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Song Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore and its Relevance

The existence of threat likely holds the key. Sixty-four years later, rumors still fly about Franklin Roosevelts level of knowled...

Structure of the Novel The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

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

Using Fiction to Depict the Vietnam War in The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

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...

Vietnam War in Literature and the Powerlessness of Characters

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...

Observers of the Vietnam War Experience

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

Positive Perspective on the Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson

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

Explication of Neil Young's Song Ohio

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...

Civil Disobedience in the 1960s

had an impact on both the war protestors and the Civil Rights activists. If every person has an inherent worth, then anything that...

Vietnam through a Cold War Lens

was accepted as justification for intervention in Southeast Asia. The background to the American intervention shows how the Vietn...

United States’ Involvement in the Vietnam War

involved in Vietnam through warfare they were strongly supportive, and backed, actions that were in the favor of the south. For ex...

Bennett: "The Book of Virtues"

responsibility; friendship; work; courage; perseverance; honesty; loyalty; and faith" (Muehlenberg, 1999). Bennett uses a number o...

Civil Disobedience and the Vietnam War

act of not being obedient. He contrasted the longevity of nature with the ethereal nature of that manmade contrivance we call gov...

Two Perspectives on General George B. McClellan

book is not on any one person, but on the war and the period of Reconstruction that followed. Having said that, its still possible...

Mississippi Burning/A Reaction to the Film

group of KKK members (DuPont, et al). The film ends with snapshots of the men indicted for the murders of the three Civil Rights w...

Afghanistan National Development Strategy (ANDS)

Security; Governance Rule of Law & Human Rights; Infrastructure & Natural Resources; Education; Health; Agriculture & Rural Develo...

The Meaning of President Bush's Contention that Desert Storm Would Not Become Another Vietnam

This seven page essay reviews the contention by President Bush that Destert Storm would not be a repeat of the long and bloody war...

Social Chaos and Confusion of Children of Vietnam War Veterans

story "Fathering," one such child is depicted. Eng was most likely-- although not even definitely-- the daughter of an American V...

Vietnam Veterans and Employment Opportunities

stayed and lived in the woods or changed their identities so they would not have to go home. Some returned drug addicts. Still oth...

US Foreign Policy and the Vietnam War

States nationalism and foreign policy has been based in the perception of a necessary evil. The necessity of conflict, the need f...

Bombing Policy of the United States During the Vietnam War

do with war strategy-which was a total failure of U.S. leadership. In the end, the bombing campaigns served to decimate land and v...

Women's Role in the Vietnam War

In five pages this essay considers women's pivotal role in the Vietnam War and its impact. Four sources are cited in the bibliogr...

Guerrilla Tactics and the Vietnam War

machine - guns, cannons, bombs. (Suter, 128). US intelligence prior to our involvement supplied the United States with a c...

Book Review of Four Hours in My Lai by Michael Bilton and Kevin Sim

who were interviewing members of Charlie Company. Simpson had taken part in the massacre at My Lai in March 1968; his subsequent l...

General William Westmoreland's Attrition Strategy During the Vietnam War

that followed (RCAH). While the United States was very much involved in the conflict, purportedly to keep peace in the world by ta...

Antiwar Sentiments, Sociopolitical Thought, and the Vietnam War

7,000 men a month virtually indefinitely. Political cadres won support from, or at least neutralized, the Southern peasantry. Weak...

End of the Vietnam War

the U.S. Army off for two years with bows and arrows. (60) These lessons from history were largely ignored. American involvement...

Reality of the 'Unwinnable' Vietnam War

bags of whatever soldiers werent forever-missing P.O.W.s. I have learned from the readings that the war, in retrospect, was a terr...

Life and Works of Mary McCarthy

In ten pages this paper considers the life of controversial author and feminist Mary McCarthy in a discussion of Vietnam War, sexu...

Analysis of Dan Rather's The Camera Never Blinks

In six pages this research paper examines Dan Rather's journalistic memoir that describes his coverage of such events as President...

Short Essays on American History

Short essays are included in this three page paper with on page being a letter that is written to Winston Churchill by Indian lead...