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Dynamic Midwest Campus Against the Vietnam War

Robbie Lieberman recalled, "The Vietnam War was the crucible... The Midwest had become a big locus of it."2 It all began back in ...

Women in “The Things They Carried”

war (OBrien). Martha is a symbol of what we might call the "all-American girl." Cross speculates endlessly on whether or not she ...

Why Did the United States Lose the Vietnam War?

could perhaps subtly support South Vietnam and thus bring order back to the nation. They did not take into consideration that the ...

BRIC Nations as an FDI Destination Compared to Other Developing Economies

assess the potential for future growth and attraction for FDI. It is generally agreed that the BRIC nations are in a...

Vietnam Economic Development Questions

a destination for investment, creating increased revues and increasing aggregate demand in a positive cycle. Question 2 Dunning ...

Vietnam War and the Movie We Were Soldiers

Seventh Cavalry and a young journalist. Both Moore and Galloway, along with other battle survivors, served as technical advisors ...

Vietnam a U.S. Blunder

Vietnam is a troubled one, with war one of its main themes. But U.S. involvement there really begins with the French in Indochina ...

Martin Luther King Jr.: The Vietnam War 'Shot Down' the Great Society Envisioned by President Lyndon B. Johnson

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

The Vietnam War

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...

Tim O’Brien and the Man He Killed

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

Students and the Law

up in court. This paper considers two cases in which students are involved. Discussion The first case is Safford Unified School D...

The Korean War and The Cold War

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...

“The Things They Carried” - An Analysis of the Main Themes

with a wretched climate where theyre always hot and miserable, where they cant tell friend from foe, and where half their battles ...

Covert Operations vs. the Traditional Military

Roosevelt; the Joint Chiefs were afraid that this man would convince FDR to give covert action precedence, which of course would t...

IRAQ AND VIETNAM WARS: A COMPARISON

to the United States. II. The location and terrain were vastly different from one another, requiring different strategic maneuvers...

Realism in O’Brien’s Works

in Vietnam. As the war fades further into the past, its important that authors like OBrien continue to remind Americans of the dif...

Telling Stories about Vietnam

the last thing he says is "My boots are filling" and hes gone (Erdrich). Lyman jumps in and searches for him until the sun sets, b...

Events of the 20th Century

democracies, did not want communism to spread throughout Europe. Both superpowers possessed nuclear weapons and both had the power...

Barriers to Foreign Direct Investment in Vietnam

followed by inflation and then a decline in the past as well as currency depreciation. This indicates that there may still be op...

Questions on the New Left, Liberalism, and Vietnam Answered

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

Physical Description of the 1982 Vietnam War Memorial

(2000). The Vietnam Memorial Wall is in an urban park setting ("Vietnam," 2003). Its construction system is "cut stone masonry" ...

Country of Vietnam, Apart from its War Presentation

elements that make it worth noticing. It is time to let the Vietnam War become a part of history and start looking at Vietnam for ...

The Vietnam War and the Attitudes That Drove the Conflict

Carl Strikwerda suggests that the globalization debate has great implications when looking at the United States (Grainge, 2001). ...

Immoral Actions and Henry Kissinger

there has been real "tension between Americas much-vaulted ethical and legal principles and its practical policy interests" (2000,...

Populated Areas and Military Offenses

last experience it had had in entering a city was in taking Vietnams Imperial city of Hue back from the North Vietnamese Army. Th...

Randall Wallace's Film We Were Soldiers and the Depiction of the Vietnam War

coming home, and making sure ones buddies did the same. This movie does not use a lot of special effects so one is not distracted...

Foreign Diplomacy and the Role of Congress

order to obtain the power to act unilaterally in Southeast Asia, Congress felt compelled to assume the full power granted that bod...

Theories on the Reasons Behind the Longevity of the Vietnam War

lost, there were many who were idealistic, who thought themselves to be freedom fighters and who fought for freedom. It was a pie...

A Rumor of War by Philip Caputo

The structural basis of imagery is symbolic of Caputos intrinsic creativity and ability to see beyond the obvious. Characteristic...

Past and Present War Propaganda and the Media

has essentially been an ineffective battle so far. In other words, while the media and government espouses the "was on terrorism"...