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The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien and a Symbolic Motif Analysis

Jesus Christ is especially compelling in the character of Jimmy Cross. His initials of J.C. and his surname are calculated refere...

Filmmaker Tim Burton

In seven pages this eccentric and innovative film director is examined in terms of craft, cinematic output, and human insights. Si...

Tim O'Brien's In the Lake of the Woods and its Mystery

In five pages this paper discusses how the readers become much like John and Kathy in the novel in terms of becoming lost while tr...

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien and its Historical Accuracy

They Carried, this influence and perspective are most evident. OBrien mentions that most of the guys there called their life in A...

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien as Fact or Fiction

without ever becoming preachy. Tim OBrien wrote Things They Carried, and not so coincidentally, the texts narrator was also named...

Comparative Analysis of Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried and Octavia E. Butler's Kindred

the slave mentality without thought it seems. As she develops in the book she comes to realize that it is very frightening how ...

Reality and Fiction Blurred in The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

In five pages this paper discusses how the author is able to blur reality and fiction through his unique novel structure in The Th...

War in Homer's 'The Iliad' and Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried

In six pages this paper considers classical and contemporary examples of war literature. There are 3 sources cited in the bibliog...

Contrasting and Comparing "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien with "Luck" by Mark Twain

A seemingly reliable third-person narrator tells these stories. In "Luck," a clergyman tells Mr. Clemens about a revered Crimean ...

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien and Objects

to. He also carried a strobe light to illuminate their oftentimes-dark path, and he also carried "the responsibility for his men"...

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...

Strength of Love and Tim McLaurin’s Woodrow’s Trumpet

to Southern society but also how the strength of love could unite individuals to meet formidable challenges. His perhaps na?ve an...

John Joseph Gotti Jr.

later they moved once more, into East New York (Crime Library [2], 2007). It is noted that as a boy, with the...

Michelangelo: His Life and Works

wanted to be something other than a banker or a merchant as his father desired (Michelangelo: Artist and Aristocrat: A Biography, ...

Mary Shelley

the year of 1816 that Mary began to write her infamous novel Frankenstein. "She took a challenge, set by Lord Byron, to write a gh...

A Conceptual Metaphor for Life

considering the journey chronologically. Starting with childhood, the student can discuss what he remembers of his earliest year...

The Lure of California

Old Globe in Balboa Park and the La Jolla Playhouse on the campus of UCSD. They bring in the greatest playwrights and actors from ...

Billy Collins

many different ways. For example, one author illustrates how, "You can read a Billy Collins poem to someone who hates poetry and t...

BMW "Newness" and the Product Life Cycle (Case Study Analysis)

The case goes on to note that BMWs latest marketing strategy is to provide the consumer with an interactive website and by using t...

The Dalai Lama: A Religious Celebrity?

no one particular leader who "heads up" the religion the way the Pope is the leader of the Roman Catholic Church (Das, 2007). The ...

Using the Sociological Model to Understand Will Smith’s Life Cycle

second of four children of Caroline and Willard C. Smith; his mother worked for the school board and his father owned a refrigerat...

George S. Patton

was quite proud of his heritage and also of the nations founding. One could say that he was extremely patriotic. Patton would grow...

Robert E. Lee

name, having done nothing to be reprimanded for (American Civil War, 2008). In 1831 he got married to Mary Ann Randolph Cu...

Prostate Victims & Their Partners/Quality of Life

et al, 2007). Over the last several decades, clinicians have come to regard treatment decisions in terms of quality of life "ben...

DEMOCRATIC SOCIETIES AND EDUCATION

illusion of democratic choice by parents of children who are fed up and frustrated with the local school system. Furthermo...

A Thoughtful Biography of Tyra Banks

there are a number of stars who are rail thin and actually promote a negative image of the female ideal. She was born Tyra Lynne ...

Marketing the iPod

the products? Again, executives began offering some answers. Jobs cut them off. The products SUCK! he roared" (Burrows, Grover and...

Four Things That Will Help Improve the Quality of Life for Others

everyone needs to exercise and eat a well-balanced diet. Here, one way to help might be for a person to assist older people with t...

Versatile Shoe's Product Life Cycle

can go from dress to casual with the use of interchangeable sole sections is far more innovative than is the introduction of a fiv...

Malcolm X

was no realistic goal for a nigger, Malcolm lost interest in school" and thus dropped out of school (Estate of Malcolm X, 2008). I...