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Women and Protesting During the Vietnam War

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

Vietnam

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...

Women in “The Things They Carried”

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

Dynamic Midwest Campus Against the Vietnam War

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

Civil Disobedience and the Vietnam War

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

Reaction to: “The Things They Carried”

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

Military Leadership and Robert D. Kaplan’s Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos

that military action can never be without cost or loss of life, but some costs must be paid. Military leaders must have an acute ...

Causes of WWII/Pacific Theatre

was a republic, led by the Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek. Due to the fact that there was serious opposition to his government...

Civil Disobedience in the 1960s

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

Impact of the Great War on Western Literature

would be sent to war in just a few years, underscores the awful waste of youth, of life, of promise. The final stanza, in particu...

Vietnam through a Cold War Lens

was accepted as justification for intervention in Southeast Asia. The background to the American intervention shows how the Vietn...

United States’ Involvement in the Vietnam War

involved in Vietnam through warfare they were strongly supportive, and backed, actions that were in the favor of the south. For ex...

David Halberstam/The Best and the Brightest

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

Apocalypse Now and the Vietnam War

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...

Martin Luther King Jr.: The Vietnam War 'Shot Down' the Great Society Envisioned by President Lyndon B. Johnson

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

The Vietnam War

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...

Questions on the New Left, Liberalism, and Vietnam Answered

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

Vietnam War, The New York Times v. United States, and Striking a Balance Between National Security and the First Amendment

defeat unless they were forced to do so. If the U.S. was going to bring the troops home with honor, intensive combat missions wou...

Students and the Law

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

Tim O’Brien and the Man He Killed

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

Why Did the United States Lose the Vietnam War?

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

Vietnam War and the Movie We Were Soldiers

Seventh Cavalry and a young journalist. Both Moore and Galloway, along with other battle survivors, served as technical advisors ...

The Unfinished War Vietnam in the American Conscience by Walter H. Capps Reviewed

national myths that have abounded about the War (which have, in fact, perpetuated the notions about Americas involvement in all wa...

Country of Vietnam, Apart from its War Presentation

elements that make it worth noticing. It is time to let the Vietnam War become a part of history and start looking at Vietnam for ...

Physical Description of the 1982 Vietnam War Memorial

(2000). The Vietnam Memorial Wall is in an urban park setting ("Vietnam," 2003). Its construction system is "cut stone masonry" ...

Cinematic Comparison of Oliver Stone's Platoon and John Wayne's The Green Berets

admit he hasnt, but soon remedies that by accompanying Kirby and his men on a mission to defend their firebase from the Vietcong s...

TV Series on the Vietnam War Tour of Duty

but still protecting and serving in the community). Or they begin to "remember" world events as they are presented on television. ...

Theories on the Reasons Behind the Longevity of the Vietnam War

lost, there were many who were idealistic, who thought themselves to be freedom fighters and who fought for freedom. It was a pie...

A Rumor of War by Philip Caputo

The structural basis of imagery is symbolic of Caputos intrinsic creativity and ability to see beyond the obvious. Characteristic...

Vietnam and a Possible Peaceful Settlement

Or, in more general terms, how could the violence been ended in Vietnam? To speculate on how the violence could have ended or to...