The Hump

According to Tim O’Brien, “to carry something was to hump it” (345). Having served in the Vietnam War, O’Brien wrote a collection of stories to reflect on his experiences (Britannica). In one of his short stories, "The Things They Carried", the plot alternates between Lieutenant Jimmy Cross' daydreams of a college girl named Martha and the brutal realities of the Vietnam War. Throughout the story the protagonist, Jimmy Cross, is portrayed as a lovestruck teenager as he “humped his love for…

Every human life begins with infancy and every infant needs proper rearing. The way we grow and shape our young has varied throughout the centuries and there have been many theories on what is right and what is wrong. Every theory must have its theorist, and the three chosen for this paper are no different. The theories and theorists I have chosen are Sigmund Freud with his theory of psychosexual stages, Maria Montessori with her theory of the planes of development, and lastly, John Piaget with…

be a leader- whether it has been on the athletic field, in school, in clubs, in my community, or just at home. I have always had the will to lead, but lacked the traits to lead on a larger scale. I believe that this class can help get me over that hump to maximize my leadership potential. The first day we were asked to define leadership in this class and my personal definition was “a person who initiates activity and gets others involved in a way where they understand and are excited to work”.…

Power can mean many different things to many different people. Some people use the power they have in positive ways and some people use it in negative ways. In an article regarding power by van Vugt, he discusses five ways having power can be negative (van Vught, 2013). Those five ways are power makes you selfish, it makes a person lack empathy, makes a person overconfident, other people do not like a person when they have power, and power could make a person die young (van Vught, 2013). However…

a passenger can reach during this ride, and how long it takes to reach that height. The values of the unknown constants in the piecewise function can be known by understanding that everywhere on the coaster is smooth and seamless, without gaps or humps. Therefore, at points where the functions change, we can apply continuity (the coaster rails are smooth) and differentiability (no sharp turns on the rails) to derive the two equations needed to find the value of the constant. To ensure that the…

Introduction: Animals have long been held as therapeutically unrivaled in the minds of some people, yet I have seen little scientific evidence as to why this is true. I have seen the effects of animals in the lives of others, and I have most certainly had therapeutic animal experiences myself, yet nobody seems to be able to explain it. For 2 ½ years, I worked as the Equine Program Director of a newly formed therapeutic riding program for children and teens. Our focus group was those who were…

Music & Drugs: Should We Really Meet Molly? It has become apparent that music and drugs have forged such a relationship that one cannot be found without the other and, as a result, a drug culture has formed around the music industry. As the decades passed and new music flourished, a new drug was also ushered in as a way to form a deeper bond with the new type of music. Today, the music industry continues to foster this deep relationship with the drug culture but since music has become so…

Chapter 1: They Things They Carried Part 1- Tim O’Brien, in the novel, The Things They Carried , describes all of the objects that the soldiers carried during the war. The men carried necessities, such as knives, guns, helmets, food and water. They also carried more personal items, such as “love” letters, drugs/cigarettes, contraceptives and the New Testament. Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from Martha, a girl he was in love with. On April 16th, Lieutenant Cross was imagining and…

The roles of women vary from place to place. They also vary from century to century. The stories: The Epic of Gilgamesh, Inanna, Sundiata, and Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner all show various women in different roles. Their roles range from that of a powerful goddess to a common Inuit homemaker; however, they all play an important part of the society that they serve, and most of the stories would not be able to progress without the important role that the woman provides. Most female characters in…

Jewel and I come up from the field, following the path in single file. Although I am fifteen feet ahead of him, anyone watching us from the cottonhouse can see Jewel's frayed and broken straw hat a full head above my own. The path runs straight as a plumb-line, worn smooth by feet and baked brick-hard by July, between the green rows of laid-by cotton, to the cottonhouse in the center of the field, where it turns and circles the cottonhouse at four soft right angles and goes on across the field…