South Lakeland

The background that you gave on the American public’s reason for distrusting the government allowed me to connect and understand the controversies that the POW/MIA issue brought in the post-war years. While, such cases as Watergate and other acts to cover up engagements that took place on the battlefield during the Vietnam years, the American pubic had the right to question and feel betrayed by their government. However, despite their doubts in the government, I would challenge the doubt that…

The Buddhist Crisis During the Vietnam War, there was a religious and political movement of Buddhists in South Vietnam. Buddhist were being supressed of their religion. In this time, Vietnam was led by a powerful leader, President Ngo Dinh Diem. He was a pro-catholic leader who was trying to displace many of the Buddhist in South Vietnam. In fear of losing their job, many Buddhists converted to Catholicism, but there were also lots who did not, causing there to be dangerous revolts and protests…

Today’s comedians are constantly faced with criticism regarding the nature of their jokes. The rules of humour are ever-changing, and it is crucial for a good comedian to know them. A joke about a plane crash may have been a knee-slapper on September 10th, 2001, and a career-ender the next day. But apart from knowing the cultural circumstances which forbid certain jokes and encourage others, a comedian now has to respect people’s feelings, religions, personal choices, dietary habits and about a…

they did to a man name Will Brown. In Omaha, the trouble began on September 25, when a white woman, Agnes Loebeck, reported that she was assaulted by a black man. "The most daring attack on a white woman ever perpetrated in Omaha occurred one block south of Bancroft Street near Scenic Avenue in Gibson last night. This is the one sided story the world heard at first " Coverage in the World-Herald was slightly less inflammatory "Pretty little Agnes Loebeck . . . was raped . . . by an unidentified…

To anyone who finds this. The fall of the Saigon happened on April 30th of 1975. I remember that day. I was roughly eight years old and was lying on the floor in the middle of the living room. I was probably doing some math homework that Mr. Peterson gave us that day. My parents were there, John McGee and Mary-Beth McGee; they were watching the news regarding to the fall. My father said the United States involvement was such a waste of time. My mother elaborated on how the war cost the United…

The Things They Carried is a non fiction war novel written by Tim O’Brien published in 1990. In this book, Tim O’Brien shares stories about soldiers in the Vietnam War. The soldiers tell about the things they carry with them during the war and why they carried them. They tell each other stories that are both entertaining and emotional. This brings the soldiers closer together making it very traumatic when some of them are killed. Tim O’Brien tells about the horrible things that happen during the…

headnotes that give the reader sort of good view of the Dakota tribe. Essentially, the word Dakota means ally in their language, which is the Dakota Sioux language. The Dakota people are a Native American tribe located in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and South Dakota and North Dakota. The Dakota people are First Nations band government in North America and the largest division of the Siouan family. The Dakota tribe is divided into the western Dakota and the eastern Dakota. In this paper, I will be…

After reading this excerpt from the book Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas by Mari Sandoz this passage gave Crazy Horse’s thoughts about the encroachment of the white man into Indian territory. The influential leader of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, Crazy Horse, held out against the government's efforts to imprison the Sioux on reservations. Almost all the Native Americans were sent to reservations by the late nineteenth century (Pollard, pg. 571). Crazy Horse was involved in many battles,…

Escalation - On the ground in South Vietnam the outlook remained grim in the final weeks of 1964, as the Vietcong continued to make gains. U.S. officials responded by laying secret plans for an escalation of American involvement. On July 28, Johnson publicly announced a significant troop increase, disclosing that others would follow. By the end of 1965, more than 180,000 U.S. ground troops were in South Vietnam. In 1966 the figure climbed to 385,000. In 1967 alone U.S. warplanes flew 108,000…

The Vietnam War as historians describe it was a lament of history, driven only by unconditional hatred between opposing government ideologies and the allure of false patriotism. With the government ensuing conscription, the people were left divided on the matter, polarized and further extrapolated by the frequent exchange of harsh criticism between sides. It was a fight between opposite sides of a moral compass, a clash of social philosophies and the people who pledged neutrality were forcefully…