... answer my friend is blowin' in the wind, The answer is blowin' in the wind." Bob Dylan "The Things They Carried" is a story of love during the wartime. Every man in our humanistic society has a role to play, but because of the war in Vietnam, many men were forced to carry what ... The author says that Cross carried a photo and a bunch of letters written by the woman he admired the most, Martha. Because of the love Cross had for Martha, the writer says that he would sit down and imagine things happening between him and Martha. "He would imagine romantic ... distances Martha and Lieutenan...

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... their thinking and sympathy. Killing becomes their job for their country which is believed to be the right thing to do. Also at the start of the film, Lucy lost her first love when he fought in the Vietnam War. She then becomes really worried when her brother, Max, is sent in. Therefore, she joins the protest group. However, what she doesn ... 't realize is the violence of the group. She lost her individual thinking. There is no difference from the group and the government in the violent way they act. This shows that ... ...

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... the relationships the men make, their connections to the world they left behind and the connections that they formed to Vietnam. The stories are not war stories, but stories about love, respect and the bonds made between men when they spend day after day fighting just to stay alive. One of the clearest points in The Things They Carried is that ... war he went back to his home town. There was no parade, no group of people gather to hear about the brave things he did for his country. Norman felt lost in his own town, he spent hour after hour circling the lake like he did as a teenager. He...

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... (158-159). Caputo understood why sergeant Lemon and the other men were so distant, as men detach themselves from feeling or showing emotion in the presence of death. "They had lost there first man in battle, and with him, the youthful confidence in their own immortality. Reality had caught up with them, with all of us. As Bradley put it later ... a decade, to that day we had marched into Vietnam, swaggering, confident, and full of idealism. We had believed we were there for a high moral purpose. But somehow our idealism was lost, our morals corrupted, and the purpose forgotten (345). Am...

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The 1960's The 1960's was a decade that forever changed the culture and society of America. The 1960's were widely known as the decade of peace and love, not because the world had become a utopia but, in my opinion, because of the heavy use of the popular hallucinogenic drugs by the American youth. In reality minorities were struggling ... and South Vietnam; 3) Bomber strikes at Communist guerrilla bases. The U.S. expected to win the war with the Viet Cong within three years with high but acceptable causalities. In reality the U.S. lost the war and had a casualty count of a devastating 58,14...

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... portrayed the stereotypical American families. Even though everyone knows that there is no such thing as a perfect family, people still enjoyed watching these types of shows. Commercials, or shows like I Love Lucy, showing the stereotypical woman or housewife in the kitchen were another way of showing things off. It is really very difficult to always own the latest models of things ... . So a woman in a kitchen with all the new appliances is really unlikely. This was another way of showing off to other countries how life was or wasn't. However, the show I Love Lucy, mainly showed how muc...

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... ; Why did the U.S. lose the war? Saigon was captured and the Vietnam went communist. The capital of the south Vietnam gets renamed Ho Chi Ming city. Flawed containment. The US lost support of its own people. Pictures of horror changed people's mind. 1960S LIBERALISM: JOHNSON"S GREAT SOCIETY- New Deal liberalism which was gov. Involvement was good. Responsible for the demise of ... . • The Counterculture • Haight-Ashbury- major area for hippies. They est. the free store where you could get whatever you want and not pay for it. The summer of love in 1967 this attracted a lot of other hi...

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... in Full Metal Jacket is the notion that women are sexual objects that fulfill the needs of men. The idea in the duality of man that men are nurturers is lost in the world of prostitution, which is the only time when women are mentioned in the film. The first scene containing a female is the first scene in Vietnam which shows ... contain sexual parallels for Sergeant Hartman and he often refers to them in his instruction of the men. During one scene in Parris Island, the recruits must say a prayer of love and devotion to their rifles before going to sleep with them. (Ebert 1987) Sergeant...

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... with the loss of loved ones. In the text "Refugee children in Canada," it was said that "Some have lost many family members, and many have lost everything that was familiar to them" (Fantino and Cook 10). Losing everything you have ever known would turn your life inside ... after I found out about my father's death, everything seemed so useless I couldn't see any future for myself" (Brice 26). Learning that you have lost someone who you loved would change your life dramatically because you no longer have the connections and safety you had when that person was still alive. In the ... up" ...

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... backing of thousands of U.S. troops in nearby Thailand and the Philippines. North Vietnam's forces were battered from recent heavy fighting. The north had recently lost as many 100,000 of its veteran troops and thousands more were injured. South Vietnam was not defenseless. ( McCoy) South Vietnam had a few ... critical weaknesses. Dependence on the "camp follower economy," which had also lost its American backbone created inflation crippled the country. Necessities like oil and rice were nearly unattainable. Unemployment had reached extreme levels as well. ARVN ... the power to utiliz...

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... audience. When thought of as a whole, it is easy to see communism as evil and demonic. However, when children are thrown into the mix, other feelings are introduced, such as love and care. King then puts black in the same category as communism and revolutionary, and white in the same bracket as capitalism and conservative. This has a deep underlying meaning. Blacks ... were under Communist rule such as Poland and Hungary switched governments. The Cold War came to an end for the most part in 1991 when the Communist party in Russia lost control. In conclusion, I agree with Martin Luther K...

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... to the fullest extent. This could almost be considered ironic in the sense that while trying to gain one freedom, the ability to use drugs, the youths appeared to have lost another freedom, the ability to live their own lives. It seems more as if their live! s were controlled by the drugs and the drugs' effects than by the people themselves ... , San Francisco, was once considered hippie central for the world. Here people would just line the streets with drug use, sex, and wild music. In 1967, came the "Summer of Love." This period was not unlike the previous acts of the hippies, just mo...

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... something different? This is the trap that Ron Kovic was sucked into during his experience in the Vietnam War. Kovic started out like most Americans. He had great pride and love for his country - probably more so than most people. Unfortunately, like many Vietnam War veterans, Kovic came to the conclusion that America is not all that it's cracked up to ... War. Kovic quotes, " But the hospital changed it all that. It was the end of whatever belief I'd still had in what I'd done in Vietnam. Now I wanted to know what I had lost my legs for, why I and the others had gone at all" (134). Kov...

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... parents Seth and Dorothy Joplin. Janis began singing in a coffee house. She started copying the styles of Bessie Smith, Odetta and Leadbelly She was singing at college and was getting lost in her experiments with drugs and alcohol, especially speed. The San Francisco Community offered a singing position in obscure group "Big Brother and Holding Company." Then she signed with Mainstream Records ... . During 1967, ("Summer of Love") she played a large concert called Monterey International Pop Festival. Janis was courted by Albert Grossman, who was the most powerful entertainment managers o...

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... the Little Rock schools. In 1960, Robinson was supporting Minnesota Sen. Hubert Humphrey's bid for the Democratic nomination but was disappointed when Humphrey lost the nomination to John F. Kennedy, but made it known to both Kennedy and Nixon that his support was up for grabs. He ... A Dream" speech. In 1964, Nelson Rockefellar, New York Governer and GOP presidential candidate, named Jackie one of his six national campaign directors. Rockefellar lost the party's nomination to Barry Goldwater who Robinson really hated. In 1967 Robinson had become frustrated enough by the NAACP to resign ...

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... a painful precision. However, he never talks about what the objects weighed mentally, especially those objects, which are useless in the fighting. We know that "the letters from Martha, Jimmy Cross's love, weighed 10 ounces- (2), but we don't know how much Martha meant for Jimmy Cross, and even Cross doesn't even know until Ted Lavender gets shot, and Jimmy Cross has an ... had spent in the jungle so long before. The two of them travel all over the country, but before their departure, he returns to the field where he feels he lost everything. On this list he includes his honor, his best...

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... communists have made a complete tool out of Shaw, and thus are being said to be able to make weaker Americans pawns. Shaw is so weak that even Josie, his deepest love, cannot help him "the weak American cannot be saved by affection, only skillful counter-brainwashing. This is how Shaw is eventually liberated by the clever Marco. Shaw can once ... . The significance of Raymond's actions shows that all Americans can be saved in the end, and can come through for the sake of ending communism "no American is hopelessly lost to communist plotting if they are good at heart. The communists, in c...

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... in the Wall. The four have been telepathically linked since childhood, thanks to a searing experience involving a Down syndrome neighbor--a human dreamcatcher. They've all got midlife crises: clownish Beav has love problems; the intellectual shrink, Henry, is slowly succumbing to the siren song of suicide; Pete is losing a war with beer; Jonesy has had weird premonitions ever since he got hit ... LOVED This is Opening Day of The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, the new Stephen King novel about faith, and perserverance, and baseball. Little Trisha McFarland, purely by accident, gets lost in th...

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... in enough troops to take over from the Southern Vietnamese. They finally had to pull out of South Vietnam after one million Vietnamese as well as nearly 60, 000 Americans lost lives and the administration incurred severe backlash at home (Good Muslim, Bad Muslim, chapter 3). In being involved in such a war the U.S had failed militarily. The war had shown that even ... a year and Afghanistan became known as the Soviet's last war; following the Soviet-Afghan intervention, the Soviet Union collapsed. The immediate cause of collapse was economic, as the Soviet Union lost the arms race and...

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... 's reputation at home and abroad, are still only some of the reasons U.S. involvement in Vietnam was wrong. From the countless lives lost to the public protesting all this evidence of a mistake will still never be enough to consul those who lost a son, husband, or even friend in Vietnam. To those people, the injustice of a war we never should have been involved in ... government had been more honest with itself, and the American people, something could have been done to stop the war sooner. Perhaps not nearly as many lives would have been lost if America had gracefully accepted defeat an...

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... easily construed as imperialistic means to dominate worldwide. Our attempts to help have never been appreciated or reciprocated throughout our short history. It seems as though we are fighting every lost cause and getting nothing in return. We must define the fine line between political and required wars. Political wars are those in which we have no real interest and the ... the lives of thousands each year ("Hovey, Harold A."). This obviously results in a dwindling military presence. By attempting to show world dominance and economic prosperity through aiding foreign countries, America...

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... War is one of the most disgraceful periods in American history. Not only did the greatest superpower in the world get bested by an almost third-world nation, but we lost badly. Perhaps this war could have been won, or even prevented in the first place. The United States could have and should have won this war, with a combination of better ... were fighting for and people at home who didn't support you, what else could go wrong? Only one thing, and it happened to go wrong. The largest reason why we lost the war is very apparent, and fits in nicely with this section. When one is fighting ...

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... War is one of the most disgraceful periods in American history. Not only did the greatest superpower in the world get bested by an almost third-world nation, but we lost badly. Perhaps this war could have been won, or even prevented in the first place. The United States could have and should have won this war, with a combination of better ... were fighting for and people at home who didn't support you, what else could go wrong? Only one thing, and it happened to go wrong. The largest reason why we lost the war is very apparent, and fits in nicely with this section. When one is fighting ...

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... 1950 served primarily to confirm Washington's belief that communist aggression posed a great danger to Asia . Subsequent charges that Truman had "lost" China and had settled for a stalemate in Korea caused succeeding presidents to fear the domestic political consequences if they "lost" Vietnam. This apprehension, an overestimation of American power, and an underestimation of Vietnamese communist strength locked all administrations from 1950 through ... in South Vietnam, and the survival of the Saigon regime was in jeopardy. With a presidential election approaching, Lyndon B. Johnson did...

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... 1950 served primarily to confirm Washington's belief that communist aggression posed a great danger to Asia . Subsequent charges that Truman had "lost" China and had settled for a stalemate in Korea caused succeeding presidents to fear the domestic political consequences if they "lost" Vietnam. This apprehension, an overestimation of American power, and an underestimation of Vietnamese communist strength locked all administrations from 1950 through ... in South Vietnam, and the survival of the Saigon regime was in jeopardy. With a presidential election approaching, Lyndon B. Johnson did...

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