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Racism is a mainstay at any school simply because the school is a microcosm of the larger macrocosm. Society is racist. Thus, schools are racist too. Consequently, even though racism is woven throughout this literature review (i.e. the definition of racial harassment and verbal bullying or the story of a white girl saying her Black classmate’s skin was “the color of poop”), I wanted to specifically address anti-blackness. Brady (2014) defines anti-blackness as “the paradigm that binds…

The Aftermath of the Media Coverage on the Vietnam War The roots of the Vietnam War trace back to the Cold War and WWI (military.history.about.com). It started as a result of U.S. strategy of containment during the Cold War, which strived to prevent the spread of communism around the world. (thevietnamwar.info). Communism is a political theory derived from Karl Mark, advocating class war and is paid according to their abilities and needs. (merriam-webster.com). America believed that communism…

The Guatemalan Civil war was a long and brutal conflict. Guatemala’s thirty-six-year civil war ended with the Guatemalan government signing peace accords. The Civil War began in 1954 when the CIA backed coup dismantled the democratic elected government. American intervention was due to their fears of the spread of communism in 1954. The Civil war in Guatemala was due to the Cold War. It was a proxy war where the rebels were labelled as Marxists, while the American backed coup were fighting for…

Amy Chow Ms.Varone ENG3U1-03 16 Nov 2016 Close Reading: Disgrace “Lucy knows some of the women. She commences introductions. Then Petrus appears at their side. He does not play the eager host, does not offer them a drink, but does say, ‘No more dogs. I am not anymore the dog-man,’ which Lucy chooses to accept as a joke; so all, it appears, is well.” (129) This passage happens during the party Petrus holds for the land transfer, Lucy and David attend and are out of place, being the only white…

After the Vietnam War many former-soldiers came back from combat with stories that would bewilder the psyche of any common citizen. These stories highlight the extreme difference between the lives of a soldier both at home, and in the horrific situations of a field of combat. In Tim O’ Brien’s novel, The Things They Carried accurately conveys the removal that former soldiers felt by being ripped away from home by explaining with exquisite word choice and diction, the fear and horror that young…

The American revolution and the Vietnam war were winnable wars by the conventional Armies. They were lost because of poor leadership, political restraints, no public support, and failure to see and recognize the fight and adopt to it. There were no clear strategy, they did not know the enemy and had rules of engagement that were controlled and dictated by politicians. The enemy had the upper hand, they decide the pace, where to fight, how long the fight, and the duration of the entire engagement…

the “United States had to meet any Soviet challenge anywhere in the world at any level of violence” (92). If one was to follow the symmetric view, it is easy to explain why the United States would first send some troops to offer military aid to the South Vietnamese and afterwards deploy US force in direct combat. The asymmetric view of containment implies that the United States “neither needed nor was able to respond to everything the Soviet Union did” and “instead of reacting to each small…

I must say that I did not expect it too much a focal point, mainly on Black race; to be honest it made me uncomfortable and agitated in a good and bad way. I said this most especially about our discussion posts. If I am being honest now, then I must say that if feel that some people were not as honest as I would have like. However, I do think that it was a good thing because things could have become unpleasant arguments among us students. I feel like our discussions and work should be more than…

There are many more dangers faced than just battles and wars than being under enemy fire. One of the most reasonable or common that happens behind wars is fear and i did a little research and found out that being fearful in battle or any war is most common due to the stress of thinking that there's a chance that you will die or even lose one of your good friends in the battles. That’s not the only reason people become fearful though. When Charley went into the war he was at a young age and the…

The Vietnam War remained as one of the most catastrophic evets where the nation was divides. The ones whom disagreed with the war were many and they embraced do their determination because they realized that our leadership had no point sending troop in name of democracy. The movement against war started mostly in Universities, mining that educated young adults were aware of this nonsense. Moreover the cost of war occurred to be too high and the only one benefited from this was manufactories of…