... Miss Saigon both have an incredibly powerful subject matter. Rent takes place in New York and chronicles the lives of 7 young adults. It takes a close look at drug addiction, friendship, gay and lesbian relationships, AIDS, tolerance, and many more. Rent gives you a fresh slice of the real world. It doesn't shelter its audience from anything. It gives it to them straight ... much like Rent, when this musical ends there are not many dry eyes in the house. In conclusion, these two musicals are similar in the fact that they have powerful stories, are all sung, and deal with real life issue...

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... about the subject. Rap or Hip Hop has its roots within African culture and tradition. (http://www.daveyd.com/raphist 1.html0 ) Rap has evolved from simple stories to poetry with a beat. But now we see rap evolving into a more negative aspect. Rappers have caused listeners to be more superficial. They have degraded ... Force Ones. These particular shoes are a hot buy among teenagers for around 150 dollars. Not only has rappers degraded themselves but also they have degraded the female sex. (For example You aint nothing but a Hoochie Mama, You's a Ho,and You can do it if you put your back...

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... through the war. That cost Americans throughout the war ("Layman 212"). Many young people started to rebel as the 60's proceeded. Many drugs were used such as acid and marijuana. Sex , Drugs, and Rock n" Rock were all part of growing up. People called "Hippies" were considered leaders in all of these affairs. Parents saw them as wrong, when all they were ... had trouble getting employed ("Dolan 35"). The media was a major part of Vietnam history. The media got a lot of good coverage during the time of the war. Newscasts had good stories to cover and with so much happening, stayed busy. ...

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... someone got killed, his body was not really a body, but rather one small bit of waste in a pile of dead bodies. It's true stories can save people. Stories are a way of getting one's emotions out and sharing them with other hoping they will understand what you are going through. It is always to ... gave him the power to get through his war experience. When Tim describes the secret meeting places and dreams he was having about Linda, he describes them as miracles. Stories are a way to cope with the bad and think about the good. "Almost everything is invented. But it's not a game it's a form...

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... evolved their ideas to match their needs. Though the generations represent two totally different aspects of American culture and history, their revolutions with sex, clothes, and music will serve as foundations for future generations to come. As the years go by between generation and generation, one facet has remained ... pill, there was hardly any worry of the spread of sexually transmitted diseases and babies. Whether it's on TV shows, movies, or even music videos, sex has become commercialized in the "90s generation. Unlike the hippie generation, who only had access to the birth contr...

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... cinema in 1979 due to a strong storyline, a strong cast and interest in the Vietnam conflict. In order to properly analyze both of these stories let's begin with the protagonists. Benjamin Willard (played by Martin Sheen in the film) is a former CIA counterintelligence officer who was commissioned as ... Belgium that ran organized trade along the Congo River. Now that we have met our protagonists, its time to meet the antagonists of their respective stories. A Special Forces army colonel, Walter E. Kurtz was about to be arrested for murder while having a very successful career in the ar...

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... story and tells that one story, but in the novel "The Things They Carried" that is a different story. This novel is a collection of stories about soldiers and how they cope with the Vietnam War. It also provides the fullest and most graphic account of the atrocities of war. In this novel ... own experience. "O"Brien's compulsion to revisit his war experience through fiction is not unique"(Tina Chen, Contemporary Literature V39 no.1). Many war writers write their stories based on personal experience and in "The Things They Carried" as well as the other novels that O"Brien wrote, he does j...

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... 1971. Then the US congress force Nixon to push for a peace settlement. In the united state there had been multiple civil rights movement. The first and second women moment,disabled, Gay and Lesbian movement and African American movement. The women rights movement is the fight for the idea that women are equal to men and should have the same rights that ... ...

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... have been covered in the class so far, I've decided to write about an author who has taken his past experiences and brought it into the stories he writes. Because of this class, this author has become a personal favorite of mine to sit down and read. The name of that author ... change. "The Things They Carried" wasn't the only story that O"Brien wrote related to the war. O"Brien also wrote about war experiences in several of his other stories. One book that I recently purchased and haven't had the chance to read it yet is called "Going After Cacciato". This story is about a soldier who le...

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... getting the feeling that the government was caring too much about the freedoms of the people that they were loosing there order. They felt that movements such as movements toward gay rights and movements toward civil rights had caused a loss in tradition to the way the United States Government had been ran in the past. This caused many people to change ... ...

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... is how nice they are. The second thing that is ultraneat about the old people in my neighborhood is their generosity. Last, but most certainly not least, I like their great stories of olden days. The old people in my neighborhood are so nice. One nice old lady that lives in my neighborhood is Mrs. Filter. She makes fudge and when ever ... give to people at Halloween. She also loves volunteering at the local hospital. Another thing I like about the old people in my neighborhood is their great stories about olden days. Mr. MaiShu has some great stories about the Vietnam War that he was in...

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... Apocalypse Now are both brilliant depictions of the Vietnam War. Each medium attempts to display a similar view of the war, and each succeeds exceptionally. Both stories show the horrors of war, and have anti war undertones which are easily detected. Movies and books can both bring a across a different kind of ... tales in his book are true. After meeting Tim O"Brien at a seminar in Anaheim California in 2000, it was made clear that all of these stories are actually fictional, and Mr. O"Brien was actually a journalist during Vietnam, and saw no real action. But the visions of horror that...

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... avoiding to marry young, not considering working in a big corp. job, turning on the LSD and other things so they could expand their mind, and of course, engage in free sex. There were also discussion about protesting against Vietnam, but protestors seemed to protest just to protest so they could get out of classes or they just had nothing better to ... Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. Around this time, movies and books became more explicit in it's sexual material. Farber mentions examples such as Helen Gurley Brown's best-selling novel, Sex and the Single Girl in which she writes about ho...

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... situations that happen, in The Things They Carried, the narrator, who is interestingly never given a name, writes in a series of short stories about the Vietnam War and his experiences. It's hard to even explain the power of the stories. Hearing the personal stories of a soldier at war has an amazing impact on the reader, personally, me. The books seems to be a soldier's way ... depth feelings amongst his fellow soldiers and the people they left behind. Coming from a family where many men have served in wars, many even loosing their lives, hearing the detailed stories of certain anecdot...

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... tales true? Or are they made up?" Only when one has completed the book and taken a step back does one see. It matters not if the stories are true. It matters not if the stories are made up. The intention of the book was not to entertain but to attempt to illustrate the passionate emotions of men on the verge of death ... . Most war stories are indeed, as stated before, focused on the physical aspects of war, or, if they do venture into the emotional side, feature stories of heroism and bravery. This is not so in The Things They Carried. Perhaps what makes it such a remarkable ... ...

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... benefiting anyone in the least, but the problem cannot be blamed on any one section, the people are mesmerized by the terrible stories in the news which are about the politicians who want to stop the stories but cannot because the stories of good are not attractive to the citizens. It is an endless loop that will never get better, not even with ... ...

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... about brutal deaths from breathing in deadly gas. We read about soldiers laying face down in mud, while they dream of being home with the women they love. We read stories about Ron Kovic and how excited he was to join the marines. He thought of it as another athletic challenge. By the end of the story he is a paraplegic with ... on the other side think about war? The selections, "Americans are not Beautiful" and "The Butchering at Wounded Knee" answers these questions very well. Both of these stories show death and destruction, just as the stories by Ron Kovic and Owen do. In the "Butch...

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Go Ask Alice The 1970s were a time of change, a time of revolution. War was the topic of nearly all conversations and sex and drugs were on everyone's minds. While boogie fever swept dance floors, young men were sent off to die in a war that they could never win. Richard Nixon was in ... good life for herself. Of course, these weren't the only things going on during the seventies. Everyone always thinks of the above mentioned obvious events. I mean, the 70s were the Sex Revolution, and the Drug Revolution, and the Protest Revolution era of time. Everyone knows that. But other things occurred...

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... way. A way that others would appreciate more and still others would appreciate less. Movies are just another way to tell a story. That's what history was, a story. There are many different stories that talk of our nations history or story. There were many important events that were documented in many films. This includes movies like "Glory", "The Patriot", just to name a few ... the adversity of this country. This counties strength in war, this countries corruption, this countries perseverance, and this countries screw ups. There are many things that are fabricated in these stories thou...

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... true freedom of America has created so much opportunity, that there is a place for anyone. Our freedom has produced thousands of success stories that were made possible by the liberty that was given to us at birth. These success stories range from people becoming amazingly successful overnight to people who had been oppressed, having the right to stand up for their rights ... ...

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... dislike the way in which the book tells its story. You find out information just before you need it and it has three stories going on at once. It's close to impossible, at some points, to tell when the stories become separate because they all seem to bleed together. Also if you know anything about war, parts of the tale are highly ... ...

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... tales so much like memoirs that O'Brien feels compelled to emphasize in a prefatory note that what follows is "a work of fiction." Fiction is a complicated term in O'Brien's world, though; the stories are deemed true sometimes because they happened that way and sometimes because they convey some larger truth about the Vietnam experience. This book suggests that ... stories often communicate a more accurate notion of the truth than even experience can, which makes them compelling whether or not the reader experienced the War first-hand. The Nuclear Age (1986) ... ...

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... shrimping business. Lieutenant Dan, being furious with his amputated legs, joins this business which becomes a huge success. Meanwhile, Jenny is living life on the edge of self-destruction by promiscuous sex and drug addiction. She visits Forrest and slips away after making love with him. During a reunion with Jenny after a three-year cross country run, Forrest discovers that they have a son ... ...

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... shrimping business. Lieutenant Dan, being furious with his amputated legs, joins this business which becomes a huge success. Meanwhile, Jenny is living life on the edge of self-destruction by promiscuous sex and drug addiction. She visits Forrest and slips away after making love with him. During a reunion with Jenny after a three-year cross country run, Forrest discovers that they have a son ... ...

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... the Vietnam War and Woodstock was the place where they all came together. The Woodstock Music Festival was a three-day concert (which rolled into a fourth day) that involved lots of sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll. Woodstock is still remembered today as one of the greatest, if not the greatest concert series of all time. The festival has become an icon of ... ...

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