... year period. Another fact that stood out to me is that the unemployment rate was 5.2%, which is not much different than today's rate. Some of the big news stories if the year were as follows.... The first US combat troops arrived in Vietnam. By the end of the year, 190,000 American soldiers were in Vietnam ... war. My father was also one of these soldiers over in Vietnam. And here we are today in the year 2003 getting ready to go to war with Iraq. Another news story which happened on July 1, 1965 was the race riots. For 6 days blacks rioted in the Watts section of Los Angeles: 34 dead, o...

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... on CNN, I heard a "sound bite" that helped me to understand how 17th century absolutism continues to influence our society today. The news report was about our current war in the Middle East. The "good news," according to the report, was that there is plenty of fresh recruits eager to go overseas to fight. "Our country," said the reporter, "is responding to the ... policy. Recently, people took to the streets in San Francisco to speak out against "the flag" in protest of our current war in the Middle East. According to a three-minute news report, hundreds of people blocked traffic preve...

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... their encouragement for religious freedom; no freedom of speech: the press is not free to publish the news, or the opinions of people everything must go through the censorships of the Party, where they filter all disadvantaged news and only permit the press to publish advantaged news for the Party. Dr. Pham Hong Son, Lawyer Le Chi Quang have being detained because peacefully ... ...

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... to work, if their not already late then their probably checking out early. While he could most likely find any number of other examples of bad or poor news coverage, he focuses on the news coverage during the Vietnam War. A war in which some would say the media helped turn the country against the war and the troops who fought in it ... ...

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... support was gone. During this war in Asia an American presidential election came about and an important topic for the candidates was getting out of the war. The war contained news media that set unprecedented records on in depth coverage. The current war with Iraq and Saddam resembled Vietnam with the above statements. "Iraqi Freedom" was another political extravaganza. Bush and ... the war will be a major issue for the candidates and their campaigns. Also, in the Iraqi occupation and the war itself there has been a new milestone in the media world. News coverage is very explicit and su...

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... 1973 the Paris Peace Agreement was made, and Timmy never got sent to Vietnam. The agreement withdrew the United States from Vietnam (Wells 255). When Timmy's grandmother heard this great news she had a heart attack and she died. At this time Timmy was still at his base in America. When he heard the ... news about his grandmother he became mentally unstable. After about 2 weeks, Timmy had completely lost his mind (Timmy is retarded), and he was forced to go to a mental hospital before he ... ...

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... when public opinion in both Australia and the United States began to turn against the War. The violence of the Vietnam War began to spill onto Australian streets with television news and photos of the conflict fuelling the growth of opposition to the war. The consequences of reporting the Vietnam War was that people could sit at home watching television, while ... ...

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Protest Songs Protest songs flooded the air of college radios during the 1960's. The Civil Rights movement was the biggest domestic news and a time was coming when action was going to be taken against legalized segregation. On the foreign front, the draft was tearing young men from their homes as soon as ... ...

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... as an important factor in distinguishing artists characteristic styles of expression until the feminist art historian Linda Nochlin wrote the article "Why have there been no great women artists?" Art News 1971. A national survey in 1972 revealed that only 18% of commercial galleries held women's art. The leading art text books - 50,000 years of art and there was not a single ... ...

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... get up on their own two feet, by their own will and try and help themselves. Finding jobs, such as selling "Homeless Newspapers" such as Streetwise in Chicago, or Street News in New York. A vendor gets the papers for free or low cost, sells them for a dollar and keeps 55 cents for each sold. They can then use this money to ... ...

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... , Bin Ladin declared a holy war on the US. He also declared in 1998 that "Muslims should kill Americans, civilians included, wherever they could find them" (Beyer, 58). In an ABC news interview bin Laden stated "We do not have to differentiate between military or civilian. As far as we are concerned, they are all targets"(Beyer, 56). When we retaliate who ... ...

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... lost as long as more NVA were killed. Caputo could not believe that the commanding officers really did not care, at how many American lives were lost. When he got news of his friend Walter Cohen had been killed in action, he was devastated. This was what really drove him over the edge. After Walter's death he was sent back into ... ...

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... war with Iraq. When I am no longer a student, I will be eligible for the draft as are many of my friends already. Also, there has been a bit of discussion in the news recently concerning the draft and weather or not it should be instated. Today, people question the government's actions just like they did in the 1960's, and the issue of the ... ...

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... work hard to keep us survive. In 1992, we receiving permission to came to the United State, because my sister was half white. We were very happy to hear this news. But we never though of how our life would be in the country that we never knew of. The country spoke different from us, and the way they act against ... ...

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... decided second-parent adoption rights which allow the partner of a child's biological or adoptive parent to adopt a child without the first parent losing his or her rights to gay couples (U.S News & World Report 2004, P.42). So nowadays gay-parent have the right to adopt a baby and raise children. Homosexuals, unlike heterosexuals, can't serve their country, but is it fair to not ... ...

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... turn made the war a problem that trouble families and effected everyday living and the aspects associated with it. To most before ground involvement the war had been a thing in the news, but now it became a heart felt issue. American economy was bustling with the wartime productions going to Vietnam, but there was a problem with this; the more bombs America sent to ... ...

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... for this protest. About 10,000 protesters gathered in Chicago Lincoln Park. As the week progressed the police became extremely violent. Tear gas was thrown at protesters. Citizens were beaten, news reporters were assaulted, innocent bystanders and even convention delegates were harassed. The "police riots" that occurred during August of 1968 were viewed by the public since members of the press ... ...

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