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- 201: Definition of War
- ... are created and the economy in stimulated, but the U.S. government could never tell that to the public. It is very possible that these were ulterior reasons for the Vietnam war, but the government simply turned it into an issue of freedom. As a result the public was told that after trying to make peace with North Vietnam, the U.S. Navy was continually being assaulted and that there was no option but to go to war. At that point Americans had the option to believe that they ...
- 202: Tinker v. Des Moines, Kuhlmieir v. Hazelwood
- ... Scott Nagao About 32 years ago, in December of 1965, a group of adults and students from Des Moines, Iowa gathered to show their dislike towards American involvement in the Vietnam War. They decided to wear black armbands and fast on December 16 and 31 to express there point. When the principals of the Des Moines School System found out their ... the decisions and actions made by the school districts. In contrast, the time periods in which these cases took place were very different. In the 1960's, the war in Vietnam was going on, and there were a lot of controversial issues and viewpoints facing students at schools. In the 1980's, the war was over and there weren't as ...
- 203: Interest Groups
- ... as Americans enjoyed steady increases in their standard of living and U.S. industry reigned over world commerce, Washington came to consider the economy a dead issue. Social justice and Vietnam dominated the agenda: Brookings concentrated on those fields, emerging as a chief source of arguments in favor of the Great Society and opposed to U.S. involvement in Vietnam. In the Washington swirl where few people have the time to read the reports they debate, respectability is often proportional to tonnage. The more studies someone tosses on the table ...
- 204: Elvis Presley
- ... was the biggest television hits of the year. Elvis took his crown back as "The King of Rock and Roll". You have to remember Elvis comeback during the time of Vietnam War and hippie movement, and Elvis had all things that were not popular. Elvis was against the hippie movement and the Vietnam War. He liked President Richard M. Nixon. During July 31 - August 28, 1969, Elvis was booked for a four-week engagement at the International Hotel in Las Vegas, which was ...
- 205: Loneliness 2
- ... to her throughout most of their marriage. The letters were, ultimately, the cause of Charlotte's loneliness. Lyman, on the other hand, became lonely when his brother Henry returned from Vietnam. Henry had changed. Lyman explains, "I had been feeling down in the dumps about Henry around this time. We had always been together before" (Erdrich 150). He also explains, " . . . he was such a loner and I didn't know how to take it" (Erdrich 150). The Vietnam War's effect on Henry was the cause of Lyman's loneliness. Henry was not the same person that he was before he left. Lyman began to miss the times ...
- 206: Martin Luther King Jr. 9
- ... Ill., slum apartment. From this base he organized protests against the city's discrimination in housing and employment. King combined his civil-rights campaigns with a strong stand against the Vietnam War. He beIieved that the money and effort spent on war could be used to combat poverty and discrimination. He felt that he would be a hypocrite if he protested ... the violence of war. Militant black leaders began to attack his appeals for nonviolence. They accused him of being influenced too much by whites. Government officials criticized his stand on Vietnam. Some black leaders felt that King's statements against war dirtied public attention from civil rights. King inspired and planned the Poor People's Campaign, a march on Washington, D ...
- 207: The Goals and Failures of the First and Second Reconstructions
- ... Civil Rights Movement: riots in urban areas which created a White backlash37, the rise of racial separatism and extremism within the Civil Rights Movement and Black community, 38 and the Vietnam War which diverted White liberals' attention. Woodward's analysis fails to provide a broad perspective of why these events destroyed such a strong movement. There had been riots in Birmingham ... neither spread nor crippled the movement.39 Black separatism had been a vocal movement before 1965 in the form of the Nation of Islam.40 And mass opposition to the Vietnam War among White liberals did not pickup momentum until the late 1960's after the Civil Rights Movement had stalled. On the other hand, William Julius Wilson provides a more ...
- 208: Comparitive Essay Between Gene
- ... the instigator for their existence, politics played a huge role in their lives. The Hippies "we're going to change politics in this country." 245 Michener Concerned chiefly protesting the Vietnam War and with Civil Rights they made a huge impact on America and the world. Even today the effects of the Hippie movement is still felt. They made huge advantages ... exciting, revolutionary, turbulent time of great social and technological change: assassination, unforgettable fashion, new musical styles, Camelot, civil rights, gay and women's liberation, a controversial and divisive war in Vietnam, the first manned landing on the moon, peace marches, World's Fairs, flower power, great TV and film and sexual freedom. Taken on their own terms, given freedom within reasonable ...
- 209: Al Gore
- ... in 1969 after writing a senior thesis titled "The Impact of Television on the Conduct of the Presidency, 1947-1969." After struggling with his conscience about his opposition to the Vietnam War, Gore, who was drafted for service that year, decided to enter the military. Though his father lost his next bid for the Senate, Al Gore, Jr.’s decision to join the military helped allay the concerns of his father’s constituency about Al Gore, Sr.’s opposition to the war. Gore served his time in Vietnam as an army reporter. When he returned to the States in 1971, he worked as a reporter at the Tennessean . When he was later moved to the city politics beat ...
- 210: Ford Motor Company
- ... been growth. Ford has launched a variety of new initiatives throughout the world, with joint ventures for the assembly of vehicles in countries as diverse as China, India, Thailand and Vietnam. In China, Ford expects to begin production of light trucks with a company named Jiangling Motors in the near future. In India, Mahindra Ford India Ltd. will begin manufacture and ... distribution of Ford products, beginning with the Ford Escort, in mid-1996 and Fiesta in 1998. In Thailand, Ford has a joint venture to produce pick-up trucks and in Vietnam, Ford plans to build a vehicle assembly plant at Hanoi, together with partners Song Cong Diesel. In Poland, the Plonsk plant has begun to build Escorts and Transits. Joint ventures ...
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