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- 421: The Lexus And The Olive Trees
- ... to a hotel in Tokyo, he ordered four oranges and each time he got something different, such as orange juice and peeled oranges. Another time at the Metropole Hotel in Vietnam he ordered tangerines and the waiter said there were none left. The waiter then asked if he wanted watermelon and he said yes, and instead of watermelon he brought four ...
- 422: Two Books By Kurt Vonnegut Jr
- ... race to reform, Vonnegut pleads, "Robert Kennedy was shot two night before. So it goes. And Martin Luther King Jr. was shot a month before. So it goes. And from Vietnam, the government provides daily body counts created by military science." Vonnegut implores with the human race; stop war, stop murder, stop hate. There are many ideologies and social criticisms in ...
- 423: The Things They Carried 2
- ... fighting to preserve their sanity and lives. The vivid detail and realistic narration were only tools used by the author to prepare a story that goes beyond the war in Vietnam, focusing on the other things that soldiers carried - inner thoughts, feelings, and emotions. The story was brought to life by the realistic but disjointed narration of the author, illustrated by ...
- 424: The End Of Affluence
- ... of how we would pay for it. No broad political consensus opposed massive pensions paid out. We also mistakenly believed Lyndon Johnson could finance the Great Society and fight the Vietnam War without raising taxes. And why not? Economic growth had always exempted us from serious personal sacrifices as we paid for the social and other domestic programs that we agreed ...
- 425: The Thing They Carried
- ... During the sixties it was Agent Orange. My Uncle Billy is missing his throat because of the big "C". The little extra the Army gave him for his trip to Vietnam. What extra will I pick up in twenty years? The human body requires only four hours of sleep a day to be fully functional. The Army is firm believer in ...
- 426: Steinbeck, His Critics, And Of
- ... Elaine Anderson Scott. On October 25, 1962, Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. On September 14, 1964, he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. His support of the Vietnam War in his final years came as a shock to some (Bloom 14). Throughout his life, John Steinbeck remained a private person who shunned publicity (Bloom 15). In 1968 he ...
- 427: Scars Of War
- ... buildings. I was not ready for the scenes of destruction that I was about to witness. I have hiked the hollow fields of Gettysburgh, read stories of the war in Vietnam, listened to stories from friends and colleagues that had served in Panama and Somalia, and watched the 100 Hour War on CNN. Who really witnesses the effect and the price ...
- 428: The Lords Of Discipline
- ... their size and sense of loyality. 0n the surface, the institute apppears to be just another military school engaged in training fine southern men to defend the country during the Vietnam War. But behind the clean walls of the school and the stern faces of the upperclassmen is a horrifying secret. The Lords Of Dicipline is a book about four young ...
- 429: Nike Company Profile
- ... are produced both in United States and abroad (Bangladesh, China, Hong-Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, The Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan and Thailand). FOOTWEAR % of production China 40 Indonesia 30 Vietnam 12 Thailand 11 As more fully explored in section II, this point is a key one because Nike has been accused of using child labor and abusing human rights in ...
- 430: Kurt Vonnegut Sarcasm And Blac
- ... the United States abandoning its traditional culture. Jailbird represents Watergate and the Nixon administration. Galapagos predicts the result of pollution. Hocus-Pocus and What’s the Hurry Son? Deal with Vietnam and its time period. All these books are put in Vonnegut sarcastic opinion (Introduction 3). He editorializes as the bad things of real life to put in his view (Roed ...
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