According to the book the media at war news and entertainment media alike has been saturated by images of conflict throughout a war-scarred century. ... Reporting Vietnam media and military at war by Hammond says correspondents disagreed at times with official policy, but there reporting never questioned the end of the war. ... The medias job in the Vietnam war was to report the Vietnam war and bring it to the public's living rooms. ... The media reported what the Iraqi government did and said during the Iraqi war all the while functioning under serve restrictions. ... Reporters rep...

• Word Count: 1919
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Sources that are mainly used will be oral narratives and reports of former contract workers. The first source to be evaluated for its origin,purpose,values and possible limitations is a synopsis of reports and documents, Zwischen Nationalismus und Internationalismus – Über Ausländer und Ausländerpolitik in der DDR 1949-1990 published by Eva-Maria and Lothar Elsner, while the second source is a report of the BIOst, Vietnamesische Gastarbeiter in den europäischen RGW-Ländern by Klaus Fritsche. ... The purpose of the book lto focus on themes that are rarely discussed - like the life...

• Word Count: 1950
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

This parallels to the predicted reaction that the Pentagon expected from "U.S. noncombatants" in recently declassified reports that have begun to be released to the general public. ... Many critics say that the Department of Defense, namely the CIA influenced his writing of this book at the very height of the Russian American arms race. ... This doesn't seem very important in Frank's book at first, but it's most likely a very realistic picture of how our society thinks in some ways. ... They began to be self sufficient in as little as a month though the book is not clear they su...

• Word Count: 1812
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• Grade Level: High School

Kennedy's book Thirteen Days: a Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis. ... RFK's book offers that the Intelligence Community in 1962 gave JFK reports that the Soviet Union would not make Cuba a military base, " the risk of retaliation from the United States would be too great to take the risk in this case- [p.6]. ... On Tuesday October 23rd, the day after President Kennedy made his speech to the American people explaining the crisis, CIA Director John McCone reported that the Russians were beginning to camouflage the missile sites [p.36]. ... Together with reports that the Russians wer...

• Word Count: 2306
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• Grade Level: High School

Throughout the book you come to find that Truman had some people that he was not very fond of. ... The Book brings to light several interesting facts, both on the good and bad or disturbing in some cases. ... The book also shows some people's infatuation with UFO's and Truman was not exempt from this madness, he was so curious to find out that he assigned someone to help cure his curiosity. ... Although General Landry was more than qualified his report stated that there was nothing of substance to be considered credible or a threat. ... I must admit that I enjoyed this book becaus...

• Word Count: 1444
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

This book does not try to make a political statement by addressing the issues surrounding America's involvement in Vietnam. ... The book opens with a brief description of the training the soldiers of the 1st battalion 7th Calvary received before leaving the United States. ... Once the foundation had been laid, the book jumped quickly into the story of the battle. Here are a few examples of the most memorable short stories told in the book. ... It has been suggested using declassified documents that General Taylor and General Harkin deliberately misled the President with falsified reports ...

• Word Count: 2373
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Historian Michael Lind in his book "Vietnam the Necessary War" mention that China aided North Vietnam with as much as 327,000 soldiers. ... Government overstates danger, and understates, or did not report true situation in South Vietnam. Stone in his "A Reply to the "White Paper", successfully criticizes US official report known as "White Paper", and leaves many doubts if government was honest to its citizens why United States enter the Vietnam War. ...

• Word Count: 1674
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• Grade Level: High School

In the middle of the 1960's, inspired by the writings of many notable researchers and historians on the subject of American Foreign Policy, such as William Appleman Williams and his book The Tragedy of American Diplomacy, many looked to revise the conventional views held to that point. ... Led by historian John Lewis Gaddis and his book "The United States and the Origins of the Cold War," post-revisionism claimed that there were several reasons to explain the origin of the Cold War. ... Their ability to define this imperative and inherent sense of welfare was the central focal point of po...

• Word Count: 1800
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The New American reported in its December 13, 1993 issue Birch once wrote in a poem that he desired to "live slowly, to relax with my family before a glowing fireplace ... to enjoy a good book ... to reach the sunset of my life sound in body and mind, flanked by strong sons and grandsons."" ... Welch went on to publish Review of the News which was a straightforward weekly report of the news. ...

• Word Count: 2226
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Martin McCauley states in his book Khrushchev and Khrushchevism, "Khrushchev could not grasp the root causes of the deficiencies he was attempting to eliminate. ... As a result, "The number of sovnarkhozy was reduced by mergers, a process that illustrated the need for a hierarchical management system to limit its transaction costs by containing the number of reporting units to be supervised at each level. ...

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Martin McCauley states in his book Khrushchev and Khrushchevism, "Khrushchev could not grasp the root causes of the deficiencies he was attempting to eliminate. ... As a result, "The number of sovnarkhozy was reduced by mergers, a process that illustrated the need for a hierarchical management system to limit its transaction costs by containing the number of reporting units to be supervised at each level. ...

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• Has Bibliography

The U.S. was forced to actively enter the war when the Johnson administration reported that two U.S destroyers where attacked by the Northern Vietnamese in 1964. ... These Panthers carried weapons in public, wore berets symbolizing the revolutionary Che and handed out copies Mao's Red Book around Berkeley Campus. ...

• Word Count: 2185
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• Grade Level: High School

William Doyle indicated in his book, "An American Insurrection: The Battle of Oxford, Mississippi," that the NAACP's support was a crucial element in Meredith's ultimate victory. ...

• Word Count: 2157
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the opening of his book on Japan's foreign policy Michael Green speaks to the difficulty of ascertaining the states objectives, or even if they have any at all. ... Instead of collapsing beneath its widely reported political and economic misfortunes, Japan's global cultural influence has quietly grown. ...

• Word Count: 2239
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