patriotism and heroism there are often feelings of shame and loneliness. In The Things They Carried it is clear that most of the soldiers in the war do not come back with a sense of pride or honor. Most come back wishing they had never gone at all. Tim O’Brien reveals that because Vietnam precipitated such traumatic experiences‚ his storytelling is a great way to cope with his shame and loneliness‚ emphasizing that the war experience is not one of patriotism and heroism‚ but one of loneliness and
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Metafiction is a literary device that makes a reader question what is reality and what is fiction. Tim O’Brien uses metafiction‚ in his chapter “How to Tell a True War Story”‚ to tell the reader how one can pick out a true war story as he is telling a war story. He uses this technique to emphasize how real the stories were to keep himself sane and get his bottled-up emotions off his chest. In the chapter “Notes”‚ O’Brien tells the reader a story about a man named Norman Bowker. Bowker committed
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amazing turnaround in the mid-nineties. For many years‚ the world perceived Jobs and Apple as integrally linked. As a result‚ consumers and investors now question Apple’s future and worry that the company cannot survive without Jobs. Since Jobs’ passing‚ Tim Cook has been tasked to continue Apple’s success. While Apple could potentially suffer long-term consequences from this switch‚ the more probable alternative is that the company will prosper because Cook is stronger leader than Jobs and can elevate
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IQE Charts for Module A – Tim Winton’s Short Stories and The Poetry of Zohra Saed. Theme/Value: Identity Context and text (Tim Winton) Technique & Quote Explanation Technique & Quote Context and text (Zohra Saed) “Big World” is a story of two boys’ lives as they finish school and assert their independence in the transition from adolescence to adulthood. Context: Grew up in small towns in WA. Working class background. Father was a police officer and great story teller. Educated at university. Christian
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actor is all one needs to make a movie‚ that may be something the audience believes. There’s a science to this‚ camera angles‚ sound‚ and lighting/color that make up a movie. As a film director in Hollywood‚ Tim Burton must pay attention to these simple key factors that create his films. Tim Burton‚ a greatly respected film director‚ creates gothic‚ bittersweet films ranging from friendship to young love. As Burton inspired many‚ he himself was inspired by the author Edgar Allan Poe‚ whose grim side
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Morris ELA IV 12 September 2024 Summer Reading Draft: The Four Loves C.S. Lewis‚ in his work‚ The Four Loves‚ discusses the various types of love that humans display in order to inform the reader about the loves as well as cause the reader to reflect on how they love. Although I agree with almost all of the ideas displayed in the text‚ some portions had challenging language‚ making it harder to comprehend. I relate to the Lewis describes and categorizes the types of love true and find it relates to
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Vertė: 20 I. Put each verb in brackets into a suitable tense. When you hear the final whistle One of the hardest things for any sportsperson is to know when to retire. [pic] (1-retire/you) at your physical ‘peak’ or [pic] (2-you/wait) until your body (or your coach) [pic] (3-tell) you that it’s time to go? But even harder is finding the answer to the question ‘What [pic] (4-do/I) with the rest of my life?’ According to Ian Cockerill‚ a sports psychologist‚ retirement for people in general
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novelist C.S. Lewis‚ is often viewed as one of the best books written on the subject of love as it pertains to religion. In the book‚ Lewis covers many ideas including the four types of love which include: storgé (empathetic love/affection)‚ philia love (the love between friends)‚ Eros (erotic/romantic love)‚ and Agapé (the unconditional ‘God’ love). In this book‚ Lewis also covers the differences between need and gift love; however‚ one of the most astounding statements that Lewis makes is in the
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Alice in Wonderland (Tim Burton‚ 2010) The film is inspired by Lewis Carroll’s novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass‚ and What Alice Found There (1871). The nineteen-year-old Alice now returns to Wonderland from her childhood adventure‚ where she reunites with her old friends and learns her true identity: to end the Red Queen’s reign of terror‚ slay the Jabberwocky‚ a dragon-like creature controlled by the Red Queen and restore the White Queen
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The video‚ Lewis and Clark: Part 1 directed by Kevin Burns‚ tells the story of the first exploration into unknown territory. Thomas Jefferson‚ the President of the United States at the time‚ was always curious about the West. Jefferson’s books spoke of a northwest passage that linked the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. It was believed that whoever could maintain that trade route would control the rest of the country and its future Jefferson expressed the desire to discover and understand the Missouri
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