He chronicles his experiences beginning with his working class background from his tour of duty in World War I, to tenure at Spelman College, and to his disposition of the Vietnam War. ... This lead him to a new group called the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee where he would be working in the front lines of some of the most historical events of the Civil Rights Movement. ... After Japan he wrote a book to illustrate why the United States should withdraw from Vietnam immediately. Vietnam: The Logic of Withdraw was a deep critique questioning the morality of the war and questioning t...

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This is the question posed by Mahatma Gandhi, which can be applied to many of the wars that the United States has encountered in the past century, including World War II and the Vietnam War, which are the historical subjects of literary works by John Hersey and Ron Kovic. ... The subjects of Hersey's work include people from all backgrounds, including a Jesuit Priest, two doctors, a Methodist Pastor, a young clerk, and a mother and her three children. ... A familiar phrase in Kovic's narrative includes the words Vietnam and veteran. When he is arrested, Kovic says, "I"m a Vietnam ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Background and During the Cooling of Relations The Second World War drastically changed the political map of the world, and especially the European continent. The basic premises of the new alignment of the world developed in the final stages of the war. The anti-Hitler coalition, the main role whic...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

BACKGROUND To understand the role and/or goals of affirmative actions programs we should define what the broad definition of what affirmative action is and what caused its development. ... With the background of affirmative action and its programs established we should evaluate some of the problems with affirmative action and if affirmative action programs work. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate