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Tragedy of the My Lai Massacre

In sixteen pages the Vietnam War's My Lai massacre is discussed. Six sources are cited in the bibliography....

Book Review of Four Hours in My Lai by Michael Bilton and Kevin Sim

who were interviewing members of Charlie Company. Simpson had taken part in the massacre at My Lai in March 1968; his subsequent l...

Excessive Obedience to Military Authority and the Massacre at My Lai

This paper consists of five pages and examines how the My Lai massacre was the result of excessive obedience to the military as ev...

Lai's Novel Salt Fish Girl

shelf. Even boxed and locked into storage should the need arise. But, of course not. Childhood isnt a book and it doesnt end. My c...

1960s' America

In this paper that is comprised of brief essays the America of the 1960s is explored through such references as Martin Luther Kin...

The 1960s: My Lai, Lt. Calley, Draft Resistance and Change

supposed to simply believe the reasons given for our involvement in Vietnam and put their support behind the war. This type of thi...

Analysis of Writings about the “Boston Massacre”

Another person of "mean countenance" (meaning unpleasant or spiteful) walked along with him, carrying a club. This, he insinuates,...

The Ludlow Massacre, an Overview

This paper presents a thorough look at the Ludlow Massacre, which is when the Colorado National Guard killed miners and their wive...

Boston Massacre and the Massacre at Kent State University

113 guardsmen to fire tear-gas in order to disperse the crowd (1996). By that time, the crowd was equivalent to about one thousan...

Comedy and Tragedy Distinctions in Measure for Measure and Hamlet by William Shakespeare

three months after the murder of her husband. In Measure for Measure, its protagonist is not a man of illustrious social status. ...

Character Analysis of Imogen in The Tragedy of Cymbeline by William Shakespeare

distainfully resists him, declaring, "Away! I do condemn mine ears that have / So long attended thee. If thou wert honourable, / T...

Supernatural in Macbeth and Hamlet by William Shakespeare

This paper consists on five pages and analyzes how within these tragedies the Bard relies heavily upon the supernatural for struct...

Hamlet by William Shakespare and Revenge as Tooo Much of 'a Good Thing'

In five pages the revenge theme in Shakespeare's tragedy is analyzed....

Hamlet by William Shakespeare and the Significance of Poison

that he will do anything to avenge his death and bring the now King Claudius to justice. He understands that it will not be easy ...

'Trunk Theater' and Euripides' Medea

In five pages this paper examines a 'trunk theater' rural school production of Medea, the Greek tragedy by Euripides....

History Repeating Itself But Not Exactly

In a paper consisting of seven pages the ways in which history repeats itself especially in reference to war but throws in some su...

Comparison of Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Richard III and The Tragedy of King Lear

realistic representations of his daughters love for him. Eldest daughter Goneril begins this love fest, pledging, "Sir, I love y...

Vietnam War in Literature and the Powerlessness of Characters

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...

Vietnam War and the Agency Concept

can imagine that carrying letters around are testaments to the fact that he has a life at home. Vietnam provides a backdrop of cha...

Vietnam War and the Themes of Change and Endurance

Kevin Sims "Four Hours in My Lai." A Rumor of War In Caputos work he states, in the beginning, "In a general sense, it is simply...

Medieval Literature/Marie de France & Chaucer

appears to be that this text afforded him a superb creative pallet, not simply for creating memorable characters, but also for pr...

Greek Tragedy and Antigone, a Tragedy by Jean Anouil and The Flies by Jean Paul Sartre

her mother, and the present king, Aegistheus. The play opens with Orestes and his tutor returning to the city. The god Zeus appr...

Tragedy That is Not Tragic in 'Night Mother'

forty and has epilepsy. However, the source of Jessies psychic pain is not her condition, but rather the fact that she has never ...

Tragedy as Defined in Death Of A Salesman and Aristotle

play, I think, and maybe that is what does it. We are faced with the spectacle of all that love being lost on someone who can t r...

Willy Loman's Tragedy in Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

In five pages Miller's contention that 'tragedy is the conscience of a man's total compulsion to evaluate himself justly' is analy...

Analyzing Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare

a manner that Cleopatra bears his children. At one point Antonys wife dies and for the audience this would offer the option of ...

Differing Views of Tragedy by Assorted Philosophers

of the tragedy is that it is connected with the heros activities and it emphasizes human vulnerability (2005). To Aristotle, trage...

Aristotelian Tragedy of Oedipus Rex

of tragic flow Aristotle also stipulates that the plot of a tragedy should follow a logical tragic flow. Aristotle writes that "a...

Not So Tragic Death of a Salesman

("Introduction"). An example of this might be the concept of the senseless murder. Some suggest that this is an oxymoron. After al...

The Element of Tragedy as Presented in Literature

in his society. Sometimes he is one who has been displaced from it, sometimes one who seeks to attain it for the first time, but ...