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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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

serves as a place where information, stories, poems and even artwork regarding the war can be exchanged. Another site that...

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...

a force generated by a small group of people who are passionate in their beliefs. Through this groups passion and efforts, changes...

who had been defeated not as much by a superior foe but an irresponsible American government. Many factors came into play ...

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...

the Cold War. In other words, his stance was that he would take a hard line against Communism. He associated his name with those...

readily comprehend the seemingly insignificant difference between the two thoughts, inasmuch as some believe that mass media has l...

letters did help. The soldiers in Vietnam, at least in the book, carried around a variety of things. Like boy scouts on...

"seemingly contradictory methods of troop reduction and applications of intense firepower to coerce the North Vietnamese to accept...

end in failure. The fault of much of the debilitation of the Vietnam soldier lies with the politicians and the military strategic...

his or her own emotional baggage. Some of that baggage inevitably includes fear, guilt, homesickness, anger, and that struggle bet...

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...

which values the views of those Westerners engaged in that struggle over those of the native population. In other words, Herr is m...

the accomplishments of the American military forces were tremendous, in fact the Viet Cong were destroyed after the Tet offensive ...

human. Analyzing how Kubrick utilizes the Vietnam War as a means by which to expose violence, sexism and racism inherent to Ameri...