David Newhard Analysis

In The Things They Carried there are some moments of love and some moments of many other emotions far too many to account for. Jimmy Cross one of the soldiers in the platoon use to carry around a love letter. This “love” letter was from his beloved Martha. His love for Martha was unrequited to say the least however that’s not why he carried this letter full of regret. He carried it so no matter how long the war waged on he would never forget that there was a better place in the world then where he was at right now smelling napalm in the morning or smelling the sweet smell of gunpowder in the air. Although his mind never wavered from the thought of seeing Martha many soldiers who come back their minds never seem to leave the treacherous place called Vietnam. “I almost won the silver star,” these statements made by returned soldiers just prove to me and those who have spoken to them that they haven't forgotten the war. There minds forever wavering in the air over the battlefield thinking about what they had almost achieved during the

I have learned a lot about what life was like at the time of the Vietnam War by interviewing my grandfather. My grandfather, Franklin Torr, was living in Dover, NH at the time, in his late thirties, married, and had three young children. The Vietnam War impacted my grandfather’s life in a unique way. One aspect of his life that changed at the start of the war was that a lot of his tenants, in the mobile home he owned, were in the New Hampshire National Guard and were stationed in Vietnam, flying missions, and some were advisors. He said the following about them; “Of the tenants that fought in the war, they thought they were doing the right thing at the time” When asked if he could provide a story of one of his Vietnam War veterans, he said that not a lot of them liked to talk about their war experiences in depth, two of his tenants that served in Vietnam died in Vietnam. One of his former classmates was a Marine Colonel, one thing he remembers this man mentioning was; “the troops did a great job while they were there”. The most shocking thing that he remembers from this

Richard Perry was a young seventeen-year-old black boy from Harlem. He did not have the money at go attend college so he decided to join the military. Perry played basketball throughout his life which resulted in a knee injury, but that did not stop him. On the way to Vietnam and at the beginning of his time there, Perry did not expect the events that were about to happen. “We spent another day lying around. It seemed to be what the war was about. Hours of boredom, seconds of terror.” (Myers 132). Perry and the rest of the men in Vietnam were put into hard positions and had to go through tough things. Perry had his friend, his leader, and was put into the hospital twice. Jenkins was the first to die among Perry’s friends. After the death he was hurt, but had to continue of and fight for his country. His lieutenant was the next of his close friends to die. Everyone was devastated about the loss of their lieutenant. The war had barely began, everyone had to still fight their hardest and not leave their guard down for anything. Many questions and prayers were spoken throughout the time in Vietnam. “I really wasn't pissed, because I knew the real

Everything David did that was courageous. Most importantly, he survived the Nazi’s horrible control, showing his mother had influenced him. Even though David had a difficult childhood, David’s mother helped him a great

How many times do we feel stressed and stretched by the insane demands of the

The impact of the Vietnam War upon the soldiers who fought there was huge. The experience forever changed how they would think and act for the rest of their lives. One of the main reasons for this was there was little to no understanding by the soldiers as to why they were fighting this war. They felt they were killing innocent people, farmers, poor hard working people, women, and children were among their victims. Many of the returning soldiers could not fall back in to their old life styles. First they felt guilt for surviving many of their brothers in arms. Second they were haunted by the atrocities of war. Some soldiers could not go back to the mental state of peacetime. Then there were soldiers Tim O’Brien meant while in

J. David Velleman had an idea that many may believe as truth, however, when looking at the entire picture it is

Steven M. Delue maintains the viewpoint that because individuals have the freedom to exercise the basic rights awarded to them, tension may arise when one’s own personal will does not match the will of the communal dimension of society that individual is associated with. This is when tension begins to brew because the civil society cannot exist without the individual but the individual does not want to be governed by the community. Moreover, the government is the entity that has awarded the basic rights to the individual and perhaps the government may feel as if they have the power to take away those basic rights if the individuals does not conform to the viewpoints of the governing body; this also creates tension.

Hello Derek Golinghorst, I also know people at Ambrose that are not into alcohol at all and for someone to accuse them of drinking it because they go to football games is obnoxious. I believe what you stated is right about the person, but just because they saw one group of people drinking does not mean that everyone that goes to football games is going to be drunk. Also from knowing people and hearing stories I know that people do not solely drink because of football. People also drink during the year when football is not going on, so if the football field is not built there does not mean that there will be less drunk people. That being said I do see where that person is coming from and if it was my property I would not want a football stadium

Personal interviews with several of Meirhofer’s surviving relatives provided a look into the childhood of this troubled man. Meirhofer’s aunt, Layne Meirhofer-Greeney said, “David had a relatively normal childhood upbringing. He was raised just as any of us kids. He wasn’t abused or neglected, and had traditional Catholic values. We had frequent family gatherings, and always included David. As kids, we were very close” (L.Meirhofer-Greeney, personal communication, October 10, 2014) Wayne Meirhofer, David’s uncle, says, “David was a smart kid. He got good grades, and always seemed like he had a good head on his shoulders. He went into the military, and it seemed to us that he was traveling in the right direction in life. It floored us to hear of the things he had done” (W.Meirhofer, personal communication, October18, 2014) My father and Meirhofer’s uncle, Lou Carlassara, said, “I was very young when all the drama happened with David. I don’t remember much about him, but I remember being told we could no longer make trips to Montana to see that side of the family because David had done

Me and Tim McCormick talk to David Adkins about the problems we been having. We talk about how David handles problems. One reason, he does not explain the whole situation. For example; when the printer in the shift command office keeps on jamming. I took the printer out before Labor Day weekend and didn't return in till Tuesday to repair it. David walk back and forth saying “we can not take the printer out of the shift command office”. He repeated over and over. So I got upset and walkout of the ET shop. We talk about how we can talk to him about any problems. I talk about the problems; I have with Ryan Coffman how he jokes around. Sometimes he goes to far on joking around.

Antony Gormley was born on the 30th of August, 1950 in London, England. He is known as a British sculptor and draftsman who focuses on the representations of the human body. Many of his sculptures are formed from casts of his own body. He was born to a German mother and Irish father, and is the youngest of seven children. Like Frida Kahlo, Gormley was raised in religious family, his being Roman Catholic.

The image captured by James Nachtwey in 1995 shows what discrimination can do, the image (image 1) was taken during the Rwandan genocide where more than one hundred thousand people died in a matter of days, and the UN did nothing but sit by and let it happen. The images that will be in the essay are powerful and show by themselves answer the question presented is genocide or discrimination that bad?

David escapes the labor camp and runs after he climbs over the fence. He then stops running because he feels fearless. David stops running also because he wants the guards to feel cheated. David thinks, “He would run no more. When the beam of light caught him, they could see him walking away quite calmly. Then they would not enjoy it so much; they would feel cheated” (Holm 6). David escapes with thoughts of getting shot by them. He thinks that he

Examining, reflecting and commenting on the nature of reality was key to the modernist movement. Modernist authors, poets, painters – artists of all kinds – were very concerned with notions and conceptions of reality, often exploring shifts and changes in reality in their works. The modernist period was characterised by shifting realities in other ways as well – as the concept was explored across a variety of art forms, many cultural and structural shifts were occurring within society. “Making it new” was the primary goal of the modernists – rejection of convention, whether it be the disintegration of belief in traditional political and religious power structures or the introduction of experimental, new literary devices and techniques, these