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

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

expedient to American leaders to aid the French, rather than back the people to whom the country actually belonged (Drew and Snow)...

In short, Linds book presents the theory that the Vietnam War resulted from a complexity of geopolitical factors, factors that Lin...

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...

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

erupt. The years which fell during the Cold War was perhaps one of the most interesting periods of world history. The inte...

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

in the world, the nation that had not been directly or severely attacked by a foreign enemy since its founding was attacked (The H...

supported by Russia (1991). The political climate became quite complex and the U.S. wanted to help Europe. It was a time of bomb s...

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

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

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

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

acquire these riches due to the efforts of Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama, which facilitates the creation of Lisbon as Europes ...

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

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

and parcel of continuing education. In grade school, students learn about history and geography, but it is only when they grow up ...

readily comprehend the seemingly insignificant difference between the two thoughts, inasmuch as some believe that mass media has l...