YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Critically Examining the Vietnam War
Essays 151 - 180
system assumed that poor people were not finding work because they were parasitic in nature, preferring to be lazy and let society...
would be sent to war in just a few years, underscores the awful waste of youth, of life, of promise. The final stanza, in particu...
In five pages this paper analyzes war's futility in a comparative poetic analysis of 'Poor Man' and 'WPA.'...
act of not being obedient. He contrasted the longevity of nature with the ethereal nature of that manmade contrivance we call gov...
was accepted as justification for intervention in Southeast Asia. The background to the American intervention shows how the Vietn...
government had never fully examined whether or not its main rationalization for involvement in Vietnam, i.e., the domino theory, w...
but be of a military mind and take such realities as par for the course in warfare. There may be others who used the war to make t...
had an impact on both the war protestors and the Civil Rights activists. If every person has an inherent worth, then anything that...
to retreat from society or for individuals who want to go into hiding from government or law enforcement authorities. Ironically,...
film, McNamara discusses several of the primary lessons to be learned from wartime experience, which are covered in detail in his ...
old man talks about, nothing else. How he cant wait to see my goddamn medals" (OBrien, 1998; 36). In this the reader...
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...
admit he hasnt, but soon remedies that by accompanying Kirby and his men on a mission to defend their firebase from the Vietcong s...
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 ...
lost, there were many who were idealistic, who thought themselves to be freedom fighters and who fought for freedom. It was a pie...
The structural basis of imagery is symbolic of Caputos intrinsic creativity and ability to see beyond the obvious. Characteristic...
but still protecting and serving in the community). Or they begin to "remember" world events as they are presented on television. ...
They Carried, this influence and perspective are most evident. OBrien mentions that most of the guys there called their life in A...
Or, in more general terms, how could the violence been ended in Vietnam? To speculate on how the violence could have ended or to...
and its necessity in order to survive. "Worms, Rat Kiley said. Right out of the grave...The men laughed. They all felt great re...
early chapters show up again later, as others talk about them. It reminds a reader of those wonderful, wacky conversations that go...
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...
dumb show was left. Not the most dramatic passage in the book, but one of the most compelling, is Caputos description of the day ...
checker board and play checkers till dark. He comments on how reassuring that game was in which the rules were known and observabl...
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...
comprise Tim OBriens celebrated collection, The Things They Carried. OBrien was himself a "grunt" in Vietnam, and his view of the ...
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...