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

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...

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...

of military proportions but also a national fiasco of monumental proportions as well. Initially, the majority of Americans were u...

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...

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...

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...

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...

involved in Vietnam through warfare they were strongly supportive, and backed, actions that were in the favor of the south. For ex...

government had never fully examined whether or not its main rationalization for involvement in Vietnam, i.e., the domino theory, w...

had an impact on both the war protestors and the Civil Rights activists. If every person has an inherent worth, then anything that...

would be sent to war in just a few years, underscores the awful waste of youth, of life, of promise. The final stanza, in particu...

but be of a military mind and take such realities as par for the course in warfare. There may be others who used the war to make t...

early chapters show up again later, as others talk about them. It reminds a reader of those wonderful, wacky conversations that go...

to any gender focus on protesting (Stew, 1991). There is also the interesting and informative truth regarding how many wom...

The Obama administration is looked at through an examination of Marx's Communist Manifesto. This paper argues that the United Stat...

It was generally believed that despite the presence and influence that the IMF wanted to exert it was still the will and...

those few but powerful pages described how to achieve holism within the esoteric nature of battle. Firing a weapon to kill the en...

in jobs back in the States, but several committed suicide. Perhaps the most poignant letters are the ones in which the young man e...

book of the same name is a moving account of a platoon of "grunts" in Vietnam. This paper discusses various aspects of the story a...

about under doi moi. On the...

well to take a broad perspective not only on the countrys recent economic development but also the constraints which might affect ...

and their determination, along with European allies, to protect other Asian nations from communism. In 1950 we see the following a...

earth. It was this antagonistic attitude that only served to fuel Ho Chi Minhs desire to ward off foreign domination and American...

prosperous in peace. Reforms that were started in the 1980s offered the rosy perspective of a country opened freely to foreign tra...

Infrastructure and its importance are discussed in an overview of Vietnam's economic history in seven pages. Eight sources are ci...

by the project, use of department that are using those resources. In the case of all costs being allocated to a single project or ...