South Vietnam

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…

thought. I focused on the problems of the Korean Armistice Agreement because I have family that lives in South Korea as well I find the Korean Armistice Agreement to be very problematic for multiple reasons. I divided the essay by having each paragraph focus on a specific problem or two problems that connected with each other. The problems that I used were issues that affected my family in South Korea and myself. For example in the first paragraph, I focused on the constant threat of war because…

I do not agree with Hellen Keller’s statement. Keller makes many valid and agreeable points in her statement, but the statement is invalid in the current world. The first main reason I disagree is because some of the world’s most influential promoters of peace have been men. Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King Jr. just to name a few. Secondly, there are many men who put the family before the individual. Keller failed to recognize these men, even if they may not be from a…

to the cold hard facts, but it as true as anything that we will ever know. Stories are not totally fact, but with interpretation they can lead us to factual events that do occur. O'Brien may have adjusted some details from his actual experience in Vietnam and deemed it a ‘fictional' book, but to him the stories he tells in The Things They Carried are very real to him. And through the use of metafiction he is able to convey this to his…

Student Activism and the Vietnam War Following the actions of the U.S government in carrying out North Vietnam bombings a sense of responsibility in ending this outright senseless acts of war emerged. A wave of activism by intellectuals and peacemakers alike spread across the country; initially only what started as a small group of protesters in higher institutions having one agenda in hand: stop the war, spread its ideas to the mass American populace who also shared their views. The protests…

The Vietnam War has served as a lessons learned for the modern military. It was a modern war with many problems and a new type of fighting that would prove problematic to the United States military. Although the Vietnam War has been studied by current military leaders, one can still find problems faced then in today’s conflicts. In the beginning of Afghanistan and Iraq there was a clear and concise objective. This is why the initial invasions of both were successful. Fast forward a few years…

Richard M. Nixon Richard M. Nixon was president from 1969-1974 and was a republican. He had many roles as president. For example he passed a lot of legislation regarding drug abuse and crime. He attempted to settle Vietnam War on good terms and he issued 346 executive orders keeping it to his own council. He also promised the public more racial desegregation. President Nixon wanted to better the relationship with the Soviet Union. Chief Legislator: Richard M. Nixon passed a lot of legislation…

"No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now. " [Nixon]. In order to understand this event, one ultimately needs to examine the cause and every possible perspective of that cause. After World War II, the Vietnamese people anticipated reunification and democracy away from French rule. The Vietnamese were hindered heavily by French colonialism, resulting in the increasing popularity of communist revolutionary, Ho Chi…

As events occur in the nation, of America, the belief that americans should eliminate their past and counter its existence, is growing. I believe that conflicts in the past can lead to trouble in the future, that we should acknowledge our past triumphs and failures, and embrace this nation’s triumphs and failures. Each triumph and failure from this nation’s past has changed our nation by guiding us on what actions to take. Our nation has had many different events occur in its past; which has…

By 1966, Johnson was pleased with the progress he had made. But soon events in Southeast Asia began to overshadow his domestic achievements. Funds he had envisioned to fight his war on poverty were now diverted to the war in Vietnam. The year's first major shock - the Vietnamese Tet offensive on January 30 1968 - was all the greater for being a near-complete surprise. Tet revealed the failure of Washington's policy and shattered the consensus that had prevailed within the U.S. elite. Tet forced…