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Tim O’Brien’s novel The Things They Carried, comprises twenty-two individual fictional war stories. Although a war novel, the stories don’t focus on guns, grenades, blood, or gore. It focuses on the “human heart.” O’Brien’s novel teaches us that the “human heart” is fragile and the negative impacts of war can break it. Innocence and life are effected in return. Young men enter the war clenching onto they innocence. Unknowingly, they will be stripped from it. Mary Anne Bell—a significant…

If I Die In A Combat Zone by Tim O’Brien If I Die In A Combat Zone is a memoir that depicts the horrors of Vietnam through the eyes of Tim O’Brien. Tim’s story is not told in chronological order, but his life before, during, and after the war are all depicted by the end of the book. Although the book is brief, it shows the development of Tim as he is forced to participate in a war that he disagrees with in its entirety. Although he originally plots to abandon the Army, he believes that doing…

This essay will examine the argument made in “Senator J. William Fulbright on the Arrogance of Power” against military action in the Vietnam War. The Senator makes a compelling argument by pointing out several factors that make the war in Vietnam essentially a lost cause and a conflict that the United States shouldn’t be involved in. Senator Fulbright makes a logical argument against outside intervention in Vietnam through effective use of logos, ethos and pathos. During this essay…

Character Traits of Soldiers Though a whole list can be made of all of the physical traits that make up a strong soldier, the list of mental traits is perhaps more important. Three of the key traits that comprise a soldier: bravery, determination, and selflessness. These qualities are vital during wartime since soldiers need to be not only physically strong but also mentally strong. Mental strength is how soldiers get through wars. It is essential for soldiers to put all of their personal…

themselves such as diamond smuggling and arms smuggling. The last Group was the FNLA another right wing group, which received help from Zaire. Essentially this civil war was from three separate warlords. Angola like Vietnam would become a Cold War Proxy war between east vs west. Foreign support was much easier to obtain than in the cold war than post-cold war era. In the cold war era there was a drive to win these resource rich countries like Angola. This was a global problem not just in…

The War That Changed Everything Cries of pain, tears and agony; all from one event in history, which was the Vietnam war. This war changed everything, lives from all over the entire world. Thousands of lives were taken just from this one war. More than fifty percent of the men who had died were US citizens, which means thousands more American families were affected. Some lived, and some died, but most of those who walked out alive, still had the horrific memories of those certain years in their…

Imagine arriving back home after fighting in a foreign war and being spat on. All of the hard work and treachery that just ended with the war turned out to continue after it was over. During the 1960s-1970s, American soldiers fought in the Vietnam War. When the soldiers arrived back home after the war, they were looked down upon and were never truly honored for their dedication and sacrifice. Nearly 58,000 service men and women went missing or died in Vietnam, and were never properly honored…

The American soldiers that came home from the war between the Vietnam War and World War II were treated differently by the public when compared to each other. The soldiers that came from World War II were greeted as heroes and the country would celebrate for their return and acknowledging the hardships, difficulties and sacrifices invested during their service. (National Archives) Unfortunately, the Veterans of the Vietnam War were treated with no welcome-home rallies or honorable recognition…

The Vietnam War was one of the most controversial wars of its time. Many americans opposed of the war because they thought it was highly unnecessary with all the trouble that appeared based around how the young felt and the use of brutal weaponry. Even though some government officials thought they were doing the right thing to protect southeast asia's freedom. It wasn’t worth giving up the many of our own people's freedom. The senate claimed in their debates of the Tonkin Gulf (Doc 8) 1964…

Picture this. You’re at a peaceful anti-war protest on a college campus in Ohio. Then national guards show up armed and ready to threaten the protesters, whom are college students, or even stop them. To find out about the tragedy on that awful day, you need to know how it started, what happened and who did it, and what happened for the aftermath and why we still know of it today. To begin, there is always a reason for protesting no matter what it is. First there what a bombing performed by the…