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Developing Identity: Gender in the 50s and 60s

to war because they felt it was their calling to engage in warfare. They were all relatively innocent and ignorant about war and a...

O’Brien: “If I Die in a Combat Zone”

United States, and the troops suffered significant losses from problems that had nothing to do with the Viet Cong. In "Days," the...

What Drives Author Tim O’Brien to Write?

demonstrations and anti-Vietnam War protests. Majoring in political science at St. Paul, Minnesotas Macalester College, writing a...

Three American Short Stories

Sammys gift is his "assertion of principle": "His Queenie has been wronged, and he will stand by her" (Wells). Wells points out th...

The Things They Carried

incredibly exaggerated that his stories were immensely entertaining. But, in the case of OBriens novel one must perhaps insist tha...

“The Things They Carried” - An Analysis of the Main Themes

with a wretched climate where theyre always hot and miserable, where they cant tell friend from foe, and where half their battles ...

Tim O’Brien’s Ambush

was not a matter of live or die. There was no real peril. Almost certainly the young man would have passed by. And it will alwa...

Reality: The Things They Carried

attempt to keep some connection to that life, and to the sane reality of such a life, through the things they carry which remind t...

Women in “The Things They Carried”

war (OBrien). Martha is a symbol of what we might call the "all-American girl." Cross speculates endlessly on whether or not she ...

LEADERSHIP QUALITIES OF TIM COSTELLO

be righted. Early Years and Career Costello was born in Melbourne, Australia and was the eldest of three children. From...

Vietnam War and the Themes of Change and Endurance

Kevin Sims "Four Hours in My Lai." A Rumor of War In Caputos work he states, in the beginning, "In a general sense, it is simply...

Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried and the Vietnam Draft

as protecting others, hence the prevalence of young men and women who enter the military in peacetime in the full understanding th...

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien and the Character Norman Bowker

old man talks about, nothing else. How he cant wait to see my goddamn medals" (OBrien, 1998; 36). In this the reader...

Jimmy Cross and The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

him a reason to keep going. Its the illusion that he will come through the war unhurt, return to the States and take up a normal l...

Postrel & O’Brien/Aesthetics & The True War Story

summarizing the work of both Postrel and OBrien. Aesthetics, according to Postrel, aid people in defining themselves by the "loo...

The Things They Carried and The Eyre Affair

torn apart, and how a part of them is destroyed. As an example, "Cross carried letters from a girl names Martha" (OBrien 1). Oth...

How the Reader is Positioned in “Cloudstreet”

that trembles and sighs, shakes and stinks. What is a reader supposed to make of all this? First, positioning is the word given t...

Understanding Paranoid Schizophrenia Through "A Beautiful Mind"

- to reach intellectual successes even those of sound minds have difficulty achieving. That Nash realizes such tremendous accompl...

Gender, Film, the Male Gaze and Female Filmmakers

so that when he sees himself in the mirror, "the recognition of himself is joyous in that he imagines his mirror image to be more ...

Oscar and Lucinda and Biography of Filmmaker Gillian Armstrong

Great Britain. Nevertheless, Armstrong patiently honed her craft by taking any directing gig she could from music videos to docum...

2001 A Space Odyssey and Filmmaker Stanley Kubrick's Visual Style

the moon base known as Clavius (Falsetto 44). In perhaps the most memorable sequence, when Bowman travels "Beyond the Infinite," ...

Post-Modernism and Filmmaker David Lynch

of modernism, with particular emphasis upon modernisms elitist social, political and economic structure of upper and lower classif...

Techniques of Filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock

The cuts are approximately equal in length. Finally Thornhill asks if hes supposed to meet someone and the stranger replies...

Filmmaker Josef von Sternberg:

In six pages this report considers filmmaker Josef von Sternberg and emphasizes his cinematic collaborations with Marlene Dietrich...

Filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki's 'Kiki's Delivery Service' and 'My Neighbor Totoro'

In six pages this report considers these impressive animated films by one of Japan's most innovative filmmakers. Five sources are...

Analyzing the Sequence of Dreams in 8 1/2 by Filmmaker Federico Fellini

In seven pages the sequence of dreams are analyzed and considered in the context in which the director elected to produce them in ...

Comedy Filmmaker Charles 'Little Tramp' Chaplinker

The filmmaking career of Charles Chaplin from the 'little tramp' movies to Modern Times in 1936 is explored in five pages. Six so...

Irish Filmmaker Neil Jordan

puzzle understand that they are nearly always involved in the penetration of a seemingly depthless surface of one person. However...

Filmmakers Stanley Donen and Vincent Minnelli

In ten pages the directing styles of film musical directors Stanley Donen and Vincent Minnelli are contrasted and compared in term...

Maverick Filmmaker Sam Fuller

been said that his films were against anything that he perceived as "anti-American." According to von Busack (1997), after Fulle...