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A thought that flows through a person’s mind after reading this topic is that theories of science will outdate religion. Science will change people’s way of thinking on religion and make it less influential. Science will emerge with different answers to questions that are of paramount concern in the society, and thus dominate over religion. Read More…
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The impact of Vietnam War managed to impact the lives of Americans during the war period and for generations that followed. The American nation had to face up to the defeat from the war, which was the first incident in their history. The involvement of Americans in south Asia started in 1964 and after a long period of struggle, it ended with all the US military departing the region in 1975.
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This battle happened in today’s Vietnam, Southeast Asia. Ideally, this war is a manifestation of a successful attempt to bring together all Vietnamese under communism by North Vietnam. Literally, the Vietnam War involved the tension between the northern and southern regions of Vietnam with the south receiving support from America. Read More…
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The actions of the U.S.A in Iraq could appear a foreign policy failure in the case if the Bush administration disregards Washington's miserable debacle in the course of nation-building in South Vietnam. As well as in Southeast Asia, the U.S.A. Read More…
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By the time the last American troops were being withdrawn from Southeast Asia in March 1973, America was suffering from a war on two fronts – one abroad in Southeast Asia and one with itself. An entire generation of anti-war protestors had emerged in response to the years of bloody fighting that had. Read More…
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It has been three decades since America's war in Vietnam ended with the Paris Agreement and Protocols on Ending the War and Restoring the Peace in Vietnam.
By the terms of the deal, over 150,000 North Vietnamese troops remained in the South, whereas the United States, over the course of Nixon's presidency, had unilaterally withdrawn over 500,000 of its own troops. Read More…
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Vietnam policy under Eisenhower can be summed up with two headings. First, a reluctance to actively go to war in Vietnam using the full power of the American military attack force, in spite of the fact that Eisenhower acknowledged the Communist threat from China in Southeast Asia. Read More…
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ot clear is the main goal and benefit that the US would have obtained for fighting the war and was it really unnecessary, immoral or illegitimate to fight in Vietnam? In fact, it is argued that it was the first time that the war exposed the United States government for their Read More…
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For the millions of Americans, it signed a certain turnover point in society, a form of a deep social and psychological crisis. However, prior to the beginning of the large-scale war in early 1965, the situation in the United States was quite different, with both Congress and public opinion supporting the war. Read More…
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The release of the remaining American prisoners of the war occurred simultaneously with the departure of the last combat soldier, and both sides made arrangements for search teams to continue to look for soldiers missed on the battlefields. On the sixtieth day after the truce, the Military Assistance Command Vietnam officially closed down, declaring its mission accomplished. Read More…
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It is located on the eastern side of Sothern Asia and is one of the fastest-growing economies in southern Asia. Vietnam has had successive royal dynasties for centuries with consequent expansion both politically and geographically over the years. In the mid-19th century, the state was stricken by a series of conflicts that eventually split the country into two. Read More…
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Tourist arrivals in Vietnam maintained their double-digit growth levels with 2011 recording a 15% increase. This is attributed to global economic recovery, expansion of air transport routes by international and local carriers, the introduction of new tourism products and effective branding of Vietnam as a diverse destination. Read More…
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The paper also studies the various consequences of the war, which led to mass protests and campaigns against it. The paper concludes to show how the communist forces of North Vietnam won over the US forces and finally united the two part of Vietnam. Read More…
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A lot of emphasis is laid on the two wars despite the presence of other wars that involved many counties and states. The effects of both wars shaped the globally shape of military complements and planning regardless of the places that the wars had occurred earlier for instance Iraq, Bosnia, Somalia and Kuwait to mention. Read More…
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In the history of the United States, several wars have been fought with the engagement of personnel and powerful military equipment. Many of the wars were supported by American citizens while other wars were criticized. The Vietnam War is one of the armed conflicts that changed in many ways the history of the United States. Read More…
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The geographical location of the two countries has ensured that the two countries remain natural enemies. The two nations had been traditional enemies. For example, Vietnams suspicion of Chinas motives are rooted to repeat attack from the north and continued dominance by china (Hung 1979; 1037). Read More…
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The Vietnam War was one of its kind in terms of the criticism that it attracted from common people to scholars to diplomats alike. The total war spent was around 150 billion dollars and more than 85,000 Americans were killed during the epic battle that was fought between the United States and the South Vietnamese army. Read More…
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The masses not only receive information, but also act as a source of information to others. Accuracy and reliability is hence often questionable. However, the significance of the various forms of media cannot be underestimated when analyzing the overall impact of all forms of media on human behavior. Read More…
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The group of the young started revolting against the conventional norms of the period and also removed themselves from the liberalism mainstream, specifically the high level of materialism that was very common in that periodic era. This can be seen among the soldiers described in Tim O'Brien’s story, The Things They Carried. Read More…
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In Grimley’s account, the US adopted a “basic policy of attraction” wherein Americans encouraged the elites to cooperate with them to counter Aguinaldo’s insurgency campaign. This policy created a feeling on the Filipinos as they were able to participate in the colonial administration and removed the perception of US imperialism. Read More…
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Pfizer pharmaceutical expands its business operations in Vietnam, the return of Pfizer pharmaceutical investment will be affected by both factors of conversion first by the change in prices of stocks in Vietnam and by the change in currency value rate, as returns of Pfizer pharmaceutical will be converted from Vietnam's dong to US dollar. Read More…
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Role of domestic concerns in us withdrawal from vietnam
This investigation evaluates the extent to which the domestic factors played their role in shaping the US foreign policy. This target will be achieved through finding answers to the following questions. Read More…
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The situation might even be worse for the families that lost their loved ones in the battle. Most of these families blame the government for the loss. Some of the soldiers who served in the war were young parents and it was not clear how the future children. The psychological effects of the Vietnam War are bound to take many years to overcome. Read More…
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Growth rate and market size are a result of preferences made by the customers to the products and the competition that a company faces from other companies. Identification of a potential market involves an assessment of the attractiveness of the industry and predicts the costs and revenues of the short listed countries. Read More…
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First and foremost, the warfare shattered much of the prestige and power of Europe (Sanders, Nelson, Morillion, and Ellenberger 190). It also gave rise to two superpowers, the US and USSR, which assumed leadership of world affairs. After the battle against the Axis powers of Italy, Germany, and Japan, both the U.S. and the USSR entered the postwar age as adversaries. Read More…
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The Conflict in Vietnam can be attributed to many factors. In 1950s, the Northern Vietnamese attempted to take over the Southern Vietnam. Later in 1960s, president Viem was overthrown after which he was executed. Read More…
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Americans supported socialism, and since most movies supported socialism, they had a positive attitude towards them. The soldiers were considered heroes who sacrificed their lives for the Read More…
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This was keeping in line with the US anti-communist foreign policies observed during the Cuban Missile Crisis and Berlin Wall episode, and was a part of the various measures undertaken by the US at that time to contain communism. However, unlike the Berlin wall and Cuban crises, Vietnam War reflects the ignominious defeat of the US. Read More…
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The novel is centred around Giang Minh Sai, the son of a Confucian scholar in the rural Red River delta, and traces his story from early childhood through his decorated service during the American War, and his later efforts to adapt to the postwar world of urban Ha Noi. Read More…
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The Vietnam War is one of the major conflicts that have taken place in the world. The Vietnam War took place between the years 1955 and 1975; taking a period of more than twenty-five years. Although the real war began in 1955, the signs of the war could be seen as early as 1950. This was the time when US troops were sent to Vietnam.
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There must be a reasonable chance of success; deaths and injury that result from a hopeless cause cannot be morally justified. The country waging the war must be well-financed in terms of modern equipment and in terms of the intelligence report. In addition, the country should have a good number of soldiers on the battlefield. Read More…
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The conclusion from this study states that Lind’s work is a success and remains a significant part of thoughtful work in the American history that portrays the best examination of the cold war and Vietnam War, in particular. He consistently presents a well-examined work that focuses on the basis of all occurrences during the Vietnam War and possible repercussions of any acts or failure to act.
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Iraq and Vietnam Wars resulted in political and military stalemate within the USA. The war led to frustrations amongst the American public and political leaders. During this time, modern American presidents such as Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, George Bush, and Barack Obama found themselves thwarted in the process of developing better strategies for making decisions in a bid to win. Read More…
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The most notable experience was the stories about the Fall of Saigon and the unification of the Vietnam country. Prior to all these, there was a lot of war stories of what happened in Vietnam. Read More…
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Although, there had been social hostilities in the region spanning two decades, the American involvement in Vietnam between 1963 and 1975 marked the end of incrementalist policies and the escalation of the operations into full combat against the Northern Viet Cong forces. Read More…
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Mark Berger, in his article: “Decolonisation, modernization and nation building” explains that the US fused pacification and modernization theory in its search for the appropriate combination of civil and security reforms in the hamlets of Vietnam. The US sought a coherent plan to jumpstart the economic and social development in Vietnam. The military was perceived to play a major role in modernization and pacification. Read More…
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The U.S. drew a symbolic line in the sand in Southeast Asia after the Soviets built the Berlin Wall and continued in its aspirations to dominate other Eastern European nations. The fiasco that was Vietnam triggered anti-military reactions for most Americans, whose subsequent response contributed to the Cold War’s end. Read More…
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Ia Drang was a battle with a difference. It was one of the major conflicts of the Vietnam War, the one that was initiated by America. Harold G. Moore, the author of the book, “We Were Soldiers Once... and Young: Ia Drang--The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam,” commanded the battalion that took on the enemy. Read More…
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Generally, the current conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq show that if the costly lesson learned from Vietnam is not appreciated the U.S. will continue its foreign relations debacles which will further weaken its armed services, economic stability, and political influence within the community of nations. Read More…
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However there still can be found discrimination amongst the native Americans and the Vietnamese Americans. Vietnamese people migrated to America in the times when they had no other option but to migrate. These people migrated to America without knowing the dangers that were lying ahead of them. Read More…
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The experiences in the Vietnam War could be attributed to the reasons as to why some soldiers left the war and opted to go back to their motherland. However, the strong Read More…
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The photo and video evidence is given spoke for themselves and the media had the power to choose what to relay to the public and decided to convey the gruesome pictures. The images that the media presented to the public changed their opinion from the glorious anti-communism war to a destructive war and pointless one for that matter (Soames, 2005). Read More…
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Martin Luther King Jr. was a vicious orator with inspirational words that left most people pondering afterward. The reliability of the speech could be vividly illustrated following the situations that were experienced in Vietnam by then. Through inspiration, he could not hold any longer the perception the war was not in favor of Americans. Read More…
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Vietnam, therefore, is a nation currently undergoing a transition from an East Asian agrarian country into a gradually industrializing society. At the heart of every society is the family, the core social and economic unit where individuals are trained and integrated into the nation’s social network. Read More…
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The opposition to the war intensified with the decision to send troops into Cambodia which led to the massacre of many Cambodians. The intensified public resistance forced the Australian government to review its position on the War, which culminated in gradual withdrawal and the eventual ending of the military commitment in 1973.
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Learning from one’s previous mistakes does not necessarily apply to all. Determination may drive one towards a goal no matter the price to be paid as was with Kennedy john. In his quest to unite citizens to vote him in, he used similar terms that had caused destruction aiding the majority to end up in Vietnam, and we all know what took tall of that. Read More…
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Burger King plans to expand in Asia and they are particularly looking at Vietnam. Competition is low as KFC is the only MNC existing in Vietnam with two other international food companies having a presence also. However, Burger King has its own strength of its global brand image and the demand in growing.
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As the discussion stresses, urbanization has encouraged tremendous cultural changes between the different nations of the world. Such an attitude has lead to the great boom in the Hotel business which is a major branch of Tourism. Hotels of every shape and size try to cater to the different categories of visitors who visit these destinations from all over the world. Read More…
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The US allied itself with the Southern anti-communists providing superior firepower for the destruction of communistic operations. The Vietnam War resulted in massive losses for both sides, in terms of funds, and lost lives. Many authors have since published different works on the Vietnam War. Read More…
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The factor that the US rulers failed to understand was that “third-world governments seeking US assistance against insurgencies frequently are governed by elites benefiting from social inequality and the exploitation of a majority of the population” (Vickers, 1993, p.125). South Vietnam government was also not an exception to this. Read More…
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War is a great catastrophe in human history and to make matters worse, those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it. The WWI started as a simple war between Austria-Hungary and Serbia as a result of assassination of crown prince Franz Ferdinand. However, it is the actions of leaders that made it escalate into a full blown war. Read More…
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ling General Lon Nol, shrank into the security of Phnompenh, the capital, as American aircraft bombed the Vietnamese communists and the Khmer Rouge” (p.55). It was a total submission of the nation’s sovereignty to a foreign force. The most important thing that has to be Read More…
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The reason for the war was the meddling of the US in the internal affairs of Vietnam. The US wanted to prevent communist expansion and demonstrate its superiority over the USSR, subsequent to the Cold War. The war in Vietnam established the imperialistic approach of the US in its foreign policy (R. D. Schulzinger). Read More…
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It inevitably dawned on the military personnel that they were fighting a senseless war and this could have only made the effort that much more difficult for the soldiers. While the American public began to lose faith in the containment policy, their collective support for the Vietnam effort fell by the wayside. Read More…
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Stereotypes are biased opinions which one group of people have towards another. The primary problem with stereotypes lies in the fact that they do not project themselves as opinions but are presented as incontrovertible facts. stereotyping can be seen as a more extreme form of typing where we see a whole group of people as homogeneous. Read More…
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You love the misty morning air. You love the miracle of your won enduring capacity for love” (O’Brien, 4). Upon analysis, the real struggle is hidden within the lines of “Vietnam in Me” is the fact that O’Brien understands that the love that put him in Vietnam is also what he needs to utilize to heal himself from the scars of the war. Read More…
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The author states that the controversy about the Gulf of Tonkin incident came out after 40 years later when National Security Agency (NSA) declassified and released this material to the public”. These pieces of evidence revealed that the second attack was a fabrication. This resolution was all orchestrated by Johnson and McNamara. Read More…
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Vietnam War compiled the 1st War of Indochina and was crusaded among North Vietnam and South Vietnam. Communist allies supported North Vietnam while the United States and other nations supported South Vietnam in this war. Read More…
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The author states that a product of justifications stemming from the Cold War and anti-communism sentiments, the Vietnam War became the benchmark by which American military limitations can be measured. From the end of the Cold War in 1989 to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the U.S. was undoubtedly the world’s greatest power militarily. Read More…
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The author reviews the film Rambo (Part II) that revolves around the movie’s leading role - Rambo - who reprises his responsibility as Vietnam veteran. On screen, the depictions of war in these 1980s movies were indebted to previous depictions of the warfare that similarly raised the individual, witness understanding as the main aspect to understanding it. Read More…
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More than 250 films, 750 novels, 1,400 personal narratives, and over a 100 short-story collections have been published in regard to the war in Vietnam (Summers, 1995). Most people argue that it was the most humiliating time of the American history and will remain to haunt the country for a very long time.
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The author states that the activities are normally carried out by the humans, segregating themselves into different countries. That is, a country’s government, defense forces, scientists etc, will only join ‘hands’ together, to protect their territorial integrity, gain superiority over other countries and importantly provide good governance. Read More…
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Despite extensive documentation of historical events surrounding the war until 1974 when US pulled out of Vietnam, there are certain questions which have not been answered by texts and graphics in the documents. Read More…
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The author states that many political thinkers and analysts consider Richard Nixon as a synthesizer. Basically, synthesizers have the ability to exert pressure and influence on people around them. They have the ability to understand and see the big picture quickly and find ways to integrate different elements. Read More…
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The paper in its core discusses the diverse mental effects of the Vietnam War veterans. The Vietnam War commenced in 1955 and ended in 1975. It was fought between the South Vietnam and North Vietnam with a major involvement of America. The main motive of the Americans was eradication of the communist manifestation of the Vietnamese. Read More…
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Each of the wars included major and minor battles. They had varying and distinct reasons behind them. Allies and foes were distinctly different in each case. Each of the wars had a level of analysis. These levels were individual states and systems. The levels of war analysis form a hierarchy. The responsibilities of the hierarchy rely on the scale and nature of the operation. Read More…
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The reason for the high level of success enjoyed by the Vietnamese was because Eisenhower chose to focus the strength of the American attack through its air force and the Vietnamese were able to hide in the jungles and had minimal damage. Read More…
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e US was no longer popular as before and her fame nosedived not only at the international front but also at her own soil whereby she was faced by many dissents, strikes and several protests against the Vietnam war from her own people.The power of the US was also greatly Read More…
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While many latter-day poets, disillusioned by the devastation caused by the World Wars, chose to emphasize the futility and absurdity of war. Following a chronological mode of analysis, five exemplary poems will be discussed here to note the similarities in and departures from common themes and tropes in war poetry. Read More…
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The poem talks about the reminiscence of a difficult period of war in the poem. Though he fights hard and is in constant conflict to leave these memories in his past, there are still some associated elements that unearth them. He in this case feels a similar pain like before. Read More…
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The onset of anti-Vietnam War movement in the United States began soon after the Vietnam War broke out. Following the war break out, various movements emerged, some anti-war movements advocated for USA’s continued involvement in the Vietnam War whereas some movements opposed the involvement of the USA in the war on grounds that they wanted peace. Read More…
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Both of these features were discussed in the Nixon Doctrine i.e. a presidential doctrine by the current president of that time, President Richard Nixon. The word doctrine here means a statement of official government policy, especially in external affairs and military strategy. Read More…
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The talks in Paris which had begun in 1968 between the U.S. and the DRV still continued sluggishly until 1973 when Saigon agreed reluctantly to Paris Peace Agreement pressured heavily by the U.S. The first article of the agreement envisaged the independence, sovereignty, unity, and territorial integrity of Vietnam. Read More…
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However, its use poses multi-faceted challenges particularly in the face of multinational alliance, increase in democratic states, and the demand for humanitarian concerns. It is an effective military strategy if used solely without the aid of non-military strategy since it can create hatred among the population of target states. Read More…
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be the exception: both of those conflicts featured enemies that sought world conquest, and the horrible plans that Adolf Hitler had for those who were not of Aryan descent, and particularly those of Jewish descent, made a military attempt to stop those plans a moral imperative Read More…
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The first part, the Splendid Little War, designates Lieutenant Philip Caputo’s personal justifications for associating with USMC, the exercise that followed, and his ultimate entrance to Vietnam. Caputo was an associate of the Expeditionary Unit of USMC, the first U.S. systematic troupe deployed to participate in the Vietnam Battle. Read More…
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In the United States, conscription, or the draft, has been used a number of time, normally in the event of war, as well as when there is nominal peace, such as during the Cold War. The draft was discontinued in 1973 by the US government, which shifted to a military force that was all-volunteer. Read More…
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The USSR, which was one of the super powers at that time, was providing military aid to the NLF and to the North Vietnamese, but did not take part with its military.
First of all, if one thinks how and why the war started, a premise for the Vietnam War can be the American myth, according to which they believe: "And we Americans are the peculiar, chosen people- the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world."1 In view of this myth they believe they are the chosen nation, the chosen people, who, if they undertake any conquest, God will be by their side, and so they set to liberate Vietnam to save it from falling in to the red communist tide. Read More…
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Plessy vs. Ferguson is a historical, landmark case that highlighted the plight of colored Americans on the issues of racism. The case was considered an important trial of the century as it was a litmus test to the racism issues that some US citizens still experienced a few years just after the implementation of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments to the US Constitution. Read More…
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Robert S. McNamara (1916-2009) was the eighth Secretary of Defense serving from 1961 to 1968 during both the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. Despite his stellar career in business and finance before and after his time as Defense Secretary along with successes while in that capacity, McNamara’s legacy will forever be tied to the Vietnam War. Read More…
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eading intellectuals of the time were either in support of it or indifferent to it. The only question that was discussed in the mainstream media and scholarship of the time was whether the United States can win the war in Vietnam. Howard Zinn was an exception to this rule in Read More…
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It describes the repercussions in the aftermath of the war which led to inflation and a drastic change in the political as well as ecological environment. The Vietnam War is one of the most divisive periods in the history of the US which polarized American society and disrupted the political atmosphere ultimately bringing a premature end to the Nixon presidency. Read More…
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The Cold War had many causes, but the fundamental causes were the fact that the United States and the Soviet Unions were by far the two most powerful countries in the world during the Cold War years, and the fact that the two believed each other’s existence to be anathema to the other: that either capitalism or communism would need to be a new world order. Read More…
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After the colonists have arrived in America from Britain, the settlers looked for a new direction in their life (Meyer, 9). However, many grievances accumulated which lead to tensions between colonists and their own home nations. Hence, the root causes of the revolutionary war consisted of geographic issues, oppression by the King, and salutary neglect.
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Despite the Americans being shown in a brighter light as saviours and helpers in Last days of Vietnam, the Vietnamese people still remains as the victims of war, at the mercy of American hands, representing orientalism just portrayed in a different perspective. On the other hand, they are portrayed as conquerors in Apocalypse Now. Read More…
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The Vietnam War has hazy motivations at best:an abstract worry about a governmental change in countries on the other side of the planet,summed up by the American leadership as the "domino theory" - the idea that if one country became Communist,so would the next,and the next,until the whole world was run by what Americans saw as the oppression of socialism. Read More…
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He defines negotiations as a process of combining conflicting positions into a common position under a decision rule of unanimity, a phenomenon in which the outcome is determined by the process. (William, 1982) This essay to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the concept looking at the methodology of explaining the idea of ripeness it also assesses how this theory can successfully reach lead to an amicable solution. Read More…
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For instance, Henry Dobbins carries his girlfriend’s pantyhose with them. Comfort and love-longing is its symbol and the burden of each man. Jimmy Cross carries maps and compasses with them thus with the men’s responsibility for his charge. The emotions of hate, love, terror, mystery, adventure, discovery, courage, pity, holiness. Read More…
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The movie contains three intertwined storylines of three young Vietnamese people. The first one is an eighteen-year-old boy who is forced to work hard by driving a rickshaw every day in order to support his family of three: his grandfather, elder, and younger sisters. His father was a rickshaw driver himself just like his son, but he died due to a fatal traffic accident when his rickshaw was hit by a truck. Read More…
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The events that have been unfolding in Afghanistan have made people start comparing to the American experience in the Vietnam War. America entered into a problem that has resulted to be difficult and with no easy exit. Some observers say that comparing past events to the most recent ones is a very bad risk since both of these events did take place in two different eras of government. Read More…
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Photojournalism has been said to be a certain type of journalism that includes the collection, editing as well as presentation of news for a broadcast or a presentation that guides to pictures that tell a story, in the context of still photographs and videos within broadcasts. It has an ethical base that includes honesty and impartiality. Read More…
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It is evidently clear from the discussion that letters observed in the paper describe the war as their first impression of it and make the war a personal account of these soldiers rather than what we have been seeing it. Bernard Edelman has served as a correspondent in Vietnam and is the author of many books.
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The epigraph from Revelation that begins the novel is a telling device. For one, apocalyptic prophecy will recur throughout the story, giving the underlying mood that some sort of drastic end awaits human society. Another factor in the repeated use of apocalyptic prophecy has to do with one of Tim O’Brien’s underlying concerns in his writing. Read More…
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Perhaps the catharses of poets can be seen as something good that emerges from even the direst of humanity’s inhumanity. Here, comparison and contrast will be drawn between the two poems which, though on the surface similar, have in their essence all that is different about the effect the war left on its contestants.
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The rest of this essay will show how themes of love, loss, perception and reality are adequately addressed in these works.
The Things They Carried is an assortment of short stories penned by Tim O’Brien based on his first hand experiences in Vietnam. Read More…
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North Vietnam understood much more than America saw how they were able to influence American politics. This was shown first in their strategic implementation of the Tet Offensive but was also exemplified in their later negotiations with Johnson to establish a potential peace dialogue process. North Vietnam did not want Richard Nixon elected president. Read More…
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