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Essays 151 - 180

Annotated Bibliography: Afghanistan

shelter. Maslows theory is usually characterized as a "Hierarchy of Needs" and represented graphically as a pyramid. Gawel, Josep...

Bob Woodward's Bush at War

a good deal of attention on the people who actually know what needs to go into the plan and how to utilize the CIA, FBI, military ...

Afghanistan and Issues Related to Women

importance, is their goal of ending the human rights abuses and oppressive prejudice toward women and girls in Afghanistan. These ...

Afghanistan and Women's Education

ethnicities. This is reflected in its make-up today. In the seventh century, however, the Muslim influence would contribute heav...

Post 1900 International Women's Rights

own children. For example, if a woman were abused by her husband, the Catholic church wouldnt help her (since they held that women...

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...

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 ...

Resurrection of a Life and The Things They Carried Examined Critically

reader feel as if he or she is sitting in some small caf? and OBrien is telling you his personal recollection of his time in Vietn...

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...

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...

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...

Tim Weaver's Article 'Theory M Motivating with Money'

They rarely feel that they are contributing much to the overall success of the company; and the unfortunate result is that the com...

Irony and Paradox in 'Battle Royal' by Ralph Ellison and 'On the Rainy River' by Tim O'Brien”

and hides and works for a man who never questions him, and he is torn terribly with his emotions because he wants to run and yet h...

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...

If I Die in a Combat Zone by Tim O'Brien

it was happening to me, someone who hated Boy Scouts and bugs and rifles" (Lee 196). When he discovered that his specialty was to...

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...

The Things They Carried and The Eyre Affair

torn apart, and how a part of them is destroyed. As an example, "Cross carried letters from a girl names Martha" (OBrien 1). Oth...

Client Wars And Surrogate Armies

was a client war, which is defined as a war where two sides fight in a third country. In Korea, the U.S. fought directly against t...

Postrel & O’Brien/Aesthetics & The True War Story

summarizing the work of both Postrel and OBrien. Aesthetics, according to Postrel, aid people in defining themselves by the "loo...

Jimmy Cross and The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

him a reason to keep going. Its the illusion that he will come through the war unhurt, return to the States and take up a normal l...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

Character Development in The Things They Carried

or another. In the case of the Vietnam War, and OBriens book, the consequence of war was, in many cases, age. As we shall see, the...

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...

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...

Contemporary Literature and How Emotions Are Portrayed

In five pages this paper examines how emotions are portrayed in the contemporary literary works The Things They Carried by Tim O'B...