Fourth grade

In Yusef Komunyakaa’s poem “Facing It,” he writes about his poignant experience visiting the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in a way that suggests he is perhaps regretful of his time as a soldier and remorseful as a survivor. Komunyakaa explains to the readers the inner workings of his brain and how permanent war is not only in his mind but in the reality of the death toll. In order to accomplish giving a detailed and understandable explanation to the audience, Komunyakaa uses techniques such as…

The Things They Carried, written by Tim O’Brien, tells the story of a platoon in the Vietnam War. O’Brien uses many literary devices to help him portray the overall theme including repetition, details, and through emphasizing the reasons the soldiers are a part of the war. All of these combined portray the anti-war argument and illustrate the idea that when young men go into war, they carry many burdens, but the emotional burdens are the heaviest ones that they are never able to put this down.…

War, as many people know, creates massive casualties of humans, hatred among humankind, and overall, catastrophe. Many soldiers, who are also the leading generation for our future, are forced to take part in what could be known as “homicide” as they would go on to kill their enemies, most of them belonging to same age. It is no wonder that the horribleness and atrocity of war is a common theme among poets. The literary works of Owen, Jarrell, and Komunyakaa asserts that war causes severe damages…

Essay Draft The story The Things They Carried by Tim O’ Brien takes place in the Vietnam War. The author Tim O’ Brien narrates the story of how was it like being a soldier. Also while sharing many of his war stories, it’s becomes interesting how it leads to the stories of other soldiers that he knew during the war. Many young soldiers went to war. It can be seen that Tim O’Brien and other soldiers changed from boys to men. Tim O’ Brien has achieved his first kill in the Vietnam War. Due to…

Those with PTSD show an altered chemical formation of cortisol in the brain, which deals with acute stress. “Cortisol is normally released as anti-stress hormone that shuts off biological reactions”(Van Der Kolk, 2002, p.5). Those with PTSD have low levels of cortisol resulting in their biological reactions of norepinephrine to be released. The response to this stimuli results in a fight or flight response, which is commonly seen in war. Those engaging in a state of high arousal will often…

War changes people. The Vietnam war changed many soldiers, families, and countries who were affected. This war was different from the other wars we had fought in the past. It was long and, it lasted years longer than they had expected. The war became increasingly unpopular at home in the United States. The Things They Carried is a historical fiction novel that follows Tim O’Brien, who is also the protagonist of the book- and his fellow soldiers in the Alpha Company during the Vietnam war. Tim…

Herodotus is telling “history,” and it appears as though he at least attempts to be impartial with how he presents the information. In this section of reading, Herodotus’ moral seems to sandwich all of the anecdotes, starting with Proteus. Herodotus introduces Proteus as a reasonably fair king, writing that when Proteus found out that Paris had seduced Helen and then ran off with her and some of Menelaus’ valuables, he sent for Paris to be arrested and took possession of Helen and the other…

students has typically not been considered a “seizure” under the Fourth Amendment. Citing the special nature of the school environment, courts have ruled that physical restraint in disciplinary situations in the school environment does not involve the deprivation of liberty the Fourth Amendment prohibits. Thus, a teacher who physically grabs a student by the shoulders and escorts him out of the classroom would not violate the student’s Fourth Amendment right to be free from an unreasonable…

Is drug testing of students who participate in extracurricular activities permitted under the fourth amendment? fourth amendment states that a person has the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. Meaning…

evidence that is in violation of school rules. However, under the Fourth Amendment, the Supreme Court maintains its verbiage declaring school administrators must have reasonable cause in order to perform a search on a student. A student tells you that he thinks another student brought a gun to school. Based on reasonable suspicion, a school administrator has the right to search the suspected…