Essays 241 - 270
rallying cry (Drew and Snow, 1990). For example, "Remember the Maine" served this purpose during the Spanish American War. The sec...
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,...
(2000). The Vietnam Memorial Wall is in an urban park setting ("Vietnam," 2003). Its construction system is "cut stone masonry" ...
claims that the Vietnam soldiers had a 72 percent higher rate of suicide than their other military counterparts (Bower, 1987, p. 1...
with the names of the more than 58,000 U.S. men and women who were killed or missing in the Vietnam War" (Vietnam Veterans Memoria...
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...
forces as simply the latest in a string of Western outsiders. Herrington explains that Vietnam was occupied by the West for over a...
the action was the straw that broke the Camels back. In fact, not only was it a turning point for the Vietnam conflict, but if one...
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...
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...
dumb show was left. Not the most dramatic passage in the book, but one of the most compelling, is Caputos description of the day ...
well as the case that finally struck down the concept of "separate but equal" in terms of education, and mandating that all school...
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...
checker board and play checkers till dark. He comments on how reassuring that game was in which the rules were known and observabl...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
has essentially been an ineffective battle so far. In other words, while the media and government espouses the "was on terrorism"...
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...
bringing the country back into some semblance of order. It was these very movements that helped Nixons administration withdraw fro...