Flak jacket

The large number of people trying to escape into West Berlin created societal conflicts for both East and West Berlin. Many people who lived in East Berlin would try to escape into West Berlin for many reasons. Some wanted better jobs, better food, more material goods, and some just missed their families, causing them to want to escape into the West. From 1945-1959, an average of 700 people everyday made it to freedom from the East before they secured the Berlin Wall. During 1959, the 700 people…

(1179). This undeniably displays the pressure that the war had on the soldiers. The act of the soldiers carrying fear shows that they are just boys. The things they carry come to symbolize the fear they bear. "20 pounds of ammunition, plus the flak jacket and helmet and rations and water and toilet paper and tranquilizers" (1179), reveal the way in which masculinity is something real, tangible, and…

What A Soldier Carries Nowadays very few authors of fictional writings decide to use the mixture of fact and fiction in order to demonstrate the main ideas and themes of their writings. In the fictional novel The Things They Carried written by Tim O’Brien, O’Brien used the mixture of fact and fiction to demonstrate what the soldiers had to carry in and after the Vietnam War, and how these things affected their actions. The Things They Carried is a two hundred thirty three page novel that…

Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried presents an essentially contradictory narrative premise. Moreover, O’Brien presents himself as the protagonist, narrator, and author of the collection while declaring these roles mutually exclusive. Such oppositions force the reader to employ a synthetic and self-referential analysis to comprehend the internally oppositional narrative. In doing so, one finds that O’Brien’s systematic blurring of definitions accentuates his experiential perspective, rather…

The study reports that gender had a significant effect on test performance. Even when wearing heavy and cumbersome personal protective equipment, (e.g., flak jackets) males (mostly ages 17 to 26) scored significantly higher than the females (mostly ages 17 to 26) who did not wear such equipment. Gender disparities in upper body strength were later shown when fifty-five percent of Marine female recruits could…

The First World War was an extremely devastating conflict, whether it is to the millions who lost their lives or the decimated, crater-ridden landscapes the war left in its wake. The Great War was also a war of technological brilliance, because of the many new types of war technologies and ideas that were brought to light during this conflict. From new rifles to machine guns to airplanes; all of these types of technology, weapons and methods of waging war paved the way for technology and warfare…

The Negative Effects of Women in Combat Modern society is striving for every person to be treated like they are identical and there are no race, gender, or nationality differences. They can try as hard as they want to make everyone interchangeable, however, that does not mean they are. You can say that African Americans are the same as Caucasians, just go to the park and observe the different races and you will surely notice that no two races behave the same way. They have different backgrounds…

have shown that victims of landmines in Africa is the most land mined continent. In Angola alone, there is at least a 70,000 amputee population because of landmines left in the ground. Fearlessly, Diana walked the streets of Kuito wearing only a flak jacket and riot helmet; at the time, it was believed that Kuito was the most mined city in the world. Once the reporters and paparazzi caught wind of her daring and bold move the Princess went viral. The media attention was the result Diana wanted…

War is not about the victories and the heroes, but about surviving and carrying the burden of death as a soldier fights for their country and life. In “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien, the author, describes the human side of war and what a soldier really endures when they trudge through the country side of Vietnam or during the horrors of the night while on guard duty; not only are there physical burdens during war, but also mental burdens. Mental burdens are emotions like fear, desire…