Hartke advocates the same deception about the lies said by the government during the Vietnam War. After Hartke joined the army he was sent to fight in the Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War. ... The complete opposite occurred with the Vietnam War. ... The images that were reflected of the war were rarely true. ... Thus, as part of an anti-war agenda, news producers and journalists purposely selected stories that portrayed the war as uncontrollable. ...

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The Vietnam war in the 60's was a key part of the musical movement in the 60's because artists were able to use music as an outlet to project their political views to the world. ... The movement went from just pro-blacks to join together to make an anti war movement. And together this combination of anti war and pro-black made an entire peaceful movement and its relationship with the music of the time changed the music and the culture. ... Bands like Pink Floyd made anti war and anti vietnam music, making an entire generation of kids and teens informed about war and its faults. ... F...

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Another important event of 1965 was the Vietnam War. ... Protesting the war in Vietnam, he stood outside the window of Secretary of Defence Robert McNamara's office and lit himself on fire (McNamara 222). ... Nel's 1965 is framed by the previously mentioned political and social strife surrounding the Vietnam War. ...

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However, much was negative: student and anti-war protest movements, political assassinations, and ghetto riots excited American people and resulted in lack of respect for authority and the law. The decade began under the shadow of the cold war with the Soviet Union, which was aggravated by the U-2 incident, the Berlin Wall, and the Cuban missile crisis, along with the space race with the USSR. The decade ended under the shadow of the Vietnam war, which deeply divided Americans and their allies and damaged the country's self-confidence and sense of purpose. ... Hippies,...

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Through its ideologies the Black Panther Party developed a ten point plan that was to be the platform and program that articulated the wants and needs of the black masses in America that were still alienated from society and oppressed despite the abolition of slavery at the end of the Civil War. ... • We want an immediate end to all wars of aggression. ...

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"Well, OK, it seems to always fall on me to tell the truth and, hey, I don't mind. It's not nearly as bad a job as some people think- (Giovanni, Sacred Cows and Other Edibles). Nikki Yolande Giovanni is one of America's most recent poets who gained fame as a writer during the 1060s. Nikki Giovanni, ...

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X were both fighting the same war for the same people. Their methods were different but both achieved, in time, what they were trying to bring across. Never did they back down from their beliefs or compromised them. They were the embodiment of integrity. King a...

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