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Vietnam War
2,459 wordsVietnam: The War We Should Have Won Essay written by Chris Styduhar The Vietnam War is one of the most disgraceful periods in American history. Not only did the greatest superpower in the world get bested by an almost third-world nation, but we lost badly. Perhaps this war could have been won, or even prevented in the first place. The United States could have and should have won this war, with a combination of better weapons usage, better tactics, and better support from their home country. Befo...
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Vietnam Rat
2,085 wordsAm Literature Tarriq Hansrajh 06/07/05 4 thEntry #1: In my pockets: Cell phone - 5 oz Keys - 2 oz Wallet - 3 oz In my backpack: Spanish book - 5 lbs Trig book - 9 lbs 4 1 inch binders - 12 lbsUSHAP notebook - 1 lb Other misc. items - 1.5 lbs Total Weight: 29 lbs 10 oz This estimate does not surprise me at all because when I think about all the work that we have to do I remember all the textbooks that we have to carry around. In addition sometimes I come home with my back aching, but that's usual...
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Involvement In The Vietnam War
1,760 wordsThe legacy of the American involvement in the Vietnam War is a memory that will live on forever. After reading the book titled Vietnam in Remission by James F. Veninga and Harry A. Wilmer, my first statement has been strengthened ten-fold because of the deep persuasiveness and informative nature of this book. I will begin by summarizing and interpreting the overall thoughts and perspectives that this work brings forth concerning the initiation and justification of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam...
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Lee's And Many Other Hmongs
1,818 wordsAmerican Intervention: Domestically and Internationally The United States and its people take great pride in knowing that the U.S. is the greatest nation in the world. That is why it's our duty to father the rest of the world when conflicts arise. American culture and ideals are also thought to take precedents over all other cultures and ideals. In the book, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall down, written by Anne Fadiman, there are many great examples of how American culture is imposed on the ...
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Thomas P O'neill Tip
1,801 wordsThomas P. O'Neill Tip was a man who was not bashful to call himself 'a man of the house. ' Thomas P. O'Neill was a person whose greatest charm was that he seemed " completely out-of-date as a politician. ' (Clift) He was a gruff, drinking, card playing, backroom kind of guy. He had an image that political candidates pay consultants to make over. He knew these qualities gave him his power because they 'made him real. ' (Sennot 17) His gigantic figure and weather beaten face symbolizes a political...
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Ninh's The Sorrow Of War
706 wordsBY GERARD CHRETIEN The media has made sure that all of us are aware of the Vietnam conflict. Readers and movie goers the world over are now familiar with America's suffering in Vietnam and the problems American veterans have endured as they attempted to adjust to civilian life. Although all life is irreplaceable, the fact remains that the United States lost fewer than a million men in the Vietnam conflict and their social institutions and infrastructure remained relatively intact. The Vietnamese...
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Nurses In Vietnam
1,674 wordsThe 'other' Vietnam Vets Everybody knows about the men who served in Vietnam. They have at least heard of the mentally trying conditions during the war and the resulting 'post traumatic stress syndrome' (PTSD) so many veterans suffered from, or heard of the issues concerning negative public opinion of veterans for their role in a hated war. However, few are aware of the female role in the Vietnam War; women, the 'other' veterans, shared in all of these problems and issues along with the gun-toti...
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Nightmare Of The Vietnam War
1,297 wordsThe Vietnam War Purpose: To illustrate my view on the Vietnam War. Audience: Anyone with an interest in the Vietnam War. Some Can't Forget I awaken and bolt upright in bed, my heart racing and sweat beginning to bead on my forehead. My chest heaving with ragged breaths, I try to figure out what startled me out of sleep. Then I hear it: The terrified scream of my father piercing through the eerie silence. My heart skips a beat and I shuffle my feet under the covers, letting them fall off the bed ...
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War In Vietnam
563 wordsJohnny Walker Professor Lloyd TA Jaime 14 July 2005 Summary of Vietnam WarN go Vinh Long In this reading, Long discusses the history of Vietnamese resistance to colonial and oppressive forces. Long states that American historians and statesman claim that other factors contributed to the disastrous conclusion of the Vietnam war, but that the real truth is that the American's were not prepared to meet such a formidable foe. The Vietnamese had been resisting the Chinese for over 1,000 years and had...
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1968 The Tet Offensive
1,415 wordsThe Tet Offensive was unquestionably the biggest occurrence of the Vietnam War. While the military success of the Viet Cong in mounting a sustained revolt in cities across South Vietnam was virtually non-existent, the psychological impact it had on the American public was quite simply phenomenal. This effect was partially due to the reporting of the war by the media. To completely understand the impacts of Tet, we must first understand the goals of Tet. The execution of Tet was a failure on the ...
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Far As Famous Protest Movements
1,113 wordsK B Eng. Comp. II What effects did the Vietnam War have on American society? The Vietnam War had a profound effect on American society. It changed the way we viewed our government, the media, and our Constitutional rights. Because of this shift in perspective, the country was torn apart and yet still came together in new and different ways. The Vietnam War's contraversiality spurred a great many sources of protest, against our government's use of power, how far we could stretch the rights of fre...
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M 1 Rifle As A Sniper Rifle
584 wordsThe US Rifle M 1 was the first semiautomatic rifle to be the standard small arm of the US Military, and the first semiautomatic rifle to be adopted by a major military power. It was the product of a genius, John Cantus Garand. While the M 1 Rifle was never officially referred to as the Garand, it is known by no other name so widely. First adopted in 1936, the M 1 Rifle served the US in World War II, Korea, a host of 'police actions' and interventions, and, in the hands of allies, in the Vietnam ...
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Philip D Vietnam The Helicopter War
1,481 wordsHELICOPTERS IN VIETNAM Early in 1961 General Maxwell Taylor, who was then Military Advisor to John F. Kennedy, went out to Southeast Asia to find out just what was happening there. During his visit to Vietnam, he noticed the lack of good roads inhibited the movement of government troops in fighting the Viet Cong. His reports to the president motivated Kennedy to help the South Vietnamese in their struggle against communism. Although he quickly decided to help out, the president knew that new arm...
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Apocalypse Now
1,023 wordsVietnam War Movies Apocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket are both films about American soldiers in Vietnam. This genre of films broke with previous tradition in that they offer a realistic and negative view of war. Most popular movies about WWII for example were almost propagandist in their assessment of the character of Allied fighting men and the rightness of U.S. involvement. Most films about the Vietnam conflict (one notable exception being The Green Beret's starring John Wayne), were remarka...
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Vietnam War In An Effort
736 wordsThe beginning of the century is characteristic for the massive migration - the number of European immigrants reached 13.000. 000 between 1900-1914. When Cuba revolted against Spain in 1895, American sympathies and interests led to war with Spain (1898). Victory brought the U.S. its first overseas territories (the Philippines, Puerto Rico). However, the U.S. had to pay for their great-power status. Eventhough President Woodrow Wilson promised neutrality in World War 1., the U.S. was unable to rem...
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William Westmoreland Left Vietnam In 1968
2,272 words"An Indignant Generation". With all its disruptions and rage, the idea of black revolution was something many white Americans could at least comprehend, if not agree with. When rebellion seized their own children, however they were almost completely at a loss. A product of the posts war "Baby Boom", nurtured in affluence and concentrated in increasing numbers on college and university campuses. It was a generation marked by an unusual degree of political awareness and cultural alienation. Some s...
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Antiwar Movement Public Opinion
2,857 wordsThe antiwar movement against Vietnam in the US from 1965-1971 was the most significant movement of its kind in the nation's history. The United States first became directly involved in Vietnam in 1950 when President Harry Truman started to underwrite the costs of France's war against the Viet Minh. Later, the presidencies of Dwight Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy increased the US's political, economic, and military commitments steadily throughout the fifties and early sixties in the Indochina reg...
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Making Of Vietnam Policy
5,809 wordsFrom the beginning of John Kennedy's Administration into this fifth year of Lyndon Johnson's presidency, substantially the same small group of men have presided over the destiny of the United States. In that time they have carried the country from a limited involvement in Vietnam into a war that is brutal, probably unwinnable, and, to an increasing body of opinion, calamitous and immoral. How could it happen? Many in government or close to it will read the following article with the shock of rec...
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Herr's View Of The Vietnam War
1,746 wordsHerr's view of the Vietnam war is diffucult to interpret because at times he describes it as a hell with brutal accounts of mutilation and death. At other times, he seeks so lice in the exhilaration that comes from the fear. He was there "to cover the war and the war covered me", is easiest way to describe what he encountered. Herr was nieve at when he first got to Saigon. He writes of the morning before he was dropped off on the front lines, he had purchased fatigues and dressed up in them, sto...
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Vietnam War
1,820 wordsOne of the most important years in our nation's history is 1968. It had a huge impact on everyone from the most common citizens to the President of the United States and everyone in between. A lot of things happened in this year that changed the course of history. Two crucial people were assassinated in 1968, Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. We were also in the middle of struggling in the Vietnam War. There were massive riots that broke out over whether to even be fighting at all. Dist...
