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
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• 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. ...

• Word Count: 2109
• Approx Pages: 8

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

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
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate