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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...

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

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 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...

and their determination, along with European allies, to protect other Asian nations from communism. In 1950 we see the following a...

It was generally believed that despite the presence and influence that the IMF wanted to exert it was still the will and...

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...

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

as protecting others, hence the prevalence of young men and women who enter the military in peacetime in the full understanding th...

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 ...

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

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...

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

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...

the impact of such aspects as the Moral Majority, traditional Republicans, old conservatives, the New Right, the libertarians and ...

to retreat from society or for individuals who want to go into hiding from government or law enforcement authorities. Ironically,...

individuals who collectively utilize this approach to humiliate as a show of solidarity, which is often hidden in the form of goss...

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

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

earth. It was this antagonistic attitude that only served to fuel Ho Chi Minhs desire to ward off foreign domination and American...

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

who had been defeated not as much by a superior foe but an irresponsible American government. Many factors came into play ...

and its necessity in order to survive. "Worms, Rat Kiley said. Right out of the grave...The men laughed. They all felt great re...

President Johnson in charge, limited bombing raids were authorized over North Vietnam and troop levels began to rise (1991). The d...