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In a paper consisting of five pages the effects of the Cold War in America are considered and include the atomic bombing of Hirosh...

In six pages this paper refers to Gunfighter Nation The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth Century America by Richard Slotkin in t...

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

early chapters show up again later, as others talk about them. It reminds a reader of those wonderful, wacky conversations that go...

that media during the 1960s and 1970s shifted toward "an oppositional relation to political authority" (68). Hallin uses as his ar...

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

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

reality in many ways. In this work there are many young men in the war, men that are clinging to whatever they can in the devastat...

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...

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...

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...

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

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 ...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

Robbie Lieberman recalled, "The Vietnam War was the crucible... The Midwest had become a big locus of it."2 It all began back in ...