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Essays 331 - 360

Doi Moi Renovation Policies of Vietnam

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

Theories on the Reasons Behind the Longevity of the Vietnam War

lost, there were many who were idealistic, who thought themselves to be freedom fighters and who fought for freedom. It was a pie...

A Rumor of War by Philip Caputo

The structural basis of imagery is symbolic of Caputos intrinsic creativity and ability to see beyond the obvious. Characteristic...

Richard Nixon and 1960s' Counterculture

bringing the country back into some semblance of order. It was these very movements that helped Nixons administration withdraw fro...

TV Series on the Vietnam War Tour of Duty

but still protecting and serving in the community). Or they begin to "remember" world events as they are presented on television. ...

Fantasy and Science Fiction Mythology Uses

troubles of Dr. Morbius and his daughter Altaira who have been living on a desolate planet. A rescue team finally arrives lead by ...

Vietnamese Perspectives on the Vietnam War

In five pages this paper examines the reasons behind fighting the Vietnam War from the Vietnamese perspective. Four sources are c...

Education and Historical Fiction Uses

time and place, the cultural and historical reality of the storys characters and the capability and comprehension of the person re...

Changes Resulting from the Vietnam War

"seemingly contradictory methods of troop reduction and applications of intense firepower to coerce the North Vietnamese to accept...

What Soldiers Experienced During the Vietnam War

end in failure. The fault of much of the debilitation of the Vietnam soldier lies with the politicians and the military strategic...

Nationalist and Not Communist Sentiments Fueled the Vietnam War

Johnson initiated the reciprocal attack that ultimately "signaled the enemys hostile intent" (Anonymous PG). The Americans claime...

Our War by David Harris

the My Lai massacre and, also, traces the sociological template for young male soldiers to John Wayne. He writes, "I suppose each...

Argument Opposing the American Involvement in the Vietnam War

this country after serving in Vietnam. What is even more tragic is that most of them never have recovered from the sights in Viet...

The Vietnam War and Counterinsurgency Tactics by the Americans

who had been defeated not as much by a superior foe but an irresponsible American government. Many factors came into play ...

Dispatches by Michael Herr

which values the views of those Westerners engaged in that struggle over those of the native population. In other words, Herr is m...

Vietnam War and the Critical Turning Point Represented by the Tet Offensive

to Americans via the nightly news, they were shocked, outraged and disheartened. They demanded that our troops return home and th...

Seizure of the City of Hue and the Tet Offensive

President Johnson in charge, limited bombing raids were authorized over North Vietnam and troop levels began to rise (1991). The d...

Vietnam War Escalation and the Role of President Lyndon B. Johnson

U.S. Army as well as civilian agencies support the South Vietnamese (1998). His analysis is intricate and political, suggesting th...

Cultural and Political Views of the Vietnam War

ideological battle within. After the Geneva cease-fire agreement of 1954, Vietnam had been subdivided at the 17th Parallel into n...

U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara

eventually threaten the security of the West and that US could prevent this with a limited military role that would only provide t...

Vietnam War and the Differing Policies and Opinions of George Ball and Robert S. McNamara

together as consultants in the White House with the results of their actions and inactions now well documented. The American invo...

Freedom Quest of Vietnam

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

Into the Quagmire Lyndon Johnson and the Escalation of the Vietnam War by Brian VanDeMark

have since described as "pointless." Summary of "Into the Quagmire" In his introduction to the book, VanDeMark writes: "Vietnam ...

Vietnam War and Individual Actions

the accomplishments of the American military forces were tremendous, in fact the Viet Cong were destroyed after the Tet offensive ...

The First Persian Gulf War

to it as the First Gulf War (Zwier and Weltig, 2004). It is also known as the First Persian Gulf War. In Kuwait it is referred t...

The Written Word and Creating a Response to a Problem

6 pages and 2 sources. This paper considers how the written word can be used to communicate very specific things, including the r...

Critical Analysis of an Article

Sleep is a hot topic in the United States because survey after survey reveals that most Americans do not get enough sleep. There a...

The Cold War: Causes, Treaties, and Ongoing Tensions

be desired from the Russian perspective. At the Teheran Conference Stalin was indifferent to the division of Germany into separa...

The Poor Treatment of the American History

for the Native Americans and they did this without a thought to their natural human rights. American historical facts supports thi...

A Cost Analysis of Bridgeton

change a die, after the changes it took only 90 minutes, a significant improvement and meant that the firm went from being one of ...