YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Women and Protesting During the Vietnam War
Essays 301 - 330
stayed and lived in the woods or changed their identities so they would not have to go home. Some returned drug addicts. Still oth...
In a paper consisting of five pages the effects of the Cold War in America are considered and include the atomic bombing of Hirosh...
that media during the 1960s and 1970s shifted toward "an oppositional relation to political authority" (68). Hallin uses as his ar...
In six pages this paper refers to Gunfighter Nation The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth Century America by Richard Slotkin in t...
In six pages this research paper examines Dan Rather's journalistic memoir that describes his coverage of such events as President...
This paper examines the issue of whether or not the film, Hamburger Hill, is an accurate depiction of the life of a soldier in the...
In eight pages this paper discusses the portrayal of the Vietnam War in an assessment of historical accuracy and the presentation ...
The post 1960s relationships between the President and Congress is examined in ten pages with foreign policies including arms sale...
of the general male adult population, approximately 40% of homeless men are veterans. Surprisingly, it appears that homelessness ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
old man talks about, nothing else. How he cant wait to see my goddamn medals" (OBrien, 1998; 36). In this the reader...
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...
to retreat from society or for individuals who want to go into hiding from government or law enforcement authorities. Ironically,...
admit he hasnt, but soon remedies that by accompanying Kirby and his men on a mission to defend their firebase from the Vietcong s...
national myths that have abounded about the War (which have, in fact, perpetuated the notions about Americas involvement in all wa...
elements that make it worth noticing. It is time to let the Vietnam War become a part of history and start looking at Vietnam for ...
bringing the country back into some semblance of order. It was these very movements that helped Nixons administration withdraw fro...
lost, there were many who were idealistic, who thought themselves to be freedom fighters and who fought for freedom. It was a pie...
The structural basis of imagery is symbolic of Caputos intrinsic creativity and ability to see beyond the obvious. Characteristic...
Or, in more general terms, how could the violence been ended in Vietnam? To speculate on how the violence could have ended or to...
They Carried, this influence and perspective are most evident. OBrien mentions that most of the guys there called their life in A...
which values the views of those Westerners engaged in that struggle over those of the native population. In other words, Herr is m...