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Essays 391 - 420
In five pages this paper examines the reasons behind fighting the Vietnam War from the Vietnamese perspective. Four sources are c...
at taking 75 years and costing $50 billion. This is described very clearly in an article by Glenn Zorpette published in Scientific...
This paper examines how heroism is conceptualized within the context of the Vietnam War in a comparative analysis of these texts c...
Vietnam War stands out in US history as one of Americas greatest traumas. For the American people, it was a bewildering affair fro...
In six pages this report considers crisis situations such as the Second World War, the conflicts in Korea and Vietnam, and the Gul...
to set the record straight. There were stories coming out claiming how bad American troops were in Vietnam. This infuriated me. ...
to preserve the military and diplomatic credibility of the United States in the Cold War, but when its costs grew excessive the wa...
In eleven pages this paper analyzes the 1979 film in terms of the way Coppola's Vietnam manifesto also represents the subconscious...
"seemingly contradictory methods of troop reduction and applications of intense firepower to coerce the North Vietnamese to accept...
end in failure. The fault of much of the debilitation of the Vietnam soldier lies with the politicians and the military strategic...
Rhoads essay on the life and experiences of a nurse in Vietnam gives a chilling clarity of the realities with which medical person...
letters did help. The soldiers in Vietnam, at least in the book, carried around a variety of things. Like boy scouts on...
his or her own emotional baggage. Some of that baggage inevitably includes fear, guilt, homesickness, anger, and that struggle bet...
bombardier, Yossarian. It is as the Chaplain believes: "there was really no way of knowing anything ... not even that there was no...
and parcel of continuing education. In grade school, students learn about history and geography, but it is only when they grow up ...
the My Lai massacre and, also, traces the sociological template for young male soldiers to John Wayne. He writes, "I suppose each...
Johnson initiated the reciprocal attack that ultimately "signaled the enemys hostile intent" (Anonymous PG). The Americans claime...
erupt. The years which fell during the Cold War was perhaps one of the most interesting periods of world history. The inte...
actually put into practice what JFK preached in his New Frontier - equal rights for all citizens. Johnson seemed worthy of their ...
Introduction The Vietnam War was a very chaotic time. Many argue that the war was never a war that could have been won by the Uni...
under both JFK and LBJ, discussed Kennedys knowledge of the coup and its aftermath in Errol Morris documentary, The Fog of War. F...
defeat unless they were forced to do so. If the U.S. was going to bring the troops home with honor, intensive combat missions wou...
comprise Tim OBriens celebrated collection, The Things They Carried. OBrien was himself a "grunt" in Vietnam, and his view of the ...
in Vietnam. As the war fades further into the past, its important that authors like OBrien continue to remind Americans of the dif...
democracies, did not want communism to spread throughout Europe. Both superpowers possessed nuclear weapons and both had the power...
followed by inflation and then a decline in the past as well as currency depreciation. This indicates that there may still be op...
up in court. This paper considers two cases in which students are involved. Discussion The first case is Safford Unified School D...
first and second worlds, or the free world and the communist bloc. Many equated the U.S. as a major force of the first world and...
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...