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United Nations Hight Commissioner for Refugees

consider how the organisation may learn form its experience the first stage is to consider the role and development of the United ...

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...

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...

The Vietnam War and the Attitudes That Drove the Conflict

Carl Strikwerda suggests that the globalization debate has great implications when looking at the United States (Grainge, 2001). ...

Past and Present War Propaganda and the Media

has essentially been an ineffective battle so far. In other words, while the media and government espouses the "was on terrorism"...

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...

Richard Nixon and 1960s' Counterculture

bringing the country back into some semblance of order. It was these very movements that helped Nixons administration withdraw fro...

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. ...

Vietnam Period Historical Themes in Ron Kovics' Autobiography Born On The Fourth Of July

home. Your Fourth of July firecracker exploding in the grave" (Kovic PG). That Kovic was no different than any other red-...

Arnold Isaacs' Vietnam Shadows

Isaacs states that shadows haunt those who did fight in Vietnam because the stories that no one wanted to hear about their war con...

Immoral Actions and Henry Kissinger

there has been real "tension between Americas much-vaulted ethical and legal principles and its practical policy interests" (2000,...

Populated Areas and Military Offenses

last experience it had had in entering a city was in taking Vietnams Imperial city of Hue back from the North Vietnamese Army. Th...

Vietnam War Soldiers and Suicides

claims that the Vietnam soldiers had a 72 percent higher rate of suicide than their other military counterparts (Bower, 1987, p. 1...

Architectural Analysis of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

with the names of the more than 58,000 U.S. men and women who were killed or missing in the Vietnam War" (Vietnam Veterans Memoria...

3 Factors Responsible for the Success of the Civil Rights Movement

was able to peacefully initiate change on a massive scale. As a leader, he was able to organize, and thus had the ability to unit...

Life and Works of Mary McCarthy

In ten pages this paper considers the life of controversial author and feminist Mary McCarthy in a discussion of Vietnam War, sexu...

Analysis of Dan Rather's The Camera Never Blinks

In six pages this research paper examines Dan Rather's journalistic memoir that describes his coverage of such events as President...

Religion in Vietnam and America

This research paper contrasts and compares the principal religions of the U.S. and those of Vietnam, whilc also discussing the inf...

Upheaval and Asian Order

In eight pages the ASEAN countries' upheaval since the Second World War is assessed in terms of nuclear proliferation, the Korean ...

Vietnam Memorial Architect Maya Lin

In five pages this report examines the woman behind the architecture of the Washington D.C. Vietnam Memorial in a consideration of...

Normalization of Trade Relations Between Vietnam and the US

One-quarter of a million American citizens visited Vietnam last year, a number that reportedly should have been reached this aroun...

Civil War and Vietnam War 'Necessities'

In five pages this essay explores the meaning behind Abraham Lincoln's observations on 'necessities of war' by examining the Civil...

Overview of 1968's Tet Offensive

In six pages this paper examines the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War in a consideration of the Tet Offensive that occurred in ...

Second World War and Vietnam War on Film

In six pages this paper examines how the Second World War and Vietnam War are portrayed in the films Sands of Iwo Jima, Hamburger ...

Southeast Asia and the Refugees from Vietnam

In five pages this paper discusses Southeast Asia and the dispersal of refugees from Vietnam. Three sources are cited in the bibl...

Architect of the Vietnam Memorial Maya Lin

something happens within the viewer. Its like reading a book. I purposely had the names etched ragged right on each panel to look...

Vietnam and Confucianism Decline

In seven pages Confucianism's decline in Vietnam is charted and the argument that it was associated with ruling oppression is pres...

Warfare and the Role of the Howitzer

In five pages the Howitzer's role in contemporary warfare dating back to the Vietnam War is examined in an evolution that includes...

Politics Sabotaged the US Military in the Vietnam War

In ten pages this paper discusses how the sabotaging of the military by American politics is partly to blame in the US loss of the...