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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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

coming home, and making sure ones buddies did the same. This movie does not use a lot of special effects so one is not distracted...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

the Armada, which was pivotal and crucial strategy of Philips II in ambition to invade England. Mattingly starts with the executio...

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

book of the same name is a moving account of a platoon of "grunts" in Vietnam. This paper discusses various aspects of the story a...

in jobs back in the States, but several committed suicide. Perhaps the most poignant letters are the ones in which the young man e...

Infrastructure and its importance are discussed in an overview of Vietnam's economic history in seven pages. Eight sources are ci...

about under doi moi. On the...

prosperous in peace. Reforms that were started in the 1980s offered the rosy perspective of a country opened freely to foreign tra...