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Hearts and Minds begins with footage on a village that is northwest of Saigon in Vietnam named Hung Dinh. Without any type of introduction the film starts off in this setting and leaves its viewer unexpectant of what is to come. You see the activities of farming, children running around, and other normal day to day activites. What seems as a calm and normal environment for villagers to live there lives has a unexpected future in hold. The documentary follows this by showing rare footage dating…

“Over 20 years, more than 58,000 Americans were killed in Vietnam and more than 150,000 wounded, not to mention the emotional toll the war took on American culture.” (Blake 1 ) In Tim O’Brien’s novel “The Things They Carried” death was a daily occurrence, on both the American and the Vietnamese side. O’Brien writes about the function of memory, traditions of war literature and the difference between Tim as a soldier and Tim as a writer. Tim O 'Brien 's novel “The Things They Carried” is…

The avant-garde cinema was born out of a ravaged post-World War I Europe in the 1920s. Various visual artists and writers took upon themselves to deride and challenge the conventional notions of plot, character, and setting, as they saw them as limiting and bourgeois. The aim of these artists was to point out how narrative films were artificial as well as contest the notion that there was only one way of filmmaking. “We should also add that internationally, experimental art was at that time…

With the recent attacks on Christians by Isis, people have been wondering whether or not America should step in militarily for those whose rights are being consistently violated. However, the U.S. should not militarily step into foreign human rights violations; the U.S. must prioritize its own citizens. America shouldn’t step into foreign human rights violations so that we can prioritize what is best for American citizens. The historical precedents set by previous American wars support only…

The overarching theme of chapter 4 was to demonstrating the historical past of American Foreign Policy and how and what leaders and events lead the shaping of policy to what we see it as today. In addition to, that war is can be broken down into three alternative factors/components political, military, and economy all effect each other and war in different aspects. While all the matter stressing the notion that each specific foreign event should be handle not by past presidents, but by a…

Eighty-seven. Eighty-seven rounds of tear gas catalysed the 2014 Hong Kong Occupation, a big tent civil disobedience campaign for democracy, and served as my awakening moment. It set me on discovering deeper issues and how the intertwined disciplines of philosophy, politics and economics are able to explain and solve issues beneath the surface of the movement. Academically, the movement prompted me to read Mill's 'On Liberty' and Thoreau's 'Civil Disobedience,' only questioning whether it is…

Brutal, lengthy, and traumatizing are all words that can be used to describe the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War, which spanned from November 1, 1955 to April 30, 1975, was a conflict between the Communist North Vietnam (and their ally the Viet Cong) and South Vietnam (and their ally the United States of America). In the film “The Fog of War”, former United States Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara explains the lessons America learned from the changes made during and after the war. In 1965, the…

The Vietnam war is probably the most controversial war in United States history. Many people wanted the U.S. to never join the war, but then when we joined, people got mad. People in the U.S. even rallied to leave the war. There were many new weapons and war tactics that were introduced in the Vietnam war and have become well known today. The biggest thing that was introduced and was a huge factor in the war was the war tactic, Guerilla warfare, that the Vietcong used. It was a very successful…

When people hear stories, most of the time they can tell if they are real, but sometimes it can be hard to tell. Tim O’Brien’s novel The Things They Carried shows his and the experiences of many other soldiers in the Vietnam War. He describes all the horrible things they see, what they feel, and the impact of the war on them. Along with the memories of war, he also includes the art of writing and the importance of stories. In some of the chapters, O’Brien even writes about events that never…

This bond that the soldiers formed helped them to survive, and helped the men of Alpha Company to cope with the war after they returned to the United States. "The bond that men form with each other in the heat of battle is incomprehensible to those who have not experienced warfare for themselves...You make close friends. You become part of a tribe and you share the same blood - you give it together, you take it together." (O'Brien, 192) This bond of friendship helps the men of Alpha…