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would become his own trademark. This film, along with Obsession (1976), further developed De Palmas expressive use of cinematogra...

there are individuals who either remember it or have hand one reason or another to study it. Americans themselves, in fact, held ...

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

old man talks about, nothing else. How he cant wait to see my goddamn medals" (OBrien, 1998; 36). In this the reader...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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

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...

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

lost, there were many who were idealistic, who thought themselves to be freedom fighters and who fought for freedom. It was a pie...

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. ...

elements that make it worth noticing. It is time to let the Vietnam War become a part of history and start looking at Vietnam for ...

national myths that have abounded about the War (which have, in fact, perpetuated the notions about Americas involvement in all wa...

which values the views of those Westerners engaged in that struggle over those of the native population. In other words, Herr is m...

U.S. Army as well as civilian agencies support the South Vietnamese (1998). His analysis is intricate and political, suggesting th...

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

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

have since described as "pointless." Summary of "Into the Quagmire" In his introduction to the book, VanDeMark writes: "Vietnam ...