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    The Things They Carried has exposed me to psychological postwar aspects of the Vietnam War. Reading What Did You Do in the class war, Daddy? showed an alternate view with a liberalist paradigm. In both pieces, the characters experienced the same feelings of dread and panic.

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    The Things They Carried has exposed me to psychological postwar aspects of the Vietnam War. Reading What Did You Do in the class war, Daddy? showed an alternate view with a liberalist paradigm. In both pieces, the characters experienced the same feelings of dread and panic.

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    IndiscussionofwhetherornotHumanitiesisaneffectiveclassthatcombinessocial

    scienceandliterature,onecontroversialissuehasbeenifthestudentstakefullunderstandingof
    theconceptsandunits.Ontheonehand,somearguethatno,integratingthesocialsciencesand
    literatureisnotabeneficialmethodofteaching.Ontheotherhand,otherscontendtheideaof
    Humanitiesincorporatingthebestofbothsubjects,makingitmorebeneficialtothestudentsthan
    eachsubjectalone.MyownviewisthatHumanitiesdoesindeedemployadeeper
    comprehensionofeachsubjectenhancingthecharacteristicsdevelopedwhilestudyingboth
    disciplines.
    Inmyopinion,reading
    TheThingsTheyCarried
    hasexposedmetopsychological
    postwaraspectsoftheVietnamWarthatIwouldhaveotherwiseneverencountered.Inthe
    book,onpagethirtythreeparagraphtwelve,TimOBrienexpresseswritingwarstoriesbasedon
    hisexperiencesintheVietnamWarbecauseitisawayofcopingwithwhathappenedaswellas
    takingthisapproachasasortoftherapy.Inthisspecificpartofthetexttheauthorlayshimself
    rawandexposedtotheworkingsofhismemory.Ibelievethisisanexampleofpostwar
    behaviorandpsychologicalfunctions.
    Throughoutthebook,wegetasenseofhowtheVietnamWarhasimpactedTim
    OBrienslifeandmind.Weknowthatthebookshewritesareinfluencedbyhisexperiences
    althoughtheyarefiction,wegettoreadabouthisthoughtsandseehismindunfold.Wegetto
    analyzehistraumathroughtextsuchasinpagethirtytwothroughthirtythreeparagrapheleven,
    whenheexplainsindetailhowinawaythewarwas,nakedlyandaggressivelyboring.Inthis
    partofthetextIrecognizedtraumainhiswritingthroughthecrudeanduncensoredlanguage.

    WritingsuchasthisisvisibleallthroughoutthetextanditishowIlearnedsomethingmuch
    deeperthanfactsfromatextbookabouttheVietnamWar.
    Lastly,Ibelievethatmyunderstandingofanonfictiontextlike
    WhatDidYouDointhe
    ClassWar,Daddy?
    isenhancedwhensupplementedwithfictionaltextlike
    TheThingsThey
    Carried
    .Inbothtexts,thewritersexplaindifferentmethodstoessentiallyaccomplishthesame
    goal.Reading
    WhatDidYouDointheClassWar,Daddy?
    showedanalternateviewwitha
    liberalistparadigm.Inbothpieces,thecharactersexperiencedthesamefeelingsofdreadand
    panic,thusreadingthecontextfromtwodifferentpeopleinthesamepositiongavemean
    understandingofhowthesefeelingscouldbeexpressedbutalsoofhowsocioeconomicclassand
    societalopinionsinfluencethetwocharacters.

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