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In short, Linds book presents the theory that the Vietnam War resulted from a complexity of geopolitical factors, factors that Lin...

the children to do. Families moved to the cities and the transition was difficult. Still, this larger change resulted in a reduced...

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

old man talks about, nothing else. How he cant wait to see my goddamn medals" (OBrien, 1998; 36). In this the reader...

as protecting others, hence the prevalence of young men and women who enter the military in peacetime in the full understanding th...

Kevin Sims "Four Hours in My Lai." A Rumor of War In Caputos work he states, in the beginning, "In a general sense, it is simply...

of military proportions but also a national fiasco of monumental proportions as well. Initially, the majority of Americans were u...

a Buddhist monk, Venerable Thich Nhah Hanh, "whether he would rather have peace under a communist regime that would mean the end o...

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...

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

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...

can imagine that carrying letters around are testaments to the fact that he has a life at home. Vietnam provides a backdrop of cha...

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...

under French rule" (Vietnam, 2007). The French named the colony "Cochinchina" (Vietnam, 2007). It took them 16 more years to bring...

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...

Some years later, Hofstede added a fifth dimension, that of Long-Term Orientation. LTO determines the degree to which a society em...

(Tanenhaus, 1999). The struggle between the two countries was both strategic and ideological, with the "future governance of the i...

(Vietnam, 2008). The President is elected from among the members of the National Assembly once every five years; the next presiden...

to any gender focus on protesting (Stew, 1991). There is also the interesting and informative truth regarding how many wom...

to war because they felt it was their calling to engage in warfare. They were all relatively innocent and ignorant about war and a...

of 22 Cessna 0-1 Bird Dogs and FAC pilots since the installation of U.S. military advisors in the area.7 As the war progressed, t...

a half mile to the beach, lay out a towel, and have this tropical bay with nice rolling waves that compared to the Riviera" (Santo...

of 2.0 percent but quarterly rates of, respectively from Q1 to Q4: 1.1 percent 4.8 percent, 4.8 percent and -.02 percent (About.co...

2006, p. 413). These conditions were met, leading President Bush (I) to say that the "Vietnam syndrome had ... been kicked" (Young...

Robbie Lieberman recalled, "The Vietnam War was the crucible... The Midwest had become a big locus of it."2 It all began back in ...

could perhaps subtly support South Vietnam and thus bring order back to the nation. They did not take into consideration that the ...

war (OBrien). Martha is a symbol of what we might call the "all-American girl." Cross speculates endlessly on whether or not she ...

the action was the straw that broke the Camels back. In fact, not only was it a turning point for the Vietnam conflict, but if one...

forces as simply the latest in a string of Western outsiders. Herrington explains that Vietnam was occupied by the West for over a...