The Hump

protect us and carry us forward. “To carry something was to hump it, as when Lieutenant Jimmy Cross humped his love for Martha up the hills and through the swamps” (O’Brien, 2009, p. 3). Jimmy Cross had someone he loved. Someone who may not of loved him back, but at the very least wrote to him often. Ralph Murphy humped something too, he humped his pocket bible his mom gave him. (Murphy, 2015) Ralph had a family. All soldiers in war hump a plethora of items. The communities generally provide…

What A Soldier Carries Nowadays very few authors of fictional writings decide to use the mixture of fact and fiction in order to demonstrate the main ideas and themes of their writings. In the fictional novel The Things They Carried written by Tim O’Brien, O’Brien used the mixture of fact and fiction to demonstrate what the soldiers had to carry in and after the Vietnam War, and how these things affected their actions. The Things They Carried is a two hundred thirty three page novel that…

for good health and asking for a blessing on the newborn calf. It appeared to be a consecration act of the firstborn camel. After they had attached the harness for the calf, one of the elders declared that they dressed up the firstborn so that its humps would grow straight and its feet would grow strong. After that declaration was made, more milk was sprinkled in the air in order for those wishes to come true.” Friend: “They defiantly have different rituals than we have here in the United…

America from the 1950’s to the 1970’s was in complete turmoil. The Vietnam War had taken over and fear was instilled into the lives of Americans everywhere. There was the fear of being drafted, the fear of loved ones leaving, the fear of loved ones dying, and the fear of war itself. Although society wanted to believe the war was notable and heroic, many did not think that way. Men who were sent over to Vietnam during the war were stripped of their lives and forced to adapt to life under attack.…

City Of Rush Hour: Multicultural Yet Dangerous Among the many California-related films on the list, I chose the “Rush Hour” because it was one of the series of movies I had enjoyed watching it when I was young. The film's main story is about the process of finding Chinese Consul’s kidnapped daughter by Detective Carter and Lee and incidents happening along the processes. Throughout the film, it suggested lots of different images about the California. Although there are lots of images that are…

For instance, railway system cost 5 Q.R for each trip. This could be good for students. In addition, trains are faster than cars. The maximum speed of the train is 600 km/h, while the maximum speed of the car is 140 km/h. In addition, there are many humps and traffics which decrease the car speed. Also, there is a monthly package which is…

One part of the chapter that initally stood out to me was the section regarding the Long Trail. The Long Trail is such an iconic piece of Vermont today, but I feel like Albers fails do it justice in Hands on the Land. The Long Trail was a vision shared by the men and women of the Green Mountain Club. The trail starts in Massachusetts and weaves its way through the Vermont wilderness before eventually reaching Canada. It spans the entire Green Mountain range for a total of 270 miles, and sees…

According to Egils’ saga, Ulf became a Viking while only at a very young age. Ulf was called Kvedulf. Ulf also had a friend with the name Kari. They were so close to the point that they shared everything. When kari came back he had three kids: oliver hump,l and eyvind Lamb and a daughter that goes by the name Salborj. Ulf married his daughter, Salborj. When Kari Kari was the type of person that was selfless and did great things. The story then shifts to talk about Ulf’s two sons: throlf and…

War never changes, it only causes change in the lives of the people affected by its outcome. War brings expected physical weight upon soldiers, but physical weight is not the only burden that soldiers carry. Soldiers carry unexpected emotional burdens that can cause them to become distracted from the real danger which is war. Emotional burdens can also outweigh the weight of physical burdens. In The things they Carried, O’Brien illustrates how emotional burdens are a weight that cannot be…

We find that the cross-provincial coefficient of variation of the unemployment rate increases with age while the coefficient of variation of national unemployment rate shows a hump-shaped pattern over the life-cycle \footnote{The humped shaped curve indicates that provincial variation of unemployment rate has increased for the age group 25 to 44 and then decrease.The age group between 25-44 has the highest variability (21.21\%)…