South Vietnam

The image above shows the many emotional consequence of war and the negative aspects that come of it. This tragic image demonstrates the brutality of war and the effect it as on the soldiers themselves. The images makes viewers conscious of the worried and horrified feeling of the soldiers. The image creates a sympathetic environment upon the viewer who is witnessing a solider break down in a battle field. The feeling of heartbreak is immediate since it doesn’t have to be processed carefully…

Martha's Role Tim O'Brien's short story, "The Things They Carried," is based on the life of soldiers in the Vietnam War era. The character Lieutenant Jimmy Cross in the short story is the one responsible for an entire group of soldiers during the war. Lieutenant Cross is fixated on a young woman named Martha who attended Mount Sebastian College in New Jersey to become an English major during this time (pg. 1). Martha, like most women of the soldiers in war, was hope, distraction, and realization…

It has been said “We had it drilled into us time and time again: 'If someone above you falls, grip tightly to the vertical rope and cradle that person in your arms until help can get to you.'...If someone fell down on me I swear I would have bitten him on the ass and would keep on biting until he got off on his own.” –C.S Crawford, Four deuces: A Korean War Story While some argue that the US involvement with the Korean War was not a good idea, the truth is that there was a lot of reasoning for…

which tells the story of his family, his life before and after fleeing war-torn Vietnam, and his dramatic journey through pirate-infested waters. Did you know that refugees contribute an average of $10 billion to the Australian economy in their first 10 years of settlement? Illegal immigrants don't come to Australia to commit crime; they come here to escape war-torn countries such as Iraq,Syria and historically, Vietnam. Despite this, the majority of white Australians have objections to the…

Asian-American officers. Vietnam for instance, has deep cultural roots in Confucianism, and its political philosophy system has affected society by ways of corruption and nepotism (Warner, 2013). Around the year 200 BC to 100 AD, a powerful Chinese dynasty called the “Han”, had invaded the Northern coastal region of Vietnam and eventually ruled the entire country for more than 1,000 years (Ray et al., 2010). The Han Dynasty implemented their belief system known as Confucianism in Vietnam, and it…

the dominant mainstream culture was corrupt and flawed. They rejected middle class values, opposed political and social violence, and promoted a gentle ideology that focused on peace, love, and personal freedom. They opposed nuclear weapons and the Vietnam War, and created their own counter culture founded on psychedelic rock and the embracement of the sexual revolution. In their song, “You Can’t Always Get What You Want”, The Rolling Stones touched on some major topics of the 1960s such as the…

the Chinese Influence on and Chinese Elements Within Vietnamese Culture: Customs, Traditions, Language and Contemporary Media The conflict between China-Vietnam regarding the 2016 territorial dispute appears a new development to the rest of the world. In reality, this hostility is deep rooted, and significantly more vibrant and imminent from Vietnam side, almost making the conflict one sided. Overpowered and overshadowed by China, the smaller nation puts more things at risk than its neighboring…

of Tonkin, and President Lyndon B. Johnson ordered the retaliatory bombing of military targets in North Vietnam. By the time U.S. planes began regular bombings of North Vietnam in February 1965, some critics had begun to question the government’s assertion that it was fighting a democratic war to liberate the South Vietnamese people from Communist aggression.” That shows that Northern Vietnam was picking a fight with America and we needed to retaliate against them, obviously concerning America’s…

philosophical questions about war” (pages 20-21). Through these goals Turner is able to fill in the gaps in history about the women in the Vietnam…

Soldiers of the Charlie Company were ordered by Lieutenant Calley, on March 16, 1968, to leave the village of My Lai destroyed. During the Vietnam War, the United States supported South Vietnam and were in the process of fighting North Vietnam because of their communistic viewpoints. The fighting had been different than any other war, the Viet Cong's fighting style consisted of sneaky sniper attacks and booby traps. Their fighting style had aggravated the United States soldiers and they soon…