... join the armed forces. The idea of Compulsory military training was introduced by Prime Minister Alfred Deakin in 1909. Labor government immediately abolished this scheme following an election in October 1929. In November 1964, the National Service scheme was introduced by Robert Menzies and his government and it operated until December 1972, when the newly elected Whitlam Labor Government suspended it. The ... scheme involved a ballot of birthdays for twenty-year-old men who had registered their names with the Department of Labour and National Service. A certain number of labelled marb...

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... a National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam (NLF). However, the organisation was to become known as the Viet Cong, a contraction of Viet Nam Cong San (Vietnamese communists). US President John F Kennedy, who took office in January 1961, took an immediate concern in the deteriorating situation in South-East Asia. Studying the problem and dropping the idea of committing a combat force ... Service full-time training was considered to be equal to basic training for the regulars and the National Service recruit could go straight to Corps training. The termination of the scheme in No...

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... a National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam (NLF). However, the organisation was to become known as the Viet Cong, a contraction of Viet Nam Cong San (Vietnamese communists). US President John F Kennedy, who took office in January 1961, took an immediate concern in the deteriorating situation in South-East Asia. Studying the problem and dropping the idea of committing a combat force ... Service full-time training was considered to be equal to basic training for the regulars and the National Service recruit could go straight to Corps training. The termination of the scheme in No...

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... the Vietnam War even more obliquely in his novel In the Lake of the Woods (1994), the story of Kathy Wade's disappearance from a secluded Minnesota cottage in 1986. Her husband John, having recently lost a senatorial election, retreats with her to reconstruct their lives in the wake of his career as a politician. Events such as ... John's terrible experience in Vietnam, his father's suicide, his lifetime hobby as a magician, and his habit of spying on Kathy during college begin to cast light onto what may have happened ... ...

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... herbicide. Due to the negative attention to federal veteran's services, like the Veterans Administration, which have been constantly accused of unfair service and benefits. This is most vividly represented by John Green's story in which he is accused by doctors representing the VA (Veteran's Administration) of putting ketchup in his urine samples to simulate blood. Since he suffered from bladder cancer ... ...

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... of times and is, all things considered for Kubricks caliber of film, shapeless. It also loses a consistency of metaphor in relation to visuals and plot. The overall Cinematography (done by John Alcott) is outstanding and should never be brought into question, though the film itself can in some circles be. The artistic aspect of the film is unsurprisingly from Kubrick, f**king ... ...

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... stereotypical Vietnam veterans and their Vietnamese enemies, survival as a form of heroism, cynicism as a form of self-preservation, rather than historical accuracy. The only major production during the Vietnam Conflict, John Wayne's 1968 The Green Berets, illustrates how directors concentrated on drama rather than history. Dismayed by the growing protest against United States" involvement in Vietnam, Wayne contested that he tried ... ...

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... , as Hollywood, like the country as a whole, had difficulty adjusting to the grim legacy of a lost and troubling war. During the conflict, Hollywood produced only a single film dealing with Vietnam--John Wayne's The Green Berets. In general, Hollywood has portrayed Vietnam as a kind of phantasmagoric limbo, untrammelled by dates or place names, all "middle- with no real, definable beginning or end ... ...

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... the Vietnamese still makes for uncomfortable viewing. When, during the first Russian roulette sequence, Robert De Niro's character Michael kills his captors it is an act of bravado worthy of John Wayne, and one that American audiences clung to. When the film ends, with the mourners of Nick's funeral singing "God Bless America" in unison it becomes abundantly clear that this ... ...

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