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    A Thing of Beauty

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    exquisite beauty in ugly. A thing of beauty can be deadly‚ dangerous and deceiving. Like a pretty rose‚ it is attractive and often pleasant to smell but it is surrounded by thorns which‚ when picked‚ causes pain. The fairytale Snow White depicts this fantastically. The most beautiful woman was the most evil. “Beauty is only skin deep but ugly goes right to the bone” – Dorothy Parker. All creatures were created by God and to him they were all beautiful‚ even the ones we regard as ugly. As Confucius

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    The Things They Carried

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    The Things They Carried In “The Things They Carry” by Tim O’Brien‚ readers are taken on an in-depth emotional and physical journey with Alpha Company in Vietnam. O’Brien uses some basic but symbolic objects that soldiers carried in war to show an emotional connection with home. The emotional importance of the objects is specific to individual soldiers and carries a heavy burden on the emotional status of some soldiers. O’Brien puts heavy emphasis on personal objects and on the physical aspect

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    Things They Carried

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    O’Brien’s daughter. O’Brien takes his daughter to Vietnam to visit all of the places he went to as a soldier. O’Brien now has a different perspective on how to tell his war stories. He feels he can’t tell Kathleen the truth because she is too young to understand. He doesn’t know how to tell her he killed a Vietnamese soldier. O’Brien can lie to his audience but he can’t lie to his daughter. “I tried to find something to tell her‚ but finally I shrugged and said it’s a mystery‚ I guess. I don’t know.

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    The Thing That End

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    Why it is important to keep sensitive items accountability at all times. Sensitive Items is a range of items which varies from those which are essential to the mission to those which contain information which is sensitive in nature (i.e. giving access to secure communication‚ movement of troops‚ their equipment‚ support lines or the general idea of the mission.) There are many reasons these items need to be secure and accountability maintained for them. Some of these reasons include the potential

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    Nikita Keenan 7/14/12 Throughout Tim O’Brien’s novel‚ The Things They Carried‚ the persona of the author often serves as a medium between the translation of emotion felt by characters in the story to the reader of the book. By developing fictitious versions of events that transpired while serving in the Vietnam War‚ O’Brien’s character is able to revive memories from the past as well as spark feelings of understanding and empathy in others. Surprisingly‚ the tone of the narrator rarely peals

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    The Things They Carried

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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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    "The things they carried" In "the things they carried" Tim O’Brien defines a fine line between fiction and non-fiction in the form of story telling and the memories he has accumulated from his participation in the Vietnam war the way they "seemed" rather than "what happened" because that’s how you tell "a true war story" and that’s how the book effectively engages the reader throughout the whole book because nothing is ordinary‚ not even the way the book is put together‚ you just can’t anticipate

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    The Things They Carried

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    Moffitt 4/16/2013 The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien continuously uses repetition of talking about the items the soldiers carry mentally and physically to show the burdens of war. Each item O’Brien talks about tells a little about each character and what fears they try to escape from. An example would be “Dave Jensen carried three pairs of socks and a can of Dr.Scholl’s foot powder as a precaution for trench foot.” (O’Brien pg.1) Jensen carried these things so you could be very clean and

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    Understand health and safety in social care settings 1.1 Identify legislation relating to health and safety in a social care setting Health and Safety at work Act 1974 - An Act to make further provision for securing the health‚ safety and welfare of persons at work‚ for protecting others against risks to health or safety in connection with the activities of persons at work Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992 - any transporting or supporting of a load (including the lifting‚ putting down

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    Whose Face do you see?

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    Marjun  Reginsdóttir       Whose  face  do  you  see?   Melvin  Burgess   ______________________________________________________     In  this  essay  I’ll  analyze  the  story  “whose  face  do  you  see”  with  special  emphasis   on  themes‚  writing  technique  and  significance  of  the  title.       The  primary  writing  technique  that  is  used

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