YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Films and Books on the Vietnam War
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the foreign hordes defiling it" (Mattie 215). Cutting slays Vallon, consigns his son to an orphanage, and proclaims his rule ove...
film, McNamara discusses several of the primary lessons to be learned from wartime experience, which are covered in detail in his ...
Herring (1994) also examines the question as to why America failed in this war, when it had been successful so many other times. i...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Thanks to his experience and his resolve he was able to stand up valiantly even in the face of many negatives. Prior...
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...
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...
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...
to retreat from society or for individuals who want to go into hiding from government or law enforcement authorities. Ironically,...
was accepted as justification for intervention in Southeast Asia. The background to the American intervention shows how the Vietn...
involved in Vietnam through warfare they were strongly supportive, and backed, actions that were in the favor of the south. For ex...
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...
book is not on any one person, but on the war and the period of Reconstruction that followed. Having said that, its still possible...
act of not being obedient. He contrasted the longevity of nature with the ethereal nature of that manmade contrivance we call gov...
responsibility; friendship; work; courage; perseverance; honesty; loyalty; and faith" (Muehlenberg, 1999). Bennett uses a number o...
had an impact on both the war protestors and the Civil Rights activists. If every person has an inherent worth, then anything that...
In five pages this paper examines the reasons behind fighting the Vietnam War from the Vietnamese perspective. Four sources are c...
This paper examines how heroism is conceptualized within the context of the Vietnam War in a comparative analysis of these texts c...