taken by Eddie Adams on 1st February 1968 during the Vietnam War shows the execution of Vietcong officer Nguyen Van Lem‚ also known as Bay Lop by South Vietnamese Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Loan‚ chief of the national police. The prisoner’s hands are tied as “Colonel” is about to pull the trigger. This picture was taken in the city of Saigon on the second day of the Tet Offensive; a series of attacks on all of South Vietnam’s major cities by the communist North Vietnamese and Vietcong rebels. The offensive
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Let’s Ban A Book? It seems we are fast losing our freedoms as American citizens. Personal phone lines are tapped‚ religious freedoms are no longer allowed to be exercised in public schools‚ and never before has there been such a threat to America’s very existence. Our manufacturing jobs have been leaving the country at a steady rate since the 1980’s‚ health care is nearly impossible to afford‚ employers offer fewer benefits‚ social Security has been run into the ground‚ and our nation is in massive
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Scottish oil and natural gas will last for well over one hundred years MONDAY‚ 11 MARCH 2013 03:06 63 COMMENTS By William C McLaughlin BA(Hons)‚ MBA Let’s dispel once and for all the myth that Scottish oil and natural gas reserves are declining and will run out for good in another forty years. The Scottish North Sea has been ’pumping’ out oil and natural gas for around forty years. The current projection is that there is around forty years of oil and natural gas reserves remaining
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or not America should have fought in the Vietnam war has been unclear for many decades. There are many different opinions that say‚ we should of fought for Vietnam to be free‚ we should of remained neutral‚ but the United States government threw their support behind the French so they could maintain their colonial empire. America did this out of their fear of communism spreading to South Vietnam and to stop the spreading worldwide. Although the Vietnam War and the decisions that happened occurred
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The Effects of Plastic Bags on Environmentt * | * The effects of plastic bags on the environment are really quite devastating. While there are many objections to the banning of plastic bags based solely on their convenience‚ the damage to the environment needs to be controlled. * There is no way to strictly limit the effects of plastic bags on the environment because there is no disposal method that will really help eliminate the problem. While reusing them is the first step‚ most people
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Adam Smith 4/23/2014 HST-122 Historiography Essay Analysis of “Vietnam: A Necessary War” “Vietnam: A Necessary War” is a summary of a book of a similar name by author Michael Lind. The book addresses the viewpoint that the Vietnam War was both moral and necessary for eventual victory in the Cold War. Michael Lind graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with honors in English and History‚ received an MA in International Relations from Yale University‚ and a JD from the University of Texas
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collected ears and a head he severed off a corpse and vainly protests that “This is my war [and] I do what I want” (96). As a final point‚ Kirkland discloses that Streeter‚ his closest and brave friend‚ loses himself during an ambush. He discovers that “any person can go at any moment” and he admits that “it really did something to me” (98). By the time
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Although there are many benefits to a smoking ban on a college campus‚ many smokers would not agree to the benefits. They would much rather argue that a smoking ban would be against their rights. A smoker would voice the opinion that it is unfair he or she cannot indulge in an activity he or she sees as relaxing. In others words‚ participating in the act of smoking is self- choice. “Many have argued that the taxes spent on cigarette purchases have been used to fund the very places where they are
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Parker1 Avery Parker Smoking Bans Essay English 1301 Wooldridge 06 August 2012 Banned Against Smoking Smoking has always been a bad habit for most people‚ some more than others. Regardless of awareness that smoking damages their health‚ smokers could not easily give up on smoking due to physical and mental addiction‚ stress‚ and peer pressure. Dozens of localities and a number of states have enacted sweeping smoking bans. To many people tobacco smoke is considered as air pollution. Smoking
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The Vietnam War was not short of its share of controversies and opposition; However‚ March 16‚ 1968 marked a particularly dark moment for both Vietnam and the U.S. military. The barbaric torture‚ rape‚ and murder of around 400 unarmed civilians by Charlie Company in ‘Pinkville’‚ though initially covered up‚ left an extensive paper trail gathered at length and compiled by James S. Olson and Randy Roberts in My Lai: A Brief History with Documents. Olson and Roberts include testimonies from the tardy
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