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    To find a four-leaf clover is to find good luck. If a black cat crosses your path you will have bad luck. Superstitions‚ omens and myths exist in every corner of the world and to many people‚ are beliefs resulting from the fear of the unknown. In Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried‚ Obrien explores the motives behind these mysteries through the breathtaking adventures of soldiers in Vietnam witnessing fear‚ anger‚ remorse and love. Through the symbolic implications of Kiowa’s bible‚ Henry’s stockings

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    Everyday people go through hardships and suffer from internal wars that make it impossible to just choose happiness. This makes it important for people to practice different coping mechanisms for people to understand and internalize their emotions. Tim O’Brien expands upon this idea of coping with hardships in his novel The Things They Carried. With the setting taking place on the battlefield of the vietnam war‚ the way these men cope becomes one of the most prominent motifs in this novel. Every

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    For my realistic fiction book talk I read the book The Big Time by Tim Green‚ and I chose this book because of Previous books I read by the same author that I liked. The main setting of the book is Atlanta‚ Georgia‚ and it switches between many places in the town. Troy White‚ the main character‚ is an amazing football player with a very special talent. Troy can predict the plays that teams will run before it actually happens. Troy works for the Atlanta Falcons as a “Football Genius”.

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    Expository Essay Before television and movies existed‚ American settlers would depend on storytelling as a form of entertainment. One such style was called a tall tale‚ an improbably tale or story‚ something unlikely to take place or be true. However‚ in Tim Burton’s movie‚ Big Fish‚ Edward Bloom used these stories to convey his identity. He was able to tell them on a grand scale; unveiling his courageousness‚ ambition‚ and determination just to name a few. Courage is the ability to conquer fear or despair

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    Alexandra Berliner Eshoo English 12 11/28/11 Something A Soldier Ignores: Death Fatalities are part of every person’s life. To a normal citizen‚ death is often followed by sadness and grief. As portrayed in “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien‚ a soldier has to deal with the situation much differently. Death is portrayed in a negative light due to the fact that soldiers are greatly fearful of it and that they are forced to be unaffected by death. In order to cope with all the deaths

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    Confessions of an Embarrassed Soldier Tim O’Brien’s personal short story‚ “On the Rainy River‚” evokes an inner struggle to serve‚ or to “run” to Canada. O’Brien shamefully expresses his own horrific tale of compromise of the draft in the summer of ‘68. At 21 years old‚ “young‚ yes‚ and politically naive‚” he feels “moral confusion” for the decision he has to make. O’Brien’s use of first person narration in his old age‚ evokes a sense of embarrassment which he feels for choosing to fight in

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    the writer of The Yellow Birds. His time in the Iraq War left him with a fragile mental state that made it difficult to have a conversation without trailing off or getting lost in his own thoughts. While Powers felt too much from what he had seen‚ Tim O’Brien’s time in the Vietnam war caused him to become cold and desensitized to death‚ prompting

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    In Tim Porter’s TED Talk‚ he explains how society has this “Man Box” where we define the standards for being a man. Within this box‚ standards such as showing no feelings‚ constantly being strong‚ and remaining in charge are expected characteristics of a real man. In addition‚ this “Man Box” has guidelines for how a man should treat a women. Women are viewed as objects‚ less-valued‚ and weak. It is expected of a man to treat a women this way‚ and if he does not‚ then he is seen as not as manly as

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    In ‘‘The Magic Show‚’’ by Tim O’Brien he breaks down a comparison of writing to magic. Early on in O’Brien’s life he discovered that he liked performing magic he felt as if he was making miracles happen. When performing magic the outcome is based on an illusion creating a misleading appearance‚ forming something into a newly impression of reality. In magic the audience should always be wondering how the trick will end and how the magician performed the trick just as with writing an essay you lead

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    amount of worrying can change the future”- Umar Ibn Khattab At some point in each person’s life‚ they will feel guilt. Guilt is a valuable emotion‚ as it helps to maintain ties to the people around you. In the novel‚ “The Things They Carried‚” by Tim O’Brien‚ every soldier felt guilt when a unit member got killed or something tragic happened. This guilt felt by the soldiers was exemplified by Dave Jensen and Lieutenant Jimmy Cross. Decisions that both individuals made created the feeling of guilt

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