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Therapy of the Vietnam War In the book “The Things They Carried,” Tim O’Brien describes his and others experiences during and after the Vietnam War. (1) O’Brien tells this story to explain the different ways that troops were able to cope with the killing, death, and changes that went on during the war so that they could continue fighting. (2) O’Brien included many first hand accounts of the different ways the troops coped with the experiences they had during the war and when they returned to life back home in America after their time of duty. (3) Some people in the war were able to cope or were not able to cope depending on how you look at it. (4) A perfect example of this is during chapter nine, “Sweetheart of Song Tra Bong,” in which a young women, Mary Anne, gets flown into Vietnam by her boyfriend. Mary Anne begins the chapter as a sweet, nice, pretty girl fresh out of high school. All of the troops in the group adore her. She quickly becomes very interested in how everything works in the war and begins to get increasingly involved in the war by helping the injured soldiers heal. She then takes on bigger roles such as learning how to use a gun and other weapons. (5) Mary Anne states “ I’m here, I might as well learn something.” (pg.91) (6) This is when Mary Anne begins to show her coping mechanism for being present and exposed to the tragedy of war. She wants to learn to do things so that she can get further exposed to the war, unlike most men, she wants Del Bonis 2…

The first chapter that could be applied to The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien from How To Read Like A Professor by Thomas C. Foster would be Chapter 11: … More Than It’s Gonna Hurt You: Concerning Violence. For the most part, violence and death are everywhere in The Things They Carried. Explosions, gun shots, open wounds, all in a typical war setting that was fought by people who did not even need to be in the war. “By daylight they took sniper fire, at night they were mortared, but it was…

diseases such as malaria and dysentery. O 'Brien says, "They carries lice and ringworm and leeches and paddy algae and various rots and molds" (14). The land wasn 't your typical fresh bright green cut grass, the land they fought ton was "powdery orange-red dust" (14). Since the land was so dust, the dust would cover the men 's boots, body, and faces covering them in filth. The men carried their own lives, they walked all over not knowing what they were going to expect, good or bad. O 'Brien…

as many people as possible. The bridge crosses the Ebro river, and it takes place during the Spanish civil war, in other words between 1936-1939. My first impression of the environment, is a sad and godforsaken place, where lots of scared people are in a hurry to get out of the warzone as quickly as possible. Actually they really have no other choice, because their hometown is no longer a home, rather more a war zone. The sensation of this “state of emergency” came to me right from the…

The Ball and Chains of War In the short story, “The Things They Carried”, Tim O’Brien does an excellent job of using various literary elements to develop a theme of the emotional and physical burdens soldiers endure. The two main literary elements that develop this theme most clearly are his uses of character, and use of symbolism. In “The Things They Carried”, Tim O’Brien narrates a story in first person about being drafted into the army and fighting in Vietnam. He tells us of a man who…

Throughout the 1940’s and 50’s, many great authors evolved the work of literature to a whole new level. One of the most influential authors was Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway lived a very fascinating life while writing many engaging books. Hemingway was not credited for his books until after he died in the 60’s. Hemingway was a war veteran which influenced many of his book greatly. Hemingway had the feel for competition because he played many sports in school so when it comes to real life he shows…

The article, “Our Universe could be reborn as a bouncing baby cosmos” by Lisa Grossman suggests that there may be a new theory to how the universe began, that seems to be more accurate than the current theory. This new theory created by Neil Turok and Steffen Gielen is the new Big Bounce model; not to be confused with the older big bounce-big crunch model. This model, unlike all other past contenders, has been able to begin the first steps in an accurate description to how the universe…

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s “New Generation” wants us to understand that the nature of the universe is open to any possible thing. He addresses that the world changes when he talks about women. In Solzhenitsyn’s “new Generation,” he mentions “in only a few short years women have acquired personal freedom in their intimate lives-sexual liberation.” From this I understood that the world changes and the universe is open to it. The universe has no effect whether changes occur, therefore it is open to…

The speed of light can be thought of the speed limit of the universe. However 299,792,458 m/s or 670,616,629 mph, as staggering as it may sound, is truly not fast enough to explore the universe. Our solar system from the Sun to Pluto is 328.5 light minutes. This means that going at the speed of light, it would take about five and half hours. That may not sound like too long of a time, especially if it took the New Horizons probe nine years to reach Pluto. However, keep in mind that this is just…

Lemaitre hypothesis of an expanding universe.  Sharing finding stages In 1927, Lemaitre wrote a report which called A homogenous universe of constant mass and growing radius accounting for the radial velocity of extragalactic nebulae. This report was puplished in the little known journal Annales de la Societe Scientifique de Bruxelles. In that report, he explained his new idea of an expanding universe and showed the first document which becomes later a Hubble law as well as he presented the…