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

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

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

blood that is shed on the battlefield. The novel opens when the rumor runs through a Union camp that the army is finally going to ...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

well as the case that finally struck down the concept of "separate but equal" in terms of education, and mandating that all school...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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

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

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

base their assumptions and conclusions on the notion that a supreme emergency provides a justification for war. He considers the ...

blank slate for the imaginings of those around him, particularly Hana. Myth "crosses international boundaries and offers apparentl...

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...

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...

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