and intangible. What these items are depends upon each of the soldiers. They carried the basic necessities in order for survival and the bare minimum to make life as livable as possible. However‚ they also carried with them fear and memories. It is the intangible items like
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English 102 2 October 2011 What Defines a Person by The Things They Carry The author is Tim O’Brien The Things they Carried written in 1986. The story is told by the author almost 20 years after the Vietnam war‚ it tells a story of men in combat and the things they carried before‚ during and after the war and how many of the things the soldiers carried help to shape and define their lives. In life people are defined by the things they carry like social class‚ education or lack of; race‚
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A fair go for all In Australia we pride ourselves as a country that is built on the concept of a ‘fair go’ for all‚ yet this does not appear to be the case for many minority groups who are continually subjected to anything but a fair go. The concept of a fair go is based loosely around equal opportunity for everyone to achieve there goals and the providing of access to basic needs such as education‚ healthcare and the right to welfare for those in need. It has long been Australian tradition to support
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Symbolism in stories is dependent on how the author writes‚ the title‚ and the characters. Titles in literature are very important to the symbolism of a story an example of this is Tim O’Brien’s "The Things They Carried". As the story goes on it shows not only the literal meaning of what they carried but also symbolically the burdens that they had mentally. In the literal sense O’Brien talks about what different members of a platoon in Vietnam carried. This helps him to move to a more symbolic
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