YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Fighting the Vietnam War
Essays 211 - 240
In five pages the Howitzer's role in contemporary warfare dating back to the Vietnam War is examined in an evolution that includes...
fierce protection of ancestral land was nothing new to the people trapped in between warring factions. The names given geographic...
This paper examines how heroism is conceptualized within the context of the Vietnam War in a comparative analysis of these texts c...
against the US. However, like colonial Americans, the North Vietnamese turned their superior knowledge of the terrain, into a "ho...
In five pages this report examines how lives were impacted by the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement in a consideration of ...
to set the record straight. There were stories coming out claiming how bad American troops were in Vietnam. This infuriated me. ...
In five pages this paper discusses the legacy of the Vietnam War in an analysis of the importance of Saigon's fall. Three sources...
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...
Vietnam War stands out in US history as one of Americas greatest traumas. For the American people, it was a bewildering affair fro...
Kennedy need not have made the decisions he had which put America in the midst of Vietnam. He could have taken a more isolationist...
used only for entertainment and simple news, was now a reality in the culture of America as it related to the war. Horrid atrociti...
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...
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...
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...
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...
dumb show was left. Not the most dramatic passage in the book, but one of the most compelling, is Caputos description of the day ...
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...
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...
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...
Thanks to his experience and his resolve he was able to stand up valiantly even in the face of many negatives. Prior...
checker board and play checkers till dark. He comments on how reassuring that game was in which the rules were known and observabl...
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...
act of not being obedient. He contrasted the longevity of nature with the ethereal nature of that manmade contrivance we call gov...
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...