Book Report : ' Vietnam '

In her book The Vietnam Wars, 1945-1990, author Marilyn Young examines the series of political and military struggles between the United States and Vietnam, a nation that has been distinctively separated as the South and the North. Young chooses to express the daily, weekly, monthly progresses of the affairs collectively called the Vietnam Wars, focusing on the American interventions in the foreign soil. She seeks to provide an answer to a question that has haunted the world for years: What was the reason behind the United States interfering in the internal affairs of a foreign country in which it had no claims at all? Young discloses the overt as well as covert actions undertaken by the U.S. government officials regarding the foreign affairs with Vietnam and the true nature of the multifaceted objectives of each and every person that’s involved had.

He feels Yanagi’s pain through the connection but he does not draw attention to it. To be in the heat of a powerplay game such as the one boiling over in Konoha right now is a moment of extreme delicacy and ruthlessness; attachments are withheld, persons numbed down. The rampant mentality is this: eliminate those who are likely to get in one’s way, even if they are friends, or valuable allies. Nobody who lived through the Warring States Era would be unfamiliar with this tenet: do what must be done. And if Tobirama was forced to choose among the Yamanaka twins, he would keep Yanagi alive, simply because she is now the more valuable of the two, even though Yanagi herself and most definitely, not Osamu, would admit it. For to dabble in politics is to know who has value, worth and utility, and who do not.

For this paper I will examine Vietnamese culture according to the five essential questions all cultures must answer (according to Kluckhohn and Strodtbeck). I will then take those answers and compare then to out culture here in America. I realize that some might argue that using North American culture as a starting point is an attempt to simplify this writing, but I believe that any initial examination of something new is most effectively done in comparison to what one already knows.

Moss, G.D. (2010), Vietnam an American ordeal (6th ed.), Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall

BIBLIOGRAPHY“Conflict in Indochina – Contested Spaces” Thomas Cantwell“War without End” - James HarpurHTA Modern History Study GuideExcel HSC Modern History Study Guidehttp://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/vietnamhttp://www.vietnam-war.info/quotes/quotes4.phphttp://hsc.csu.edu.au/modern_history/international_studies/indochina/

The setting varies a lot in this story because it’s a story about the life of Tim O’ Brien. But most of the time the stories take place in Vietnam. Because this story is about the author, you can find a lot of flashbacks to his hometown Massachusetts. This way you can clearly see the contrast between his hometown and Vietnam before the war and after the war. In the story there are two main places where the actions take place namely Quang Ngai and Massachusetts. Quang Ngai is where the war takes place and Massachusetts is where Tim O’ Brien is from and where he did live.

The Vietnam War was a time of mayhem for America, with the citizens divided over the issue of war. This did not exclude the narrator of The Things They Carried Tim O'Brien who was compromised, baffled even, by his draft into a war he did not support. In an attempt to escape his fate of deployment into Vietnam, O'Brien follows suit as many others did and attempts to escape across the Canadian border. He, however, has an encounter that drives him to go back, and that encounter is with Elroy Berdahl, an inn owner in Minnesota. From O'Brien's cryptic descriptions and interactions with this man, ending in a change of heart for O'Brien, the reader can understand that O'Brien did not have an encounter with simply a man named Elroy Berdahl, but rather

The mass disapproval of the Vietnam War stemmed on the account of Americans losing faith in the government, based upon the moral implication of the war, and the unnecessary interference of the United States in foreign affairs. And due to theses ramifications the public upheaval resulted in a massive social movement against the entirety of the war. However, the brunt of the public’s outcry was felt by the returning soldiers. The primary source is of a young drafted soldier, Sebastian Ilacqua, who recounts his experiences in Vietnam and his unforeseen homecoming from the war. The source is based on his outlooks and experiences which can be interpreted as bias.

“The war in vietnam is but a symptom of a far deeper malady within the American spirit.” Martin Luther King, Jr. once said. The Vietnam War was considered one of America’s greatest defeats of all time. Not only did the US failed to stop the spread of communism, but they also embarrassed this country as a whole with the outcome of this war. The overall outcome from this war will be remembered for years to come. In this essay, I will be talking about how the United States would have won the Vietnam war if the home front was for the war, if the the US was more familiar with the land, and the U.S.’s goal was not successful.

The Vietnam War and Era has been a strange configuration of differing parts. So many differing parts that more often than not Historians struggle to find a way to accurately make sense of this behemoth of history. In an effort to make sense of Vietnam, it must first be segmented. Unlike previous military consumed eras, the Vietnam era has no general consensus for long. It must be fragmented by topic, antiwar, politics, soldier’s perspective, cultural changes on the home front, and military engagements. But then it must also be split based on the years in which change is not occurring.

Award-winning author Tim O'Brien (The Things They Carried, July, July) has incorporated his experience in Vietnam into several of his novels and short stories. Drafted into the U.S. Army in 1968, he served in the 23rd Infantry Division, also known as the Americal Division. It was a platoon from this group that had been responsible for the massacre at My Lai nearly a year before O'Brian's arrival in the same

During the Vietnam War, the official ideology of North Vietnam was Marxism-Leninism, which the government tried to force onto their citizens. The majority of the citizens were indoctrinated with their ideology, however, a small number of citizens were not. The most championed campaign was the “‘Three Don’ts,’ which forbade sex, love, or marriage among the young people” (131). This political indoctrination on the citizens of North Vietnam was of great importance to Kien and Phuong’s relationship in Bao Ninh’s The Sorrow of War. This was shown through both Kien and Phuong’s rebellion of the ideology, Kien beginning to agree with the ideology, and Phuong giving into the ideology controlling her.

David W. Powell wrote a passage titled Vietnam: What I Remember. This passage is an expert from his memoir, My Tour in Hell. That is exactly what he describes in this passage. He shares brief statements of many of the things that happened to him in his two tours in the Vietnam war. They are all very horrific, brutal, sad, scary, violent to say the least. He opens up by sharing these memories he has had, and shares of his experience after the war. How he can not get or keep a job because of his Post Traumatic Stress disorder. He has divorced two wives and can not stay in a stable relationship. Powell gives us the undesirable inside scoop of what it was like fighting as a soldier in the Vietnam war and what it is like to be a Vet from the Vietnam war. Both not fun experiences at all.

For this paper I researched the city of Hanoi. I got the background information on it and then I researched it deeper. I found the research paper written by Geertman which went into depth about Hanoi and the developments .I read the chapters tat where assigned to us and I found that it was very helpful because it gave me an over view of the topic. The second research paper that was essential for this paper give different aspects of the development of Hanoi but also gave the public’s view which was very helpful but it also give a broader view of the development of Hanoi.

It experienced a long history. Many places of the country have been associated with a dragon which was the first of four spiritual creatures. Image of the dragon is a familiar image in the cultural life and spiritual of the Vietnamese from thousands of years ago. Therefore, many areas of the country have been connected with them (Dragon, Unicorn, Turtle, Phoenix).