The Power Of Thinking By Tim O ' Brien

In The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien, O’Brien uses many short stories to describe his experience in Vietnam. The story that captured many aspects of writing was “How to Tell a True War Story” because it acts as a guide to writing a true story. O’Brien uses many different rhetorical strategies, narrative techniques, and establishes a theme in this story to help develop his characters and story line.

Significance: This quote describes the entire style in which the book is written. Tim O’ Brien writes the novel as though it is a memoir, but this isn’t the case. In the copyright information, readers learn that most of the events, with a few small exceptions, were fabricated. Once the reader knows this fact, there is bound to be a curiosity of which portions of the book are actually based on O’ Brien’s life. This quote looks at the “fictional” Tim O’Brien’s view of war stories. He says that memory doesn’t always serve a person well when

　　In the essay “Reading and Thought”, Dwight MacDonlad talked about the kind of poor reading people are attached to in modern society. MacDonald believed reading materials such as Times and New York Times are too overwhelming for the readers. Readers tend to skim through the reading materials because most of the reading do not have any connections with their daily lives. Moreover, MacDoanld claimed that the readings people do these days are not thoughtful. The readings are rather irrelevant toward the readers. It is because the journalists to produce dull pieces of readings which are meant to be skimmed through without having too much thoughts involved. As the journalists do not have much consideration of the materials they produced. To the journalists the readings they produce are just a series of news that should be read driftly and left behind with no thoughful idea needed to be informed. These effects caused modern society to have a poor reading habits because people do not reflect and give time to think about the readings they did. Readers casually accept the readings even though they do not have provide any resourceful information for the readers.

During the war, there are many casualties and deaths, with the loss of many people, especially if they had a close relationship, it was difficult for people to cope. Tim O’Brien has a difficult time throughout the war and many years after, because he never let go of the death of his friends, and he does not know how to handle the death. In the Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien, Tim O’Brien’s relationship with Linda, and the death of Linda, justifies his reactions to people’s death during the war, by acting in a youthful and juvenile way, because from a young age he lost the person he was close with. Tim and Linda had a relationship when they were nine years old.

In the novel, The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien not only are there many cases of lost innocence but there are many other complications that come with it. The novel itself is stated to be a fiction novel, but in many examples it shows that Tim O’Brien himself had a personal connection to the stories told. This leaves us with the idea that just like his character, Tim O’Brien was using storytelling to combat his experiences in the Vietnam War. It seems as though O’Brien has a lot of themes that contradict themselves, such as; what is happening truth and story truth, loss of innocence and imagining it is still there, courage and cowardice, and guilt versus

As humans when we speak about memory; we bring up “memories” that have happened in the past as if we knew what actually happened. However, everyone creates fillers to fill in information that you do not remember in memories. In The Things They Carried, O’Brien expresses his memory and states to us that his stories are true and are also created. O’Brien fills us with information about what he knows is true and then creates the rest into a story. Loftus and Jason both discept how our brain functions when we speak about memories.

Since school seems to be one of the biggest causes of stress, in high school students, getting organized for school and in general could be lift a few boulders. The first step to getting organized is getting rid of unnecessary things and then finding a system that works for your lifestyle. A good rule of thumb for declutter is, asking yourself when was the last time you uses it. If it’s been more than six months, the answer to that question is probably no. Now when it comes to finding a system that works well for you, it is important to think would you actually stay consist with it. For example, one of my favorite ways I see people stay organized for school, is by using one of those tumblr style bullet books. Which can, also be used as a creative

Gladwell says that these KIPP schools are really doing an excellent work with the kids. Gladwell states that half of the students are african american and the rest are hispanic, which is a pretty good amount of the students. Knowing that these kids are from low income families, you really get a feel that these kids are really trying to get a good education and maybe they want to get out of where they live at the moment. Gladwell does not state it, but it is implied that the KIPP schools inforce math more than any other subject. It is well to understand that many of the students that attended a kipp school go on to college and have a good

Presumably, there's always some sort of thinking that comes to my mind for doing something for the new. Anxiety flows into my veins and out pops the questions of if I was going to be alright. I thought I wasn’t.

I am reading Thinking Out Loud by Anna Quindlen. This book is a collection of two to three page essays. The book is organized into topics representing what each essay is about, however, many of the essay could fall into numerous categories. The categories are; “Unsolicited Opinions”, “Kids and Animals”, and “On the News” and “Women’s Rights”. Unsolicited is the major controversies such as AIDs and gay marriage. “Kids and Animals” included issues of parents dealing with their children and how their decisions affect their them.” On the News” were similar topics to “Unsolicited Opinions and Kids and Animals”, however I assume they were more publicized accounts. Lastly “Women’s Rites” discussed exactly what it says, women’s rights. Specifically, women’s rights involving man superiority in society, women’s payment in the work field, and abortion.

All of my life I have struggled with the task of staying organized, in third grade I was that girl who had papers shoved in her locker up to her eyebrows. It was not until my junior year of high school that I was determined to shake the disorganization. Since I was involved in so many activities and had to balance a tough academic schedule, I needed away to stay on top of everything. Furthermore, I responded to this by cleaning my bedroom every day when I got home from school. It may sound strange, but having a clean room made sure my mind was ten times less cluttered. In addition to cleaning my room, I made sure my locker was spotless, kept all of my papers in binders, and went through my bag frequently to throw away any unneeded papers. Nevertheless,

I have recently adopted a new routine to life since I graduated high school. I feel less concerned about the amount the time that I have to complete assignments and less stressed about balancing my work schedule and my class schedule. College has already proven to be less structured than high school, which gives me more time to focus on work for only four classes instead of eight. The way that the entire semester is printed on a syllabus is also a relief, because now there is a printed version of what and when things should be completed. I like to have structure because it makes me feel like I have my future in control. The way that I keep myself feeling structured is by keeping my surroundings and responsibilities organized and familiar.

I feel like I’m a very unorganized person because I’m always losing s my paper and I never can keep track of my martials and items for class I found all this out when I was in middle school because I always used to lose my school worksheets and I never used to have the right work assignments with me while going to class. I used to try my best to stay organized it just was always a hard task for me to do because I was just used to throwing my paper in my book bag and doing other then find it when the teacher ask for the paper and I never used to have to separate my work from each other.

Thoughts can be fleeting, however some of the feelings resulting from thought and can have a long lasting impact on the mental state of a person. In my metacognitive exploration I found an interesting comparison between the way in which I think and approach my past feelings and the methods which Tim O’Brien, from The Things They Carried, and Paul D from Beloved express their thinking about the past. I have discovered that the expression of thoughts, including memories and feelings, is the key to a healthy mental state of a person.

Thinking, fast and slow written by an empirical researcher and psychologist, Daniel Kahneman, The book tells us how we can afford to think while we’re not even paying attention. It offers us the paths to better understanding ourselves, how to think automatically and common, instead of difficult and rare.