In “The Things They Carried,” the soldiers carry both tangible and intangible things. Discuss the ways in which burdens, physical and mental/emotional, impact the soldiers.

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The Things They Carried

Address the following in a written essay:

In “The Things They Carried,” the soldiers carry both tangible and intangible things. Discuss the ways in which burdens, physical and mental/emotional, impact the soldiers.

Essay Guidelines:

  • Must be formatted according to current MLA standards (Left name block, double space, page numbers, etc.). Use Times New Roman 12 pt font.
  • Word document
  • Must be a minimum of 3 pages in length excluding the Works Cited page. Must fill the page in order to be considered three pages.
  • Must include a clear thesis statement in your introductory paragraph.
  • Use essay formatting, including an introduction paragraph, body, and conclusion. Each point in your body must point back to and support your thesis statement.
  • Utilize two (2) secondary literary, scholarly sources.
  • Must contain two (2) direct quotes, summaries or paraphrases from the reading.
  • Must contain two (2) direct quotes, summaries or paraphrases from each secondary source.
  • Quotations must be no longer than 2-3 lines.
  • Must properly cite the quotes within the text.
  • See how to cite in-text by visiting Purdue Owl MLA In-Text Citation Basics. Pay special attention to poetry citations, if applicable.
  • Must properly cite the readings in the Works Cited

 

Review Plato’s Allegory of the Cave (PAC). PAC meaning behind the written concerning human perception symbolically, representing how humans live in a world with contrasting reality verse human interpretation.

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Percipience vs Misperception

The purpose of this discussion is to review Plato’s Allegory of the Cave (PAC). PAC meaning behind the written concerning human perception symbolically, representing how humans live in a world with contrasting reality verse human interpretation. Plato’s writing combined human rules and meanings of life with psychology by asking questions and listening for responses, similar to Socrates. This purpose was to seek out wisdom and human patterns that arise from most superficially meaningful human conversations. Moreover, having a conversation and conducting empirical research through asking questions and conversations provides a plethora of insights from diverse individuals. The other observation about the PAC is that the shadows on the cave walls are ever-changing and not staying stagnant – similar to life and individuals’ reality that there is no stability or consistency, which could lead to a false reality and ignorance that real-world knowledge does not exist out of the dark cave.

Additionally, the aforementioned displays the conflicts between knowledge and belief and how an individual can choose to no longer be ignorant once – one has been enlightened. The PAC examines the very nature of humanity and our freedom of the unknown. Another observation after further research out of the PAC, however, citing scholars who reviewed the PAC, was understanding how humans view their life and choice on assumptions and not based on reality, yet one perception of their reality, similar to humans with reality mental health issues. The conclusion distilled from the PAC is that wisdom is not innate; however, if an individual chooses ignorance after being enlightened, their perception will not change because they are choosing ignorance, lack of perception, and untruths.

In “The Things They Carried,” the soldiers carry both tangible and intangible things. Discuss the ways in which burdens, physical and mental/emotional, impact the soldiers.

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The Things They Carried

In “The Things They Carried,” the soldiers carry both tangible and intangible things. Discuss the ways in which burdens, physical and mental/emotional, impact the soldiers.

Book; Literature: The Human Experience. Tim O’brien- the things they carried

Explain personal experiences and reflect on how they have helped to get you where you are today. When writing a piece such as this, it is important to explain your attitudes and beliefs about the event, the event itself, and how it has shaped your life for you to be where you are now.

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Why I Am Here

In this essay you will explain personal experiences and reflect on how they have helped to get you where you are today. When writing a piece such as this, it is important to explain your attitudes and beliefs about the event, the event itself, and how it has shaped your life for you to be where you are now.

The successful essay will include the following:

1) A clear and concise thesis statement that tells readers the point or purpose of the paper

2) Sufficient details about your main points and how they have helped shape your present

3) A clear organization of thoughts and events

4) Relatively few grammatical and spelling errors

5) Successful exemplification of essay structure

Identify the first occurrence of the substring starting with the substring “the” and ending with the substring “end” in your string. Identify all three letter lowercase words in your string. Identify all words that start with a vowel in your string.

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Greatest Speeches in History

Randomly select one of the “35 Greatest Speeches in History” (https://www.artofmanliness.com/character/knowledge-of-men/the-35-greatest-speeches-in-history/) using the following snippet of Python code import random print(random.randint(1,36))

Next, copy-and-paste the entire section from the website (including the title) and use it as your text string for the following regular expression exercises. Turn in your regular expression Python code solutions in a single Jupyter notebook.

  1. Determine if the letter “q” (lowercase q) is in your string
  2. Determine if the substring “peace” (with a lowercase p) is in your string
  3. Determine if the word “peace” or “Peace” is in your string
  4. Determine which numeric digits (0-9) are in your string at least once
  5. Identify the first occurrence of the substring starting with the substring “the” and ending with the substring “end” in your string.
  6. Identify all three letter lowercase words in your string.
  7. Identify all words that start with a vowel in your string.
  8. Identify the title of the speech in your string.
  9. Identify the date and location of the speech in your string.
  10. Replace all occurrences of the word “the” (lowercase or uppecase) with the word “THE”.

 

Argue for one over the other. Provide reasons for why you believe one is better than the other.

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Marvel vs. DC—which is better?

In the discussion post, you must argue for one over the other. You must provide reasons for why you believe one is better than the other. Keep in mind the different forms of argument you’ve learned about during this course as you write your post. The use of outside sources is not required, but if you do use any, do make sure you cite them properly.

The part about the different forms of arguments the biggest one we learned was the Classical and Rogerian arguments. Lastly just fully address the topic and follow MLA guidelines.

How is Emerson’s distrust of institutions and group decisions shown in his written works and in his life choices?

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Emerson

How is Emerson’s distrust of institutions and group decisions shown in his written works and in his life choices?

To answer this question look at the decisions he made about his profession and civic involvement and look at what he emphasizes in his essays. Give specific examples. In quoting from the essays, do not use the examples that your classmates have used, if at all possible. Since Emerson says the same thing multiple ways, you should be able to find additional examples.

How have social media platforms changed human interaction? What negative impact do you think our use of social media has had on our relationship with others?

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Human interaction

How have social media platforms changed human interaction? What negative impact do you think our use of social media has had on our relationship with others?

Write an essay on the effects of the police state on its citizens during Muammar Qaddafi’s reign.

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Effects of a Police State

Write an essay on the effects of the police state on its citizens during Muammar Qaddafi’s reign.

Sources and examples must be cited from Hisham Matar’s book The Return and outside sources.

Draft a detailed, well-thought-out first paragraph that provides the full name of the text(s) and the author(s) and that begins with a general discussion of your topic and then introduces the narrower concern of your own essay and your plan of argument.

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Unless the Eye Catch Fire

Write an informative title that indicates the focus of your essay and identifies the text and author.
Draft a detailed, well-thought-out first paragraph that provides the full name of the text(s) and the author(s) and that begins with a general discussion of your topic and then introduces the narrower concern of your own essay and your plan of argument.
End the paragraph with your thesis statement — the hypothesis you intend to argue.

Format the page exactly as you will in your essay, modeling it on the sample page attached here.
— the title centered over the first paragraph
— all text, including the identifying information and title, double-spaced and in plain 12-point type (no boldface) with 2.5 cm margins.