YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Films and Books on the Vietnam War
Essays 241 - 270
In seven pages the Vietnam War is examined within the context of LBJ's role in its perpetuation and military escalation and the im...
In five pages this paper discusses how the Air Force and Army have employed aircraft in warfare with examples from the Vietnam and...
In five pages this paper discusses how US culture was polarized as a result of the Vietnam War and considers the media's role. Fo...
This book review focuses on Scott Martell's "Blood Passion: The Ludlow Massacre and Class War in the American West," which descri...
end in failure. The fault of much of the debilitation of the Vietnam soldier lies with the politicians and the military strategic...
"seemingly contradictory methods of troop reduction and applications of intense firepower to coerce the North Vietnamese to accept...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
letters did help. The soldiers in Vietnam, at least in the book, carried around a variety of things. Like boy scouts on...
his or her own emotional baggage. Some of that baggage inevitably includes fear, guilt, homesickness, anger, and that struggle bet...
United States, and the troops suffered significant losses from problems that had nothing to do with the Viet Cong. In "Days," the...
with seemingly no end in sight. With businesses continuing to fail at record levels and unemployment rates at an all-time high, i...
San Diego, California. For a young farm boy, the transition was nothing short of culture shock. The boot camp of 1941 was design...
was accepted as justification for intervention in Southeast Asia. The background to the American intervention shows how the Vietn...
responsibility; friendship; work; courage; perseverance; honesty; loyalty; and faith" (Muehlenberg, 1999). Bennett uses a number o...
act of not being obedient. He contrasted the longevity of nature with the ethereal nature of that manmade contrivance we call gov...
involved in Vietnam through warfare they were strongly supportive, and backed, actions that were in the favor of the south. For ex...
book is not on any one person, but on the war and the period of Reconstruction that followed. Having said that, its still possible...
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...
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early chapters show up again later, as others talk about them. It reminds a reader of those wonderful, wacky conversations that go...
seeking to do business in the area. These included restrictions, such as not being allowed to learn Chinese, only being able to li...
to any gender focus on protesting (Stew, 1991). There is also the interesting and informative truth regarding how many wom...