What he finds is a general lack of political and worldly involvement or concern, at least compared to the atmosphere he experienced during his college years there. ... "The students wouldn't disperse," she says. ... The students are all career-oriented in a way that baffles him, and he accuses the student population (and possible the entire college system) of being apathetic. ... Overall, the general momentum for students coming to college appears to be purely based in the acquisition of wealth and future job skills. ... From my perspective, this level of connection with matters of th...

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When Hartke resigned his commission in 1975 he became the physics professor at Tarkington College. ... During his teaching there, one of the students was Kimberly Wilder who had a learning disability. Kimberly was the daughter of Jason Wilder who was the College President. ... Wilder expressed that rather than teaching students about ignorance, he should be teaching students about the greatness of things. ... Tarkington College is holding back their students from knowing the truths of the world around them. ...

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Many of the musicians of the time left lasting impressions on many college aged kids. ... College campuses widely became known as "centers of debate" as college students began their protesting of the war and the draft. ... The Vietnam War was a very controversial war, and when the draft was accelerated and anti-war sentiment grew, college students organized anti-war protests. ... College students especially were fed up with the war because it was the first major war they had lived through. ... College campuses nationwide are now integrated. ...

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He chronicles his experiences beginning with his working class background from his tour of duty in World War I, to tenure at Spelman College, and to his disposition of the Vietnam War. ... During his time at Spelman he helped organize sit-ins, writing campaigns, and student collectives. ... The ultimately fired Zinn to the students" distaste, but that did not stop his fight. ... By 1970, the war was escalated and protests at colleges were on the rise. After the incident at Kent State, Jackson State, and the invasion of Cambodia, college students organized a nationwide student strike. ...

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He came from a poor family, and they did not have the money to send him through college. ... Timmy and his family prayed he would get a scholarship to play football in college. ... He had been recruited by college coaches since his sophomore year. ... After his injury all colleges lost interest in recruiting him to play football for them. ... Timmy's mother attended a SDS (students for a democratic society) meeting at a college nearby her, where they protested the war and encouraged the burning of draft cards (Wells 124). ...

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Richard Nixon won the November 1968 presidential election over Hubert Humphrey with only 43.5% of the popular vote (Schulzinger 275). Nixon campaigned with telling the public that he would end the Vietnam War. Nixon blamed President Johnson's actions of adding troops and criticized his decisions of escalating the war in Vietnam. Nixon adopted the technique of Vietnamization, which was a plan to replace American troops with South Vietnamese forces. The South Vietnamese army known as the ARVN, Army of the Republic of Vietnam, was virtually non- existent. ...

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That was hot news in early May, 1970, when hundreds of universities and colleges across the United States stopped operating in fear of the outbreak of violence related to the war protesting movement. Students from many universities started to demonstrate on the streets. On the following day, May 1, Kent State University students following the steps of thousands of students all over the country protested against the war. ... The confrontation between students and the force had lasted for 36 hours. ... Bill Schorder was one of four students killed when he was running to a car. ...

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Students protested local and federal governments as well as Johnson's policies in Southeast Asia. Berkeley students as well as residents gathered for more than thirty hours to debate the war issue. ... This in turn led to the Iranian Revolution as students and then the public began to protest the Shah's regime (The Global Disruption of 1968). ... On November 4, 1979 thousands of young Iranians, many of them college students, swarmed the U.S. embassy in Tehran, seizing the embassy employees for a total of 444 days. ... The region was largely pastoral, but those who did attend college ...

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Between ten and thirty thousand students and faculty sat on the college campus for thirty six hours straight and gave speeches about how displeased they were with the war. ... John Lennon and The Beatles sang about how they did not agree with certain tactics being used during the Vietnam War, which inspired protests at many college campuses. ...

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Issues dealt with in the Vietnam War showed great impact on the American people, particularly the students. ... Small protests broke out amongst college students across America, but these began to become very serious. On April 17, 1965 The Students for a Democratic Society organized a national protest on the steps of the capitol in Washington D.C. ... Students protested and gathered, building rage against the war spurring events like the Kent State Massacre. The Kent State Massacre is named after a calm protest uprooted when guards killed and wounded students by opening fire on a mass of stude...

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Students for a Democratic Society or, "SDS" as it was known, was organized by college students that felt their opinions should be heard. ... Because of this decision riots and protests grew out of control, so much that four students were killed and eleven were wounded by National Guards at Kent State University during an antiwar protest. ...

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During the era of the Vietnam war, there was a nation wide student protest. One that held a spot in history was a demonstration at Ohio's Kent State University where national guard troops killed four students. In response to the Kent State, almost every college and university in the nation shut down, and a huge antiwar rally was brought up in Washington. ... One time he even left the White House early in the morning and delivered a speech about his good intentions to a group of student protesters that were camped outside the Lincoln Memorial. ...

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Exemptions from service, or deferments as they were called, could be obtained if the person drafted was enrolled in college classes and as the war went on could only be obtained if said person was doing well in school. Because of the expenses caused by going to college, the only people who could realistically get a deferment were the rich. ... This only fueled the already protesting students and draftees. ...

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That same year, James Meridith, a black college student, enters the University of Mississippi as the first black person to enter the college after he was rejected three times because of the color of his skin. ... One type consisted of the small, informal women's liberation groups, which were first formed by female students active in the civil rights movement and in radical political organizations. ...

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The United States society is portrayed in a negative way according to Paul Potter, a young student leader, John F. ... There are students who are protesting for better educations, African Americans who are struggling for civil rights, poor people who are trying to abolish poverty and secure democracy, and more importantly there are faculty members who are questioning the importance of their institutions to the critical problems that our society is facing during this time (846). ... Years ago Bentley College was primarily a men's school, there were little women, and almost no other races ...

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Chieko Nichieushi Chieko Nichieushi was born in Fukuoka, Japan in 1925. She grew up with 2 brothers and one sister, all older. Her mother owned a nice hotel along the coast in Fukuoka. Nichieushi's father owned a large fleet of fishing ships, which is what made their family wealthy. Her mother's...

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ANALYSIS PAPER While attending a party a young Vietnamese American Luyen Phan Nguyen was beaten into unconsciousness at a party in Coral Springs, Florida. These beatings directly resulted in Luyens" spine being broken and severe trauma to the brain. Luyen eventually lost his life as a direct r...

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Vietnam, the heart and soul of teenage rebellion to the government for creating a draft that sent over the creative and intelligent youth, was a war that deemed to get rid of the political idea, communism, which spread as quick as the napalm that blazed over the serene green landscapes. The narrator...

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He did so, preparing three bills for that purpose, proposing three distinct grades of instruction which were elementary schools, colleges, and the University. ... In these learning environments as time passed the learning environment became a place to assimilate the native Indian, and keep the lower class of students into a certain knowledge base. ...

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From the beginning of recorded history music in some form or other has told the story of life and its beauty, wonder, struggles, and causes. From the love between a man and a woman to the oppression of people, music and song have been supplying the soundtrack to life. Music has a tendency to questio...

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U.S. History Interview Jason Paris 1. What impact did the Cuban Missile Crisis on your community or family? " On me it didn't really effect me, I was at Ft. Rucker at the time." No people were really afraid. "The media would make it out to be more than it really was. The military knew...

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After public school Nixon went on to study at Whittier College, a Quaker institution, where he majored in history ( ).This is where Nixon first started becoming politically active, he was president of the freshman class, star of the debate team and in his senior year became the Southern California Intercollegiate Extemporaneous Speaking champion and class President ( ). ... Whittier College did not have the usual fraternities or sororities, but it did have the Franklins, a snobbish and high brow society, whose members wore black ties and dinner jackets to school functions, and which included ...

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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. ...

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