YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Films and Books on the Vietnam War
Essays 181 - 210
Johnson initiated the reciprocal attack that ultimately "signaled the enemys hostile intent" (Anonymous PG). The Americans claime...
"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...
this country after serving in Vietnam. What is even more tragic is that most of them never have recovered from the sights in Viet...
who had been defeated not as much by a superior foe but an irresponsible American government. Many factors came into play ...
the My Lai massacre and, also, traces the sociological template for young male soldiers to John Wayne. He writes, "I suppose each...
letters did help. The soldiers in Vietnam, at least in the book, carried around a variety of things. Like boy scouts on...
the Cold War. In other words, his stance was that he would take a hard line against Communism. He associated his name with those...
readily comprehend the seemingly insignificant difference between the two thoughts, inasmuch as some believe that mass media has l...
two different times, leaving the president no other alternative than to put forth the countrys military support (Anonymous, 2001)....
his or her own emotional baggage. Some of that baggage inevitably includes fear, guilt, homesickness, anger, and that struggle bet...
was designed to provide the Army of the Republic of South VietNam (ARVN) the time and support it needed to pacify the South Vietna...
whole, Johnson followed other advisers more closely than he did Russell. Russells advice, like the situation itself, was frequentl...
last experience it had had in entering a city was in taking Vietnams Imperial city of Hue back from the North Vietnamese Army. Th...
claims that the Vietnam soldiers had a 72 percent higher rate of suicide than their other military counterparts (Bower, 1987, p. 1...
was able to peacefully initiate change on a massive scale. As a leader, he was able to organize, and thus had the ability to unit...
between 1963 and 1973. The Vietnam War, however, resulted from very complex historical circumstances, circumstances which started...
(2000). The Vietnam Memorial Wall is in an urban park setting ("Vietnam," 2003). Its construction system is "cut stone masonry" ...
national myths that have abounded about the War (which have, in fact, perpetuated the notions about Americas involvement in all wa...
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 ...
They Carried, this influence and perspective are most evident. OBrien mentions that most of the guys there called their life in A...
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...
bringing the country back into some semblance of order. It was these very movements that helped Nixons administration withdraw fro...
but still protecting and serving in the community). Or they begin to "remember" world events as they are presented on television. ...
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...
kill him; but most of all he fears that he will not find his treasure-this might all be for nothing (Coehlo, 1995, p. 130). The A...
serves as a place where information, stories, poems and even artwork regarding the war can be exchanged. Another site that...
well as the case that finally struck down the concept of "separate but equal" in terms of education, and mandating that all school...
in eight categories: ordinary people; home front; heroes; women in uniform and out; shame; love, marriage and commitment; famous p...