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Allied Forces Western Front
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... ed the people rebelled and demanded fair rule.
Later in 1682, Peter the Great come to power. He
decided Russia needed to be Westernized and he set
forth a great campaign to collect technologies
from the West. Peter also built St. Petersburg
(the new capitol of Russia) The Westernizaton of
Russia made it considerably stronger. Most people
in the time were agricultural. Many starved to
death in bad-winter weather. There simply was not
enough food to go around. Sometimes towns lost 1 /
3 or 1 /...
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Why The United States Sent Troops To Vietnam
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... in mind, the means by which we went about
carrying out our will was wrong. This situation
was different then World War II, and in hindsight
should have been handled differently. In an
attempt to quickly quell the Vietcong (meaning
Vietnamese Communists), President Kennedy sent
Special Forces troops to Vietnam in 1961. These
troops were to train South Vietnamese forces and
help them fight the Vietcong. However, the South
Vietnamese proved to be inept and seemed incapable
of learning to fight,...
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Khmer Rouge Pol Pot
786 words
Very little is known about prehistoric Cambodia,
although archeological evidence has established
that prior to 1000 BC Cambodians subsisted on a
diet of fish and rice and lived in houses on
stilts, as they still do today. From the 1 st to
the 6 th centuries, much of Cambodia belonged to
the South-East Asian kingdom of Fun, which played
a vital role in developing the political
institutions, culture and art of later Khmer
states. However, it was the Angkorian era,
beginning in the 8 th century, th...
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Crime Scene Santa Ana
1,096 words
After Kait was shot, her car traveled 719 feet,
crossed the median, and came to a rest on the
sidewalk east of the intersection of Lomas Blvd.
and Arno Street. The first officer on the scene
(not in uniform -- just passing by) observed two
vehicles parked on the sidewalk, Kait's red Ford
Tempo and a VW Bug parked next to it. He also saw
a man standing next to Kait's car. The officer
drove past the vehicles while he radioed in to ask
about an accident (none reported), then returned
to the scene t...
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Lyndon Johnson South Vietnamese
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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 ...
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War In Vietnam Heart Of Darkness
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Vietnam was a war fought by the unwillingly, for
the ungrateful, led by the unqualified. Apocalypse
Now is Coppola's film based on Heart of Darkness,
but set in the Vietnam jungle. The major theme in
the novel is the examination of Americas
involvement, militarily, in Vietnam. However, like
Conrad's novel, it also shows the potential
inherent darkness in all human hearts. Coppola
retains the basic structure of Conrad's novel for
his film. As Marlow, in Heart of Darkness, travels
up the Congo eve...
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N Vietnamese Troops Vietnamese Troops Hole
377 words
At one point in the plot, Perry and his friend
Peewee are sent away from the retreating troop, up
a hill to check and see if any N. Vietnamese
troops resting to set an ambush on them. When they
start up the hill, fire breaks out on the rest of
their squad, and they run away up the hill to
safety. As this is all happening and fire
continues, dusk falls and the night moons sweeps
overhead. In a matter of 15 minutes darkness has
fallen and Peewee and Perry are lost alone and
unsure if their troop h...
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Ho Chi Minh San Diego Ca
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At the end of World War II in 1945, The United
States government was, seemingly, intent on
eradicating Communism from the world. The
government was, in a Machiavellian but sometimes
inept way, using any means necessary to achieve
this goal. In the process, the United States
nearly engaged in nuclear war with the Soviet
Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962,
sacrificed over 58, 000 American lives and some
300, 000 causalities (not to mention the untold
millions of Asian lives), and create...
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Cuban Missile Crisis World War Ii
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The Soviet Union and the United States, after
World War II, began a military competition that
led to the buildup of massive nuclear arsenals.
Although both countries did not want a nuclear
war, they continually built up their offenses to
counteract one another. Before the Cuban Missile
Crisis of 1962, the United States and the Soviet
Union lived with questions about how the other
would react in a nuclear showdown. After the Cuba
Crisis, both countries, sure that the other was
determined to preve...
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Black And White Melting Pot
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Culture Clash is a story of two families from
different backgrounds, culture trying to live in
harmony. They are trying their hardest to
understand each others customs and traditions. One
of the family is your typical middle class
American family, Ellen and Ben Matthews, owners of
a home, a small business, two cars and three kids.
The other family are refugees from Vietnam. Kim
and Quang, Vietnamese newly weds in their 20 s
fleeing their own country with Kim's two sisters,
Lan and Minh. This boo...
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Head Body
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DO YOU Death english-creative writing DO YOU HAVE
CARTOON MUSIC PLAYING IN YOUR HEAD TOO? Her tattoo
was of a skull with wings. Doug reflected on the
idea that a skull with angelic wings was a bit of
an oxymoron. She had her hair pulled up in
pigtails; a faux-cute self mockery that made her
look the part of the raver she was trying so hard
to be. Her black tank top was offset by the white
vinyl pants that she was wearing. Her whole outfit
couldn? t have been cheap. This was strange,
because obvi...
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Francis Ford Coppola Heart Of Darkness
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Comparison of Coppola's film Apocalypse Now and
Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness. Francis Ford
Coppola's film of horror in Vietnam, Apocalypse
Now, borrows its narrative structure from Joseph
Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness. Essentially,
Coppola transported the nineteenth century tale of
personal depravity to the jungles of twentieth
century Vietnam. The effect of this change in
setting is inherently tied to the change of time
and the political situation, and, while there are
a great many simil...
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U S Military Gulf Of Tonkin
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Robert McNamara In Retrospect Random House New
York, 1995 Vietnam had long since been a place of
controversy, and where our government focused it?
s fear of communism for many years. Throughout the
Kennedy and Johnson administrations the government
maintained that the war between the Communist
north and the south can only be won by the South
Vietnamese, and that our military cannot win it
for them. It stressed that the fall of South
Vietnam to communism would threaten the rest of
the western wor...
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Cold War Communist Nation
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Media and Propaganda Media and propaganda have
played an important role in swaying and pacifying
the opinions of the people of nations throughout
wars in the twentieth century. Media is
information and news that is brought about by an
organization, which is set to inform the public of
ongoing happenings and events nationally and
internationally, (World Book, vol. 13). Propaganda
is a form of media, newspapers, radio, television,
posters, books, and other publications, any
systematic, widespread ...
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United States Government World War 2
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Many things have influenced the United States in
its history. Morality, one of these influences,
has been both observed and ignored in this
history. This essay will show different periods in
history when the United States acted in a immoral
fashion. The United States treated the Japanese
Americans immorally in World War 2 and acted
immorally toward Native Americans especially at
Wounded Knee. Another of the immoral acts that the
US has committed was the My Lai Massacre. In 1940,
the United State...
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Historically Accurate Oliver Stone
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Platoon was filmed in 1986, and directed by Oliver
Stone. The production studio that produced the
film was Orion Pictures. The lead characters
include Sergeant Barns, played by Tom Berenger,
Sergeant Elias, played by Willem Dafoe, and Chris,
played by Charlie Sheen. Chris is the ignorant
college boy who comes to Vietnam on his will
because he feels lost back home. The character is
based off the director Oliver Stone, who dropped
out of Yale to join the war effort. Although he is
glad to get away...
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Viet Cong Poem Quot
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Alvin Aubert (1993) Especially relevant to the
present discussion is the poem " Tu Do
Street, " from Dien Cai Dau, with its titular
punning on " two door. " An implicit
distinction is drawn in the poem between the Gis
quest for sexless or pre-sexual socialization in
the bars and their quest for sex in other rooms,
for although the black Gis are shunned by the
mama-sans and bar girls in the bars frequented by
the white Gis, " deeper into alleys, "
in off-limit areas,...
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Clich Quot
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Komunyakaa (with Vincente Gotera) (1990)
Interviewer In much of your work, probably more so
in Lost in the Bonewheel Factory [where " The
Dog Act" and " The Nazi Doll" first
appeared] than in Copacetic it seems to me that
you strive for a tension between levels of
diction. I see you, for example, yoking Latinate
words to everyday ones. Komunyakaa Thats probably
who I am. Fluctuating between this point over here
and another strain over there: the things Ive read
that come into...
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Gulf Of Tonkin Spread Of Communism
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Barry Goldwater, Arizona state senator, decided to
run for the office of President of the United
States of America in 1964. His opponent was Lyndon
Baynes Johnson who had held the office the year
previous due to the assassination of John F.
Kennedy. One of the biggest issues for both
candidates was the situation in Vietnam. Vietnam
was the longest war in which the US took part. It
lasted between 1957 and 1975, but the US did not
become officially involved until 1965. Vietnam, a
small country in ...
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Wanted Revenge Natural Instinct
832 words
Revenge has been a common theme in society since,
perhaps, the dawn of time. We often hear people
say, Don t get mad, get even. And indeed, it has
been ingrained into us that we must get
retribution when someone does something wrong to
us. In many ways, revenge is often a means of
control; it gives us control over someone, when
someone hurts us in some way. Some might say that
revenge is an innate quality in humans, most
likely because of the fact that it gives us some
sense of control over a pa...
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