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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

between 1963 and 1973. The Vietnam War, however, resulted from very complex historical circumstances, circumstances which started...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

and their determination, along with European allies, to protect other Asian nations from communism. In 1950 we see the following a...

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

to the human condition. In fact, many of the existing laws in England today, are based upon his work. Assuming that his words ar...

It was generally believed that despite the presence and influence that the IMF wanted to exert it was still the will and...

In eight pages this paper examines the perspectives on nuclear war during the Cold War and in the present with 'Chinagate' among t...

rendered useless by raging waters of 1998. Even more particular to the plight of Bangladesh, however, is the fact that the land, ...

Infrastructure and its importance are discussed in an overview of Vietnam's economic history in seven pages. Eight sources are ci...

need at the front lines. The special death squads were responsible for killing about two million people (Weiss, 1996). Because ...

This paper examines World War II tribunals in terms of how war crimes are defined from legal and ethical perspectives with chain o...