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Essays 31 - 60

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Concept and Use of Web 2.0

platform players, which sees the ideas developed from the second layer and move to the first or top layer where they are widely us...

Telling Stories about Vietnam

the last thing he says is "My boots are filling" and hes gone (Erdrich). Lyman jumps in and searches for him until the sun sets, b...

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...

Tim O’Brien and the Man He Killed

comprise Tim OBriens celebrated collection, The Things They Carried. OBrien was himself a "grunt" in Vietnam, and his view of the ...

Law and Gambling in Professional Sports

hoping no gambling is occurring, thus there is no sensible regulation. As a result, we dont protect the integrity of any game bec...

Expansion Plan for Tim Horton

target markets located in the urban areas. It is also noted that English is widely spoken, which will help to reduce any barriers ...

Tim O’Brien’s Ambush

was not a matter of live or die. There was no real peril. Almost certainly the young man would have passed by. And it will alwa...

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...

Three American Short Stories

Sammys gift is his "assertion of principle": "His Queenie has been wronged, and he will stand by her" (Wells). Wells points out th...

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 ...

LEADERSHIP QUALITIES OF TIM COSTELLO

be righted. Early Years and Career Costello was born in Melbourne, Australia and was the eldest of three children. From...

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...

Comparing and Contrasting Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd: The Demon of Fleet Street and The Odyssey by Homer

Odysseus and Polyphemus (or Cyclops), the protagonist and antagonist in "The Odyssey." Like Odysseus, Todd is banished from his w...

A Modern Fairy Tale, Edward Scissorhands

This essay presents the argument that "Edward Scissorhands," directed by Tim Burton, is a modern, gothic-tinged version of the fai...

An Analysis of Crime and Punishment in Dead Man Walking

This three page paper analyzes crime and punishment from the perspective of the film by Tim Robbins. The question of whether just...

Politics and Sorcery in In the Lake in the Woods by Tim O'Brien

In five pages this novel analysis of In the Lake in the Woods by Tim O'Brien focuses upon the uses of politics and sorcery. There...

Lake of the Woods Novel by Tim O'Brien

pinned all his hopes and dreams. So, with the aid of a friend, as his tour of duty ended, he removed his name from the company ro...

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...

Comparative Analysis of Tim O'Brien's Novels The Things They Carried and Going After Cacciato

rather jumbled form in both of these novels proves to be the perfect medium for reflecting the chaotic psychological landscape of ...