YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Films and Books on the Vietnam War
Essays 181 - 210
would become his own trademark. This film, along with Obsession (1976), further developed De Palmas expressive use of cinematogra...
as protecting others, hence the prevalence of young men and women who enter the military in peacetime in the full understanding th...
old man talks about, nothing else. How he cant wait to see my goddamn medals" (OBrien, 1998; 36). In this the reader...
of military proportions but also a national fiasco of monumental proportions as well. Initially, the majority of Americans were u...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
serves as a place where information, stories, poems and even artwork regarding the war can be exchanged. Another site that...
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...
the two powers for years to come (Elbaum, 2004). In April, Peng Zhen was purged and in the months coming, Mao and the PLA took s...
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...
which values the views of those Westerners engaged in that struggle over those of the native population. In other words, Herr is m...
the culture of the times. One way in which government and politics became involved in directing cultural mores was through ...
ideological battle within. After the Geneva cease-fire agreement of 1954, Vietnam had been subdivided at the 17th Parallel into n...
eventually threaten the security of the West and that US could prevent this with a limited military role that would only provide t...
together as consultants in the White House with the results of their actions and inactions now well documented. The American invo...
have since described as "pointless." Summary of "Into the Quagmire" In his introduction to the book, VanDeMark writes: "Vietnam ...
the accomplishments of the American military forces were tremendous, in fact the Viet Cong were destroyed after the Tet offensive ...
end in failure. The fault of much of the debilitation of the Vietnam soldier lies with the politicians and the military strategic...
Johnson initiated the reciprocal attack that ultimately "signaled the enemys hostile intent" (Anonymous PG). The Americans claime...
the My Lai massacre and, also, traces the sociological template for young male soldiers to John Wayne. He writes, "I suppose each...
who had been defeated not as much by a superior foe but an irresponsible American government. Many factors came into play ...
this country after serving in Vietnam. What is even more tragic is that most of them never have recovered from the sights in Viet...
to Americans via the nightly news, they were shocked, outraged and disheartened. They demanded that our troops return home and th...
and its necessity in order to survive. "Worms, Rat Kiley said. Right out of the grave...The men laughed. They all felt great re...
President Johnson in charge, limited bombing raids were authorized over North Vietnam and troop levels began to rise (1991). The d...