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- 181: In The Lake Of The Woods
- ... 71) indicates a love that is both obsessive and ultimately destructive. His need to control and 'consume' Kathy dictates the way we view his actions as the book progresses. In Vietnam, John takes the anonymous role of Sorcerer-someone who is respected, powerful and fearless. Hence, John Wayne distances himself from relationships and from the harsh realities of the war. It ... what his life has been and the three most traumatic incidents merge in his dream. (quote on page 42 summarises this.) The 'post-traumatic stress' caused by his time in Vietnam is only a part of the pattern of John's life, it is of a piece with his other experiences. His other experiences shape his character so that aspects of Vietnam seem like home: Sorcerer was in his element. It was a place with secret trap doors and tunnels and underground chambers…a place where the air itself was both ...
- 182: Forrest Gump
- ... Forrest is always trying to do what is right, but it never seems to turn out for him. For instance, he tries to participate in a big demonstration against the Vietnam War at the U.S. Capitol “at which a bunch of Vietnam veterans is gonna take off they medals an thow them on the steps of the Capitol.” When it becomes his turn, he throws his Congressional Medal of Honor onto the ... University of Alabama, but he flunks out after a year. College is where he met up with Bubba and later meets up with him again when he is in the Vietnam War. Bubba, who dies in the war, teaches him to play the harmonica, and they decide that they are going to start a shrimp business together after the war. ...
- 183: Deliverance: The Establishment of "Masculinity"
- ... of any wrong; however, he is given no heed due to the immorality of the others. Here comes into play the parallelism of this novel to the occurrence of the Vietnam War. For in the Vietnam War, all common moralities and values were thrown away to fit the environment in which we were fighting. Here, all the men except Drew disregard the morals of the civilized ... to be shot and drowned alone and later discovered: he dies because he cannot survive - it is, in essence, the survival of the fittest. Here is another parallel to the Vietnam era in that Drew's death is used as a lie and as an excuse. His death is used as a cover up, an event occurring often during the ...
- 184: The Sixties - Years of Hope, Days of Rage
- ... Manhattan Bank rallying against loans being made to South Africa. He demonstrated with a vast majority of protesters at the White House in Washington, DC protesting against the war of Vietnam. He went door to door recruiting and organizing Appalachian white immigrants from Chicago to join an interracial movement of the poor to support his theory. Todd Gitlin was publisher and editor of the “underground” newspapers. He voiced his democratic opinions to all who would listen and gave numerous speeches against the war of Vietnam. He went to conferences, walked many picket lines, and traveled to Cuba in 1967, where he shared his views and beliefs. During the Democratic Convention in 1968, police were called ... that he experienced during the sixties and the rage that went with him. As well as the rage of the american people – young, middle age, and the old. For the Vietnam War had a major impact on young Americans and the war spawned a new way of thinking – a more liberated society.
- 185: Muhammad Ali
- ... one of the most controversial loss of the heavyweight title in boxing history, happened. Ali had been drafted by the army for induction into military service to fight in the Vietnam war. He refused to step forward when called, on grounds of his religious beliefs. Ali was immediately stripped of his heavyweight title, and received a five year prison sentence, which ... do not know, but he took his punishment for something he believed in, but we must remember the facts of the case. Ali claimed he could not fight in the Vietnam war on grounds of his religious beliefs. He had already taken his physical army test and did not qualify. His intelligence test had shown up in the 35th percentile, and ... became drafted were of the ages among 18-22, Ali was 25. At this time a lot of black activists conveniently got their draft orders, and had to go to Vietnam. Why should Ali fight for his country, when the country did not fight for him? His actions made him even more popular within the black society, and when the ...
- 186: Martin Luther King Junior
- ... clear that scores of northern cities that had sent protest marchers to the South were themselves lazy in correcting racial discrimination. Finally, King believed that the war then raging in Vietnam poisoned the whole atmosphere and made the solution of local problems of human relations unrealistic. On the last two issues, King’s strategies were severely challenged. In Chicago, where his ... too, his marchers were met by mobs of whites, armed with clubs and led by uniformed neo-Nazis and members of the Ku Klux Klan. As for the war in Vietnam, most African-Americans felt that their own problems deserved priority and that the black leadership should concentrate on fighting racial injustice at home. By early 1967, never-the-less, King ... he knew that it was necessary for him to show no fear, to be the sword and the staff of the people he lived to protect. King’s preoccupation with Vietnam and his determination to lead a Poor People's March on Washington combined with shifting public priorities to challenge his leadership. He was near exhaustion from stress, and his ...
- 187: Henry Kissinger
- ... dissolving the conflict between the Israeli’s and Arabs in the Arab-Israeli War of 1973 through a cease fire; and finally his negotiation of a cease fire in the Vietnam conflict which so many had desired. When, in 1938, he came to the United States who could have thought what he would become? In another five years he was a ... unprecedented before (Kissinger 877). The magic didn’t stop there, though. From his success in China and the Middle East, Kissinger, under Nixon, made his move to negotiate peace in Vietnam. After ten thousand days of bloody warfare in the small, south Asian country, Henry Kissinger and the North Vietnamese negotiator Le Duc Tho, a cease fire was finally reached ending ... United States recognition of the Peoples’ Republic of China, his ‘shuttle diplomacy’ used to end the Arab-Israeli War of 1973, and finally his negotiation of a cease fire in Vietnam. It seems that he enjoyed his power, but then he did always say “power is the great aphrodisiac.” Works Cited Kissinger, Henry. Diplomacy. New York City, NY. Simon & Schuster ...
- 188: Los Angeles-city Of Quartz
- ... possibly happen if a recession happened in Tokyo. While the Japanese were ruling the business and real estate scene, there was someone or something else ruling the streets. This is Vietnam here. (Pg. 268) The Crips and the Bloods run the south central part of Los Angeles. The gang killings had dropped from 24 to zero in ten years. The gang ... the money made from crack vs. cocaine. One mayor refers to the gangs as the Viet Cong. I think the use of the reference is not in comparison to the Vietnam war. I see the fact that men are killing each other every day and fighting but the reasons for the War and the reason the gangs are fighting are not justifiable. Some argue that we should not have gotten involved in Vietnam, but I feel that we should let the gangs kill themselves out. They live in their own world in Los Angeles, secluded and stuck in the inner city. I ...
- 189: Death Of Pol Pot
- ... need not learn or import anything from its neighbors. Instead it would recover its pre-Buddhist glory by rebuilding the powerful, medieval Ankor kingdom and regaining ancient lost territory from Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand. Pol Pot also sought to restore the “Purity” of his race by eliminating what he considered to be “impure” elements, such as foreign-educated and long time enemies, especially the Vietnamese. After taking control, Pol Pot cut Cambodia from the the world. Foreign and minority languages were banned and all nieghboring countries Laos,Vietnam, and Thailand were attacked. Rice and other edangered wildlife were exported to China for weapons. Peasants were ruined by war destruction, and many supported the Khmer Rouge guerrillas when they overthrew an American backed military goverment just days before South Vietnam fell. On the four years they were in power, the Khmer Rouge tried to turn Cambodia inot a self-sufficient. Buddist religion and culture was oppressed. People expressing religious ...
- 190: The 1960's
- ... by the U-2 incident, the Berlin Wall construction, and the Cuban Missile Crisis, along with the space race with the USSR. The decade ended under the shadow of the Vietnam War, which deeply divided Americans and their allies and damaged the country’s self-confidence and sense of purpose. Even for someone who wasn’t alive during the sixties, it ... tell it like it is," conveyed a real mistrust of what they considered adult deviousness. Youthful Americans were outraged by the intolerance of their universities, racial inequality, social injustice, the Vietnam war, and the economic and political constraints of everyday life and work. One group that formed during this time was S.D.S. (Students for a Democratic Society).(Ascher 74 ... university guilty of all three. They did do some good at the beginning like organizing northern ghetto dwellers in projects such as Chicago's jobs or Income now. But the Vietnam War led to a change in their tactics. They became an independent radical force against society.(Ascher 43) The disorders made it more difficult for most Americans to keep ...
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