People have been fighting for many different reasons, some simple like land or religion or reasons that we may never know. ... For instance the death toll on allied troops was 282,000, on just Americans the toll was 55,000 not including the 365,000 civilians dead resulting in 1.3 million casualties of war. ... This was a result of 100,000 Iraqi soldiers dead, 200 Allied troops dead, 90 American soldiers dead, and 175,000 Iraqi prisoners. ...

• Word Count: 750
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• Grade Level: High School

Comparatively it is evident in both pieces from Myers' with Lieutenant Carroll calling the dead soldiers "angel warriors" because usually young boys were the ones who fought the war; despite the fact that they were quite young and most of them couldn't vote. ... He begins to imagine what the man's life might have been before the war started where he saw him as an young boy who loved mathematics and only reason for joining the war was because in his family the highest honor for a man was to defend the land of his people, such as the man's father and uncle had done....

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His medical profile is supposed to land him a desk job and he is not expecting to fight at all. ... Lieutenant Carroll was a part of him and part of him was dead with Carroll. ... He remembers how if the VC's weapon had worked, he would be dead and starts to cry. ...

• Word Count: 994
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• Grade Level: High School

Throughout the story, the author gives us examples of what the land was like, the actual things they carried, and the things each one needed to keep them sane. ... Often times, the land was mined and booby-trapped, and it was SOP for each man to carry a steel-centered, nylon-covered flat jacket, which weighed 6.7 pounds, but which on hot days seemed much heavier (O'Brien 638). ... "He pictured Martha's smooth young face, thinking he loved her more than anything, more than his men, and now Ted Lavender was dead because he loved her so much and could not stop thinking about her ...

• Word Count: 1337
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• Grade Level: High School

Directly aided by the United States Armas returned the expropriated land and halted the literacy and social welfare programs. ... Environmental effects from chemical agents and the colossal social problems caused by a devastated country with so many dead surely caused many more lives to be shortened. ... Economic production drastically declined, and much of the land was in shambles. ...

• Word Count: 3901
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• Grade Level: High School

Try to picture for just a moment what the United States would be like if during our civil war, a pro-slavery, but otherwise uninvolved, country had started aiding the southern confederates but in the process destroyed our country's villages, land, and people. Imagine that this hypothetical country had not been asked by the South for assistance, but simply interfered because the morals in their land disagreed with the idea of freeing slaves. ... Many in the U.S. also believed in the Domino Theory: the idea that once one land became communist, the surrounding areas would follow suit. ...

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Ho Chi Minh to the French, late 1940's Western Civilization, as we know it today, has been shaped by the many revolutions that nations throughout the land have participated in. ... Vietnam began its mark on the world, when beginning in 1857, France attacked the land and later seized it as a colony. The Vietnam land was finalized to French control in 1883 with the signing of a Treaty of Protectorate, thus ending Vietnam's independence. The French colonial land remained under the country with little uprising for nearly fifty years. ... The war lasted 9 years and many Vietnamese...

• Word Count: 2963
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• Grade Level: High School

During the 1960's America was ripped apart by a war in a far off country in Asia. Seeing an enemy that was hoping to gain power and eventually rule the world and the nation stared war against communism in the face. The US was faced with the decision, to watch as its friends in other countries faded into the depths of communism, or to come along side and help its international friends put a stop to communism. The USA sent many soldiers to fight against the enemy, never quite realizing what it was truly sending them against. From the US viewpoint, it was thought that the War in Vietnam ...

• Word Count: 4154
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School

By the end of the war 1.3 million South Koreans, 1 million Chinese, 500,000 Northern Korean's, 54,000 Americans were dead (Rees 4). ... It is sometimes called, "The Land Bridge," between China and Japan (Rees 1-2). ... That battle ended in 4,280 Americans dead. ...

• Word Count: 1955
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

It was agreed that Russia should get Polish territory east of the Curzon line, land taken from Bolshevik Russia in 1921). ... The subsequent proposal read: It was agreed in principle that the hearth of the Polish state and people must be situated between the so-called Curzon Line (a demarcation line that pushed the eastern boundary westward) and the line of the Oder River, including Eastern Prussia and the Oppeln Province as part of Poland. (22) Stalin moved the frontier of the USSR westwards and handed over to Poland a large area of the Soviet zone of Germany, including land to which ...

• Word Count: 3287
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Mayhem immediately arose on the Ole Miss campus, with uprisings resulting in two people dead, hundreds of people injured and countless other people detained, when the Kennedy administration summoned 31,000 National Guardsmen and supplementary federal forces to impose command. ... Kennedy, seen as the first president to support civil rights, took office in January 1961; and the Brown ruling was still the official law of the land" (U.S. ...

• Word Count: 2157
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Joseph Stalin was the soviet communist leader who's passing molded an era, and whose iron rule determined the lives of millions of people. Considering that he shaped the direction of post-World War II Europe, we may regard him as the most powerful person to live during the 20th century. Joseph Sta...

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Known by the common person as an American defeat, the Vietnam War has scarred our country with past mistakes but necessary lessons learned. Although not technically a declared war, it was the longest conflict in the United States history. We failed to accomplish the goals we created in the beginning. We wanted to help ensure that South Vietnam had a separate, independent, and noncommunist government. Not only were the Vietnamese affected but the American citizens her at home. ...

• Word Count: 4657
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: High School