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

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

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

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

They Carried, this influence and perspective are most evident. OBrien mentions that most of the guys there called their life in A...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

was designed to provide the Army of the Republic of South VietNam (ARVN) the time and support it needed to pacify the South Vietna...

whole, Johnson followed other advisers more closely than he did Russell. Russells advice, like the situation itself, was frequentl...

one-man conjecture about how Americas involvement in the Vietnam War according to the directors consistently biting tone; by provi...

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...

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

between 1963 and 1973. The Vietnam War, however, resulted from very complex historical circumstances, circumstances which started...

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...

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

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

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

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