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    Tim O Brien Themes

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    The book “The Things They carried” by Tim O’Brien was about the Vietnam war. One of the things that is in the book is that there is more than what is just on the surface of the war. It puts a personal spin on the dry material that is usually read about wars. Tim O’Brien was in the Vietnam war when he was a young man, and he uses these experiences to write both fictional stories and nonfictional stories about this war. When a person is about to start reading this book they must go into it…

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    Historical Perspective: I’m going to be discussing the historical thinking concept of historical perspectives. The 1960s was a frustrating yet exciting time to be alive. While the Baby Boomers were a large percent of the hippie generation, many of 60s youth were also alive during WWII. Thus, many of them lived through WWII and through the cold war which was just starting in the 60s. As a result, people were tired of the fighting and violence from the war and demanded a change. The main ideals of…

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    Documentaries greatly enhance understanding of a topic. They often include primary sources which give viewers a feel for the time period and strengthen the clarity of the situation. The Vietnam War was incredibly complex and brutal; it’s harsh legacy survives to this day. In Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam, the letters and videos supplement the viewers understanding of the atrocious reality of the war in Vietnam and paint a picture how soldiers and others truly felt about the war effort.…

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    Due to an extreme amount of unfortunate circumstances, The Vietnam War was deemed as the “unwinnable war”. Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam War stemmed in August 1962, in support of South Vietnam and putting an end to the spread of communism. This started due to the separation between the French Indo-china and the following requests of realignment between the countries, yet the Vietnamese weren’t interested in the realignment. Australia’s engagement in the war mainly consisted of Army…

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    Vietnam War Dbq

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    Twenty years and 58,286 deaths later, the Vietnam War went down as one of the most significant in United States history. (Source A) The war is more historically remembered as the Indochina War to Americans due to its location and its unforeseeable loss to North Vietnam. Although the United States was just an ally of South Vietnam with hopes to stop the spread of communism, they ended up being the largest foreign military presence which lead to Vietnam schooling labeling it as the American War.…

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    Introduction Topic The war affected the American culture in many ways. It changed the attitudes of the Americans towards their government, military, constitution, media, and public institution. The impact of the war can be still felt in the United States today. During wartime or even when people are making peace, those in the waterfront as well as those they leave behind, need morale boosting. This is the reason behind the composition of folk songs during the Vietnam War (Alexander, 1980). War…

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    The topic of the impending doom of America is a popular one among writers today. Numerous articles claim that America’s rivals increase in power and influence while America itself is on the decline. As evidence of this gradual, but inevitable decline in American power, one writer claims that the US military has experienced nothing but stalemate, frustration and loss since its victory in World War II in 1945. Nevertheless, the author fails to distinguish between failures in war and failures in…

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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…

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    “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…

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    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…

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