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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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

and should have been able to see more clearly what the consequences would be, were beside themselves with joy" (Remarque 11). T...

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...

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

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...

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...

Thanks to his experience and his resolve he was able to stand up valiantly even in the face of many negatives. Prior...

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

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...

Vietnams cultural practices and showing a willingness to conform to them will go a long way toward improved business associations ...

in jobs back in the States, but several committed suicide. Perhaps the most poignant letters are the ones in which the young man e...

book of the same name is a moving account of a platoon of "grunts" in Vietnam. This paper discusses various aspects of the story a...

they have often had more time to cultivate these groups than a challenger does (Gordon & Landa). The third advantage an incumbent...

Infrastructure and its importance are discussed in an overview of Vietnam's economic history in seven pages. Eight sources are ci...

earth. It was this antagonistic attitude that only served to fuel Ho Chi Minhs desire to ward off foreign domination and American...

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

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

works signed by a famous artist. Rather, the visitor is exposed to the artifacts that suggest what life was and is like to African...

well to take a broad perspective not only on the countrys recent economic development but also the constraints which might affect ...

about under doi moi. On the...

timed in regards to their responses, Rosch reported that "response times are strikingly close to ratings of typicality" which mean...

prosperous in peace. Reforms that were started in the 1980s offered the rosy perspective of a country opened freely to foreign tra...