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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...

Causes of the Chicago Race Riot of 1919

respect as the white soldiers during or after World War I; while black Americans fought just as hard and loyally as their lighter-...

Politics and Christianity's Role

the Netherlands, said: "God the Lord unmistakably instituted the basic rule for the duty of government. Government exists to admin...

War In The Congo

groundwork for development in this struggling nation, and further, created a sense of enlightenment where before there was none (...

Mysticism in Island by Aldous Huxley

anywhere else. We are all, if we already knew it, already there" (Huxley 35) displays a sharp Taoist influence. Looking at Huxle...

India, Social Change, and Eucharist

Soares Prabhu discussed the religious pluralism in India at great length, noting that all religions can find a home in India, even...

Substance Abuse and Society

to hire a lawyer. This is true even when police use illegal tactics to secure an arrest. Certainly, there are tax implications an...

Cinematic Explanation of Sciences' Gender Gap

crashes several hours flying time from a scientific research station in the Arctic. An Air Force crew is ordered to go and pick up...

American History Themes of Imperialism and War

now begun to build an empire: it has territories such as the Philippines and Puerto Rico, and the invasion of Iraq, many speculate...

Fighting the Vietnam War

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

The Ramayana by R.K. Narayan and the 'Righteous War' Concept

horse sacrifice contained within The Ramayana. According to Narayans translation, in this ceremonial ritual, "A horse... is set f...

Significance of the Yalta Conference

and Great Britain would make concessions to Russia for remaining on the allies side and entering the war in the Pacific theater (R...

Buddhism in Tibet

of Mahayana Buddhism. Its basic elements are practically identical to this form of Buddhism, in fact. Buddhism is in many ways o...

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...

U.S. Civil War Partisan Influence and Guerrilla Warfare

defensive stance. This is hardly a recent invention, but actually manifested itself some half-century before the birth of Jesus C...

ICT and its Contemporary Life Impacts

two areas that have seen a high input form ICT. The subject area is so broad we cannot look at the entire are in only a few page...

The Punic Wars

of the most important things to note about this conflict is that it each side was forced into a situation where it seemed they had...

Positive Perspective on the Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson

Thanks to his experience and his resolve he was able to stand up valiantly even in the face of many negatives. Prior...

New Technology and the Civil War

because the railroad was so relatively new, there was a great deal of chaos in trying to coordinate such efforts. The man power wa...

History of Slavery in the US

prompted by a growing lower class of former servants who had worked through the terms of their indentures and thus became competit...

Sociological Structure in the Cat's Cradle

a life of fear and torment, yet this is nothing more than a fa?ade of assurance. The people have no idea that each and every enti...

WTO Reflections

essence of sui juris clearly indicates how every global community, society and nation has it within their grasp to secure the same...

Free Trade and the WTO

effective devalue each other: "prosperous market traders would be viewed as petty and untrustworthy shysters in networks, while s...

4 Articles on Purchase and Inventory Control Management Reviewed

or a cheaper alterative will do the same job. This is the way of controlling spending, but to management costs and spendin...

Abraham Lincoln and His Civil War Involvement

would secede from the Union and thus would indicate they did not care about his demands or his desires (Abraham Lincoln and the Ci...

Justifying the Iraq War Philosophically

culpable. It is true that many other nations, such as France, opposed the war effort in Iraq. Did the U.S. overstep its bounds? Wh...

How A Civil Action Demonstrates a Need for Social Action

1998, p. 67). The case is not anything new. It is based on a true situation and there are other cases of cancer clusters being tie...

China's Entrance into the WTO and Its Political Implications

an estimated 9.8% in 2020 (Cheng, 2003). This would place China ahead of Japan, and make it the second largest trading nation, pla...

'The Poisonwood Bible' by Barbara Kingsolver and a Responsibility Letter

1959, and Price, like so many of his Western contemporaries at the time, believed that the inhabitants of the so-called Dark Conti...

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...