Questions #1-7 from "The Men we Carry...

1. Sanders noticed that the men he grew up around all had the same physical characteristics . In paragraph three Sanders describes what they look like. He began by using the words twisted and maimed to describe them and then later went into detail. These men had scarred hands, missing fingers, bad backs, ulcers, bad knees, hard hearing, coughing and drinking. Basically these men worked so hard that they looked much older than they were, they wore down faster.
   
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   Sanders characterized the other men, soldiers, as being lazy and kind of invisible. In paragraph four he uses words such as boredom, waiting and no say to describe them. They're kind of just there waiting for the day of war to come. Besides practicing for battle, all they do is wait because theirs nothing else left for them to do. They don't have a say in anything that goes on in the military base.
   
   
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   Sanders couldn't imagine becoming one of these "successful" men because he grew up seeing the complete opposite. All he ever knew and saw was hard working labor so meeting these new type of men was not the norm for him. He found it impossible to become a man like that.
   
   
4. 
   
   Sanders father went from working in a farm to a tire factory to an assembly line and then finally to the front office. He was lucky that he got out of the slave labor but his body was quick to give up on him. Most of the young men he knew ended up joining the army, working at smoky plants or building highways. His father was persistent and he climbed up the latter to success. These younger boys didn't even try, it's as if they knew that they were destined for hard labor after all it's all they've ever known.
   
   
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   Sanders learned that college men automatically thought that they would be leading a pleasureable life becuase of their family. Although he was baffled at the fact that women could be envious of a man's life he soon understood why they would but that didn't mean that he completely agreed. Sander's thought that women were the ones that had the better life. They didn't have to work or go to war, they were free to do anything they wanted and nothing was ever their fault. He envied their life.
   
   
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   Sanders has realized that a lot of pressure has always been put on men. The low-class sees it as back breaking work, having to be tough and the fight to live and have territory. The high class women see it the same way only that it's a more sophisticated point of view. The men they describe are already wealthy but they still have to go through the same work that any other man would have to. 
   
   
7. 
   
   Sanders noticed that he had a lot in common with upper middle class college-educated women. They both wanted to have power and have a say in their future. They want to choose a job that fits them, live a peaceful life and be complete.