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Essays 271 - 300

Overview of Glock Firearms

such, these unique factors earned the newly introduced GLOCK the reputation of being "faster, simpler and safer to use than any ot...

Tim O'Brien and Upton Sinclair on Morality

drinking, and want to get more for it" (Sinclair Chapter 2). In this the image of Jurgis is one that evokes thoughts of morality...

Vietnam War in Literature and the Powerlessness of Characters

reality in many ways. In this work there are many young men in the war, men that are clinging to whatever they can in the devastat...

Vietnam War and the Agency Concept

can imagine that carrying letters around are testaments to the fact that he has a life at home. Vietnam provides a backdrop of cha...

Early American History Law Contradictions

independence brought the final break with Britain (Holton, 2000). Further, it was the refusal of these same individuals to joint t...

Using Fiction to Depict the Vietnam War in The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

he saw. He was there, they argue, he was in the rice paddies, he saw his friends killed in front of him, he went through it for re...

Gun Control's Advantages and Disadvantages

school shootings that often seem to take place, even on just recently where a young child took a gun to an after school program an...

Innocence in The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

of whom he believes himself to be, as well as his psychological coping mechanisms in surviving the war. Cross, by choosing to ca...

Container Ports and Mega Ship Deployment Impacts

the need to change and adapt to changing ship sizes is not unique to this time. There has been change in the shipping industry for...

Structure of the Novel The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

checker board and play checkers till dark. He comments on how reassuring that game was in which the rules were known and observabl...

An Analysis of a Gun Control Article

policy has followed. They discuss each law in more detail, relating it to the historical events that propelled each piece of legis...

South Pacific Island Johnston Atoll

the surrounding islands in the name of the United States on March 19, 1858 (Johnston Island History). Three months later, the Hawa...

Policies of Maryland Schools and Dangerous Weapons

"dangerous weapon". The legal definition of "dangerous weapon" is pretty much consistent across states. In Maryland, the t...

Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien and Structural Contrast

to think about such things, yet memories continue to crop up in bits and pieces, in a haphazard fashion. He will start stories a...

Obligations and Background Checks

to unearth information that is: "irrelevant, taken out of context, or just plain wrong. A...

Vietnam War and the Themes of Change and Endurance

Kevin Sims "Four Hours in My Lai." A Rumor of War In Caputos work he states, in the beginning, "In a general sense, it is simply...

Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried and the Vietnam Draft

as protecting others, hence the prevalence of young men and women who enter the military in peacetime in the full understanding th...

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien and the Character Norman Bowker

old man talks about, nothing else. How he cant wait to see my goddamn medals" (OBrien, 1998; 36). In this the reader...

“The Things They Carried”

with those people. Id be screaming at them, telling them how much I detested their blind, thoughtless, automatic acquiescence to i...

The Evolution of Laws Protecting Archaeological Resources and Native American Graves

the varied cultures of the Native American that has developed over time symbolizes "oppression and the pervasiveness of racist pra...

"The End of Democracy?"

into the Constitution, thus making it impossible to legislate against virtually anything-"doctor-assisted suicide? Or drug use? Or...

Gun Control in Kansas

engage in crime far more often without fearing for their lives from the victims. This is emphasized even more when one understands...

Riordan Case Study

to survive. There have been a number of changes in the way that the company works as a result of seeking to compete in the chang...

Native Americans and Government Policies

they were always taken advantage of in one regard or another. The native inhabitants of this country at the time of...

Blacks' Relationship to Whites/Sociological Analysis

this was the stance of antebellum Southerners who saw slavery as a functional and crucial part of their economic system. Propon...

The Politics/Administration Dichotomy and the War in Iraq

problem arises when people try to reduce an "enormously complex situation" to a "specious mathematical neatness" (Vile, 2004). It ...

Reality TV/Why We Watch

lives. Ralph Rosnow, Ph.D., a professor of psychology at Temple University, comments, "If people arent talking about other people,...

Edmund S. Morgan/American Slavery, American Freedom

to describe the experiences of the early colonizing efforts. This description includes social, political and economic factors, whi...

Historical Overview of the NRA

arms. The NRA recognizes that the issues surround the right of American citizens to bear arms are heating up on a daily bas...

Gun Control and 5 Issues Identified

right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed". Buckley (2002) points out that "opponents of comprehensive gun...