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Essays 271 - 300

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien and the Character Norman Bowker

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

Positive Perspective on the Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson

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

Observers of the Vietnam War Experience

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

Structure of the Novel The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

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

Explication of Neil Young's Song Ohio

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...

Vietnam War in Literature and the Powerlessness of Characters

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...

Using Fiction to Depict the Vietnam War in The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

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...

Discussion of Tim O'Brien's Vietnam War Novel The Things They Carried

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

Song Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore and its Relevance

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

Vietnam and the IMF

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

Vietnam Investment

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

Two Questions on Doing Business in Vietnam and Perceptions About Products Made in Vietnam Answered

Vietnams cultural practices and showing a willingness to conform to them will go a long way toward improved business associations ...

Writing Back to the World

in jobs back in the States, but several committed suicide. Perhaps the most poignant letters are the ones in which the young man e...

Tim O’Brien, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq

book of the same name is a moving account of a platoon of "grunts" in Vietnam. This paper discusses various aspects of the story a...

Economy of Vietnam

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

Doi Moi Renovation Policies of Vietnam

prosperous in peace. Reforms that were started in the 1980s offered the rosy perspective of a country opened freely to foreign tra...

United Kingdom and the War Against Terrorism

events of September 11th affected British interests, it would be fair to say that the way in which the attacks on the WTC and the ...

Major Post 1945 Conflicts and the Involvement of 'Superpower' United States

Superpower nations have a number of different types of pressure which they can bring to bear on countries in conflict; apart from ...

Florence Nightingale's Work

the incidence of the deaths that were preventable, and also developed the polar-area diagram as a way of demonstrating the impact ...

Gulf War and Military Strategy

the United States, our interests, or our allies" (The Strategy). The National Security Objective - to promote peace and stability...

The Second World War and the Contributions of Australia

At the initiation of their invasion of Poland, the British government began to put into place strategies for addressing the defens...

US Involvement in the Iraq War

is, the United States (and the United Nations), has given Iraq years to comply with regulations which quite clearly they have no i...

Overview of the Pearl Harbor Bombing

to the bombing, however, we note that in the words of one author, following WWI "Japan grew angry with the U.S.A. because they wer...

Could the Cold War Been Avoided by the U.S.?

In six pages the Cold War is examined within the context of whether or not the United States could have avoided its involvement. ...

The Persian Gulf War and U.S. Involvement

This 7 page paper outlines the factors behind the Persian Gulf War and the U.S. military strategy during the conflict. The writer ...

Opium Wars Through Chinese Eyes by Arthur Waley

strictly illegal under Chinese law. However, the opium trade was of pivotal importance to British Imperialism. The British smuggli...

Korean War and the Soviet Union

In ten pages this paper examines the Korean War and the involvement of the Soviet Union. There are 4 sources cited in the bibliog...

Varying Justifications for World War II

The reasons nation enter into warfare are on the one hand diverse. On the other hand, however, they most often relate to one degr...

China and Its Involvement in the Korean War

The writer explores the reasons that China became involved in the Korean War. There are six sources listed in the bibliography of ...