Coppola created this film with "ambitious effort to show Vietnam as America's Heart of Darkness, with Joseph Conrad's story providing the narrative skeleton" "(Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 1-1) and many themes, meanings, and entire scenes from the movie do in fact come directly from Conrad's book. ... Ford's use of imagery, darkness, and slow and long cross dissolves also create vivid realizations of the damages inflicted by war both physically and mentally. ... The use of long cross dissolves and super imposed images appear in the opening scene and vividly place us ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

General Harold G Moore and Joseph L Galloway. ... Joseph L Galloway was a reporter that accompanied the 1st Battalion into this battle. ... As A-Company approached B-Companies position they saw the NVA moving around to flank B-Companies position, so they crossed a dry creek to cut off any NVA from flanking B-Companies position (www.nvo.org/vv98/other/010031.htm, 2001.). ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Congress's movement of termination slowed and ceased because of many Native Americans crossed tribal lines to protest termination legislation. ... In "A Declaration of Indian Rights," which was the official response to the termination bills, a veteran of World of WWII and the Korean War, Joseph Garry, argued with the common idea that reservations were like concentration camps. ...

• Word Count: 1633
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate