Essays 481 - 510
process, Ho Chi Minh claims that more than two million Vietnamese died of starvation, a result not only of French preoccupation wi...
checker board and play checkers till dark. He comments on how reassuring that game was in which the rules were known and observabl...
This was a misplaced fear. Communism would fall on its own, and even if it did not, the idea that it would spread like a disease i...
serves as a place where information, stories, poems and even artwork regarding the war can be exchanged. Another site that...
immediate collapse of the Bao Dai government at the end of the war Ho Chi Minh took the reins in Vietnam. He headed up a coalitio...
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...
as protecting others, hence the prevalence of young men and women who enter the military in peacetime in the full understanding th...
old man talks about, nothing else. How he cant wait to see my goddamn medals" (OBrien, 1998; 36). In this the reader...
the children to do. Families moved to the cities and the transition was difficult. Still, this larger change resulted in a reduced...
Herring (1994) also examines the question as to why America failed in this war, when it had been successful so many other times. i...
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...
Congressional approval for armed intervention and in 1898 the Spanish-American War began (Trask, 2002). This is one of many confl...
film, McNamara discusses several of the primary lessons to be learned from wartime experience, which are covered in detail in his ...
Kevin Sims "Four Hours in My Lai." A Rumor of War In Caputos work he states, in the beginning, "In a general sense, it is simply...
of military proportions but also a national fiasco of monumental proportions as well. Initially, the majority of Americans were u...
a Buddhist monk, Venerable Thich Nhah Hanh, "whether he would rather have peace under a communist regime that would mean the end o...
dumb show was left. Not the most dramatic passage in the book, but one of the most compelling, is Caputos description of the day ...
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...
can imagine that carrying letters around are testaments to the fact that he has a life at home. Vietnam provides a backdrop of cha...
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...
her husband. That man, of course, was Lyndon B. Johnson. They were married less than a year after they met and she began the uph...
states, in his Second Treatise of Government, Chapter XI, the following: "THE great end of mens entering into society, being the e...
had an impact on both the war protestors and the Civil Rights activists. If every person has an inherent worth, then anything that...
person that John F. Kennedy was addressing when he said "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your co...
her mothers home country of Sweden. Ben had the "America fever" and stole the money in order to obtain passage to the US (Johnson ...
upon as wholly overwhelming. II. SUMMARY The individual conjures up a traumatic memory while the therapist counts from ...
act of not being obedient. He contrasted the longevity of nature with the ethereal nature of that manmade contrivance we call gov...
was accepted as justification for intervention in Southeast Asia. The background to the American intervention shows how the Vietn...