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God, and the nation represented. Linderman tells the story of this unique group of men in an understandable order from ant...

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...

alive and as intact as possible. In many ways this is also reflective of the title, symbolic of "The Things They Carried." They ca...

checker board and play checkers till dark. He comments on how reassuring that game was in which the rules were known and observabl...

was quickly transitioning from an agrarian lifestyle to one which centered around the cities. Lounges became favored places of en...

Thanks to his experience and his resolve he was able to stand up valiantly even in the face of many negatives. Prior...

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...

his mother. Prior to the war, Hemingway lets the reader know that Krebs was in tune with small town life. He attended a Methodist ...

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...

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...

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...

old man talks about, nothing else. How he cant wait to see my goddamn medals" (OBrien, 1998; 36). In this the reader...

used only for entertainment and simple news, was now a reality in the culture of America as it related to the war. Horrid atrociti...

Vietnam War stands out in US history as one of Americas greatest traumas. For the American people, it was a bewildering affair fro...

readily comprehend the seemingly insignificant difference between the two thoughts, inasmuch as some believe that mass media has l...

two different times, leaving the president no other alternative than to put forth the countrys military support (Anonymous, 2001)....

the Cold War. In other words, his stance was that he would take a hard line against Communism. He associated his name with those...

evidence". Agent orange has gained the most notoriety in its use as a defoliant in the Vietnam War. It has been the...

Their purpose was to have Parliament abolish slave trade, rather than declare slavery to be illegal. As an incremental play, this ...

This paper examines how heroism is conceptualized within the context of the Vietnam War in a comparative analysis of these texts c...

film, McNamara discusses several of the primary lessons to be learned from wartime experience, which are covered in detail in his ...

film taking on certain aspects of each others roles (Davis 80). Norika offers Tomi and Shukichi the respect that filial tradition ...

to retreat from society or for individuals who want to go into hiding from government or law enforcement authorities. Ironically,...

elements that make it worth noticing. It is time to let the Vietnam War become a part of history and start looking at Vietnam for ...

Or, in more general terms, how could the violence been ended in Vietnam? To speculate on how the violence could have ended or to...

lost, there were many who were idealistic, who thought themselves to be freedom fighters and who fought for freedom. It was a pie...