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forces in the Vietnam war because anti war riots sparked due to the lies from the media, the failure of leadership by the president, and the misrepresentation of the battle. To start off, many anti war riots broke out and rebellions in American held South Vietnam. Many of the American people did not want to enter a war where they were losing, it is common sense. In an article written by Phillip B. Davidson, he states that “the reporters simply filled their own ‘facts’ when they didn’t have…

II.2.5.2. Global Hansik Campaign This campaign purposes to bring and introduce Korean food to the world, just like the goal of this campaign, which is ‘Korean Cuisine to the World.’ Through the gastrodiplomacy, ROK government practicing the global of hansik or Korean food itself by tempering traditional forms of spicy and sour flavors to appeal for foreign palates. This campaign is also one of the practices of gastrodiplomacy that tries to be introducing by the ROK government to the world. With…

The book “The Things They Carried”, by Tim O’Brien is based on multiple short stories all referring to his time during the Vietnam War. The author wanted the reader to perceive his memories from the war and to feel all the emotions that was associated with the word “war”. He described it as: death, love, mystery, adventure, terror, pity, despair, discovery, and longing; All of which I felt and detected while reading the authors short stories. The author also goes on about his stories and makes…

“Good Morning Vietnam” is a comedic movie and thought-provoking criticism of the Vietnam War. Robin Williams plays Adrian Cronauer, an off-the-cuff radio DJ who is assigned to liven up a bland US military radio show broadcast from Saigon in South Vietnam during the War. Cronauer uses this platform not for its intended purpose of spreading American propaganda, but instead to poke fun at different facets of the unpopular war. The movie heavily criticizes US leadership, military methodology, and…

Tim O’Brien is a critically acclaimed author that is known for his gut-wrenching stories of his time during the Vietnam War. In his award-winning novel The Things They Carried, he explains countless different instances of struggle and strife in the form of numerous short stories. O’Brien was born in Minnesota in 1946. He majored in political science, but was later drafted in 1968 and stayed in Vietnam about 8 months. After the war, he finished graduate school at Harvard and now, at 71, resides…

George Herring’s essay “The Legacy of Vietnam” is a fair portrait of one of the most notorious wars in the United States history – the Vietnam War. The essay starts with enormous figures of loss from both sides, and ends with the lessons we can learn from the war as well as from those losses. Herring keeps a neutral voice by providing different perspectives on the issues happened in both Vietnam and the United States. This neutral characteristic of Herring’s essay helps the author deliverers his…

Trevor Noah's narrative "Go Hitler!" provides a first-hand account of Noah's childhood in South Africa and some of the conflicts that occurred due to the general presence of ignorance in South African society. Noah's narrative exemplifies Proctor's claim that there are three major forms of ignorance, stated in his article, "Agnotology: A Missing Term to Describe the Cultural Production of Ignorance (and its Study)". Proctor's argument is illuminated by Noah's narrative through his first-hand…

General Paul Aussaresses’ The Battle of Casbah is not the first account of a French military official discussing the use of torture during the Battle of Algiers. General Jacques Massu previously wrote a book confirming the use of torture by the French military in 1971. Nonetheless, Gen. Aussaresses’ account of the Battle of Algiers (1956-57) offers an unapologetic and detailed view of the French military operation against suspected members of the Front de Libération Nationale (National…

Tim OBriens story, The Things They Carried, is more than just a war story. It beautifully depicts the shame and guilt that soldiers had to live for throughout the war, and unfortunately, the rest of their lives. Through the stories and experiences of soldiers in Tim OBriens vicinity, the Alpha Company, we get to know them not as mindless soldiers fighting for their country, but as people. Shame and guilt is a recurring theme in the book all soldiers in the story have experienced it one way or…

The roots of the Vietnam War go back long before the American involvement which lasted from 1961 to 1975. The direct involvement of the American troops was only a part of a much larger military conflict, which had begun in 1946 with resistance by the Vietnamese people towards the French colonial rule over their territories. The Vietnam War, or the Second Indochina War was unique for the Americans on many levels. Firstly, unlike any other war, the Vietnam War was a failure from military, social…