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

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

alive and as intact as possible. In many ways this is also reflective of the title, symbolic of "The Things They Carried." They ca...

Thanks to his experience and his resolve he was able to stand up valiantly even in the face of many negatives. Prior...

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

was quickly transitioning from an agrarian lifestyle to one which centered around the cities. Lounges became favored places of en...

dumb show was left. Not the most dramatic passage in the book, but one of the most compelling, is Caputos description of the day ...

of military proportions but also a national fiasco of monumental proportions as well. Initially, the majority of Americans were u...

his mother. Prior to the war, Hemingway lets the reader know that Krebs was in tune with small town life. He attended a Methodist ...

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...

as protecting others, hence the prevalence of young men and women who enter the military in peacetime in the full understanding th...

old man talks about, nothing else. How he cant wait to see my goddamn medals" (OBrien, 1998; 36). In this the reader...

Herring (1994) also examines the question as to why America failed in this war, when it had been successful so many other times. i...

film, McNamara discusses several of the primary lessons to be learned from wartime experience, which are covered in detail in his ...

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...

film taking on certain aspects of each others roles (Davis 80). Norika offers Tomi and Shukichi the respect that filial tradition ...

Their purpose was to have Parliament abolish slave trade, rather than declare slavery to be illegal. As an incremental play, this ...

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

evidence". Agent orange has gained the most notoriety in its use as a defoliant in the Vietnam War. It has been the...

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

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

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

under both JFK and LBJ, discussed Kennedys knowledge of the coup and its aftermath in Errol Morris documentary, The Fog of War. F...

The wishes of the Arabs themselves were acknowledged only half-heartedly, which makes this business of carving up sovereign nation...

comprise Tim OBriens celebrated collection, The Things They Carried. OBrien was himself a "grunt" in Vietnam, and his view of the ...

actually put into practice what JFK preached in his New Frontier - equal rights for all citizens. Johnson seemed worthy of their ...

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

defined either narrowly or quite expansively (Rathbun, 2008). Our historic focus on isolationism has for the most part been based...