...Vietnam War IP2 Alicia Stephens AIU Abstract In this paper it discusses the Vietnam War and some consequences of it. It also provides information about the war and the impact that it had on the United States, the reason for the war and the results of it. It also discusses the outcome weather it was beneficial or detrimental to the United States. It also describes details about the war and things that happened during this war/conflict. Vietnam War The Vietnam War was the longest most unpopular war in American History, The toll they paid wasn’t just monetary, it cost the people involved dearly, physically and mentally; causing suffering, sorrow and national turmoil because of bad press meant that Americans divided (History.com/Vietnam war). During the Vietnam War the U.S. forces were made up of draftees, whose average age was 19 years old. They were inexperienced and unwilling to fight; they would spend about a year in Vietnam and then return home. During the war over 200,000 were killed. Vietnam went from a major exporter of rice; to a country that couldn’t feed itself. Large areas of countryside were ruined. Many traps were left, and still are there in many cases (History.com/Vietnam War). Staggering influence on one country’s culture is no more evident than in America’s involvement upon entering the war the United States government were convinced and assured the public of its confidence in very quick and consequences free resolution to their problem...
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...Vietnam was a questionable War. People either agreed with it or did not agree at all. As people fought over it back in America soldiers got an experience they will never forget. An experienced filled with terror and suffering but also filled with friendship and love. American literature has shown the struggles of the soldiers in the Vietnam War. Often times the literature tries to pull the readers in with stories to help them understand what life was like. Tim O’Brien is one of the most popular when it comes to this. In his novel, The Things They Carried, questioning morality, O’Brien gives first hand narrations of stories which show the impact of the Vietnam War on society. Tim O’Brien’s life is filled with many wonders and success. O’Brien...
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...Henry Kissinger Adee L. Shekar Nova Southeastern University Henry Kissinger The year 1923 was not a fortunate time to be born in Eastern Europe into a middle-class Jewish family. Adolf Hitler was busy launching propaganda campaigns and Nazism was quickly on the rise. It was on May 27 when Heinz Alfred Kissinger was born in a small town in Bavaria, Germany. Although the country had been previously known for being more accepting of religious minority groups, the Bavarian Jew, like many other German Jews, were beginning to feel the ostracizing affects of Hitler’s campaign. By the time Heinz was ten years old, Adolf Hitler was in power. Two years later, the Nuremberg Laws were put into effect. In addition to denying the Jewish people citizen, the laws did not allow them to marry gentiles and they could not hold teaching jobs in state-run schools. This was a significant blow for the Kissinger family; Heinz’s father, Louis, was a respected schoolmaster in the city of Furth. Now out of a job and faced with an increasing number of hardships, the Kissinger family left their native country of Germany in 1938 and made their way to the United States. It was during this move that Heinz became known as Henry. The Kissinger family’s move to Manhattan, New York allowed Henry to thrive and flourish in a society that, although not totally free from prejudices, was based upon the ideas of equal opportunity and freedom...
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...simple rules for submission of assignments. • It’s not to make things scary and difficult; just to make things go smoothly. • Ask your lecturer for help if you don’t understand something. RMIT University©11/10/2011 RMIT International University Vietnam 2 Assignment submission • Assignments are typically submitted to Blackboard. • If Blackboard is down, there is still no excuse not to submit! Submit by email instead. • The below courses (and possibly others) require some or all assignments to be submitted to Turnitin: –Intro to IT, SEF, PCP, Security • Information about Turnitin is available on the Intranet: https://online.rmit.edu.vn/student/resources/turnitin RMIT University©11/10/2011 RMIT International University Vietnam 3 Assignment submission • The filename of the submitted file must follow this convention: group#_teacherName_student#_studentName_assign# • If one file is to be submitted, the file can be uploaded directly, example: G1_Joe_s3037354_NguyenThanhKim_A1.doc • If the submission consists of multiple files, the files must be zipped and the zip file must be uploaded, example: G1_Joe_s3037354_NguyenThanhKim_A1.zip RMIT University©11/10/2011 RMIT International University Vietnam 4 Assignment submission • Blackboard corrupts RAR files. Your lecturer can’t open them. Use ZIP. • You can only submit an assignment once to Blackboard. Make sure you submit the final version. • The size of your upload should be reasonable. ...
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...Sports Company and Vietnam MK755A, Case Analysis October 20, 2010 Case Analysis OVERALL RECOMMENDATION Based on the market, the Sports Company’s capabilities and the competitive landscape, it is feasible for the Sports Company to enter the Vietnam market within the next three years via a joint venture with a local distributor. They should target their sneakers to the youth market, ages 21 and younger. EXPLANATION The reasons why the Sports Company should enter the market in Vietnam can be categorized three ways: the state of the current market in Vietnam, the Sports Company’s strengths and the competitive landscape. Vietnam being the twelfth most populous nation, offers a large potential market for the Sports Company’s products. With the third largest GDP growth, this market is also captive. Vietnam is a young, growing country. With brand awareness spread by the Viet Kieu, the market in Vietnam is primed for entry. However, there are many issues that stand in the way of the Sports Company. The Sports Company has significant knowledge in the global marketplace, being ranked second in most of its product markets. This expertise will help the Sports Company tackle unique challenges and issues faced in the emerging market. Their competency in product design will aid them in embracing changes in their product line to adapt to Vietnam. In addition, their marketing expertise will help them capitalize on the already established brand awareness in the country...
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...to pursue his educational pursuits at Harvard University where he immediately thrived. He received his B.A. degree in Economics from Harvard, and later attended for a year at local colleges such as King’s College. He also attended Cambridge University, on a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship. Between 1954 and 1957, Ellsberg spent three years in the U.S. Marine Corps, serving as rifle platoon leader, operations officer, and rifle company commander. In 1959, Mr. Ellsberg became a strategic analyst at the RAND Corporation where he performed his duties of specializing in problems pertaining to the command and control of nuclear weapons, nuclear war plans, and crisis decision-making. He was also a member of two of the three working groups reporting to the Executive Committee of the National Security Council during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. In 1965, he performed his strategic expertise in the Defense Department where he worked specifically at the U.S. Embassy. It was not until Mr. Ellsberg made his return at the RAND cooperation where his life would become the subject of national headlines. On return to the RAND Corporation in 1967, Ellsberg worked on the top secret McNamara study of U.S. Decision-making in Vietnam. The years studied from 1945-68, which later came to be known as the Pentagon Papers. While working his position at the RAND Corporation, Mr. Ellsberg would attend anti- war protest rallies protesting the issues of the Vietnam War. It was during a specific anti-war...
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...The effects of war on both the body and mind are clearly portrayed in both Taxi Driver and Apocalypse Now. We also see war in film with a negative twist, we see the chaos, the mental decay both during and after the war is finished. These are not your classic Saving Private Ryan films, where the Americans come in and clean house. These films show the psychotic side of war, how some people come back to society and cannot function like the rest of society. These films portray war as an ugly disturbing event, which affects both the soldiers and the people back home. In Taxi Driver, we learn about Vietnam Veteran Travis Bickle. As the film unravels we see how Vietnam affects both soldiers and Americans. We come to see a split society, young against...
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...Portrayal of Vietnam War has become a popular theme in modern media due to the vast extent of people who are exposed to it. The effects of war on both the body and mind are clearly portrayed in Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver and Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now. The audience is shown the negative outcomes of war; the chaos it brings to communities along with the mental decay of all involved. These are not your classic “Saving Private Ryan” films, where American troops come in and clean house. Rather these films portray the psychotic side of war, where some soldiers come back to society and can no longer function normally. Scorsese’s Taxi Driver and Coppola’s Apocalypse Now portray war as an ugly, disturbing event which affects both the soldiers and the people back home. Taxi Driver is set around the life of Vietnam Veteran, Travis Bickle. As...
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...In 1954, president Dwight D. Eisenhower sent a letter Ngo Dinh Diem, the leader of anti-communist South Vietnam. His purpose was “to assist the Government of Vietnam in developing and maintaining a strong, viable state, capable of resisting attempted subversion or aggression through military means” (Eisenhower). Many consider this letter to be one of the initial communications with Vietnam that led to our entrance into what became one of the most controversial wars in American history. However, most were not directly connected to the war until a draft notice arrived in the mail. This was the case for Tim O’Brien, author of The Things They Carried, who received his draft notice in 1968. Having grown up in small-town Minnesota, O’Brien was able to have a normal, peaceful childhood. He prospered in school and was eventually Harvard-bound, until the Vietnam War threw him off-course. Tim opposed the war just like so many other Americans, and gave serious consideration to the idea of fleeing to Canada. However, he eventually decided to go to war, albeit reluctantly, and it was his first-hand...
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...AWAY Tim O'Brien, 1990 Author biography: A native of Worthington, Minnesota, Tim O'Brien graduated in 1968 from Macalaster College in St Paul. He served as a foot soldier in Vietnam from 1969 to 1970, after which he pursued graduate studies in government Harvard University, then later worked as a national affairs reporter for the Washington Post. He now lives in Massachussetts. Tim O'Brien is of the generation of writers who came of age during the Vietnam War era and his writing has focused on that turbulent period of American history with compassion and insight. He is widely recognized as the preeminent American novelist of the Vietnam experience and his novels have gained widespread critical and significant popular success because of their ability to translate the experience of wartime into perspectives on the largest questions of life and death. The Things They Carried Away 1990 is both a collection of interrelated short pieces which ultimately reads with the dramatic force of a novel. A simple tale told from the perspective of one foot soldier, it depicts the men of Alpha Company, and, of course, fictional Tim O'Brien reappearing as a thread of continuity. He has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of 43. The characters battle the enemy, or maybe more the idea of the enemy, and occasionally each other. In their relationship we see their isolation and loneliness, their rage and fear...
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...Ryan Canady 3/7/11 EWRT 1B A Soldier’s Burden Tim O’Brien is regarded as the preeminent American novelist of the Vietnam experience and his novels have gained widespread critical and significant popular success. His popularity can be attributed to his ability to translate the experience of wartime into perspectives on the larger questions of life and death. The three stories by O’Brien listed in the title are based on his own personal experiences and memories of his time in and after the Vietnam War. Although these stories are based upon real experiences, he embellishes some facts or puts instances from separate events into one timeline making his work is fiction. I believe that O’Brien wrote these stories not only as a therapeutic release for himself, but he is able to retell these stories and give an incredible insight to such a dark and controversial piece of American history. But his career has spanned a wider range of topics than his experiences from Vietnam. One consistent theme in his works is morality and the timeless struggle that humans have had with it. Along with morality, the amount burden that people carry, both physical and emotional, is a major theme in the stories I will be discussing. Another great attribute to O’Brien’s writing is his uncanny ability to blur the lines between fiction and reality. This style of writing is commonly referred to as metafiction; which is fiction that discusses the function and effect of storytelling. He believes that...
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...province of Vietnam bordering China. My entire childhood was surrounded by chronic poverty and pervasive ignorance in a little village where children of my age knew nothing but undulating ranges of grandeur mountains that even in my dream I would never have thought of one day I could break out of the vicious circle of illiteracy and innumeracy to become a lawyer and make an ambitious plan for further study in a world-class university in USA. Unlike peer friends whose sole dream was to have decent meals and warm clothes every day after school, I looked for another world from the foreign magazines that my dad subscribed for me using his scanty military salary. In my mind, a society where people were vested with rights to decent life, education and advancement was conjured up. And I cherished a passion to learn and explore that unknown world. As early as high school days, I realized that English was not only a valuable tool for me to discover the world but also helped shape my outlook with more comprehensive and impartial eyes. Thus, I kept learning days after days to build up my English competency in a hope for a day when I could communicate confidently and fluently as a native. I still remember my feeling when I read the book “Message from Nam” by Danielle Steel and knew for the first time how the American viewed the Vietnam War. But for a certain command of English, my view of the War would have been biased with distorted historical education in Vietnam. Moreover...
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...King: Pilgrimage to the Mountaintop Martin Luther King Jr.’s life and the Civil Rights Movement in America are alternative beats of the same heart. In his overall fight against racism, the important landmarks were the Montgomery bus boycott, the March on Washington; anti-Vietnam War Activism and Assassination in the year 1968, Dr. King emerged as a sterling crusader. He was the living legend and glorious in death. He was intensely loved and fiercely hated. In his book, “Pilgrimage to the Mountaintop,” Harvard Sitkoff writes, “I have to craft a brief yet stirring narrative for a twenty-first-century readership that illustrates the historical forces that shaped King, and how he, in turn, changed American society.”(xiv) Black freedom movement was a tough socio-political responsibility for Dr. King, and his adversaries belonged to the powerful ruling class, reluctant to give any concessions to the blacks. He led the movement at great personal sacrifice and suffering. Sitkoff writes, “ However overwrought or sometimes paralyzed by fear he became, King’s biblical faith enabled him to keep his eyes on the prize, to put righteousness before expediency, despite the beatings, jailing, inner turmoil, and constant threats if assassination.”(xiv) Unprecedented changes began to happen in United States and King’s mission paved way for a broader crusade against imperialism and of economic inequality by the time of his death and subsequently thereon. The forces that were bitterly...
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...Your name Professor English II April 27, 2014 Tim O’Brien: An American Novelist Tim O’brien is a great American novelist very known for many of his work. He has written many stories and novel’s which has made him very popular and won him many awards. Tim O’brien is very know for his books and stories but how does his past life influenced on much of his writing. Tim O’brien has gone through very tough times in his life which has greatly contributed to the ideas that are displayed in his work. The most important and most popular of his work was “the things they carried”. This was one of his most successful piece of work that skyrocketed his carrier as an author and writer, a successful story about the experience and atmosphere during World War II. Tim O’brien used his experience in combat to recreate a story of himself that goes into the smallest details about war and how it felt to be in it. Many of his other stories and novels that he has written as well talk about War and his experience in it. So what do we know exactly about him, the story that goes behind all his work. This is the story of a man who’s past has shaped his future. A man whose ideas shaped his life, his work, and his success. Tim O’Brien was born on October 1, 1946 in Austin Minessota. His father was was William Timothy O’Brien, a salesman. His mother was Ava Eleanor, a school teacher. Both of his parents served in the U.S Navy during the World War II. Tim O’Brien lived in Austin only to the age of nine...
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...Definition of Prisoner of War is a person who has been captured and imprisoned by an enemy of war. During the Vietnam War american soldiers were kept as prisoners of war. Between 1964 to 1973 American aircrafts were shot down and were taken to the North Vietnamese Prisons. Many prisons were located in Hanoi and american soldiers called the prison “ Hanoi Hilton.” In the prisons the soldiers were living in unsanitary cells and were not allowed to communicate with each other or with family. Soldiers were beaten brutally not for military information but, for written statements saying that they praise North Vietnamese treatment. Many POW’s died in these prisons due to lack of medical care,poor treatment, and food. Many POW’s made attempts to escape...
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