The numerous conflicts of the war and peace produced writers who sometimes chose to concentrate their writing on the horrifying effects and worthlessness of war. ... Just like Owen, Jarrell shows the horrific aspect of war in his poem and he is giving us an insight into war. ... The last line of the poem is conceivably the best graphic picture to portray the cruelty and the coldness of war, when he states that "when I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose" (551).From the ambiguity of this line we can understand at least two meanings at once. ... Sadness goes hand in han...

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The longest war in American history, (besides the Iraq War), and probably one of the most controversial events in American history as a whole, the Vietnam war divided our country and resulted in over 58,000 American causalities. ... Because of the Cold War, the United States believed that the Soviet Union was responsible for any communism in any country, and that the goal of this was to envelope the entire world in communism and wipe out capitalism and democracy. ... That is exactly what the U.S. did in the case of the Vietnam Civil War. ... This was only one failed military tactic during the ...

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The war traced its origins to before the Cold War and even before World War II. ... Eisenhower's advisors after calculating the forces necessary to win the war were perceptive enough to convince him to keep the U.S. out of the Indochina war. ... A war of guerillas and insurgents, a war fought in ambushes not traditional combat. ... The Vietnam War was not a very popular war with the American people and due to the prolonged United States involvement the number of people against it grew. ... The Vietnam War was the first war in the history of the United States to be fought on foreign and d...

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As the book progresses, so does the war. ... A Rumor of War was written not long after Caputo's experience in this tragic war. ... No one spoke and I felt it come back again, that old, familiar, cold, cramping fear Goddamn this war, he said, Goddamn this war," (248). ... These things all display how war can affect man; war truly is a nightmare. ... A Rumor of War is one ...

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The story takes place during the Vietnam War in the late 1860's (O'Brien 637). ... The challenging terrain of the Vietnam War is just one of the many difficulties they face. ... Because the nights were cold, and because the monsoons were wet, each carried a green plastic poncho that could be used as a raincoat or ground sheet or makeshift tent (O'Brien 638). ... At one point, Cross even says he is a kid at war, in love (O'Brien 643). ... This just comes to show that if the war were not affecting him, mentally, then he would not need drugs to get him through the difficultie...

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Baring in mind that the war occurred at the height of the cold war and the propaganda was quite strong; there was an overall distrust of communism and the East. ... This war became known as the T.V war. ... This turned the cold war into a three-way distrust from a two way one. All the countries had good reasons to want a warming of the cold war: America wanted to separate the USSR and China, as together they were too much of a threat to America. ... This was not to mean the cold war was over, the nuclear arms race with the USSR continued, but it did mean that the Vietnam War was drawing to an ...

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THE THINGS THEY CARRIED (by Tim O'Brien) The Things They Carried is a collection of stories about the Vietnam War that the author, Tim O'Brien, uses to convey his experiences and feelings about the war. ... They'd been close buddies, the tightest, and he remembered how last night they had huddled together under their ponchos, the rain cold and steady, the water rising to their knees, but how Kiowa had just laughed it off and said they should concentrate on better things. ... If this happened while he was in the battlefield, the Narrator might not have survived the war....

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THE THINGS THEY CARRIED (by Tim O'Brien) The Things They Carried is a collection of stories about the Vietnam War that the author, Tim O'Brien, uses to convey his experiences and feelings about the war. ... They'd been close buddies, the tightest, and he remembered how last night they had huddled together under their ponchos, the rain cold and steady, the water rising to their knees, but how Kiowa had just laughed it off and said they should concentrate on better things. ... If this happened while he was in the battlefield, the Narrator might not have survived the war....

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The American conception of Vietnam as a cold war battleground largely ignored the struggle for social justice and national sovereignty occurring within the country. ... By July 1965, Johnson faced the choice of being the first president to lose a great war or of converting the Vietnamese War into a massive, U.S. directed military effort. ... The American troops and POWs came home, but the war continued. ... In April 1975, North Vietnamese troops and tanks converged on Saigon, and the war was over. Why did the United States lose the war? ...

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The movie also failed to illustrate the hippies that fought in the war. ... The movie also failed to explain how the war began? How the Americans become involved in Indochina war? ... Their attitudes towards the war, was very cold and harsh. ... I felt that the movie, Platoon, was pro - American and not pro - war. ...

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The film uses beautiful cinematography along with superb sound mixing, soundtracks, and a huge budget to recreate the Vietnam War as closely as possible. ... This pounding mix of sounds creates such a powerful feeling that it hits the viewer with a wave of energy that pours out of Captain Willard's cold, dark, and blank eyes, all before they are even introduced to him, or even heard him speak. ... As a viewer one is left thinking of the gore and gruesome details within the action of the war sequences and "Indeed, the very nature of cinema has the tendency to turn war into spectacle, and a...

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The soldiers carried loneliness, uncertainty of the truth of war, and the heavy burden of physical and emotion weight; Tim O'Brien uses war related imagery to symbolize the vim of storytelling in his book "The Things They Carried". ... Cross and Martha were both a prime example of the difficulty of sustaining love in the Vietnam War. Martha's love was a warming welcome to Cross, he heard her voice in letters and tasted her from the pebble, but she gave a cold shoulder with each letter she signed with love. ... "The only certain thing during the Vietnam War was that n...

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Life in America after World War II was immersed in social and political turmoil. The country was in the middle of the Cold War with the Soviet Union, and many people were left with a false sense of security. ... African-Americans were in search for equality, the Cold War, and the country was on the brink of falling into a war in Vietnam. ... Songs like "Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall- - written about the Cuban Missile Crisis - and "Masters of War- - condemning political leader's pugnacious tactics - brought to the forefront the political and social issues occurring (Szatmary). ... Coupled ...

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., Vietnam all had different motives for their involvement in the Vietnam War in the years between 1945 and 1975. ... Even as the war increasingly destroyed the country, he remained committed to Vietnam's independence. ... Nobody liked the war, but it never occurred to the people to put the blame for it on the their own leader. ... President Truman had transferred his Cold War images from Europe and Southeast Asia and based his policies on naive analogies rather than specific Asian realities. ... Kennedy put the U.S. even deeper into the war. ...

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The US policy since the beginning of the Cold War had been containment of Communist aggression and advances. ... The United States soldiers realized that the war would last for many more years and wondered if the U.S. war effort could succeed. ... ilitary throughout the war. ... Vietnam War, military struggle fought in Vietnam from 1959 to 1975. ... On both sides, however, the weight of the war fell mainly on the civilians. ...

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The airplane has been used in every major war since World War I. ... Strategic is used to find out information related to the war or mission to gain an advantage. ... With war, came advancements in bomber technology such as self sealing gas tanks. ... During the Cold War Russia and America where having a race on who can design better bombers, as the developed the American B-47 and the Russian Tu-16. ... The F-4 C Phantom II was built between 1958-1979 and has been used during the Vietnam War. ...

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Mankind's" history was dominated by violence, whether its political war, domestic violence, social violence or personal violence, violence had abided in our culture visibly and invisibly. ... Vietnam war ), religion ( eg. the current Palestinian and Israelian internal conflicts ), and sexual orientation. ... Victims or survivors of holocaust, for example, the Cambodian women, were subjected to physical injury, torture and sexual assault during the war. ... The legacy of war is the trauma and losses of surviving soldiers, veterans and civilians. For the sake of war, politic...

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William Duiker, Minh's biographer, a man who served in Saigon's US embassy during the Vietnam War and who interviewed Minh's colleagues, succinctly summarizes Ho's description of the party's aims in the Brief Rules of the Party: "The Communist Party of Vietnam has been organized to lead the laboring masses in the class struggle to wipe out capitalism and imperialism, and build a Communist society." ( It seemed that National independence helped build socialism while socialism gave an epochal connotation to national independence, helping it to become most effective an...

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