YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :US Loss in Vietnam
Essays 571 - 600
(2000). The Vietnam Memorial Wall is in an urban park setting ("Vietnam," 2003). Its construction system is "cut stone masonry" ...
Carl Strikwerda suggests that the globalization debate has great implications when looking at the United States (Grainge, 2001). ...
there has been real "tension between Americas much-vaulted ethical and legal principles and its practical policy interests" (2000,...
coming home, and making sure ones buddies did the same. This movie does not use a lot of special effects so one is not distracted...
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...
can imagine that carrying letters around are testaments to the fact that he has a life at home. Vietnam provides a backdrop of cha...
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...
dumb show was left. Not the most dramatic passage in the book, but one of the most compelling, is Caputos description of the day ...
Thanks to his experience and his resolve he was able to stand up valiantly even in the face of many negatives. Prior...
or hurt is as bad as joining with the abusers. A great deal of the damage thats done in society is done by those who only stand a...
checker board and play checkers till dark. He comments on how reassuring that game was in which the rules were known and observabl...
Revolution-and the movements even before that date-is considered relevant to the rest of the century. Russia would come into its o...
process, Ho Chi Minh claims that more than two million Vietnamese died of starvation, a result not only of French preoccupation wi...
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...
of military proportions but also a national fiasco of monumental proportions as well. Initially, the majority of Americans were u...
a Buddhist monk, Venerable Thich Nhah Hanh, "whether he would rather have peace under a communist regime that would mean the end o...
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...
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...
the children to do. Families moved to the cities and the transition was difficult. Still, this larger change resulted in a reduced...
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...
Congressional approval for armed intervention and in 1898 the Spanish-American War began (Trask, 2002). This is one of many confl...
film, McNamara discusses several of the primary lessons to be learned from wartime experience, which are covered in detail in his ...
Herring (1994) also examines the question as to why America failed in this war, when it had been successful so many other times. i...
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...
the Vietnam debacle, and, consequently overlook Johnsons achievements in Europe, which Schwartz feels "deserve consideration as on...
immediate collapse of the Bao Dai government at the end of the war Ho Chi Minh took the reins in Vietnam. He headed up a coalitio...
serves as a place where information, stories, poems and even artwork regarding the war can be exchanged. Another site that...
as no one bothered to make sure that things would go well. In the end, the war was just stopped but there were no victories. Ther...