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At the turn of the twentieth century Japan was just beginning to take its place as one of the...

comprise Tim OBriens celebrated collection, The Things They Carried. OBrien was himself a "grunt" in Vietnam, and his view of the ...

actually put into practice what JFK preached in his New Frontier - equal rights for all citizens. Johnson seemed worthy of their ...

up in court. This paper considers two cases in which students are involved. Discussion The first case is Safford Unified School D...

under both JFK and LBJ, discussed Kennedys knowledge of the coup and its aftermath in Errol Morris documentary, The Fog of War. F...

Introduction The Vietnam War was a very chaotic time. Many argue that the war was never a war that could have been won by the Uni...

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

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...

describes how and why the disastrous ramifications of the Treaty of Versailles set up the conditions that generated continued conf...

government had never fully examined whether or not its main rationalization for involvement in Vietnam, i.e., the domino theory, w...

but be of a military mind and take such realities as par for the course in warfare. There may be others who used the war to make t...

early chapters show up again later, as others talk about them. It reminds a reader of those wonderful, wacky conversations that go...

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

It was generally believed that despite the presence and influence that the IMF wanted to exert it was still the will and...

to retreat from society or for individuals who want to go into hiding from government or law enforcement authorities. Ironically,...

back first one North Vietnamese assault, then another, over a period of six days."i In writing about the film, co-author of We W...

Herring (1994) also examines the question as to why America failed in this war, when it had been successful so many other times. i...

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...

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...

not allowed to sit on the board of directors (which cost Barton two potential allies in former CEOs Fites and Schaefer). The downt...

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...

and their determination, along with European allies, to protect other Asian nations from communism. In 1950 we see the following a...

well as the case that finally struck down the concept of "separate but equal" in terms of education, and mandating that all school...

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...

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

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