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Diana Bonilla AP English Lit Mrs. Nellon 12 September 2015 The Things They Carried Free Response Essay Prompt 3 Throughout the story, The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien speaks and leads us through his experience and participation in the Vietnam War. He speaks about the time he is drafted until the time that he revisits Vietnam, although the story is not told in that order. In the chapter, “On the Rainy River,” Tim O’Brien walks us through his emotional reaction to being drafted for the…

The Vietnam War took place from 1954 to 1973. The United States became involved in this war because of the fear of communism spreading though out South East Asia. Throughout the war the American people started losing support because of all the men we were losing. All of the troops were finally pulled out of Vietnam, but not before the U.S. lost more than 58,000 soldiers. The movie Letters Home from Vietnam shows real film from the war, and shows what the American troops really endured. The title…

of two months. Throughout these various group meetings we all contributed our ideas and energy in order to successfully complete our project, but some more than others. We agreed to choose Laos culture to base our project on because Tatiana’s boyfriend was Laos, which gave us easier access to learn about Laos culture. Tatiana also knew of an event we could attend as well. So thanks to her, choosing a culture and attending a cultural event was easier than expected. Our first meeting where we…

Name: Zichao Lan SID: 861120291 English 1B Instructor: Colin Innes The First Paper Question: The paper is based on question 2 and 4 under the Critical Writing Questions. Lao-Tzu, the Idealistic Sage and His Utopia Preface Before starting to write the main paper, please allow me to write a preface for this essay because this topic is special and important to me. Although I majored in Chinese History and Chinese…

Lao-Tzu founder of the philosophical system of Taoism in early ancient China. Lao-tzu teaches us that the dark can become light and has within itself the potential for growth and long life. The word that Lao- Tzu chose to represent his vision was Tao. Tao means road or way and does not represent darkness nor evil. Tao is a Chinese character made up of two graphs (head) and (go). Chinese translator concluded that “head” must mean the start of something new and the two graphs together show someone…

highest good: balance. Whether that balance be implicitly or explicitly accredited for the summum bonum differs for each author. Lao Tzu’s thoughts on balance earn the Tao-te-Ching a significant spot in the Great Conversation. The Tao-te-Ching’s vast intertextuality is apparent and further contributes to the relevance of Lao Tzu’s work. While discussing balance, Lao Tzu focuses on the Taoist…

One example of this is the encounter between Lao Laizi and Confucius. Laizi is scolding Confucius for trying to “make trouble for ten thousand ages” rather than just the age that they are currently living in. This helps show the Zhuangzi’s belief that Confucius was teaching a path that led one further…

This primary source includes excerpts from Analects which were written by the disciples of Confucius and the book of the Way and its Power by Lao (Laozi). Both authors are Ancient Chinese Philosophers who had different views and ideas about the foundations of government. The source shows the different views that both philosophers had and how their contending lessons offered territorial Chinese rulers a decision in political methods of insight. Confucius was a renowned wise and social scholar of…

Lao tzu was a native of Ch’u which is a Honan Province. He lived in the fourth century B.C. although it is debated depending of dates of his and Confucius’ writings. He was nearly twenty years older than Confucius, who supposedly visited him once to discuss philosophy with him even though their teachings were a bit contrary. Lao tzu is known to have written the Tao Te Ching, what is seen as a sort of bible of Taoism. The book consists of slightly more than 5000 Chinese characters, and it is…

Lao-Tuz and Machiavelli have opinions on leadership that differ immensely. Lao-Tuz and Machiavelli have similar but differing points of view on the subject of if it is better for a leader to be feared or loved. Lao-Tuz states ". . . the people are hardly aware that he exists. Next is a leader who is loved. Next, one who is feared. . ." However, Machiavelli says "I reply one should be both one and the other. . . it is much safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking."…