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

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

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

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

This paper examines how heroism is conceptualized within the context of the Vietnam War in a comparative analysis of these texts c...

the Cold War. In other words, his stance was that he would take a hard line against Communism. He associated his name with those...

used only for entertainment and simple news, was now a reality in the culture of America as it related to the war. Horrid atrociti...

Vietnam War stands out in US history as one of Americas greatest traumas. For the American people, it was a bewildering affair fro...

Kennedy need not have made the decisions he had which put America in the midst of Vietnam. He could have taken a more isolationist...

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...

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

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 ...

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 existence of threat likely holds the key. Sixty-four years later, rumors still fly about Franklin Roosevelts level of knowled...

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...

admit he hasnt, but soon remedies that by accompanying Kirby and his men on a mission to defend their firebase from the Vietcong s...

(2000). The Vietnam Memorial Wall is in an urban park setting ("Vietnam," 2003). Its construction system is "cut stone masonry" ...

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...

was designed to provide the Army of the Republic of South VietNam (ARVN) the time and support it needed to pacify the South Vietna...

whole, Johnson followed other advisers more closely than he did Russell. Russells advice, like the situation itself, was frequentl...

one-man conjecture about how Americas involvement in the Vietnam War according to the directors consistently biting tone; by provi...

claims that the Vietnam soldiers had a 72 percent higher rate of suicide than their other military counterparts (Bower, 1987, p. 1...

was able to peacefully initiate change on a massive scale. As a leader, he was able to organize, and thus had the ability to unit...

well to take a broad perspective not only on the countrys recent economic development but also the constraints which might affect ...