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    Dbq Indian Problem

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    A SOLUTION TO THE “INDIAN PROBLEM” 1887 As American power and populace developed in the nineteenth century, the Unified States continuously dismissed the fundamental standard of bargain making—that clans were self-representing countries—and started approaches that undermined innate sway. For Indian countries, these arrangements brought about broken settlements, immense land misfortune, expulsion and movement, populace decay, and social devastation. Native American Policy can be characterized as…

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    A civilian once bombarded me with question over my war experience. As days began to drift by with no immediate end, I rebutted with a question. “When I say war, what do you think about?” He was hesitant, but he responded: Soldiers, enemy combatants, ships, tanks, Humvees, helicopters, jets, weapons, chemical weapons, the atom bomb, and death. I smiled, as if to say, that’s it. “The Things They Carried,” by Tim O’Brien is largely celebrated since its publishing in 1990. But much of his short…

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    The Rebound Analysis

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    The Rebound A few years after we were released form Nam, I decided to visit Mark Fossie in Cleveland. “O’Brien!” he exclaimed as he reached over for a brotherly hug. His once blonde hair had faded, as well as his eyes that were once raged with fire. I sat down with Fossie in his living room and shared stories about our lives after the war. He was now a man selling cars at a local dealership. He began to talk well about his daughter, Cam, as she ran down the stairs holding tightly to her…

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    This fear came from many sources. They were constantly being haunted by the fear that they may die. Ted Lavender’s death and how they reacted to it showed its impact on the soldiers. Kiowa expresses the sense of weight that the threat of death has on the men when he describes Lavender’s death, "Boom down, he said. Like cement" (250). Lavender’s death is described as being like stone, something massive and heavy. The death of Lavender…

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    Buffalo Bill had a hard life as a kid and after his father abandoned the farm and went to stage driving , he had to help support the family, then after his mother and father passed, he had a family of his own that he could support, because he was a successful rifleman and a buffalo hunter. Buffalo Bill (William Frederick Cody)was born on February 26,1846 to his parents named Isaac Leacock Cody and Mary Ann Leacock Cody. He lived with them until Bill's father abandoned the farm they were at,…

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    Everyone knows what war is, but not everyone knows the effects of war on the soldiers who serve. In the fictional novel The Things They Carried, by Tim O’Brien, the nature of the Vietnam war is described through a series of flashbacks and stories. O’Brien uses storytelling to emphasize how the negative effects of the Vietnam war not only affects soldiers during the war, but afterwards as well. Mary Anne Bell, Norman Bowker and Tim O’Brien are three examples of how the gruesome nature of the war…

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    At some time in life, a person will experience death of a relative or lose something that was very important to he or she. After that traumatic event, will that person confront his or her pain, or will that person bury it deep within them? Both ways are possible, however, only one is effective in the long term. According to Tim O'Brien, the most effective way to heal after a traumatic experience is to share stories. In Tim’s book, The things they carried, he used the motifs of loneliness, life,…

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    In The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien suggests that the war itself changes a person, the changes could be negative or positive. The negative effect is the war is like a disease that takes over your body and reorganizes everything inside you making the outer layers of you to be unrecognizable to people. For instance, when Tim talks about Lemon fear of the dentist and how he got over the fear: "...something about dentists that just gave him the creeps ....Lemon kept insisting, so the man…

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    Much of the material in the work has been drawn from O’Brien’s experiences because he felt so close to his stories, because of this, he dedicated the work to his characters—Jimmy Cross, Norman Bowker, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Henry Dobbins, and Kiowa. Although the actual characters didn’t exist in real life, they were derived from true experiences which in a way, makes them real. In the novel, O'Brien’ s argument is that war corrupts people and by using Mary Anne as a symbol…

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    Okonkwo's Fear

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    Is Fear the Cause of His Ultimate Demise? Imagine a life of someone who carries a constant burden on their shoulders. The burden whispers into the person’s ear everyday probably around noon or right before bed. The burden causes a constant fear that sends chills down their spine when the syllables drop from the burden’s lips. It might sound something like, “You aren't good enough” or “It was all your fault”. This fear can consume someone especially when it is driven by self hatred, guilt or the…

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