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checker board and play checkers till dark. He comments on how reassuring that game was in which the rules were known and observabl...
highly supportive of abolitionists. In fact, just prior to the bravery shown at Wagner by the 54th regiment, Democratic rioters in...
between 1963 and 1973. The Vietnam War, however, resulted from very complex historical circumstances, circumstances which started...
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...
well as the case that finally struck down the concept of "separate but equal" in terms of education, and mandating that all school...
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...
Tom, then, is the central male figure in the family. Their father has abandoned them some many years before, and so it has fallen...
military engaged in a deadly stand-off against the Soviet Union, with both sides poised to destroy the other. The insane doctrine ...
of Duty: A Woman and Her Family in Revolutionary America" by Joy Day Buel and Richard Buel Jr., this film is an excellent depicti...
war (OBrien). Martha is a symbol of what we might call the "all-American girl." Cross speculates endlessly on whether or not she ...
Robbie Lieberman recalled, "The Vietnam War was the crucible... The Midwest had become a big locus of it."2 It all began back in ...
a half mile to the beach, lay out a towel, and have this tropical bay with nice rolling waves that compared to the Riviera" (Santo...
could perhaps subtly support South Vietnam and thus bring order back to the nation. They did not take into consideration that the ...
as other authors, date this film as 1924, not 1929, which is why this date is used. Griffith envisioned his film as an epic, but t...
of 22 Cessna 0-1 Bird Dogs and FAC pilots since the installation of U.S. military advisors in the area.7 As the war progressed, t...
comprise Tim OBriens celebrated collection, The Things They Carried. OBrien was himself a "grunt" in Vietnam, and his view of the ...
Roosevelt; the Joint Chiefs were afraid that this man would convince FDR to give covert action precedence, which of course would t...
up in court. This paper considers two cases in which students are involved. Discussion The first case is Safford Unified School D...
defeat unless they were forced to do so. If the U.S. was going to bring the troops home with honor, intensive combat missions wou...
actually put into practice what JFK preached in his New Frontier - equal rights for all citizens. Johnson seemed worthy of their ...
Introduction The Vietnam War was a very chaotic time. Many argue that the war was never a war that could have been won by the Uni...
under both JFK and LBJ, discussed Kennedys knowledge of the coup and its aftermath in Errol Morris documentary, The Fog of War. F...
This essay presents a movie review of "Music Within," (2007, directed by Steven Sawalich). The film stars Ron Livingston as Richa...
2155 Robert S. McNamara is one of the most memorable twentieth century figures. In "Fog of...
American involvement in Vietnam has had a long and complex history. The question of why the US was...
early chapters show up again later, as others talk about them. It reminds a reader of those wonderful, wacky conversations that go...
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to any gender focus on protesting (Stew, 1991). There is also the interesting and informative truth regarding how many wom...
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...