YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :How Americans Were Also at War on the Homefront During the Second World War and the War in Vietnam
Essays 871 - 900
In three pages this essay examines what may have been in terms of civil rights and the Vietnam War had JFK lived and also discusse...
In four pages this essay examines how the 1960s social movements had a predominantly positive impact upon attitudes regarding wome...
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...
machine - guns, cannons, bombs. (Suter, 128). US intelligence prior to our involvement supplied the United States with a c...
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...
States nationalism and foreign policy has been based in the perception of a necessary evil. The necessity of conflict, the need f...
In five pages this essay considers women's pivotal role in the Vietnam War and its impact. Four sources are cited in the bibliogr...
This seven page essay reviews the contention by President Bush that Destert Storm would not be a repeat of the long and bloody war...
In ten pages this paper considers the life of controversial author and feminist Mary McCarthy in a discussion of Vietnam War, sexu...
In six pages this research paper examines Dan Rather's journalistic memoir that describes his coverage of such events as President...
In ten pages this research paper discusses the profound influence the First World War had in terms of the music, literary, and art...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Herring (1994) also examines the question as to why America failed in this war, when it had been successful so many other times. i...
as protecting others, hence the prevalence of young men and women who enter the military in peacetime in the full understanding th...
of military proportions but also a national fiasco of monumental proportions as well. Initially, the majority of Americans were u...
old man talks about, nothing else. How he cant wait to see my goddamn medals" (OBrien, 1998; 36). In this the reader...
to set the record straight. There were stories coming out claiming how bad American troops were in Vietnam. This infuriated me. ...
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...
creation of the United Nations (Wannall 5). Harry Dexter White had been Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, and was responsible ...