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Song Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore and its Relevance

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

Discussion of Tim O'Brien's Vietnam War Novel The Things They Carried

alive and as intact as possible. In many ways this is also reflective of the title, symbolic of "The Things They Carried." They ca...

LBJ and His Foreign Policy by Alan Schwartz

the Vietnam debacle, and, consequently overlook Johnsons achievements in Europe, which Schwartz feels "deserve consideration as on...

Vietnam Explored in Argumentative, Narrative, and Expository Writing

expedient to American leaders to aid the French, rather than back the people to whom the country actually belonged (Drew and Snow)...

The Vietnam War and the U.S. Defeat

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

Structure of the Novel The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

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

Tone Setting Early 20th Century Conflicts

Revolution-and the movements even before that date-is considered relevant to the rest of the century. Russia would come into its o...

Social Hierarchy and Imperialism

process, Ho Chi Minh claims that more than two million Vietnamese died of starvation, a result not only of French preoccupation wi...

The Vietnam War: The Problem with Escalation

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

We Were Soldiers/Historical Accuracy of Film

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...

America's Wars

Congressional approval for armed intervention and in 1898 the Spanish-American War began (Trask, 2002). This is one of many confl...

Robert McNamara/An Ethical Analysis

film, McNamara discusses several of the primary lessons to be learned from wartime experience, which are covered in detail in his ...

Vietnam War and the Agency Concept

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

Using Fiction to Depict the Vietnam War in The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

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...

Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried and the Vietnam Draft

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

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien and the Character Norman Bowker

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

Vietnam, Indonesia, and Population Control

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

Technological Differences Between Vietnam War and the Gulf War

troops in the field; it "provided additional firepower to troops engaged on the ground," it extracted troops from engagements when...

FedEx Case Study

and as they are in existence they also add costs to the value chain, but are necessary and as such they must be seen to actively a...

Good Morning: Vietnam: Scene Analysis

This paper discusses 2 scenes from the film "Good Morning, America" and offers summation and analysis. Three pages in length, thre...

Five Key Events in One of the Most Horrendous Wars in History, The Vietnam War

French were greatly outnumbered and they were trapped. This is when they appealed to the United States for help (Vietnam War: Summ...

Rhetorical Analysis of John Kerry's Vietnam Veterans Against the War 1971 Speech

Invention In regard to invention, Kerry uses three modes of persuasion...

The Deepening Involvement of the U.S. in Vietnam Affairs

In a paper that consists of three pages the increasing involvement by the United States in Vietnamese affairs are discussed as the...

Films and Books on the Vietnam War

watching Vietnam films, but if I had to pick one that seems to capture the horror, blood, panic, humor, and sheer waste of the who...

Critically Examining the Vietnam War

In a paper consisting of seven pages the reasons for the war, LBJ's escalation, and the Vietnamese perceptions of the conflict are...

American Imperialism and Vietnam

same. Because of this, the American people found it easy t believe that the South Vietnamese were, "or soon would be," just like ...

Vietnam A History by Stanley Karnow

was a region that had known internal war for quite some time and the interference of another nation did not change their culture ...

Vietnam Combat and Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried

sense of purpose. An examination of this novel demonstrates that reading this novel would be, in all likelihood, totally demoraliz...

An Evaluation and Historiography of the Vietnam Era's Antiwar Movement

but the battle was not a true victory by any means. Of course, one can still construe it as a turning point. Up until then, ther...

1940s' Support of the French in Vietnam by the United States

An overview of this topic is presented in three pages. One source is cited in the bibliography....