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251: Arlo Guthrie: ... the song "Alice's Restaurant", the song propelled him to instant fame. That song became the anthem of a generation (Official Oughtabiography). "Alice's Restaurant" protested the draft and the Vietnam War. The lyrics of this song probably make no sense whatsoever, but there is a very long story behind it. The original version of the song is over eighteen minutes ... 1994-1996 Arlo had recurring roles in several different network television programs. His many songs have defined a generation and led that generation through many hard times, such as the Vietnam War. Because of his distinct song-writing skills his career is still going after almost forty years, and it does not show signs of slowing down any time soon.

252: Kurt Vonnegut And Slaughter-Ho: ... With Death. The book was worth the wait. Released to an American society struggling to come to grips with its involvement in another war - in a small Asian country called Vietnam - Vonnegut's magnum opus struck a nerve, especially with young people on college campuses across the country. Although its author termed the work a "failure," readers did not agree, as ... Vonnegut considered the book a failure - it had to be, he said, as it "was written by a pillar of salt" - the public disagreed. Written during the height of the Vietnam War, Slaughterhouse Five's compassion in the face of terrible slaughter struck a nerve with an American populace trying to come to grips with the war and a society that ...

253: Atomic Bomb 6: ... would present itself in an all out defense of the Japanese main land, calling for the commitment of every Japanese individual. Thus creating a situation strikingly similar to that of Vietnam, becoming a guerrilla type war. And, as in Vietnam (a much smaller and weaker country militarily) the US would prove to be incapable of winning a guerilla style war in unfamiliar terrain. However, the positive effects of the bomb ...

254: Famous African Americans: ... reconstruction of the entire society, a revolution of values." Along with demands for stronger civil and voting rights legislation and for a meaningful poverty budget, he spoke out against the Vietnam War. On Apr. 4, 1967, he told an audience that "The Great Society {President Lyndon Johnson's antipoverty program} has been shot down on the battlefields of Vietnam.

255: First And Second Reconstructio: ... 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 ...

256: Methods Of Therapy: ... now are not the end itself. In other words, there must be additional influence also. For example, my father- in-law has bi-polar depression which therapists have traced to Vietnam and his exposure to Agent Orange. So far the only treatment which has been effective, has been medication. In the medical world, doctors diagnose the illness and usually prescribe a ... now are not the end itself. In other words, there must be additional influence also. For example, my father- in-law has bi-polar depression which therapists have traced to Vietnam and his exposure to Agent Orange. So far the only treatment which has been effective, has been medication. In the medical world, doctors diagnose the illness and usually prescribe a ...

257: Presidents and Affirmative Action: ... 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 veterns (4) but there were no goals or timetables for these two groups. This type of affirmative action required recruitment efforts, accessability, accommodation and reviews of physical and mental job ... action is nothing more than a quota (6) or reverse discrimination (7). As you can see, there have been many additions to the policy of affirmative action. People from the Vietnam War, people with disabilties, 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 ...

258: Declining Trust in Our Government: ... Two commonly blamed leaders are President Johnson and President Nixon. Two of the biggest drops in the public's confidence in our government occurred in 1964, during the bombing of Vietnam, and in 1972, during Watergate (Nye). Although these two events may have contributed to the distrust of the American government, I do not believe that two events and two leaders ... system of government (Nye). Also, not every aspect of American government is mistrusted by the American people. They military, for example, has greatly improved its ratings from the time after Vietnam to the period after the Gulf War (Nye). Seventy percent of Americans say that they have a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in our military according to ...

259: Racism: ... a "reconstruction of the entire society, a revolution of values." Along with demands for stronger civil and voting rights legislation and for a important poverty budget, he spoke against the Vietnam War. On Apr. 4, 1967, he told an audience that "The Great Society (President Lyndon Johnson's antipoverty program) has been shot down on the battlefields of Vietnam." King's birthday was declared a federal holiday in 1983. I think that King was a great man, he hand wonderful values and great compassion for mankind. He achieved more ...

260: Saddam Hussein: The U.S Portrayal Of Evil Encarnate: ... faced a domestic dilemma, in that much of the American public had significant reservations about involving U.S. troops involved in a foreign conflict. There remained a bad taste of Vietnam among the American public, and there were very mixed responses to American involvement in Somalia, Nicaragua, and Grenada. For the Bush administration, Hussein was not a merchant who could be ... you and the whole world know about this. Iraq, therefore, has the right to possess the weapons which its enemy has... America moreover, used chemical weapons against the people of Vietnam. The USSR also used chemical weapons against the people of Afghanistan. So talk about Iraqi use of chemical weapons is insincere and hypocritical." Most accounts of Saddam’s rise to ...

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