The Vietnam War was a prolonged conflict, extending from 1954 to 1975, between the communist government of North Vietnam and the non-communist government of the South. ... In Australia, public opinion on the war in Vietnam moved through several stages throughout its involvement in the war. ... The Vietnam War was the longest war Australia was ever involved in. ... Nearly 40 years on, the after-effects of the Vietnam War still linger in Australia. ... Although, at the beginning of the war, the public displayed little interest, opposition gradually built and the popular culture began to turn awa...

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In his book Johnson, Nixon, and the Doves, historian Melvin Small chronicles the anti-Vietnam War movement with much detail as he discusses the link between the decisions of the Johnson and Nixon administrations concerning the Vietnam War and the stream of protests that accompanied the war. ... Small begins his outline of the anti-war movement with what he calls the "Americanization of the war" when the majority of Americans were supportive of action in Vietnam. ... Despite popular support of the president, this early stage of the war was also the beginning of the anti-war movement as teach-...

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The novel blurs the lines between real stories and stories that the author created in order to cope with his past in Vietnam. O'Brien affectively confuses average readers with his ambiguity between "story truth" and "happening truth" and casts doubt on the veracity of the entire book to show a normal audience how war veterans are forced to cope with their experiences. ... Particularly at the end of the book, O'Brien explains that in Vietnam, the soldiers created ways to make the people they were close to that died seem less dead – they kept those people aliv...

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"Homecoming", by Bruce Dawe, illustrates and recounts the tragedies of the Vietnam War in an even-tempered, but negative tone. ... 'They're', made use of at the beginning of five consecutive sentences highlights exactly this. ... Despite having made the ultimate sacrifice of going to war, the fact the most attention they are presented with is from a dog accentuates the global concept of war as dehumanizing. ... This meaning is however used ironically by subtly contrasting the traditional implications of the word, with the shocking reality of dead soldiers flown home from Vietnam...

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To the end, King believed that the war that then continued with full vigor in Vietnam did in viable the solution of the local problems of the human relations. ... For which refers to the War of the Vietnam, many felt that their problems lost priority and that the leverage black to should be concentrated in the fight of the racial injustice inside United States. However, at the beginning of 1967, King had associated the leaders of the movement against the war, independently of its color. The subsequent worry of King by Vietnam and their determination in directing a march of the town upon...

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At the beginning of this epic Grendle makes the first strike and attacks helpless civilians, much like what the United States did during their bombing raids of Arabic nations such as Iraq and Afghanistan and even during the Vietnam war an example of that would be the massacre at May Lai. ...

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Sexuality in the Military Homosexuals have been excluded from our society since our country's beginning, giving them unequal rights. ... The Homosexual struggle with our Nation's Armed Forces has been acquiring damage and swift blows for a long time now, and finally they are beginning to fight back. With the public knowledge of initiation rights into many elite groups of the military, the public is beginning to realize how exclusive the military can be. ... The Vietnam War set the stage for society becoming more involved in how the military was run. ... The ending of the Cold War an...

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The EU has decided on a common currency, the Euro, which became available at the beginning of 1999. ... One example is World War II, which started in the middle of Europe- -considered then the most civilized part of the world- because of Germany's belief in its national superiority. ... By the beginning 20th century with the effects of industrialization and common usage of communication devices and transportation becoming faster and more comfortable economy started to play the most important role in a state's political policies. ... Equally Asia has been struck by fundamental changes...

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"The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrow" (Schladweiler). Although it refers to the Vietnam War, Martin Luther King Jr.'s quote accurately communicates that a stormy, war-torn past will scarcely presage a favorable future. ... In each piece, a groundbreaking shift in lifestyle marks the beginning of a streak of unfulfilled hopes, and the reason lies within the character's past of contradictory morals. ... Confrontation of one's fears and aspirations often leads to a new beginning--a new attempt at an...

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Religion in America From the very beginning, people from across mountains, valleys, and oceans came to America for more liberties and independence than they had had where they originally came from. ... Any argument on ethics or morality always seemed to come back to its religious foundation; for example, the cases of Charles Finney social reforms or Abraham Lincoln's personal conflict during the Civil War. In the midst of the Civil War and, later on, the Scopes Trial, people realize that even amongst the people of the same religion, they all have different opinions despite reading the sam...

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