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The Things They Carried, by Tim O’Brien, is a fictional novel about American soldiers’ lives during and after the Vietnam War. Tim O’Brien illustrates in his novel the physical and emotional burdens that the soldiers carry with them during and after their deployments. One of these emotional burdens, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, is written about in particular depth compared to the more physical burdens the men carry. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD, is a mental health disorder caused…

A war with similar causes to the Korean War was the Vietnam War. Similarly, the causes of the Vietnam War found its roots at the end of World War II. At that time the Japanese occupied a French colony, Indonesia. With the collapse of the colonial governments such as in Africa, the Pacific, and Asia the United States was at odds in keeping up with the spread of communism. In 1941 the Viet Minh, a Vietnamese National movement formed by Ho Chi Minh, resisted the occupants in Indonesia.…

Alexander Tonico Apocalypse Now is director Francis Ford Coppola's film based on Heart of Darkness but set in the jungles of Vietnam. While some critics found the film mostly muddled, most agreed that it was a powerful and important examination not only of America's military involvement in Vietnam, but like Conrad's novel, a disturbing treatment of the darkness potentially inherent in all human hearts. "Apocalypse" means the end of the world, as when the earth is destroyed by fire in the Bible.…

your country can do for you ask what you can do for your country”. This address impacted the citizens because it inspired them to new possibilities. Also, it raised their goals of themselves, and of their nation. People joined the Peace Corps, Green Berets, and hundreds of people went to Washington to be part of the “New Frontier”. In addition, students went to law school or into programs with social benefit. All across the country, Kennedy’s words changed lives. Kennedy played a major role in…

image as a “rebel”. Just by looking at Guevara, you can see how revolutionary of an icon he really was and continuous to be. Indeed, there is something about this radical man that has him both loved and hated. Che’s serious eyes, messy beard and dark beret, remains an iconic worldwide persona, generation after generation. By simply looking at his face, it is almost like you can get lost in his eyes. His long sexy hair is essentially what makes him exotic looking. He is defiantly an attractive…

I am a white female, born to a poor, unwed mother. My father a drunk like his father before him. Both my parents worked low-income jobs, my father jumped around from workplace to workplace because of his temper. Momma, my mother, worked, and still does to this day, retail and customer service jobs; she, unlike my father, clawed tooth and nail to keep those jobs and receive whatever raise she could. She knew what it was like to be “born poor into a world that despises the poor,” and she didn’t…

Throughout the novel of Cannery Row written by John Steinbeck, the theme of community becomes prevalent in the little town of Cannery Row. The book takes place in coastal California during depression era. Each individual character faces many challenges, some which were the result of the depression, others are personal fears that consume the character. The community as a whole learns to accept one another’s peculiarities and relies greatly on one another. Friendships in Cannery Row are essential…

The war in Vietnam, which lasted from 1955 to 1975, has gone down as one of the influential and controversial wars in United States history. The nation as a whole began to uproar over the war and the major consequences of the war. Public opinion steadily turned against the war following 1967. In the year of 1970, only a third of Americans believed that the U.S. didn’t make a mistake to send more soldiers into Vietnam. Soldiers were dying, and they continued to be sent over to fight even with the…

icon, Woods' journey has reshaped the landscape of golf, inspiring generations and breaking down barriers along the way. Tiger Woods' immersion in the world of golf began practically as soon as he could walk. His father, Earl Woods, a former Green Beret and accomplished amateur golfer, recognized his son's potential from an early…

All eyes were gleaming upon me, watching my sins placed before my bosom, the scarlet letter. My heart was pumping out of my chest, palms beginning to sweat as I walked up the creaky, vintage stairs on the way to my punishment. Public shaming. There are many long lasting effects as shown in Source A, The Scarlet Letter, Source B, Monica Lewinsky’s TED Talk, and Source C, an article entitled “Is the Internet a Mob Without Consequence?” In The Scarlet Letter, Governor Bellingham requires Hester…