... general who cares more about the surf than the accomplishment of the mission. Perhaps it is only these men, on the brink of insanity, which can be successful in leading missions of such brutality. The journey into the jungle takes the viewer into the heart of the darkness, providing the viewer with the indications that we are getting deeper into the evil as we progress down the river. The themes of horror are evident ... in this movie just as sharply as they are in The Things They Carried. The main theme in Apocalypse Now is the concept that in order to ... murderer. His only option befo...

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... because they were expecting to come home in a body bag and become another statistic. Young American teenagers were being thrown into the jungle only to be slaughtered by the enemy, who was at home in the dense forests. The Vietnam War was a war fought without rules. Innocent Vietnamese civilians were killed whether by accident or not. Women and children were forced to use themselves as ... kill American soldiers. If they refused they would be sliced limb from limb by Viet Cong soldiers. No war is a good war, but this is as bad as they come. The war got the best of most soldiers. Many ne...

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... many many men. No one wanted to be remembered as the president who was the first to lose a war. If they thought about it dualistically pulling out early could make them a hero and they could spread propaganda to spread this image. "The president who saved your sons from being brutally slaughtered in the Vietnam jungle." The war tactics used by America in Vietnam were lower than ... low. Dropping chemicals on their jungles, turning the once lushes green foliage to a sick orange color. So it was easier to spot ... the enemy. The napalm used was totally unethical, but I guess ethics go ou...

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... this case takes the place of the organism, and the host becomes the soldiers. There are several examples of the parasitic nature of war through out the book. In one particular section, Tim O'Brien returns to Vietnam with his daughter. Twenty years had gone by, but it seems as though all of his thoughts are geared back to the time he 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 friend, and all ... ...

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... been surrounded by communism and this could have very well taken over Australia. Australia wanted to stop communism in its tracks. Also Australia signed two major alliances in the early 50's, the ANZUS (Australia, New Zealand, United States) and SEATO (South-east Asia Treaty Organization) which were signed for protection and safety by becoming allies with U.S.A. In ... we are guaranteed protection. If Australia didn't fulfill the requirement these alliances could be terminated, leaving Australia almost defenseless. The war in Vietnam was a guerrilla warfare which means enemies did not w...

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... were for the war they were called the war hawks and if they were against the war they were called doves. The U.S. went into this war very confident thinking they could use their new advance technology to defeat the North Vietnamese. They were very surprise because it did not work. The North Vietnamese use guerilla warfare tatics and they were fighting in thick jungle areas. The Vietnamese did ... not wear uniforms and there was no clear battlefront. This changed the U.S. attitude about rushing into war and thinking that there new technology ... ...

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... effort. They weren't a communist nation, but the North was. This brought on the fighting. The U.S. Marines first arrived in Danang in 1965. Danang is Located in South Vietnam, close to the Northern Vietnamese territory. This is the only war in which there was no true front line. The fighting happened where it happened. This was due to the thick jungle foliage. It covers most of Vietnam, this made ... the fighting very difficult. The soldiers often time ran into enemy patrols not meaning to, it just ... happened, then the fighting would break out. This went on thru the entire war. The V...

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... of people in Vietnam work in agriculture and the southerners were very reluctant to give up their land to the collectivization and redistribution that the government was trying to implement. There was also a problem with the fact that U.S. had sprayed herbicides during the war in much of the south to defoliate it and, "The ruinous impact of the removal of the jungle canopy was incalculable." (Sar Desai, p.332) This created ... food shortages for the country and people were starving. "The Vietnamese people's standard of living ... ...

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... lives were being lost in the jungle. A war that from 1968 until 1975 eveyones life was effected. Everyone knew someone that was in the war. It was a war where our soilders would smoke marajuana in the jungles. It was a war that was fought at night, and during the day the farmers tended to their fields. OVERVIEW The Country of Vietnam lies to the south of China. Laors and ... . Vietnam was divided into two parts, North Vietnam, the communist, and South Vietnam. The two halves of the country were divided by the 17th parallel. The North was known as the Democratic Republic of Vietnam under ...

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... be escalated in Vietnam. Secretary of State George Ball, Presidential Press Secretary Bill Moyers, State Department Advisor James Thompson, and Vice- President Hubert Humphrey believed that this war was not the United States battle. George Ball stated, " No matter how many hundred thousand white, foreign troops we deploy. No one has demonstrated of whatever size can win a guerrilla war- which is ... at the same time a civil was between Asians- in jungle terrain in the midst of a population that refuses cooperation to the white forces and provides a great intelligence advantage to the ot...

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