By taking a closer look at the movie, we can see that there are questions that must be asked before we can fully understand how well it applies in more modern times. How did Berman chose the time frame of the movie, and does it apply to more modern times? ... Eventually the knight will lose, die, and death will receive his soul. ... How does the setting of this movie compare to more modern times? ... It is very hard for anyone to realize they will die, so on an individual basis we do resist the inevitable. ...

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Then it shows Nixon ticking everyone while he strings along the war while more and more people die in it every day. ... The first one is how the north and all of America felt about the south and how they did things. It is saying that how you do things is the wrong way and if you want to do that find a country different country because we don't tolerate it. ... They are both saying what is going on in the south when we see these we think we wouldn't tolerate this so why do they the south must be bad.. 3. ... In Korea we compromised but in Vietnam we fought and lost and there was a ...

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Our troops spent years fighting and dying for a country some had never heard of. ... You may ask how this could've happened or how it all came about, and ,yes, there is an answer it just may be a little difficult to explain. ... For the first time in the nations history Americans were asked to fight and die to contain an idea. ... Because we gained no territory in this fight we could not search for our men that had not made it home. ... We are truly a lucky people. ...

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Another 40,000 civilians perished in the disaster, not to mention the many more who died later from injuries and radiation poisoning. ... " Truman felt that if he hadn't made such a bold move on Japan, even more troops and civilians would have died, but the war on Japan had already been nearly over. ... We gave no warning. ... At the least, the exposition of how destructive the atomic bomb really was should have been delivered prior to the bombings. ... Hundreds of thousands of innocent people died, only to end a war that was already over....

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This statement proves how the U.S. uses the war as a justification for wide spread destruction and repression. ... On page 894 he talks about how the United States can wash its hands clean of Vietnam, so that the U.S. doesn't have to admit that we have made a mistake, so that president Nixon won't be the first president to lose a war. ... Kerry quotes, "But we are here as veterans to say we think we are in the midst of the greatest disaster of all times now because they are still dying over there-- not just Americans, but Vietnamese--and we are rationalizing leaving that country so ...

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Philip Caputo spent his life acquiring the skills of killing, learning how to fieldstrip and assemble and M-14 rifle blindfolded, how to face death, and how to cause it. ... Caputo knew nothing about the everyday lifestyles we lead today. ... He began to despise the whole staff for sending the platoons out to die. ... When Caputo returned home he felt like many soldiers had died in vain. ... Also, I was surprised to find out how graphic and how much it went into detail. ...

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When we look at music that was written before the height of Vietnam War we can see that some people are already opposed to war. ... I don't sing songs which hope people will die, but I couldn't help it in this one. ... In "Masters of War" Dylan puts in his two cents on how he feels about the businesses that make weaponry and the government that starts these wars that historically boost the economy and put lots of cash in the pockets of these business men. ... In the end of the song Dylan proclaims that he wants these men dead, he is very hateful and it is easy to see how strongly he ...

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Throughout America's history Americans have fought and died to get, and to protect our freedoms so the least we can do is try to maintain them. ... The Civil War, a war where never before and not since have so many Americans died in battle, was largely attributed to our rights, which demonstrated the importance of all American's freedoms. Another of the more recent events that showed how important our rights are, was the Civil Rights Movement. ... ," meaning that peace and life are worthless if we do not have freedom. ... If we neglect our freedoms, we will not realize how import...

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We know that "the letters from Martha, Jimmy Cross's love, weighed 10 ounces- (2), but we don't know how much Martha meant for Jimmy Cross, and even Cross doesn't even know until Ted Lavender gets shot, and Jimmy Cross has an epiphany, a revelation and realizes that the only way to deal with the war is to get rid of the objects relating him to home. ... This shows how much the objects count in the soldier's mentality towards the war, and how relieved one can be if all traces of the past are physically gone. ... They crawled into tunnels, walked point, and advanced under...

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Furthermore into how human rights were violated in Vietnam which made the war unjust was the use of Napalm. ... And unfortunately even U.S soldiers were affected or killed by this pesticide, and for those who were lucky enough to make it home alive from Vietnam most likely have died because the United States attempted to cover up Agent Orange denying the horrific effects it had on the human body such as cancer and did not offer any veterans treatment leaving them to die. ... This lead me to believe amount of soldiers and resources we lost in Vietnam was not worth the effort because we not on...

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To analyze this statement we have to know exactly what is meant by the phrase "History always repeats itself". ... This is a big change in history, and now women in other countries, which they did and do not get a lot of respect in, are starting to change and learn how to gain respect. ... This shows that we have learned from our mistakes so it won't happen again. ... Not long ago people did not live as long as they do now, and died for things that now are not considered un-treatable. ... Women died very often of giving birth; this was because of the dirtiness of the hospitals, not knowin...

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He remembers how if the VC's weapon had worked, he would be dead and starts to cry. ... Later, he begins to think about how he had come into the army as a kid and how the war didn't mean anything to him then. ... And now with all the dying going on around him made him curious about the man he would be if he didn't die himself. ... We barely ever saw the Congs. ... They killed their own people to try to prove that we could not help them. ...

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As we can see from the beliefs of the American subcommittee, "the idea that indigenous political traditions or abilities might permit the Vietnamese to govern themselves in the postwar period was almost inconceivable," and this rested on "pervasive American assumptions of Vietnamese subservience and susceptibility to external control," (Bradley 89, 93). Mecklin proves this to be the case when he states how these beliefs were reaffirmed when the Americans had arrived there, since "among most of the ten million people of rural South Vietnam, terms like democracy, Communism, imperialism, and...

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President Truman made a speech to congress March 12th, 1947, describing how the United States bribed Greece and Turkey saying "They spread and grow in the evil soil of poverty and strif. They reach their fully growth when the hope of a people for a better life has died. ... We have given the order to discontinue building the installations we shall dismantle them and withdraw them to the Soviet Union.... Nobody really knows how the war ended or who won. ...

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Hungarians fighting in the war, Hungarian-Jews that were sent to concentration camps, and other civilians died along with the downfall of their country during that time. (The History of Hungary) About one million Hungarian died during the war for these reasons. ... Although Stalin died in 1953, Moscow's control over Hungary and Eastern Europe did not weaken. ... Nations of the free world condemned the Soviets actions and how they handled the situation in Hungary. ... (New Economic Mechanism) In the late 1980's there were new political parties that started to appear, and the par...

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In 1953, Stalin died and he was success by Khrushchev. ... (MIA) Through this incident we can see how shaky the position of the communism rule in the Eastern bloc in the necessity of Khrushchev to seek for solution in a bargain. ... Once again, we can see how weak was the communist government in the Eastern bloc. Through the incidents of the East Germany, Poland, and Hungary, we could see how the Communists maintained their position through intimidation and terrorism. ... The peasants did not get enough food and many of them died of starvation. ...

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It is still unclear how man American women, military and nonmilitary, served in Vietnam. ... An army nurse landing in Vietnam for the first time realized the impracticality of this regulation ""We were not far off the coast when the captain announced they were mortaring the airfield The plane made a steep landing We ran out and the troops going home ran in We were told to follow the person in front of us into a bunker Unfortunately, I had high heels on. ... Also, the ability and speed of helicopters to airlift the wounded allowed many to be spared who would have died on the battlef...

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The belief that freedom and the American way of life and capitalism would cease to exist and die under a communist takeover. ... The American Society was affected by the Cold War in that the U.S. was trying to prove how great their life in this country was. ... In the wake of all this fear was a portrayal of communism in Science Fiction movies, namely "The Blob" and "The Invasion of the Body Snatchers" "The Blob" displayed communism as a slow but unstoppable forced that devoured everything, much like we feared the Russians taking over Europe and then the United States. ... Joe McCarthy ...

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President Kennedy did know how to run a society but, he was not all that strong in foreign activities. ... We must increase the size of this force and this creates very difficult problems. ... Kennedy was assassinated, he died knowing secrets that would remain tightly held for decades to follow. ... John F Kennedy may not have been a total expert on running America, but he knew how to run a society. ... We believe that Kennedy was both a strong and weak aspect of the United States. ...

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Although we held strategic and tactical superiority in the Caribbean, the Bay of Pigs was a disaster. ... We know that did not happen but what would have happened if we had invaded Cuba? ... We didn't realize they were copying us because we weren't aware that ours were lined up the same way. ... That decision shows how high the stakes were during the Cold War and how the decisions by innately fallible humans can affect the course of history. ... It also illustrates how little Kennedy a...

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This structure helps to show how he was corrupted over time. ... People in China are "just- "starving away- and 600 million Chinese people have died, though we just view this as entertainment. ... However, this is an extremely superficial thought, as we should feel sympathy towards anyone who has to suffer unnecessarily. After all, we are all human and no one is more superior than another person. ... In turn, this leaves the reader with a self critical point of view, as this is the reality of life in many places, though if we cannot relate to it, we simply view it as entertainment. ...

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His first work, If I Die in a Combat Zone (1973), is his most overtly factual. ... This novel clearly demonstrates how O'Brien's Vietnam anxieties are actually versions of the anxiety that we all feel in the nuclear age. ...

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The full extent of his ruthlessness may never be known, but the actions we do know about are truly appalling. ... He married his first wife Yekaterina Svanidze, in 1904, but she unfortunately died in 1910, only after six years of marriage. ... They where designed to convince domestic and foreign people of the existence of a vast anti- Soviet conspiracy, and to strike fear into any Soviet how tried to disagree with Stalin. ... Somewhere between 21 and 28 million soviet civilians and soldiers died in the war. ...

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However; during that time, Eisenhower was in Korea talking to soldiers and getting a first hand account of how the war was going. ... The North Korean casualties were estimated to be around 520,000 and about 900,000 Chinese soldiers died supporting the North Koreans. ... In the "Atoms for Peace Speech" Eisenhower stated that not many countries at the time knew how to make an atomic bomb. ... "We (the United States) never have, and never will, propose or suggest that the Soviet Union surrender what rightly belongs to it. We will never say that the people of the USSR are an enem...

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(Rentschler "How American Is It?" ... Most Germans would tend to be ashamed of the cause these sailors died for, while, on the other hand, most Americans would tend to feel a sense of pride for overcoming evil. ... But, how does Petersen show us the characters this way, who do we identify with and how?; how does he separate the good guys from bad guys visually?, and how does this create sympathy for those characters? ...

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