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or killing them. The things these civilians faced during this time were and still are unreal; something no one could even begin to imagine. The Vietnam War started in 1954. It was between North Vietnam and the Vietcong (South Vietnamese communists) versus South Vietnam and America. More than 3 million people were killed, including 58,000 Americans. The Vietnam War is one of the longest wars America has been a part of. It is also considered one of the worst America has been a part of.…

Lyndon B. Johnson deserves the most blame. Johnson approved more military advisers to aid South Vietnam efforts, which lead to the…

come from standing up for something you believe in. In the book to kill a mockingbird, by Harper Lee, Atticus is given the job to stand up for a black man in court in the time of racism and segregation of people. This book also takes place in the south during the Jim Cow law times, when things where very different. In the videos that was watched about the laws it shows segregation between the blacks and whites. Meaning whites hated black and black had little to no rights. Tom Robinson in this…

level education and professional careers than that of the Apartheid era (Saniei, 2015). The cabinets in the Apartheid era were all white, today we find the cabinet filled with Blacks, English and Afrikaans speaking Whites, Indians and Jewish members. South Africa can no longer be seen as a political…

States, northern and southern Vietnam, China, Viet Cong, South Korea, Thailand, Australia, North Korea, Soviet Union, Philippines, New Zealand’s, Taiwan, Khmer Rouge, Pathet Lao, Khmer Republic, and kingdom of Laos. This war initially was just North Vietnam government fighting with Viet Cong to reunify Vietnam under communist rule. At first they just viewed the conflict as colonial war, fought initially by France then America then even later South Vietnam. The Vietnam War was something we had to…

lost, both Korean and UN soldiers, it may be easy to see why North Korea hates us. We intervened their invasion of South Korea, which they might have taken. The reason they are testing nuclear weapons, such as the supposed hydrogen bomb referenced earlier, might be because they want to make up for what they failed at achieving in the early…

The War We Couldn’t Win Freshly out of World War II, the world is faced with another war. The United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics begin the Cold War. Tensions between nations were at an all-time high, and the world watched as they competed against each other. The U.S. and the Soviet Union indirectly fought each other through proxy wars, one of them being the Vietnam War. It was a conflict based on two different ideologies, capitalism and communism. On March 8, 1965, the U.S…

Micro aggressions are in abundant cyst that continues to grow on the navel of society. Whether they be painful or none existent they still exist. Claudia Rankine author of, Citizen, was someone aided in pointing out these atrocities. For people of color (in this case black people) it is a shard of glass that feels the need to dig its way into their shoulders a little deeper with each passing day. This is because racism is the most practiced sport still in existence. In the book, Rankine…

It has only been sixty-nine years since sports were integrated by Jackie Robinson and it seems so long ago but this pivotal event is only two generations removed from my generation. Based off this one event, sent a ripple effect throughout all other sports as well, because it allowed many to see what African American new and that was that we are just as good or if not better than our white counterparts when it come sot sports. However, on the other side of the spectrum, you have the majority…

David Bowen was born just in time for the Red Scare in the 1950s that blanketed all of America and pitted neighbors and family against each other. If I was born at the same time in his home town of Virginia, we would have had a similar taste for life and nearly a carbon-copy of career choices. We would have both enlisted in the U.S. Marines and have been shipped off to the jungles of Vietnam. This would have been an unusual and petrifying experience for the both of us. We would have trudged…