For a soldier coming home from the Vietnam War, and for many years later, it must be a life of constant relief, sadness, and guilt at having survived the dangers of combat. ... The speaker of the poem, whom the reader can assume is Komunyakaa himself, faces the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial Wall with all of these feelings. ... Komunyakaa, a Vietnam vet himself, describes seeing his black face in the glossy, black granite facade of the wall. ... He feels guilt over having survived the war when 58, 022 other soldiers died. ... The poet's use of contrasting movement shows the solder's...

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• Grade Level: High School

Department of Veterans Affairs, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder affects over 31 percent of Vietnam veterans and 11 percent of veterans from the war in Afghanistan. Soldiers in the war are not only fighting for their country, but for their lives. ... The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien showed how the soldiers looked to each other for comfort in the traumatic situations they had to face in the war and used humor as a way to cope. ... Back in those times, it was hard enough to be black man in America, so being a black man in the war was another challenge he had to encounter. ... The Things...

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Major occurrences during this era are Civil Rights Movement in 1954, Vietnam War in 1955, and the Watergate Scandal in the 1970s. ... In the poem "Facing It" by American author Yusef Komunyakaa, the author uses metaphor, imagery, and symbolism in order to express to his audience the close experience of making his journey to the Vietnam War Veteran's Memorial in Washington, DC. Through the use of these various literary devices, the speaker is not only able to draw the audience into the history of the poem, but also shares his involvement in the war, and place the events of the wa...

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King was assassinated, the U.S. was in the latter part of the Vietnam War, and African Americans were fighting a war of their own for civil rights all history stuff, all stuff that has affected the world today. ... Julia (Diahann Carroll) was an African American woman, widowed after her husband died in a tragic helicopter accident in Vietnam. ...

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"Creators of texts characterise people in certain ways in order to encourage audiences to accept or reject ides associated with them". Discuss this statement with reference to at least one documentary you have studied. The innovating and evoking documentary "When we were kings" characterises Muha...

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1920-1980: A Rush From the Past to the Future The 1920's, a period recovering from the first Great War, saw the adjustment of social, cultural and economic forces in the United States. ... The 1980's, a period recovering from the Vietnam War, saw many changes as well with the fall of the Soviet Union, the rise of the Iran crisis and new developments in the fight again AIDS. ... Contrary to public opinion, the CIA waged a secret war against the Nicaraguan government, bombing their harbors and destroying ships. ...

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While white liberals support the black power movement and it's resistance to the Vietnam war, most white people felt discouraged by separatist messages of black power and rage against the system. ...

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• Grade Level: High School