...In the article “ The End of Small Talk” by Tim Boomer, the author uses real life examples including himself to portray how he feels people should communicate when they want to make a deep connection with each other. He starts out by telling the reader about how he just broke up with a girl he truly loved and had to move to Costa Rica to basically get away from everything. While there he met this woman who told him and his friends about how she had fallen in love instantly with a man that she had previously met. She opened herself up to the author and his friends, and the author said that it was one of the most beautiful things that he had ever encountered. When the trip was over the author found himself in a bar all alone listening to the conversation...
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...Does Tim Meeker change throughout the story? How boring would it be if Tim Meeker was perfect and did not face any problems? Luckily Tim Meeker from my Brother Sam is Dead is not a perfect character, but does face many life changing events. Tim has experience a lot grief in his life by watching his brother die. I believe Tim has changed by taking more responsibility, showing the greatest love for his brother, and growing from a child to a young man. Tim has changed in a very diverse way throughout the story. One big impact in Tim Meeker's life is that Tim has shown the greatest love for his brother by believing in Sam. (2.9-10) "Tim, did Sam say anything to you about going to the war? I didn't want to lie to Father, but I didn't want to give Sam away, either. Well, he said he was, but I thought he was probably just boasting." This quote shows he cares and...
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...Context of Interview and Subject Background It was a cold morning as I walked up the hill toward my neighbor’s house. The monkey grass needles bent with the weight of frozen dew. I look to my left and Tim has planted eight blueberry bushes. An addition to the garden both he and his wife tend. A gentle knock at the door and I am warmly welcomed by Tim's wife Lynn. She directs me to the living room where I sit to begin the interview. Tim says to me "it's going to be hard to put sixty five years into an hour and a half, but I will do my best". Tim and his wife live in a four bedroom house that was built in 1980. It is a wonderfully quaint red brick house, secluded in five acres of woods that is just six miles from downtown Knoxville. The inside of the house is fully decorated and furnished, but without clutter. I am immediately offered coffee and cinnamon toast. I begin by asking Tim to tell me his life story in his own words. Tim was born in 1946, the first year of the baby boomers, in Newport, Rhode Island. He was raised in a Catholic family that instilled core values in his life. Tim and his wife Lynn have six children and several grandchildren. There are pictures of family on many walls of the house. In his life he has served in the military during Vietnam, graduated from college, had a successful career, and even raised a family. As he begins, my pen is moving, and it hardly stops for the next hour and a half. Cultural Identity "Identity, or a sense...
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...because it is inevitable in life. Authors are human just like us. So naturally, by reading literature violence is going to appear. Humans are only bound by their imagination as to how violent we can get. This is why violence is so prevalent inside the literature we read, because it is synonymous with our lives. We have to either see, hear, or talk about violence everyday of our lives. Literature reveals the types of violence that is experienced throughout time. Different periods of time have different views and tactics about violence. Now, in the twenty-first century technology has changed the way violence is executed. Literature has evolved along with the violence throughout time. When violence in literature changes so does violence in reality. Sometimes reality is recorded in literature as like a violence timeline. This tells people how and why violence changes or evolves into how we view violence today. Society changes towards more civilized people. No longer are there events like public hangings, decapitation, and showdowns. I know there are some cultures still may execute these events, but not very likely in the twenty-first century. In “Candide,” by Voltaire, the human capacity for violence is inspired by ignorance, but executed with unlimited imagination. Is violence necessary? Why is it or is not necessary? Is violence avoidable or unavoidable? Is violence acceptable or unacceptable? These are asked to all conflicts in life. "humankind has corrupted...
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...Tim and his girlfriend just got engaged. They’re on the way home and he’s texting to somebody, then suddenly a bus come’s at them and they crashes. Tim made it out of the crash but not his fiancee and the six people on that bus. Tim gets very sad and mental after the accident happened. He wanted to make things right by donating his body to 7 people. After a year Tim quit’s his job as a Aerospace engineering. Few months later Tim donates a lung lobe to his brother Ben Thomas. Tim takes Ben’s IRS credentials and uses it to find people with health problems and home problems, IRS stands for Internal Revenue Service and IRS is United States government. Six months later he donates part of his liver to a social services worker named Holly. One week later he calls a guy Ezra Turner and Tim asks if he can search a name but Ezra didn’t find that name on the computer so Tim screamed, swore at Ezra because hear how he handles the moment, Ezra is blind. After searching for while he finds George he’s a hockey trainer, Tim goes to a hockey training to se if George is a good man and he was. Tim gave his kidney to George. Nicholas is a young boy, he had cancer and Tim donated a bone marrow to him without painkillers. 2-3 weeks later Tim visit Holly and asks her if she knows someone who has a big issue, she suggests Connie Tepos to him. Connie has a problem with her abusive boyfriend, he hit Connie last week on the ribs so they broke. He goes home to Connie and uses his brothers badge and says...
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...The book that I enjoyed reading this year was My Brother Sam is Dead , by James and Christopher Collier. This book has a lot of action, emotional, and interesting traits. It is about the revolutionary war, and how a family of four struggles in this brutal battle. This story is mainly on a young boy named Tim and his older brother Sam. Sam is emotionally torn by staying loyal to his father's beliefs, as well as staying loyal to the American revolutionary army. At the beginning of the story Sam Meeker is deciding on staying with in his father's beliefs, or being with the American revolutionary army. But Sam’s younger brother Tim Meeker, is wanting to stay loyal to their father’s believes. Once Sam finally makes up his mind he finally chooses...
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...The book My Brother Sam is Dead by James and Christopher Collier describes the life of the Meeker family during the revolutionary war. The book was set in Redding Ridge, Connecticut and the war started right after the battle of Lexington and Concord. The book includes three main characters Sam, Tim, and Life Meeker. Sam is 17 years old, he likes to talk without thinking. He is rebellious, short tempered, ead strong, and brave. Tim is 12-13 years old and is the younger brother of Sam. He is caring, brave, smart, and responsible boy. Life Meeker is Sam’s and Tim’s father. He is loyal to the British King and is brave, short tempered, rebellious, responsible, and cares about his family. The book begins with Sam coming home and telling the family about how the rebel minutemen defeated the lobsterbacks or the British army in Lexington and Concord. Sam himself was wearing a red uniform wanted father’s gun so he can fight for the rebels. Then he and father fought until father kicked Sam out of the house and then no one was looking Sam stole the gun and joined the war. Then, continental troops came into Redding Ridge to confiscate weapons. They went door to door confiscating weapons, only because they knew Redding Ridge was a tory town which meant they were loyal to the British King. They came into the Meeker’s home and injured father...
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...Tim Burton Tim burton's movies uses lighting, music and shots to contrast Fantasy and darkness to set a sense of mood for the audience to enjoy and resonate with his films tim burton uses cinematic techniques to portray only what he can show through his own imagination. In the Movie Willy wonka the beginning of the movie he shows the characters life style how poor and unwealthy he strongly uses lighting in that scene because it portrays the mood of sadness and sorrow and hope. He uses the lighting again for when in a scene where willy wonka's factory chocolate workers were stealing his secret recipe to candy. It shows Discrete and Mischievous thievery cheating in Willy wonka's movie it showed an important lesson to be grateful for what you have and do not have and to mostly not be greedy, selfish or mean to others....
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...“When you touch and change people's lives with a song, that's when you've made it as an artist” says Tim McGraw, a successful country artist. He grew up in the country and was always very passionate about what he believed in. He never thought that he would make it where he is now. Create Tim McGraw has made songs that create a kind of music others want to listen to. He created a name for himself in country music by producing songs like “Humble and Kind” and “Highway Don’t Care.” Tim McGraw’s song “Live Like You Were Dying” won a Grammy for Best Country Vocal Performance. Tim McGraw won these awards because he works hard to produce these songs. Innovate Tim McGraw faces many obstacles. These obstacles include his drinking, his career, and...
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...Tim O'Brien does a fantastic job of blurring the lines of what is true and what is fiction in The Things They Carried. In fact, he often points out that he has made entire stories up, after the fact. He defends his decisions by proposing that what he has done is, in fact, not lie, but rather tell a story-truth. He argues that his reason for doing this is to bring the story to life more than it could live through the happening-truth. 'I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth' (O'Brien, 183). O'Brien believes that, when accompanied by vivid details which essentially make the reader view the scene as a dream, story-truths can carry greater emotional truths than ever possible to be achieved through actual, happening-truths. With this, he shows, contrary to belief, how story-truths are often truer than happening-truths, and demonstrates this through the addition of often graphic details. Happening-truth encompasses actual events that take place. However true these stories may be, they are often times viewed as unreal simply because they have no details to back them up. The entire shit field scene that was put into this book, for example, was turned from a happening-truth into a story-truth because the original version was not believable. The reader can see this through O'Brien describing the letters that he received from Norman Bowker. Norman writes to Tim, telling him that he should write about the event. 'What...
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...The Things They Carried, written by Tim O’Brien, is a novel centered around Alpha Company during the Vietnam War and what the young soldiers brought with them, physically and metaphorically. From comforting items like comic books, illustrated Bibles, pictures of loved ones, to deeply-ingrained emotions and trauma, O’Brien carefully crafts each character to represent a different aspect of war. Kiowa, the Native-American and Christian best friend of the character Tim in the novel, is one of many complicated, tragic stories brought to life through literature. While there are other facets of war demonstrated by different characters in the novel, Kiowa is specifically used to demonstrate the most devastating of them all: the human cost of conflict....
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...Timothy McGraw Tim Mcgraw born Samuel Timothy McGraw on May 1, 1967 in Delhi, Louisiana is an influential, accomplished and successful country singer. Tim has had consecutive albums debut at Number one on the Billboard album charts which is a hard achievement to reach as an artist. He has won three Grammy’s, three People’s Choice awards, 10 American Music awards, 11 Country Music Association, and 14 Academy of Country Music Awards, now who as an artist let alone country artist would not want these type of accolades? I know I would, then to top that off his Soul2Soul II tour was and still is till this day is the highest grossing tour in country music history, and ranks in the top 5 spots for all genres of music. The song I chose from Tim McGraw’s collection of hits was “Live Like You Were Dying”, it was written by Tim Nichols and Craig Wiseman in early 2004 but was performed by Tim Mcgraw. This song reached #1 on U.S. Billboard country music charts and continued to stay there for several weeks. Tim associated the song with his father who was hospitalized in 2003 but died 9 months later to cancer and he did everything he could to enjoy his last months despite doctors telling him that he has only 3 months live, from this tragic life event Tim learned that every day is not promised to us so we must live life to the fullest and live as if it was your last day hence the title of the song and numerous clichés on the saying itself. He did a lot of searching and finding out who he...
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...In TTTC, Tim O’Brien has his characters constantly questioning their morality. In the historical fiction novel, The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien, the main character Tim, is morally wrong in his decision of joining the war because his reasons for leaving depend on others and go against his beliefs. The main character in TTTC ends up in a moral split and chooses the wrong path for himself because his choice is dependent on others. Tim gets a draft for the Vietnam War and realizes he has two options. To either fight in a war he doesn’t approve of or run off to Canada living in fear and leaving everyone with disappoint because of him. Tim decides to go to war, an honorable choice, but one made for all the wrong reasons. Following the “good...
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...best for them in life. You can love someone as a friend, family member, or a significant other. In this movie we see the main character, Tim, find out he can go back in time, to a specific part of his life. He goes back for multiple reasons, but the most important reason...
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...Tim Berta’s presentation on the bus wreck and how it has affected him and how he is getting through it with a positive attitude was very inspiring. Being a valedictorian and two-sport athlete in college, life never seemed so good. Tim was a humble guy who had qualities about him that would allow him to do what he wanted to do later in life. After the wreck, basically not being able to do anything that he use to be able to do must have been the hardest thing to stay positive in those situations. Personally I believe the slide show Tim presented with the four seasons will stick with me the most and have the most impact on my life in the future. For Tim to stay positive in the light of all setbacks and difficulties is truly amazing not only on a personal level but also a mental level as the tasks he had to go through and cope with. Going forward in my life I think I will take advantage of everything I have and no matter the situation to stay positive and keep encouraging my self throughout all my seasons whether the times are tough or great. I also think that people cannot be taken for granted in your life. Everyone needs to let the people they care about, know that they do everyday. You never know what may happen to someone on any given day. Tim Berta is truly an inspirational person who’s story will stick with me the rest of life of how in the light of a tragic event he was able to with the help of family and friends persevere, and with a positive and determined attitude overcome...
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