Essays Tagged: "Vietnam"
about the common cause
citizens had joined Common Cause and its agenda quickly grew to include ending U.S. involvement in Vietnam, reforming the campaign finance system, and pressing for civil rights, ethics, financial and ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Specific Policies
MY LAI MASSACRE AS A RESULT OF OBEDIENCE TO AUTHORITY. Relates to stanly milgrams experiments and how authority play a part in genocide killings.
MY LAI MASSACRE AS A RESULT OF OBEDIENCE TO AUTHORITYThe Vietnam controversy made many people feel at distress. It was never considered a "war," although tha ... ress. It was never considered a "war," although that is exactly what it was. The My Lai Massacre in Vietnam was one of the many atrocities of that war. There is an unquestionable connection between Mi ... ts that they could find in a brutal operation that took less than 20 minutes. When it was over, the Vietnamese dead totaled at least 100 men, women and children, and perhaps many more, only 25 or so e ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology
How the military as an institution promoted prejudices against the black man
nd the Prejudices it Held."From the Civil War, a war for the right to freedom for the Black man, to Vietnam; the military has held an institutionalized racist view toward the Black men who wished to f ... litary for over a century. From the Civil War, a war for the right to freedom for the Black man, to Vietnam; the military has held an institutionalized racist view toward the Black men who wished to f ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights
The Power of Fear in Obrien's If I die in "A Combat Zone", Hasford's The "Short-Timers", Moore's "The Green Berets", and Obrien's "Going After Cacciato"
c. Without the use of fear, these stories would lose much of their impact. The entire experience of Vietnam pivots on fear for many of the characters in these stories.In Obrien's If I die in a Combat ... ke, and both the narrator and Borst know this. Towards the end of this selection, Sven says, 'Those Vietnamese generals --stupid! Dangerous stupid. Two hundred fifty my best men that sneak-eyed yellow ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
The Use of Setting in Tim O'Brien's 'The Story of the Song Tra Bong'
the Song Tra Bong take place? Upon reading the story, one would first assume that it takes place in Vietnam. Upon further examination, however, it becomes quite evident that it really takes place insi ... tion, not the other way around.' (101) The story occurs in two separate but equally chaotic places: Vietnam, and Rat's head. The story intertwines between the two settings, and in order to completely ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Ploitical, and Social Effents that Shaped the 60's Generation
ssive black rebellions, constant strikes, gigantic anti-war demonstrations, draft resistance, Cuba, Vietnam, Algeria, a cultural revolution of seven hundred million Chinese, occupations, red power, th ... to the work force, the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and John F. Kennedy Jr., the war in Vietnam, the Kent State protest, and finally the Woodstock festival.The electric subcurrent of the f ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Vietnam, The futile War
The United States actually thinking they could go into Vietnam and win was a ridiculous idea that should have been dropped from the start. They thought the ... oved of the war. Television gave everyone the chance to see what war really was for the first time. Vietnam was television's first war. The television produced strong feelings about the war and disapp ... sition to the war was so strong and so public, it put political pressure on government leaders. The Vietnam war wasn't only being fought in Vietnam but also in the United States. People of America tho ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History
My favorite place
auderdale very much. It fills me with beautiful memories. It reminds me of the days when I lived in Vietnam where I was born, especially the coconut trees, the hot and humid weather are like Vietnam. ...
Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays > Travel Descriptions
Political, and Social Effents that Shaped the 60's Generation
ssive black rebellions, constant strikes, gigantic anti-war demonstrations, draft resistance, Cuba, Vietnam, Algeria, a cultural revolution of seven hundred million Chinese, occupations, red power, th ... to the work force, the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and John F. Kennedy Jr., the war in Vietnam, the Kent State protest, and finally the Woodstock festival.The electric subcurrent of the f ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science
An analysis of Hemingway's style in Soldier's Home.
Ernest Hemingway's "Soldier's Home" has received much attention, especially from the Vietnam-era baby boomers. Like many of his pieces, the story is much more complex then it seems on t ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > Ernest Hemingway
"Crickets," by Robert Olen Butler
lt. A father and his new bride have escaped by boat across the terrible sea to come to America from Vietnam. They ended up in the state of Louisiana, where the land was very much like the Mekong Delta ... y, "Crickets," by Robert Olen Butler is about a father, who is trying to educate his son to be more Vietnamese. Butler is trying to let his reader understand that coming to a new land as a new immigra ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Poems & Short Stories
"The Things They Carried," by Tim O'Brien
EDIn his book "The Things They Carried," Tim O'Brien describes a group of soldiers marching through Vietnam. He does this by describing the items that each of them carries with him during the march. T ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > The Cold War
The Truman Doctrine and how it led to a major change in US foreign Policy.
reign policy from its inception - aid to Turkey and Greece - to its indirect influence in Korea and Vietnam. The aftermath of World War II inspired the U.S. to issue a proclamation that would stem Com ... t influence throughout the world. However, our zeal in that achievement sent our soldiers to die in Vietnam and Korea for a seemingly futile cause.It must be the policy of the U.S. to support free peo ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics > Economic History
"The Things They Carried" by Tim Obrien.
read. About The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien, the author of the article wrote, "(The book is) Vietnam with the bandage ripped off and not yet healed."# In his book, Tim O'Brien does to the reade ... the war did to him; it makes everything real. Even out of all of the movies that I've ever seen on Vietnam, O'Brien's book gives the most realistic and jerking view of Vietnam.As a series of loose st ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
The Most Important Lessons You Learned from Your Parents.
ic, he or she can easily to succeed if he or she does something. For example, when my family was in Vietnam, we were very poor. My father had to ride a tricycle to earn money to support for the family ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing
The My Lai Massacure could have been avoided.
es of war killing them. He used his men in killing civilians saying they are Vietcong. Vietcong are Vietnamese communists. He estimated 200 hundred Vietcong in My Lai, but he killed three hundred and ... ed and five people. None, still to this day, are known to have been Vietcong.Calley attacked the Vietnamese civilians before he knew if they were Vietcong. When Calley and his men were called to ch ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History
Different reactions in the USA to the Vietnam conflict.
ar there were two very clear reactions from the American population to the country's involvement in Vietnam; the pro-war (supporters of the war) and the anti-war (non-supporters of the war). Thousands ... s of the war did not understand the enormous cultural and political differences between America and Vietnam. Almost all of the men who fought in the war would not have expected the jungle-like geograp ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Wars
"Apocalypse Now".
get the same basic ideas and principles.The movie Apocalypse Now takes place in the thick jungle of Vietnam where communication with the outside world is nearly non-existent. It is a type of wildernes ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis
Khmer rouge.
t.United States of America and Lon Nol were the cause of the Khmer Rouge. Since USA was at war with Vietnam they put bombs in Cambodia. The US was using Cambodia as a territory of war that made the Co ... eath. People died by starvation, or they were killed, beaten to death or shot. In December 1978 the Vietnamese invade the Cambodia. In there Cambodia lost a lot of power. The Vietnamese were in Cambod ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II
Shadow Of the Dragon.
land's Shadow of the Dragon provides us with an emotional and a romantic storyline of the life of a Vietnamese boy named Danny (Duong) and his older cousin Sang Le, who arrive to the United States of ... ited States of America to fit in the society. Danny and Sang Le both lived a very desperate life in Vietnam with the Vietcong's trying to take over Vietnam. A few years after the war between the Vietn ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American