YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Films on the Vietnam War and the War Itself
Essays 271 - 300
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...
dumb show was left. Not the most dramatic passage in the book, but one of the most compelling, is Caputos description of the day ...
Thanks to his experience and his resolve he was able to stand up valiantly even in the face of many negatives. Prior...
(2000). The Vietnam Memorial Wall is in an urban park setting ("Vietnam," 2003). Its construction system is "cut stone masonry" ...
national myths that have abounded about the War (which have, in fact, perpetuated the notions about Americas involvement in all wa...
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 ...
his or her own emotional baggage. Some of that baggage inevitably includes fear, guilt, homesickness, anger, and that struggle bet...
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...
two different times, leaving the president no other alternative than to put forth the countrys military support (Anonymous, 2001)....
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...
Kennedy need not have made the decisions he had which put America in the midst of Vietnam. He could have taken a more isolationist...
Vietnam War stands out in US history as one of Americas greatest traumas. For the American people, it was a bewildering affair fro...
readily comprehend the seemingly insignificant difference between the two thoughts, inasmuch as some believe that mass media has l...
letters did help. The soldiers in Vietnam, at least in the book, carried around a variety of things. Like boy scouts on...
evidence". Agent orange has gained the most notoriety in its use as a defoliant in the Vietnam War. It has been the...
used only for entertainment and simple news, was now a reality in the culture of America as it related to the war. Horrid atrociti...
the Cold War. In other words, his stance was that he would take a hard line against Communism. He associated his name with those...
against the US. However, like colonial Americans, the North Vietnamese turned their superior knowledge of the terrain, into a "ho...
In five pages this paper examines the reasons behind fighting the Vietnam War from the Vietnamese perspective. Four sources are c...
This paper examines how heroism is conceptualized within the context of the Vietnam War in a comparative analysis of these texts c...
In eight pages this paper presents an historian's opinions regarding pacification regarding the involvement in the Vietnam War. F...
In five pages this paper discusses the legacy of the Vietnam War in an analysis of the importance of Saigon's fall. Three sources...
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. ...