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- 261: Gangs
- ... in part because drug use escalated. Where there was more drug use there was less gang violence. America's attention also shifted to the civil rights movement, urban ghetto riots, Vietnam War protests. A new racial consciousness had its effect on local street gang, creating organizations that were more involved in communities. The Black Panthers arose in Oakland in 1968, the ... to face confrontations.Gangs have been reported in all 50 states and come from many backgrounds. Some gangs still form in immigrant communities populated, for example, by recent arrivals from Vietnam, El Salvador and Haiti. Others cultivate members in neighborhoods consisting of families who have lived in the United States for generations. Members are still usually male, between the ages 13 ...
- 262: NATO Airstrikes in Kosovo
- ... Fifthly, what will the US led-NATO's illegal intervention achieve? Korea is still technically in war nearly 50 years after Truman's stroke to involve America in Korea. North Vietnam won its anti-American war and still controls the whole part of Vietnam. Let's see America's great "victory" in Iraq, Saddam Hussein still grasp his throne tightly. Will NATO drive Milosevic from his position? Ironically it seems Milosevic will still be ...
- 263: Human Resource Challenges In T
- ... deteriorating as a result of MNC actions. As a result, some countries have announced they will become more vigilant in policing the labor conditions of workplaces operated by foreign multinationals. Vietnam, for example, has promised to strictly enforce safety rules at foreign-backed joint venture companies, including regulations addressing work hours, noise levels and pollution. In addition, the government recently passed a measure requiring Vietnamese managers working for a foreign owned company to be paid at the same rate as any expatriate managers residing in Vietnam. To avoid safety mishaps, another proposal is circulating that would forbid foreign companies from importing used equipment. Several U.S. and European initiatives for linkages between trade policy and human ...
- 264: Cornel Wests Challenges For Th
- ... view of a skeptic youth, I believe that there have been many incidents in history to show that greed and a lack of direction have overwhelmed the democratic tradition. The Vietnam War is a great example because the United States had no reason to get involved with a conflict between France and Vietnam. The United States wanted to play referee and it look how many of our men died in the process. Then with the Watergate scandal, it proved that our most trusted ...
- 265: Stress On Police Officers
- ... will develop a reaction to Post Trauma Stress during their lifetimes. These figures are higher than the percentages for the general population (1-3%), urban adolescents (9-15%), and, surprisingly, Vietnam Veterans (15-20%). For a variety of reasons, some of which are not known, many police officers work through Post Traumatic Stress and its affects. The impact of Post Traumatic ... accumulative stress, which can have affects similar to, and additive to, Post Traumatic Stress. They also do not include police officers who grew up in an urban environment and are Vietnam Veterans, of which there are more than a few. These figures also do not separate out those working patrol or traffic duties from those working specialty assignments (narcotics, vice, metro ...
- 266: Saving Private Ryan
- ... of those who did or the representations of artists, it is easy to keep the nightmare hidden away. Maybe not so easy with the war closest to many of us, Vietnam. Thanks to our disillusionment with it, and the work of journalists like Michael Herr and filmmakers like Oliver Stone and Francis Ford Coppola, Vietnam flickers in and out of our imaginations as a minor piece of hell, a torn-out fragment from a Bosch painting. But World War II, the Good War, the Heroic ...
- 267: Cinematography: Everything You Need To Know
- ... his earlier hit with a sequel, The Godfather, Part II (1974). For five years Coppola worked amid controversy and speculation on Apocalypse Now (1979), a realistically violent depiction of the Vietnam War. Another Coppola film generating controversy was the romantic comedy One From the Heart (1982). The $26-million film was a financial and artistic failure. In 1983, Coppola received mixed ... Northern Ireland, and in 1976, Ophuls presented The Memory of Justice, an investigation of ideals of justice in the context of the Nuremberg war crimes trials and the war in Vietnam. Bibliography: Wood, M., "Decent Man, Indecent Subject," New York Times Magazine, October 17, 1976. Brakhage, Stan -------------------------------- (brak'-ij) Stan Brakhage, b. Jan. 14, 1933, is an American experimental filmmaker whose ...
- 268: Kosovo and US Involvement
- ... also be refuted. Air strikes are proven to be ineffective in winning a war. This fact has been proven many times in other wars such as World War II and Vietnam. On the contrary, however, air strikes often stiffen the will to resist, as was the case in World War II with the German citizens. The Serbs, as history has predicted ... with the most passion, and the most at stake, will defeat the United States and NATO, the stronger power. This was shown in history through the American Civil War and Vietnam. Serbia is fighting in defense of its sovereign territory, which involves the highest stakes for which a nation can fight for. If Serbia loses Kosovo, it will also be losing ...
- 269: World War 2
- ... war, it changed my view and my thoughts about WWII. I have always been interested in the "art" of war. The two wars which I find very interesting are the Vietnam War and of course WWII. I wished that we had more time inthis semester because I would like to study about the Vietnam War. I was born after the war so although I had heard a lot about it but I wanted to know more how the war started and who began the ...
- 270: Oh Boy
- ... customs. There was a split after Buddha's death creating three different systems of thought. The first is Southern Buddhism that is in Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam. Being the largest of the three, it has over 100 million followers. The second is Eastern Buddhism, which predominantly occupies China, Japan, Korea, and most of Vietnam. The third is Northern Buddhism, which is in China, Mongolia, Russia and Tibet. There was conflict when it entered Tibet because of Tibet's native religion of Bon but Buddhism ...
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