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Lee, Don. "About Tim O'Brien." Ploughshares. Emerson College.Web. 3 May 2012. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/40354687>.
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Tim O'Brien's life Web
This article gives a short little summary of a man’s huge life, from a chubby little boy to a sophisticated writer. This man is Tim O’Brien, known for his great fictional war stories, that he swore to change to fact.
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Lee, Don. "About Tim O'Brien." Ploughshares. Emerson College.Web. 3 May 2012. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/40354687>.
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Tim O'Brien's life Web
He eventually did and wrote about his combat in Vietnam. This article will help me substantially for my paper because it gives me the background information on the man, Tim O’ Brien.
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Web 3
Guilfoil, Kelsey. "John Hersey: Fact and Fiction." The English Journal. National Council of Teachers of English, Sept. 1950. Web. 3 May 2012. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/806899>.
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Hersey Journalism Web 3
This article tells of the difference of a journalist and a novelist. John Hersey gives us an explanation on the difference as journalist have to put their stories in a more generalized section, while novelist have a long expansion.
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2.Guilfoil, Kelsey. "John Hersey: Fact and Fiction." The English Journal. National Council of Teachers of English, Sept. 1950. Web. 3 May 2012. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/806899>.
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Writing into Journalism Web 4
This article also sheds light to John Hersey being an journalist, which will become a key way in drawing in the audience. This article will give me some information on how John Hersey also being a journalist affected his way of writing.
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Web 5
Yavendetti, Michael J. "John Hersey and the American Conscience." Pacific Historical Review. University of California Press, Feb. 1974. Web. 3 May 2012. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/3637589>.
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Hiroshima Bomb Web 5
This article includes the perspectives of the people during the Atomic Bomb being dropped. John Hersey tried to give some knowledge about the bomb to the huge percentage of Americans who believed it was okay to drop the bomb.
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Yavendetti, Michael J. "John Hersey and the American Conscience." Pacific Historical Review. University of California Press, Feb. 1974. Web. 3 May 2012. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/3637589>.
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Hiroshima Bomb Web 6
He wanted to inform the outsiders on what it may have been like after the affect. Even though “Hiroshima” by Hersey may have not been facts, it did bring up a taboo topic. This article helps with the paper because I can show in my paper that Hersey used his writings to help people out by spreading everything.
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Web 7
Mitrano, G. “A Conversation with Yusef Komunyaka.” Callaloo. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Summer 2005. Web. 5 May 2012. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/3805718>
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Music Encorporation Web 7
The article talks about his childhood in Bolgalusa, Louisian.
He grows up with music surrounding him and he incorporates that into his poetry.
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Web 8
Mitrano, G. “A Conversation with Yusef Komunyaka.” Callaloo. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Summer 2005. Web. 5 May 2012. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/3805718>
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Dad Mentor Web 8
Talks of how his fathers was a mentor and taught him how to come back to things that are not done
and start all over.
Talks of his father as a man of labor intensive work to keep up pace with the educated
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Web 9
Mitrano, G. “A Conversation with Yusef Komunyaka.” Callaloo. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Summer 2005. Web. 5 May 2012. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/3805718>
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Artistic Dreams Web 9
Also talks of how Yusef Komunyaka used his writings to paint things and how he always wanted to be an artist.
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Book 10
Hersey, John. "Hiroshima." Prentice Hall Literature: Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes. UpperSaddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2000. 1036-043. Print.
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Hiroshima's Plot Book 10
This is a short story of many different peoples experiences before the Hiroshima bomb dropped.
It goes through many different days of the people and how they all prepared before the bomb was being dropped. Some gave up on their preparation because of the constant false alarms and other kept up with it.
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Book 11
Hersey, John. "Hiroshima." Prentice Hall Literature: Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes. UpperSaddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2000. 1036-043. Print.
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Description of Bomb Book 11
The switch to a different person would come directly after the bomb being dropped, but they all described it as being a “white light”.
Also, they were all survivors.
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Book 12
.Komunyaka, Yusef. "Camouflaging the Chimera." Prentice Hall Literature: Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2000. 1080-081. Print.
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Yusef's Vietnam experience Book 12
This story talks of a first hand experience of the Vietnam war for Yusef.
It talks of how well they blended in with the scenery.
The lengths they went to to blend in with the surrounding and with the forrest.
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Book 13
.Komunyaka, Yusef. "Camouflaging the Chimera." Prentice Hall Literature: Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2000. 1080-081. Print.
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Descriptive quote Book 14
“Small animals took refuge against our bodies..”(1081)
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Book 14
O'Brien, Tim. "Ambush." Prentice Hall Literature: Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2000. 1082-083. Print.
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Lieghing to Daughter Book 14
This starts of with the story of him lying to his daughter on if he had ever killed anyone before because of his largely favored style of war stories.
He lied to her because he did not believe that she was old enough.
He then goes into great detail on what had happened.
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Book 15
O'Brien, Tim. "Ambush." Prentice Hall Literature: Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2000. 1082-083. Print.
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Despcription of Story Book 15
A kid had been in the wrong place at the wrong time, which resulted in a grenade, courtesy of O’Brien, at his feet.
O’ Brien can’t seem to forgive himself and plays the thing back in his head, only with a different scenario
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Book 16
O'Brien, Tim. "Ambush." Prentice Hall Literature: Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2000. 1082-083. Print.
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O'Brien's regrets Book 16
“I’ll look up and see the young man coming out of the morning fog.”
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