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Storytelling and the Past

In five pages this paper examines how perspectives on the past manifest themselves in the storytelling of 'How to Tell a True War ...

5 Questions on the WWW Answered

to the World Wide Web is gained with the use of special application that can decode the documents, these include browsers such as ...

Theme of Fantasy versus Reality in The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

crop up in bits and pieces, in a haphazard fashion. He will start stories and then abandon them before reaching a conclusion, on...

Cinema and the Placement of Products

as did the movie companies, which realiszed that the sweet manufacturer hadnt paid a cent" (Goodwin, 2002). With these realities p...

Tim Burton's Big Fish Film Narrative

and makes sense in our world (Fournier, 2005). Then, we check the narrative fidelity and compare it to whether or not it matches o...

Analysis of Tom Tykwer's 1999 Film Run Lola Run

as an imitation of reality, "it holds a mirror up to nature" (Durant, 1961, p. 59). Aristotle notes that human beings find pleasur...

Films and Books on the Vietnam War

watching Vietnam films, but if I had to pick one that seems to capture the horror, blood, panic, humor, and sheer waste of the who...

Vietnam War and Tim O'Brien's Revealing The Things They Carried

and its necessity in order to survive. "Worms, Rat Kiley said. Right out of the grave...The men laughed. They all felt great re...

Tim O'Brien and the Vietnam Experience

who and what one was (Lee, 1995). In that, he wasnt unique. Thousands of Vietnam veterans experienced it, and dozens of writers ha...

Paul Berlin in Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien

as happiness is more than the absence of sadness, so is peace infinitely more than the absence of war" (OBrien PG). Even after Be...

Vietnam Combat and Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried

sense of purpose. An examination of this novel demonstrates that reading this novel would be, in all likelihood, totally demoraliz...

A Comparison of Post Modernism in The Tortilla Curtain and The Things They Carried

that are specific to each individuals defined social status; while one person might consider a purchased home with a white picket ...

Literature and Violence

has Oedipus whipped by his driver and driven from the road. Oedipus retaliates and fights back. "With this right hand I struck hi...

Writing Style and Protagonist of The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

from the text. However, the traumatic experiences that torture him do come out, but, they do so slowly, in bits and pieces. Somet...

Baggage in The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

Bowker has faced tremendous adversity within his life; having addressed his combat circumstances with a combination of strength an...

An Analysis of The Things They Carried

This five page report analyzes the structure utilized by Tim O'Brien. The contention is presented that this utilization effectiv...

1999 Film Sleepy Hollow by Director Tim Burton

In seven pages this report analyzes Tim Burton's film Sleepy Hollow in terms of Johnny Depp's performance and cinematic influences...

Narrative and Structure of The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

totally true (p. 89). The sole criteria that OBrien supports for telling a "true" war story is this: "It comes down to gut instin...

A Comparison of Film and Print for The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

a strong and masculine man, though perhaps not too intelligent, or so Ichabod thinks. One night at a party people are telling s...

Vietnam War and Soldiers' Good Luck Charms

letters did help. The soldiers in Vietnam, at least in the book, carried around a variety of things. Like boy scouts on...

Symbolism in Tim O'Brien's Vietnam War Novel The Things They Carried

his or her own emotional baggage. Some of that baggage inevitably includes fear, guilt, homesickness, anger, and that struggle bet...

Prepositional Calculus Development

In ten pages prepositional calculus is considered in terms of development and includes logical calculus, symbolic logic, and the c...

Types of Computer Programming Languages and Basic Information

In five pages computer programming language types such as object oriented, imperative, logic, and functional are discussed. Four ...

Global Adoption

In five pages this paper presents an argument in support of international adoptions in a consideration of Russian and Chinese adop...

Contemporary Science and its Origins

In six pages this paper considers modern science's origins in an overview of how it has evolved since Aristotle's logic concept. ...

Rene Descartes on God

there is a universal perception of God, it is not proof that he does exist. Perhaps the most important part of Descartess argument...

Two Essay Questions Examined in a Consideration of the Pseudoscience of Death and Expected Utility

the chances of drawing each color are the same. In this game, however, you are rewarded $350 if you draw a combination of a white...

Different Types of Argument Forms

Bill Clinton says: "I am delighted that so many students are here today." Bill Clinton is a liar. Therefore, he is not delighted ...

Logic vs. Emotion

is not able to rationalize and calmly deal with situations that arise. This is why most meditation practicioners state that they a...

Nicholas Rescher's Logic of Imperatives

or requesting aid; making prayers; or making "a purely factual assertion" (p. 2). Further, "Laws of nature are sometimes formulat...