Essays 451 - 480
In five pages this paper discusses Warrior Dreams by Gibson and The End of the Victory Culture by Englehardt in a consideration of...
story "Fathering," one such child is depicted. Eng was most likely-- although not even definitely-- the daughter of an American V...
stayed and lived in the woods or changed their identities so they would not have to go home. Some returned drug addicts. Still oth...
machine - guns, cannons, bombs. (Suter, 128). US intelligence prior to our involvement supplied the United States with a c...
who were interviewing members of Charlie Company. Simpson had taken part in the massacre at My Lai in March 1968; his subsequent l...
States nationalism and foreign policy has been based in the perception of a necessary evil. The necessity of conflict, the need f...
In three pages this essay considers a documentary on the Vietnam War and the impact of the infamous Tet Offensive. There is no bi...
7,000 men a month virtually indefinitely. Political cadres won support from, or at least neutralized, the Southern peasantry. Weak...
the U.S. Army off for two years with bows and arrows. (60) These lessons from history were largely ignored. American involvement...
bags of whatever soldiers werent forever-missing P.O.W.s. I have learned from the readings that the war, in retrospect, was a terr...
do with war strategy-which was a total failure of U.S. leadership. In the end, the bombing campaigns served to decimate land and v...
This seven page essay reviews the contention by President Bush that Destert Storm would not be a repeat of the long and bloody war...
the two powers for years to come (Elbaum, 2004). In April, Peng Zhen was purged and in the months coming, Mao and the PLA took s...
American involvement in Vietnam has had a long and complex history. The question of why the US was...
to retreat from society or for individuals who want to go into hiding from government or law enforcement authorities. Ironically,...
Herring (1994) also examines the question as to why America failed in this war, when it had been successful so many other times. i...
film, McNamara discusses several of the primary lessons to be learned from wartime experience, which are covered in detail in his ...
old man talks about, nothing else. How he cant wait to see my goddamn medals" (OBrien, 1998; 36). In this the reader...
back first one North Vietnamese assault, then another, over a period of six days."i In writing about the film, co-author of We W...
of military proportions but also a national fiasco of monumental proportions as well. Initially, the majority of Americans were u...
as protecting others, hence the prevalence of young men and women who enter the military in peacetime in the full understanding th...
The existence of threat likely holds the key. Sixty-four years later, rumors still fly about Franklin Roosevelts level of knowled...
alive and as intact as possible. In many ways this is also reflective of the title, symbolic of "The Things They Carried." They ca...
dumb show was left. Not the most dramatic passage in the book, but one of the most compelling, is Caputos description of the day ...
checker board and play checkers till dark. He comments on how reassuring that game was in which the rules were known and observabl...
Thanks to his experience and his resolve he was able to stand up valiantly even in the face of many negatives. Prior...
he saw. He was there, they argue, he was in the rice paddies, he saw his friends killed in front of him, he went through it for re...
Kent Committee to protest the war in Southeast Asia as early as February of 1965, and by the late 1960s, several on-campus peace p...
reality in many ways. In this work there are many young men in the war, men that are clinging to whatever they can in the devastat...
well as the case that finally struck down the concept of "separate but equal" in terms of education, and mandating that all school...