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Why The United States Sent Troops To Vietnam
1,159 words... 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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Black And White Polish Jews
1,160 words... y, there is the viewpoint of an old Jewish man, who does not sing, but remains in his chair looking distraught and angry, hopelessly outnumbered in his stance. The pseudo-traditional German folk song (composed by John Kinder and Fred Ebb for the film) continues, more and more instruments join in and the tempo picks up. Naturally this has an effect on our two characters who leave soon after and return to their car. By which time, the music has reached a massive crescendo. Max turns to Brian a...
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Edgar Allan Poe Master Of The Macabre
1,759 wordsEdgar Allan Poe - Master of the Macabre Edgar Allan Poe is dead. He died in Baltimore the day before yesterday. This announcement will startle many, but few will be grieved by it. The poet was well known, personally or by reputation, in all this country; he had readers in England, and in several of the States of Continental Europe, but he had no friends... Ludwig Rufus Griswold, New York Tribune, October 9, 1849 A storytellers Tale On October 7, 1949, Edgar Allan Poe breathes his last. Yet, even...
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Ho Chi Minh San Diego Ca
2,342 wordsAt 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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Common Sense Didn T
713 wordsI? ve Always Known About the Hindsight Bias? Oh, I shouldn? t have missed that question, I knew the answer. ? No I didn? t, I just thought I did. I just further proved the concept of the Hindsight Bias, or the? I knew it all along phenomenon. ? This concept came about in the late seventies when psychologists Paul Slavic and Baruch Fisch off began studying how scientific results and historical happenings always seem like common sense to people when in fact, they had no idea. Once people find out ...
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Short Term Memory Long Term Memory
775 wordsOur brains are constantly at work processing and retrieving information. However, we become frustrated when we cannot readily retrieve information that we have stored in our brains. The inability to remember can occur for a number of reasons that range from simple forgetting to phenomena like Infantile Amnesia. Infantile Amnesia is described as an adult? s inability to remember events before the age of two or three. This phenomena has proven difficult to test because your? memory is in a constan...
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