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- 171: Everything Old Is New Again
- ... unfortunately, the festival in 1999 ended in violence, marring the essence of the original Woodstock. Racial tensions, civil rights disturbances, and deeply divided opinions over the American presence in the Vietnam war, all served to give the sixties a radical edge. People were passionate about what they believed in and were willing to give their lives, if necessary, to the cause. Young people became increasingly opposed to the Vietnam war and had a tendency to express their opinions more violently than Martin Luther King, Jr., who preached non-violence while leading the civil rights movement. The idea of free ... young to understand, much less appreciate the significance of the events that influenced my generation. Some people called the 60’s the “decade of discontent” because of demonstrations against the Vietnam war. Some called it the decade of “peace, love, and harmony” because of the peace movement and the emergence of “flower children”. Who knows what society will call the ...
- 172: Affirmative Action: Will It Every Work Right?
- ... timetables" provided guidelines for companies to follow and comply with affirmative action regulations. During the presidency of Gerald R. Ford, he extended affirmative action to people with disabilities (3) and Vietnam veteran’s (4) but there are no goals or timetables for these two groups. This type of affirmative action required recruitment efforts, accessibility, accommodation and reviews of physical and mental ... affirmative action is nothing more than a quota or reverse discrimination (6). As you can see, there have been many additions to the policy of affirmative action. People from the Vietnam War, people with disabilities, and minority groups have made gains in the workforce but more research needs to be conducted as to the qualifications of all of these people to ... states that "separate but equal" facilities on the basis of race were unconstitutionally discriminatory. 3.) It is incorporated through the Rehabilitation Act of 1974. 4.) It is incorporated through the Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Act of 1974. 5.) It prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability in places of public accommodations. 6.) Reverse discrimination is discrimination against a white male ...
- 173: Martin Luther King Jr. 3
- ... had been filled. King also lost support among white Americans when he joined the growing number of antiwar activists in 1965 and began to criticize publicly American foreign policy in Vietnam. King s outspoken opposition to the Vietnam War (1959-1975) also angered President Johnson. On the other hand, some of King s white supporters agreed with his criticisms of United States involvement in Vietnam so strongly that they shifted their activism from civil rights to the antiwar movement. Black Power By the mid-1960s King s role as the unchallenged leader of the ...
- 174: Glory: A Review
- ... regular (white) wage. "Blacks march as far, bleed as much and die as soon, they argue."(Ebert) It would be 100 years later that they gained equal opportunity when in Vietnam both black and white soldiers were interspersed in the military. While Roger Ebert discusses the idea of a different point of view he notes that Glory is an important film ... leaves something to be desired. Lukas seems at times to be lost in his own rhetoric when he writes about the dismal war genre. He delves into the number of Vietnam films that are "a far more popular subject in this period."(Magill, 155) After a brief synopsis of the film Lukas comments on the dynamics of the protagonist character who ... the fierce battle they had to fight a long the way to attain each rung on the ladder of freedom. Lukas criticism seems out of place when he writes about Vietnam and the "American soldier's potential for barbarism." Lukas also seems hung up on the past. he makes two comments which seem out of place. First when comparing Zwick ...
- 175: Media and the Military
- Media and the Military During the Vietnam War the media was left unchecked and brought the wartime images of death and carnage into America's living room. These images served as morale killers and eventually turned much ... by controlling the media. War is not pretty, and it is not for the weak at heart. Images of war should not be broadcast into living rooms live. During the Vietnam conflict this is what happened. Pictures and real time video of our troops being slaughtered during battles of the Tet offensive and the siege of Khe Sahn were sent home ... Filtering what images America is allowed to see during a foreign war is a good idea and should be done. This was done during the Gulf War but not the Vietnam Conflict. Morale for each of these wars was at opposite ends of the spectrum and it is believed that this morale is what wan and lost these respective wars.
- 176: Lbj
- ... 1968 banned housing discrimination and extended constitutional protections to Indians on reservations. Johnson¡¯s Great Society was very successful, and made Johnson more popular. However his American bombing during the Vietnam War made him less popular, because his plan was somehow wrong from what he imagined. He was criticized severely, and he, at last, gave up running for a second term of presidency. When he left office, peace talks for the Vietnam War were under way, but he didn¡¯t live to see them successful. He died of a heart attack on January 22, 1973. In spite of his ambitious Great Society, Johnson¡¯s name would forever be associated with the disaster in Vietnam.
- 177: Media And Culture
- ... February of the same year, 30 to 50 thousand people in Washington were protesting the reestablishment of the registration for the draft, now they were mostly curious about J.R (Vietnam and America, 301). On the other hand, a TV channel that was fully established on the purpose of entertainment, MTV, took a mission that was totally not expectable. In 1992 ... Americans to have been dropped upon Americans by someone else. Thus TV is engaged in a retrospective political history on the nuclear front which parallels the current remaking of the Vietnam War and America’s re-humanization of military adventure (O’Neill, 190-91). In both cases, we see the stabilizing function of the television. Through an auto-control mechanism, and ... X, Tails for an Accelerated Generation. New York: St. Martin Press, 1991. Giddens, Anthony. Sociology. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1993. Gettleman, Marvin E; Franklin, Jane; Young, Marilyn B; Franklin, Bruce H. Vietnam and America. New York: Grove Press, 1995.
- 178: The Brothers K
- ... who had children, brothers, husbands, or fathers, drafted into what many felt was a needless war. The novel brings to life what heartache many Americans had to face during the Vietnam era, a heartache that few in my generation have had the ability to realize. Quote 3: "Problem #1: War" Page 371 The novel illuminates light on the situation not just during the Vietnam era, but also rather throughout all history and the future to come. Throughout mankind’s occupation of earth, we have been plagued by war and the sufferings caused by it. Nearly every generation of people to walk this earth have experienced a great war once in their lifetimes. For instance, Vietnam for my father’s generation, World War 2 for my grandfather’s, and World War 1 for my great-grandfather’s. War has become an unavoidable factor of life. ...
- 179: The Art Of War
- ... man had wanted to do. But after World War Two, and the Korean War, fighting had stop being an honor and it became a shame. By the time of the Vietnam War, it was almost more honorable to be a draft dodger than to actually fight. As soldiers came back from war, they were degraded for going to it. They experienced ... they weren’t treated the same. The soldiers did not want to be there, probably more than the protestors did not want them to be there. The movie, Good Morning, Vietnam, shows this plight of the soldiers. Robin Williams plays a radio disc jock and comedian for the army. He didn’t want to be transferred to Vietnam, but when he was he tried to make the best of it. When he started to play music that was "unacceptable" his superiors tried to stop him. What this ...
- 180: Creative Writing: Instant
- ... M60 in my unit. "Instant" was short for "Instant Death." And I'll always remember the first time I saw Instant in action. I was a new Lieutenant assigned to Vietnam. Back then, the Army didn't try to develop any "team spirit" within the corps; men were rotated frequently before any friendships developed. Consequently, my men were a group of ... men, women, and children, with a few water buffalo, milled around; everything appeared normal. But I knew that just because an area "looked" business-as-usual it meant nothing in Vietnam. "Call headquarters," I told my radio man as I lowered my binoculars. Moments later, he had reached headquarters with his radio. I took the phone piece and let my commander ... Sergeant crept down the line inspecting and giving last minute instructions, I wiped the sweat from my brow with a dirty hand. Your hands never stay clean for long in Vietnam and you never quit sweating. I wondered how I would hold up in actual combat. Eventually we were ready. "Saddle up," I said, hoping no one noticed the slight ...
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