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Essay / The Things They Wore by Tim OBrien - 2258
the Things They Wore TruthThe definition of truth is the embodiment of what we all perceive to be reality. The truth is what we sometimes think about in the back of our minds, but we don't know if that truth is really "real." The objective correlative is another term used to refer to truth. The objective correlative is to get enough people to feel the same emotion and agree on it. The objective correlative also refers to objective truth or facts. It is about ensuring that subjective truth becomes objective, then subjective for everyone. The idea of objectivity is that it is concrete, measurable and tested. This idea of objectivity is linked to the characteristics of what facts are. Throughout this specialized introductory seminar, I managed to distinguish two very useful and powerful words: subjective truth and objective fact. Subjective truth, as I understand it, is truth. The only difference that separates it from universal or general truth is “subjective”. Our understanding of truth can be controversial when we try to distinguish what is universally true. My definition of subjective truth, which is not necessarily perceived as true by others, is that the truth of something that happened may not be what actually happened to you, but what you felt like you had arrived. Objective facts, however, are based on facts that cannot be denied. These are legitimate and universal facts that everyone considers to be true, but everyone can have a different interpretation. The main difference between subjective truth and objective fact is that subjective truth expresses its own experience when understanding the objective fact. Subjective truth does not have a correct definition, but I define it as follows: Subjective truth deals with subjectivity. Something in the middle of paper......regarding the Vietnam War. "Ending the Vietnam War. US Department of State, nd Web. March 20, 2014." Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. " History .com. A&E Television Networks, March 20, 2014. “How the US got involved.” BBC News, March 20, 2014. Neiman, David “Battlefield: Vietnam.” PBS Online, nd Web. March 20, 2014. .O'Brien, Tim. The Things They Carried. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990. “Overview of Digital History,” nd Web.. 2014. .