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to retreat from society or for individuals who want to go into hiding from government or law enforcement authorities. Ironically,...

war because he already knew that once a troop commitment had been made - no matter how small - it would become difficult not to be...

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...

it" (Zelnick, 2005). There was also some dissent at this time, but it didnt come from protestors, but from professional military p...

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...

Congressional approval for armed intervention and in 1898 the Spanish-American War began (Trask, 2002). This is one of many confl...

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

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...

can imagine that carrying letters around are testaments to the fact that he has a life at home. Vietnam provides a backdrop of cha...

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...

Kevin Sims "Four Hours in My Lai." A Rumor of War In Caputos work he states, in the beginning, "In a general sense, it is simply...

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

a Buddhist monk, Venerable Thich Nhah Hanh, "whether he would rather have peace under a communist regime that would mean the end o...

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

the children to do. Families moved to the cities and the transition was difficult. Still, this larger change resulted in a reduced...

hoped to increase through increased trade. According to Perlmutter (1997), "The idea of American exceptionalism was a product of ...

This essay presents a movie review of "Music Within," (2007, directed by Steven Sawalich). The film stars Ron Livingston as Richa...

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

or hurt is as bad as joining with the abusers. A great deal of the damage thats done in society is done by those who only stand a...

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

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

process, Ho Chi Minh claims that more than two million Vietnamese died of starvation, a result not only of French preoccupation wi...

The U.S. military involvements in the Vietnam War and the Gulf War are analyzed within the context of this book in 5 pages. The b...

Revolution-and the movements even before that date-is considered relevant to the rest of the century. Russia would come into its o...

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...