... against the French. Moreover, the myriad sectarian interests present in the South, the Catholic areas and the domains of the Cao Dai, Hoa Hao and the Binh Xuyen, were satisfied to negotiate with the French for regional autonomy and prevented the formation of a broadly based popular front. Cao Dai and ... Hoa Hao were indigenous, syncretic religious sects created in the 20th century. The Binh Xuyen on the other hand was a drug and crime cartel operating in ... the Saigon-Cholon area. After being deprived of their private armies and regional autonomy by Diem, Cao Dai and to a lesser exten...

• Word Count: 3628
• Approx Pages: 15
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... against the French. Moreover, the myriad sectarian interests present in the South, the Catholic areas and the domains of the Cao Dai, Hoa Hao and the Binh Xuyen, were satisfied to negotiate with the French for regional autonomy and prevented the formation of a broadly based popular front. Cao Dai and ... Hoa Hao were indigenous, syncretic religious sects created in the 20th century. The Binh Xuyen on the other hand was a drug and crime cartel operating in ... the Saigon-Cholon area. After being deprived of their private armies and regional autonomy by Diem, Cao Dai and to a lesser exten...

• Word Count: 4606
• Approx Pages: 18
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... an hour of the three characters in their Slavic-American community of Clairton, Pennsylvania. Cimino puts great effort into emphasizing deep ties between the three lead characters, Michael, Nick, and Steven, through their work in front of the blast furnace, their after hours at the neighborhood bar, and, especially, their hunting in the mountain peaks for bucks. In particular, Cimino went ... worst, unable to cease the killing. After escaping the inhumane tortures, the three friends escape back to American lines. Their frightening experience has done tremendous damage to the group as St...

• Word Count: 3681
• Approx Pages: 15
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... effects that the war in South-East Asia had, in this case on a working-class community. It does so by showing us three friends, Nick (who shoots himself in Saigon), Steven (who returns home in a wheel-chair), and Michael (who remains relatively intact) and their lives before and after Vietnam. From its earliest showings the film was accompanied by vehement criticism ... to resume normal everyday lives ("We got out and came back like everyone else who had been through a war: changed, enlarged - and some things are expensive to say - incomplete" Dispatches) Steven represents the Americans...

• Word Count: 3466
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate