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However, Professor Hicks notes there were some distinguishing factors that made these conflicts unique. First, citizens became in...

This research paper/essay analyzes "Games of Thrones," the HBO series, in regards to its depiction of medievalism. The writer argu...

war, pulling in allies from the Near East, Asia and North America, was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the ...

in eight categories: ordinary people; home front; heroes; women in uniform and out; shame; love, marriage and commitment; famous p...

was still mired in the Depression in 1940 when Roosevelt made the speech, and almost overnight things turned around (Faragher et a...

much in love, and neither of them is going to stray from the marriage during their separation. Well also imagine that at the time ...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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 ...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

comprise Tim OBriens celebrated collection, The Things They Carried. OBrien was himself a "grunt" in Vietnam, and his view of the ...