Guerrilla warfare

The book The Things They Carried is based off a semi-true story about american soldiers that were in the Vietnam war. There are many scenes in the book about these soldiers walking in the woods, spending time at their camp, and sometimes on battle ground. The main characters in this book were made up, but in the front of the book there is a dedication for these fictional character. The characters are, Jimmy Cross, Norman Bowker, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Henry Dobbins, and Kiowa. The book…

In If I Die in a Combat Zone,Tim O’Brien argued that the Vietnam war was instantiated with an unjust cause and was unnecessarily brutal through his depiction orders given my battalion leaders, how the soldiers treated children and adults in villages, and the soldier’s experience of being forced to fight in a war which they believed against while leaving everything they know back home. Commonly throughout the chapters where O’Brien is touring in Vietnam, a theme of orders given to (or knowledge…

When it comes to buying educational books, the first thing that perhaps comes to your mind is a well-stocked bookstore that you should visit in order to search for the book of your choice; if it is not to be found there, the search is forwarded to yet anther book shop which may be situated at some other place. The search therefore goes on for a few days, weeks and even months till you get a copy of your much coveted book. the following is a review of an educational book: Platoon. In 1967,…

Q7. The Nationalists and Communists faced an arduous ongoing Civil War in China, the only brief pause they took was to fight the Japanese who had come to take over China. Soon thereafter, the Communists and Nationalists went back to their ways during the Civil War. The leader of the Communist party was Mao Zedong, together they controlled a massive area in northwestern China, mainly the north. The Communists mobilized peasants for guerilla war against the Japanese in the northeast. Due to the…

Wk6AssgnLaymanJ Jacquelyn Layman Walden University Case Study: EPA's Seattle Regional Office Guerrilla Government Guerrilla government is the term used to describe those activities carried out by employees of public organizations who are unhappy with the practices of the organization or the behaviors of public administrators, who work to undermine the policies of their organization (O'Leary, 2014). Often, guerillas go undetected as they work hard to avoid being labeled a whistle-blower.…

Throughout war, there are many changes that can occur. People can change both in their character and personalities. Transformations occur through the whole book. People have to deal with the terrible war in Vietnam. It is very hard for the soldiers to adjust to the rough terrain and appalling climates. When someone comes into a place or environment they have never been before, there can be many reactions from them. Certain situations can bring feelings that someone would have never thought they…

The Things They Carried is a fictional account of the nature of men during the Vietnam War. The power of the novel comes from the blurring of the line between fiction and non-fiction. O’Brien used his actual memoir as a Vietnam soldier with a collection of what appears to be fictional short stories that he attributed to the members of his platoon. This style of writing shows that sometimes a person 's subjective thoughts and feelings about an event, which O 'Brien calls story-truth, is more…

In Country by Bobbie Ann Mason is about a girl name Sam who lives with her uncle who is a veteran from the Vietnam War. The story follows Sam’s journey as she tries to know more about the war in order to connect to her father, who died in the war. Mayson uses every day objects that allows characters in the book to connect to the war. In part one of the book Sam was driving past a family cemetery when she “shot up onto the exit ramp a little too fast, and the tires squeal” (3). An everyday…

“Over 20 years, more than 58,000 Americans were killed in Vietnam and more than 150,000 wounded, not to mention the emotional toll the war took on American culture.” (Blake 1 ) In Tim O’Brien’s novel “The Things They Carried” death was a daily occurrence, on both the American and the Vietnamese side. O’Brien writes about the function of memory, traditions of war literature and the difference between Tim as a soldier and Tim as a writer. Tim O 'Brien 's novel “The Things They Carried” is…

The Things They Carried, by Tim O’Brien explores the experiences of a platoon from the Vietnam war in a series of short stories. The stories go deeper than the events of the war, they show the moral dilemmas soldiers face everyday in the battlefield. Tim O’Brien served in the Vietnam war, but these stories are not based off of his experience, although it plays a role in his storytelling. Most of the short stories are written in first person from the perspective of Tim O’Brien, a fictional…