The Truth of War
Project Reflection
This project is about the vietnam war. What we did during this project was read the Book “The Things They Carried” which is what we based our project around. In groups of three-four we interviewed a veteran from the Vietnam War. To prepare for our interview we had to generate a list of questions the veteran would have to answer during the time we had them. After the interview was over we uploaded the sound clip and it was public on storycorps for our class to see.
There is this app/website called storycorps that puts interview on their website for people to view. To prepare for our interview we had to develop a list of questions we would be asking our veteran. Another thing we had to prepare for our interview was to set up a account on storycorps.me so when we started the interview we could upload it right after. Our Interviewee was very open with his stories and it was very powerful to hear him talk about them with us. It was hard to keep him focused because he kept on talking about random things that had nothing to do with the Vietnam war. The biggest thing I took away from the interview was that you don’t want to make close relationships with anybody in the army because you can lose anyone.
The book “The things they carried” is written by Tim O’Brian and is about short stories Tim O'Brian either made up or are real stories he had happen to him. During the seminar I felt like I really understood more about what happened in the book more when we talked about it in a group discussion. Although there was a lot of good important things said during the seminar I feel like I could have spend more time talking for myself. A true war story has to be somewhat close to actually what happened, although whomever is telling their story can tell the story how ever they want to tell it. If you tell it by how exactly it happened the image gets distorted and audience won’t listen or will think differently of what happened.
For a part of our project we had to write a essay in a given amount of time. To prepare for our timed essay we had to read and annotate a handful of documents. The paragraphs were in T.E.A format, T stands for topic sentence or what the paragraph will be about, E stands for the evidence I gathered in the document packet, and A stands for the analysis so this is where I tie in the evidence with my topic sentence. I learned that being able to differentiate between the U.S. and Vietnam’s problems, it caused the war to become more of a hassle than a beneficial gain. Using historical thinking skills I was able to cite evidence to support my thesis. From using historical thinking skills I felt that the most challenging part of the essay was me not being redundant. I learned that in war everything is not safe, it can be unpredictable, and is sometimes unfair. It was interesting to only be able to use documents Ally gave us instead of finding different document online.
When I first started this project I knew very little about the Vietnam war and how it affect the veterans. I learned the different ways veterans deal with the war and how hard it is for some of them to open up to people. We can find truths of war from stories, books, movies, and documentaries.
This project is about the vietnam war. What we did during this project was read the Book “The Things They Carried” which is what we based our project around. In groups of three-four we interviewed a veteran from the Vietnam War. To prepare for our interview we had to generate a list of questions the veteran would have to answer during the time we had them. After the interview was over we uploaded the sound clip and it was public on storycorps for our class to see.
There is this app/website called storycorps that puts interview on their website for people to view. To prepare for our interview we had to develop a list of questions we would be asking our veteran. Another thing we had to prepare for our interview was to set up a account on storycorps.me so when we started the interview we could upload it right after. Our Interviewee was very open with his stories and it was very powerful to hear him talk about them with us. It was hard to keep him focused because he kept on talking about random things that had nothing to do with the Vietnam war. The biggest thing I took away from the interview was that you don’t want to make close relationships with anybody in the army because you can lose anyone.
The book “The things they carried” is written by Tim O’Brian and is about short stories Tim O'Brian either made up or are real stories he had happen to him. During the seminar I felt like I really understood more about what happened in the book more when we talked about it in a group discussion. Although there was a lot of good important things said during the seminar I feel like I could have spend more time talking for myself. A true war story has to be somewhat close to actually what happened, although whomever is telling their story can tell the story how ever they want to tell it. If you tell it by how exactly it happened the image gets distorted and audience won’t listen or will think differently of what happened.
For a part of our project we had to write a essay in a given amount of time. To prepare for our timed essay we had to read and annotate a handful of documents. The paragraphs were in T.E.A format, T stands for topic sentence or what the paragraph will be about, E stands for the evidence I gathered in the document packet, and A stands for the analysis so this is where I tie in the evidence with my topic sentence. I learned that being able to differentiate between the U.S. and Vietnam’s problems, it caused the war to become more of a hassle than a beneficial gain. Using historical thinking skills I was able to cite evidence to support my thesis. From using historical thinking skills I felt that the most challenging part of the essay was me not being redundant. I learned that in war everything is not safe, it can be unpredictable, and is sometimes unfair. It was interesting to only be able to use documents Ally gave us instead of finding different document online.
When I first started this project I knew very little about the Vietnam war and how it affect the veterans. I learned the different ways veterans deal with the war and how hard it is for some of them to open up to people. We can find truths of war from stories, books, movies, and documentaries.