The Vietnam War lasted from November 1955 through to April 1975. During this time almost 1.5 million people were killed including both soldiers and civilians. Towards the end of the 1960s the public began to be less approving of the war at hand starting many Anti-War Movements‚ which many popular musicians of the time joined as a voice of the masses. The Beatles were one of the many musicians who joined the protest against the Vietnam War. They formed in Liverpool‚ England‚ during 1960 voicing
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How did the weathermen effect the civil society protest movement and the Vietnam War? Yo‚ yo‚ yo‚ listen up‚ I’ve got a story to tell about this radical group that did so well. Okay‚ I’m terrible at rapping‚ let’s start this again. Okay‚ let me set the stage. Picture this‚ your living in America in 1972‚ where nearly 50% of the American population is under 18 years old. You have watched the previous generation protest for civil rights. You have witnessed most of the civil society protest movement
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Kempner presents many stylistic and rhetorical techniques to show his thoughts about the Vietnam War. He uses vivid imagery to show the awful things he saw and experienced in his time there. He has a very negative tone throughout the whole letter and uses sarcasm intended to provoke unfavorable thoughts and opinions about the war. Kempner also utilizes a variety of different types and lengths of sentences. The graphic imagery Kempner uses to describe the scene is gruesome. He tells us of the “impenetrable
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This paper centers on the reasons why the US fail to win the Vietnam war. There are many reasons. Firstly‚ the US couldn’t expand the scale of the war. As for the US，it might lose if not expand the scale‚ but it must lose if it expanded. The biggest enemy of the US is the Soviet union‚ and the most important place it should protect is the Europe. If the US expand the scale of the war in Vietnam‚ pitting a large number of troops to the place where is far from the Europe‚ complaining with Chinese
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When Questioned‚ "Why do you not like talking about the war and things that happened back then?" Telly Robbins‚ a Vietnam veteran answered "I don’t want my kids or wife to know of the things I had once did‚ I don’t want them to think of me as a monster. I also do not want to relive things that happened". While he explained his feelings‚ fear and sadness could be heard mixed in with his voice‚ this sadness was egregious‚ even though it was almost ephemeral and could not be noticed to the hoi polloi
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Platoon was a movie of the 1980’s that focused on the Veitnam war. Platoon was written as an anti-war film‚ showing a lot of the negitive aspects of the war. Platoon was a special film because of the 360 degree filming style that shows all angles of the war. The film was written and directed by Oliver Stone‚ who fought in Vietnam. He had a dream to make a movie about the war that is not fictional but how he actual remembered the movie. This movie has a sumwhat hard to fallow plot trying to emulate
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Biological weapons are synonymous to germ weapons. Biological and germ weapons are any contagion that fits into the category of illness - afflicting agents. For example: fungi‚ viruses‚ rickettsiae‚ toxins‚ bacteria‚ or anything of the like whose purpose is to cause any harm to plants‚ animals‚ or humans. The biological warfare technique is a rather old one because of its horrifying success. Biological weapons are alike chemical weapons‚ radiological weapons‚ and nuclear weapons. Each
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Dang Thai Son learned the fundamentals of playing the piano in Vietnam and Russia‚ but he credits life in Canada with bringing out his creative side. A gentle man who deplores violence‚ Son‚ 45‚ was born in Hanoi‚ and grew up during the most intense combat of the Vietnam war. As the youngest child in an artistic family whose three other siblings all play the piano (his sister is the director of the Hanoi National Conservatory)‚ Son was anxious to begin lessons with his mother‚ a piano teacher. “The
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about to happen. Yes‚ it was the same type of old story that she told me again and again for the past five months‚ but this one was different. As far as I know‚ my grandmother and my grandfather lived happily after the Vietnam War‚ but I had never heard such experience like this. The war was a dark history for my grandparents‚ my dad‚ and my aunts and uncles; they had to suffer the lack of food and insecure for their safety for years‚ yet they also had to work hard to repair everything that got destroyed
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The aftermath of the Vietnam War had taken a severe toll on Vietnamese farmland‚ industry‚ and infrastructure due to the result of sustained American bombing missions. In the north‚ 29 of the 30 provincial capitals had sustained heavy bombing damage. One third of them almost destroyed. In the south‚ the economy had been propped up with United States aid and investment‚ but had little developments. In terms of economic aspects‚ about a million Vietnamese were relocated to previously uncultivated land
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