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Vietnam War in Literature and Film, 2003.
Discusses issues explored by authors and filmmakers.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 7 sources, $ 55.95
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Discusses the loss of humanity in "The Madagascar Plum" by Vietnamese writer, Nguyen Thi Minh Ngoc; Bao Ninh's "The Sorrow of War"; Bobbie Ann Mason's "In Country"; and Richard Currey's "Fatal Light", among other works.
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"Former First Lady, Barbara Bush, once stated, "War is not nice." While a bit understated, the truth behind that quote is that war is not meant to be fun. War is never an easy decision (in the West) and is met often with rhetoric and manufacture as a ..."
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Vietnam War Literature, 2007.
This paper discuses references to American religious culture in Vietnam War literature using examples from Tim O'Brien, Norman Mailer and Robert Bly.
1,375 words (approx. 5.5 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 45.95
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This paper explains that Vietnam War literature positions American religion as being a God-fearing culture that seeks to be moral. The author points out works by Tim O'Brien, Norman Mailer and Robert Bly that refer to this everyday American religion and culture and to myths of American power, politicians and industrialists as being insane and immoral and as changing forever how Americans saw their country. The paper relates that these works project the Vietnam conflict as something in which Americans should never have been involved including describing its soldiers as victims or as people responsible for terrible crimes of war. The author stresses that Vietnam was a working-class war rejected by the American bourgeoisie, who did not need to go to combat. The paper concludes that the literature discussed in the paper is the work of Americans with the option not to go to Vietnam and that it needs to be examined along with other literature produced in the next decades, too.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Damning Literature
Tim O'Brien's "In the Field"
Norman Mailer
Robert Bly Poem: "The Teeth Mother Naked at Last"
Last Remarks
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"Norman Mailer's "The Army of the Night" was published in 1968 and is an allegorical description of the March on the Pentagon. The reader is shown the extreme contrast between rather decadent hippies of the anti-Vietnam War movement and the thousands who then fought in Vietnam, ordinary Americans who dealt with every terrible aspect of jungle warfare. The last pages of "A Confrontation by the River" tell of a clash of American popular myths and moral beliefs about America and a "true religious war of Christ against the Communist" in relation to Vietnam towards a "whole crisis of Christianity in America... ""
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Vietnam War Literature, 2006.
This paper discusses Graham Greene's "The Quiet American" and Philip Caputo's "A Rumor of War", in which the authors demonstrate disillusionment with the Vietnam War, American policy and themselves.
1,720 words (approx. 6.9 pages), 0 sources, $ 55.95
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This paper explains, in Graham Greene's "The Quiet American" and Philip Caputo's "A Rumor of War", the desperate extremes men were forced to confront during the Vietnam War, which led to a clear transformation of their beliefs. The author points out that, in Graham Greene's "The Quiet American", the protagonist Thomas Fowler, an aging British reporter with no particular moral, religious or political beliefs, encounters a man called Pyle, becomes involved in a political plot and changes from a reporter committed to neutrality to a man forced to make an irreversible moral decision. The paper relates that, faced with the atrocities of guerrilla warfare during his tour in Vietnam, Philip Caputo, as reported in his book, evolves from a young, enthusiastic idealist with romanticized views of war to a desensitized and dehumanized veteran.
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"Thomas Fowler meets Pyle unexpectedly and is immediately drawn to the American. To a morally weary colonialist like Fowler, Pyle's guileless decency is endearing, if somewhat ludicrous. However, Fowler is soon made uneasy by Pyle's clandestine activities, and while he never questions his intentions, Fowler realizes that Pyle's blind adherence to rigid ideological theories, sacrifices his ability to admit actual human consequences. Fowler at first sympathizes with Pyle's sweetness and real humility. He's not the ugly American of anti-colonial literature, and he is very likable (Greene 29). Fowler's sympathetic response to Pyle illustrates a tolerant, indulgent, almost avuncular concern for the rash and infuriatingly quiet American, which sits at odds with his professed impartiality. When Pyle stirs up trouble in Fowler's personal life by professing his love to Fowler's mistress, Fowler still sees Pyle as a man with good motives despite all the trouble he has caused (Greene 52). As the months pass, a sequence of events, including bombs and strange trails leading to General The (Greene 120), brings Pyle to a different light in Fowler's eyes."
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Anti-Vietnam War Films, 1990.
This paper discusses the Vietnam War and the anti-war film: Successful & unsuccessful efforts to portray war as mistake in "The Deerhunter", "Go Tell the Spartans", "Apocalypse Now" and "Full Metal Jacket".
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 10 sources, $ 79.95
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"This paper will be concerned with the Vietnam War and the anti-war film. Most critics have agreed that true antiwar films are virtually impossible to achieve. Many films which have been defined as anti-war films actually end up justifying or even glorifying the idea of warfare. In the early 1960s, ... claimed that the first criteria of an anti-war film is that it "not do positive harm by predisposing its audience toward war". ... most so-called anti-war films fail in meeting this criteria because they tend to glorify violence rather than condemn it. ... points out that "the images of senseless violence, horror, and waste that are usually employed in the commercially successful 'anti-war' films without doubt have a pornographic effect and remain in the soul as excitants and further incitements" . Such anti-war films do not ... "
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The Vietnam War in Film, 2002.
A review of the films "Full Metal Jacket" by Stanley Kubrick and "Platoon" by Oliver Stone on the war in Vietnam.
1,900 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 71.95
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This paper analyzes two films about the war in Vietnam, "Full Metal Jacket" by Stanley Kubrick and "Platoon" by Oliver Stone, showing how each bends the conventions for the war film to depict the insanity and horror of this particular war and of war in general.
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Comparing the War in Iraq with the Vietnam War, 2006.
This study examines the similarities of United States policy in regards to the war in Iraq and the Vietnam war.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 3 sources, $ 26.95
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In this article, the writer maintains that the war in Iraq and the Vietnam war hold very similar foreign policy agendas, which rely on falsified intelligence information to enact pre-emptive war. The writer explains that the lack of presidential action to halt the War in Iraq further reveals the growing problems of war powers that allow nations, such as the United States, to attack smaller countries without reliable proofs of a threat. Further the writer notes that both president Bush and President Johnson invoke similarities in how war is created and enacted through poor intelligence and aggressive policies toward lesser nations.
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"In many ways, the instigation of war through fabricated intelligence was seen in the Gulf of Tonkin incident, which can also be seen in the false intelligence the United States used to launch a War in Iraq. In this manner, both of these wars offer examples of similar wars in that they were based on false intelligence and were preemptive in design. The historical background to the Vietnam conflict was brought on by the rise in anti-communist campaigns, such as those made by McCarthyism in the 50s."
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The Vietnam War and the Iraqi War, 2004.
This paper compares the similarities of the Vietnam War and the Iraqi War.
850 words (approx. 3.4 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 30.95
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This paper discusses that the world of nations is becoming embittered because the United States demonstrated an unethical utilization of military and political power in the Vietnam War and the Iraqi War. The author believes that the War on Iraq, like the War in Vietnam, was a mere ploy of politicians attempting to prove their superiority. The paper relates that the Vietnam War was fought to free the Vietnamese from a dictator the U.S. previously supported and that the war on Iraq was fought, again, to free the Iraqis from a dictator the U.S. previously supported.
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"The Vietnam War was fought on the basis of freedom, democracy and the need to hinder the spread of the evil of Communism. The slogan of the times was that if the spread of communism was not stalled America would soon lose its freedom and democracy the world over would be wiped out. These words may seem dramatic to the rational mind but to really understand the mood of the time such words must be used. The government of the time played on the emotional fear of the people through propaganda to make them believe that unless they supported the Vietnam War they would be unpatriotic and cause the nation to lose its sovereignty. Though Vietnam was thousands of miles away the war soon reached the borders of the US for as the war began so did dissent."
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Vietnam War and the World Wars, 2002.
A comparison of Vietnam and the World Wars.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 26.95
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This paper compares and contrasts the Vietnam War with both World War I and World War II. It will explain how these wars were similar in causes, reasons for participation, military tactics and propaganda and winners and losers.
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Adultery in Literature and Film, 2004.
An overview of the theme of adultery as it has been dealt with by literature and film over time.
1,802 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 57.95
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This paper discusses how, when a book is published today that includes the story of an affair between a married man and/or woman, hardly anyone raises an eyebrow in protest, since, in today's society, extramarital affairs occur regularly in real life and even more so in literature and films. It looks at how the situation was quite different in earlier centuries when affairs were looked upon much differently, and novels covered the topic of marriage, but not of illicit love affairs. From works such as D.H Lawrence's "Lady Chatterley?s Lover" and modern-day films such as "The Good Girl", it attempts to show how the subject takes on a much greater significance in the past than its media portrayal today.
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"In the 20th century, the theme of adultery has become much more common, especially since it is more acceptable and openly discussed in Western society. However, it many cases, the results are not any more reassuring. In his 1998 novel Rabbit, John Updike has Rabbit cheat on Janice and indirectly cause the death of his daughter. In the second book of the series, he separates from Janice, but cheats on his girlfriend, who is killed in a fire. In the third book, he is prevented from consummating his lustful desires and nobody dies. But in the fourth novel, he cheats on Janice yet again. It is the same theme of adultery as in 19th century literature, but this time the book is written with humor and fun. And, once again, the readers can actually imagine that they, too, could be or have been a character like Rabbit. For Rabbit is the story of every person?a mixture of the good and the bad."
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The Vietnam War, 2002.
This paper offers a comparative analysis of the views of the Vietnam War in the movie "Full Metal Jacket" by Stanley Kubrick and Ed Kugler's book "Dead Center: A Marine Sniper's Two-Year Odyssey in the Vietnam War".
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This paper discusses the movie "Full Metal Jacket" and compares it to the book by Ed Kugler entitled: "Dead Center: A Marine Sniper's Two-Year Odyssey in the Vietnam War". The writer reveals the differences in the opinions of the war that have been made. The writer shows that the authors all have differing takes on what really happened in Vietnam, but that parallels can be drawn as well to cover the full scope of the war with a balanced perspective. By analyzing the two elements of media, the writer shows how entertainment value and literature can have two angles on an event that will always be remembered for its complex nature.
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The Vietnam War, 2007.
This paper examines the effects of the Vietnam war on American society.
1,991 words (approx. 8.0 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 63.95
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The paper explores the Vietnam War from the vantage point provided by a website named "Vietnam War". The paper focuses on the way that the Vietnam War impacted and affected culture and societal perceptions in the United States. The paper highlights the intense debate, confusion and discord that were taking place in American society at the time. The paper demonstrates how major events like the Vietnam War have a far-reaching and profound impact on society and its future.
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Introduction
Choice of Website
The Vietnam War
American Society and the Vietnam War
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"The fact that 58, 000 American soldiers were killed during the Vietnam War was one central aspect of the war's impact on society. This fact was to lead to the criticisms of the war from within the country. Coupled with this was the public knowledge that between one and two million Vietnamese were killed during the war."
"The Web site concisely and comprehensively describes the complex historical causes of the war from a political point of view. "The Vietnam War was in many ways a direct successor to the French Indochina War, sometimes referred to as the First Indochina War, in which the French fought to maintain control of their colony in Indochina against an independence movement led by Communist Party leader Ho Chi Minh. " (Vietnam War)"
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U.S. Foreign Policy During the Vietnam War, 2000.
A look at how pre-Vietnam War U.S .foreign policy had strong links to the foreign policy in the Vietnam War.
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This paper discusses American foreign policy before Vietnam and foreign policy in Vietnam, and shows how a number of the elements that led to these policies were present in governmental perspectives for decades.
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"Though the foreign policies decisions that were instrumental in the Vietnam War were different from the policies that supported other international actions during the 20th century, including World War II and the Korean War, a number of the elements that led to these policies were present in governmental perspectives for decades. One of the most significant influencing factors in the policy developments of the Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon administrations was the perceived threat of communism and the necessity of action to prevent its spread. This factor had been present in the development of foreign policy since before the First World War, and led to the perception of the necessity of force to stomp out its proliferation."
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The Vietnam War, 2008.
An analysis of the Vietnam War as a war against communism and its outcome.
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This paper analyzes the Vietnam war as a war by the United States, against communism. It looks briefly at the background to the Vietnam War and the reasons for America's involvement in the region. It then discusses the failure of the United States to conduct a war based on ideology and the effect this had on the outcome of the war. The paper concludes that the Vietnam War aided the Communist revolution and was detrimental to the United States foreign policy against Communism.
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"The Vietnam War is known as one of the biggest mistakes in United States foreign policy. In an effort to control the spread of Communism, the United States entered the war simply based on principle. The lack of dedication, other than military resources, points to wrongful intentions, inaccurate allocation of resources, and ultimately the disappointment of the South Vietnamese citizens. Even though more than half a million United States troops were deployed in the Vietnam War, it is apparent that the lack of cohesive military strategy and the ability to adjust to environmental factors led to the downfall of the campaign. In essence, the Vietnam War aided the Communist revolution, and was detrimental to the United States foreign policy against Communism."
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The Vietnam War, 2007.
This paper discusses the Vietnam war and the failure of the Americans.
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The paper explains how the era of McCarthyism in America ushered in a period of policies aimed at combating communism. This and the policy of containment which aimed to limit the expansion of communism explains the involvement of the United States in Korea and Vietnam. The paper relates that the Vietnam War resulted in the Vietcong winning over the Americans. The paper discusses how Ho Chi Minh's leadership, dedication and sacrifice were the primary reason for Vietnam's success in the war against an opponent with superior training and equipment. The paper explains that Americans' commitment and dedication to a war that was not actually theirs, underestimation of their opponents and scrutiny at home and abroad were the causes for America's loss in the Vietnam War.
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"Not only did the NVA and Vietcong employ military tactics but they also closely studied their American enemies. As daily casualties took its toll on America's forces and reports of atrocities and drug abuse filled the American media, the NVA and Vietcong capitalized on this by giving the media access to villages decimated by American troops and airmen in their countless "search and destroy" operations and bombing runs (America and the World, pp 187). As protests mounted around the United States, the NVA leadership sent letter hailing these peace advocates as heroes and followers of peace and justice, further fueling more and more anti war rallies."
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Interpretations of Reality in Literature and Film, 2005.
Examines how artists Joseph Conrad, Francis Ford Coppola and Tim O'Brien show their interpretations of reality through their works.
1,529 words (approx. 6.1 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 50.95
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"Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad was one of the first works of fiction to explore modernist notions of reality, and specifically, what makes an experience "real." The film, "Apocalypse Now" can, in many ways, be thought of as the transposition of Conrad's ideas onto a modern war. Tim O'Brien's "Going After Cacciato" investigates similar themes concerning mental and physical interpretations of reality and is also placed in the Vietnam War. This paper shows that, together, these three works provide insight into the minds of Francis Ford Coppola, Tim O'Brien, and Joseph Conrad; in particular, they reveal how these three artists structure their interpretations of reality through direct experience, memories and dreams.
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"The story that O'Brien tells is a combination of Berlin's "facts," his memories, and his daydreams. Yet, even the facts seem to have more existence in the mind than in physical reality. By the end Berlin admits to himself, "Those were all the facts, and he could face them squarely. The order of the facts-which facts came first and which came last, the relations among facts-here he had trouble, but it was not the trouble of keeping facts. It was the trouble of understanding them, keeping them straight." (O'Brien 323). With this passage O'Brien is hoping to show that even an extensive knowledge of the physical world is always imperfect-and the truths that are born out of these facts are formed within an individual's perspective."
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