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The Things They Carried

to be examined is Jimmy Cross. The narrator indicates that, "First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from a girl named Martha...

Model A’s, Model T’s, and the Changing Face of America

few weeks later, the company sold its first automobile, to a doctor in Detroit (Davis). As noted above, the company produced 1,700...

The Things They Carried

incredibly exaggerated that his stories were immensely entertaining. But, in the case of OBriens novel one must perhaps insist tha...

What Drives Author Tim O’Brien to Write?

demonstrations and anti-Vietnam War protests. Majoring in political science at St. Paul, Minnesotas Macalester College, writing a...

Women in “The Things They Carried”

war (OBrien). Martha is a symbol of what we might call the "all-American girl." Cross speculates endlessly on whether or not she ...

Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things

entire novel is the childrens experience with love. Rahels relationship with her twin brother goes far beyond love; despite the fa...

Tim O’Brien, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq

book of the same name is a moving account of a platoon of "grunts" in Vietnam. This paper discusses various aspects of the story a...

Postmodernism in Slaughterhouse-Five

the painter to paint the picture (time of production), the time required to look at and understand the work (time of consumption) ...

Sure Thing, a Play by David Ives

rapport between two people (Gaines F4). However, within the course of the play, Ives also makes a scathing reference to the blaze,...

Cheikh Hamidou Kane/Ambiguous Adventure

the structural framework of the novel, as it demonstrates the authors reliance on dialogue, both between characters and also the i...

Reaction to: “The Things They Carried”

early chapters show up again later, as others talk about them. It reminds a reader of those wonderful, wacky conversations that go...

Plot Development in Two Novels by Antonio Lobo Antunes

instructions from a police inspector, who states, "Give the bozo some electric shocks and hell swear he killed his aunt, if necess...

Alfie Kohn's The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes

reward. He has been joined by a number of other theorist, each of whom present their own social cognitive theories. Several of t...

To Kill a Mockingbird Content Analysis

he was kept as a virtual prisoner of his house by his brother. Nathan, and out of public view as much as possible. For the childr...

The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah O. Jewett

In five pages this paper discusses why contemporary criticism of this 19th century novel often falls short. Six sources are cited...

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...

Critical Overview of The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

a certain credibility to what the reader ultimately experiences between the books covers. Indeed, it is often difficult to discer...

Novel and Film Version of Bernard Malamud's The Natural

In five pages this paper examines the impact of morality as it is represented in a baseball player's rise and fall in the 1952 nov...

Morality in Great Expectations

Various issues of this Dickens novel are discussed in this report that examines morality and other things such as wealth and its r...

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...

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...

"The Natural Order of Things" - An Analysis

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at Antunes' "The Natural Order of Things". Time and memory are explored as symbols in ...

The Potential benefit Of M&A's in Supporting Nigerian Economic Growth

During the early 20th century merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in the United States provided one of the tools for economic gr...

Falls Regulation in New York

York Patient Occurrence and Tracking System. This is system which requires hospitals to notify the state of adverse incidences whi...

Risks in the Home that Impact on Fall Rates

The writer looks at literature which has been used to identify different risks in the home environment that may impact on the fall...

FRAT and its Uses

higher, at 60% (Dowswell, 1999). It is not only the incidence that increases, but also the rate of resulting hospitalisation, and ...

Material Things' Existence and Proof from John Locke and Rene Descartes

In ten pages An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke and Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes are asses...

Examining Three Plays by Arthur Miller

This 5 page paper discusses three plays by American playwright Arthur Miller. The three are Death of a Salesman, After the Fall an...

Creative Story on Falling

In six pages this essay considers the fall of a construction worker from a 2 story warehouse roof and how falling transformed the ...

Analysis of Chinua Achebe's 'Dead Men's Path'

In comparison to the many overt forms of change these villagers have been forced to experience over time as a result of colonialis...