YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Films and Books on the Vietnam War
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solely for blasting rap music on his boom box. A local DJ, Mister Senor Love Daddy, who operates a radio station also acts as a co...
to retreat from society or for individuals who want to go into hiding from government or law enforcement authorities. Ironically,...
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...
would become his own trademark. This film, along with Obsession (1976), further developed De Palmas expressive use of cinematogra...
Herring (1994) also examines the question as to why America failed in this war, when it had been successful so many other times. i...
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 ...
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...
alive and as intact as possible. In many ways this is also reflective of the title, symbolic of "The Things They Carried." They ca...
The existence of threat likely holds the key. Sixty-four years later, rumors still fly about Franklin Roosevelts level of knowled...
checker board and play checkers till dark. He comments on how reassuring that game was in which the rules were known and observabl...
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...
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...
dumb show was left. Not the most dramatic passage in the book, but one of the most compelling, is Caputos description of the day ...
Thanks to his experience and his resolve he was able to stand up valiantly even in the face of many negatives. Prior...
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...
had an impact on both the war protestors and the Civil Rights activists. If every person has an inherent worth, then anything that...
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...
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...
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...
Security; Governance Rule of Law & Human Rights; Infrastructure & Natural Resources; Education; Health; Agriculture & Rural Develo...
Kennedy need not have made the decisions he had which put America in the midst of Vietnam. He could have taken a more isolationist...
used only for entertainment and simple news, was now a reality in the culture of America as it related to the war. Horrid atrociti...
evidence". Agent orange has gained the most notoriety in its use as a defoliant in the Vietnam War. It has been the...