... poetry, architecture and painting retained themes distinctive to Southeast Asia. 3. To the Chinese, the absorption of the Red River Delta represented the expansion of a superior civilization over people of a primitive culture, a concept of "manifest destiny- not unlike the westward expansion of the United States in the nineteenth century. And there was no doubt that one thousand years of Chinese rule left a lasting imprint ... southern provinces to the French. A year later, the French added to their new possession, which they called Cochnichina, by establishing a protectorate over Cambod...

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... errors in America's governing ideology as a whole. He says the American mistake of subjugating, dominating, and controlling the minds of people began with the Trail of Tears in which American westward expansion forced Native American Indians to leave their homelands on a thousands-of-miles journey that resulted in the deaths of many of the native people. Herr sees Vietnam as a subsequent and ... logical point in America's westward expansion through America's West and onward into Vietnam's western Pacific location [p. 49-50]. The American ideology of manifest destiny that Herr is exposin...

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... ;tente. Prior to Détente and the Nixon Administration, the American foreign policy that predominated during the Cold War was the strategy of containment. The Soviet and Chinese military expansion and international hegemony was cause of deep concern to American administrations. Balancing military power along with a willingness to use that power, challenging communist aggression wherever it raised its head had ... them directly, Washington would be out-flanked. In his view, "détente was a fraud perptrated on the United States by a Machievellian adversary and a misguided White House" (440)...

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... , and other businesses that served the public (Rulon). The law also guaranteed all blacks equal job opportunities. What were its goals? America wanted to increase the employment rate. "The economic expansion had reduced unemployment to 5.3 percent, but projections showed that 25 percent of young blacks were destined for a life of irregular employment," stated Greenbaum (Greenbaum). In order to insure all of ... jobs were now being offered more to all Americans. Reports by CPS that the incidence of poverty fell from 22.2 percent in 1960 to 13.5 percent in 1988, a decline of 39 percent (Ma...

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... spent a few years there until they were sponsored by relatives who were already in the states. We flew into Indiana and lived there a few years until we decided to move westward to Texas. Our time in Texas was enjoyable because we were surrounded by relatives. Then the call of opportunity from the west forced us all to migrate to California. This ... ...

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... ". The first part the Detente Policy was with Russia, in cooperation with the Soviets the negotiations under a general air rivalry. This allowed the U.S. to have some control of the Soviet expansion and the Soviet build up of arms. Also the trade with Russia would dramatically help the economic problems concerning the United States. The second part of the Detente Policy was ... Russia both concluded to give a year freeze on the number of offensive missals each could have in it's possession. Nuclear arms buildup could still be continued in either country. A further expansion was that of C...

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... , would proclaim him a nation minded man, instead of a regional, conservative southern politician. (10) Johnson's Vietnam mission report reflected the third tenet of postwar liberalism; to defend the freeworld from communist expansion. During his mission Johnson was convinced that "the fate of all Asia depended on American leadership in the region"(Schulman 61), and we must decide whether to meet that challenge ... with full realization of the costs America will endure; or else hold back and watch the expansion of communism. (11) The first of the three components of Johnsonian liberalism...

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... the Saigon regime was in jeopardy. With a presidential election approaching, Lyndon B. Johnson did not want to be saddled with the charge of having lost Vietnam. On the other hand, an expansion of U.S. responsibility for the war against the Vietcong and North Vietnam would divert resources from Johnson's ambitious and expensive domestic program, the Great Society. A larger in Vietnam also raised the ... an end to the domestic consensus that had sustained U.S. cold war policies since World War II and that had formed the basis for the federal government's authority since the sweeping expa...

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... that the movement was intense and spoke wherever he could. 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. Zinn was invited to speak at numerous commencement ceremonies, but often was rejected by administrators and the conservative ... ...

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... -Americans. The peaceful march ended when Sheriff Clark and Alabama State Troopers "disbursed the unarmed protest". During the quarrel there was one fatality. A young African-American man named Jimmie Lee Jackson who was shot to death. This action went against Johnson's form of liberalism because he didn't understand why the people didn't take a political approach for the right to vote. Johnson ... ...

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... 90s. However, the more socially aware hip-hop artist may once again ascend to the throne it deserves to sit upon. 7) Jingoistic right-wing Propaganda. Can you believe that Alan Jackson actually had a hit with "Where Were You?" Pardon me while I vomit. The next thing you know, country stations will be banning any artist who badmouths the American administration. 8) Jingoistic left ... ...

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... terrorism." "I prefer to try to tell the story of the discovery of America from the viewpoint of the Arawaks, of the Constitution from the standpoint of the slave, of Andrew Jackson as seen by the Cherokees . . . the postwar American empire as seen by peons in Latin America." Zinn is very understanding and compassionate towards the people who have been the target ... ...

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... (Barker 32)". Very shortly after that South Carolina threatened to secede from the Union. Needless to say this angered the North and Congress. The President at that time was Andrew Jackson who after weeks of argument and discussion "[ ] promised a lower tariff and issued a proclamation warning that "disunion by armed forces is treason", soon after, satisfied with the lower tariff, South Carolina ... ...

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... in the region. Total Americans wounded is said to 2,279. Total Americans dead 419. Total British Wounded 2,274. Total British dead 53. As for all other coalition forces, there were 39 wounded, and 43 fatalities. Iraqi dead are uncertain, though at least several thousand military deaths. Iraqi civilian dead is estimated between 7,863 and 9,693. Estimates place civilian wounded at over ... ...

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... asserted Hiss's innocence. Nixon was then elected to the United States Senate where two years later Dwight Eisenhower selected him as his Presidential running mate in 1952. Nixon was only 39 years old at the time. He spent eight years as Vice President taking on major duties for the Eisenhower administration. Nixon unsuccessfully tried to run for the Presidency against John ... ...

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... River". The story starts out with O"Brien saying, "... To go into it, I've always thought, would only cause embarrassment for all of us, [...] which is the natural response to a confession" (39). Tim O"Brien was just a young man when he was given the draft notice. He naturally tried to run away from this problem, which he rightfully did since he was a few ... ...

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... more than twenty years [he's] had to live with it, feeling the shame," and his failure to follow his heart will be with him for the remainder of his life (39). Therefore, based on Tim's reasons, his choice to serve in the Vietnam War is conclusively unsuitable, immoral, and cowardly. ...

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... their back on him. "It never makes any sense to us how the government can keep asking money for weapons and leave us lying in our own filth," Kovic says (39). Kovic was forced on an emotional rollercoaster as he questioned his worth. Kovic is transformed from a patriotic boy, full of pride because of his July 4th birthday, to a bitter marine ... ...

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... at Andrews Air Force Base. There were 8 jurors, each were internationally recognized artists and designers. They narrowed the original 1,421 designs down to 232 and then narrowed down again to 39. The jury finally selected Entry Number 1,026 because it clearly met the spirit and requirements of the design. The designer of Entry Number 1,026 was Maya Ying Lin (The Vietnam ... ...

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... teaching a rain dance to Rat Kiley and Dave Jensen, the three of them leaping around barefoot while a bunch of villagers looked on with a mixture of fascination and giggly horror- (O'Brien, 39). These men looked to each other for emotional support and reassurance since none was coming from the homefront. The men of Alpha Company trusted each other with their lives. Dave ... ...

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... teaching a rain dance to Rat Kiley and Dave Jensen, the three of them leaping around barefoot while a bunch of villagers looked on with a mixture of fascination and giggly horror- (O'Brien, 39). These men looked to each other for emotional support and reassurance since none was coming from the homefront. The men of Alpha Company trusted each other with their lives. Dave ... ...

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... 400,000 by the end of 1966, nearly 2 million during the following year. When the end of 1967 approached the American public support for the war had dropped to only 39%. The president's performance was not being approved by the American public. Johnson made it clear of his decision to de-escalate the war and withdraw from the presidential race in ... ...

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... parallel was removed between North and South Korea, Koreas population would double, which would then double its human resource factor. With Korea's knowledge of how to expand economically, educated population, expansion of territory and resources, and eventual total control of the economy by big-business in Korea's group-oriented culture, Korea would eventually become a world power. Korea would then most likely ... ...

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... months and huge quantities of supplies were taken, supposedly assuring that the Communists would not mount an offensive in Vietnam. However, people back in the United States saw this as expansion of the war. This controversy was settled in 1973 when it was found out that the United States secretly bombed Communist targets in Cambodia in 1969 and again in 1970 ... ...

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... Soviets would attempt to spread their influence throughout Europe and then the world and the only way to prevent them from gaining total world domination would be to suppress their expansion before they became too powerful. Keenan also thought that if faced with a power greater then their own, the Soviets would back down rather then fight. Keenan's plans to control the ... ...

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