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    Watchmen, by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, illustrates the consequences of one attaining power in order to save the world from danger. There are three characters who have different philosophies in which they believe can save the world from destroying themselves. Ozymandias believed that to save the world from danger, there should be a mass murder of people on earth, in order to save billions. Rorschach believed that, “There is good, and there is evil, and evil must be punished.” Dr. Manhattan…

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    during the height of the Vietnam War. During his two years in the military, especially the year he spent in combat, he experienced things he could not have previously imagined. This all led to making my father grateful for his life and his freedom and not taking either of them for granted. After he was drafted my father was sent to Kentucky for basic training. Then he went to Alabama for advanced infantry training. At that time two of his brothers were in Vietnam so the military…

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    chapter ended the Vietnam War and began the process for Vietnam to be reunified into a communist state. Hundreds of thousands of people were killed,arrested and tortured for being sympathizers to the South Vietnamese government. This event changed the dynamic of Vietnam and impacted millions of lives. One of the lives impacted was my mom named Chau Nguyen. Chau Nguyen was born on January 1, 1962 in a village near the capital Saigon, Vietnam. Chau was born in the midst of the Vietnam War and…

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    After the careful analysis of the current situation and various perspectives in the first part the of book, the authors introduce how theses factors may be used to improve the chances of a more cooperative outcomes. In the second part of the book, it develops specific suggestions across military domains and strategic activities, and recommend strategic reassurance in practice. There are three categories China and the U.S. can both take part in to achieve reassurance, according with bases,…

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    Isolationism vs. interventionism is a fatigued and timeworn debate that is as old as the American Republic. Isolationism worked well for the first American century, plus 41. That all changed a hundred years ago on April 4th, when the former Princeton academic turned President, Woodrow Wilson, propelled an America that preferred to stay out of the European trenches – into the carnage of The Great War. This Great War was soon introduced to the annals history as World War I and from its onset was…

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    Throughout the story, The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien speaks and leads us through his experience and participation in the Vietnam War. He speaks about the time he is drafted until the time that he revisits Vietnam, although the story is not told in that order. In the chapter, “On the Rainy River,” Tim O’Brien walks us through his emotional reaction to being drafted for the Vietnam War. His motivations for wanting to escape the war and his motivations for eventually joining the war all lead…

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    order irritate North Vietnam which would give him a probable cause to have more involvement in the war. North Vietnam responded by attacking the USS Maddox and on August 1964 the Senate gave the president the approval to send more soldier in Vietnam. The president came up with the idea of bombing North Vietnam, so Operation Rolling Thunder. This idea was based on the belief that bombing North Vietnam would surrender and it would force them to start peace treaty with South Vietnam and the United…

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    Agent Orange: The Perpetual Consequences Generations of Vietnamese civilians exposed to a perilous chemical: all due to the spraying of an herbicide over Vietnam’s jungles. The Vietnam War was between the Communist North Vietnam and the United States. The conflict became global when Communist-supportive countries began sending reinforcements to the Vietnamese and the United States gained support from its allies. The Viet Cong soldiers knew their jungles by heart and used the plant cover to…

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    Vietnamese independence? The big events in Vietnam in 1664 were the Gulf of Tonkin that allowed the U.S to have operations in Vietnam without called to declared war. And the United States bombing the Saigon. In American, President Johnson was re-elected and he look for new course of action in Vietnam. Battle in Vietnam had started to happening and it was a new phase of who's going to be on top at the end of it. Vietnam independence is relying on who win the north Vietnam or the United States. …

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    winning becomes priceless. During World War 2, Hitler savagely murders over 6 million men, women, and children for the price of power. On the other hand, several thousand Americans are forcibly sent overseas to be killed in a pointless, endless war in Vietnam. While on the American front, families are sent to kill one another in a civil, yet gruesome war, for the greater good of the country. And do not forget the dreadful Trail of Tears where Americans cared more about the value of land over…

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