Political Time vs. Ordinary Time

The Antiwar movement in Vietnam was a social movement that occurred from 1960-1970. It was the first mass movement against a war in American history. This movement consisted of many interests and concerns that eventually led to unification over the opposition of the Vietnam war. Although one may not visually see different stages in a movement, often because there is so much happening, but there are four stages within almost every movement. Emergence, coalescence, bureaucratization, and decline are all seen in the Antiwar movement against the Vietnam war.

No one person wakes in the morning and decides to tackle years of institutional rule without thinking certain doom, discomfort, or in some cases, death. Citizens living during the times within the United States (1775 – 1784) and Vietnam (1955 – 1975) decided to fight as one voice, for a cause they believed and shared together. This unified voice, the will of the people, started as a single voice. Soon there were many voices with the same cry, to push out policies, ideals, and laws that were not their own. Peaceful talks, debates, or discussions did not work, soon there was no other means but the violence to break the will to continue.

At that time, the government0tries to control the power tightly in0his hand, and destroys any0possibilities that may over power it, even its0own0residents. This is the background0and setting during0that time period. The government starts to take action, “tiny sparks of flame sparkled at the front of each tank” and people can0clearly “hear the roar of machine-gun fire.”(Bell 110) Personification0and imagery can be founded in this quotation. It is the0beginning where the movement really becomes violent and bloody, and

Over the past decades suicide terrorism has confirmed its effective tactic and it is seem to be developing and growing movement. Terrorism is designed to cause panic within people, communities and countries but also to gain the publicity through media. Suicide terrorism, more than other forms of terrorist activities is presenting determination and dedication both of dying by individual terrorist as well as the desire to kill innocent people. Suicide terrorism is an attractive tool for terrorist activities with guarantee media publicity with the international dimension. The aim of the attacks is to draw attention of governments, international organisations and

The decision to go to war is not a decision that is taken lightly. In Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien faces cultural, social and political push factors that end up leading him to forgo his plan to dodge the draft, and to report as instructed, a mere yards away from his destination of Canada. In Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony, Rocky and Tayo, two young Native American men, experience cultural, social and political pull factors that draw them into the Army, fighting the Second World War for a country that considers them less than human. The stories of these characters are not unique, they are stories that are representative of the stories of young American men at the time, that faced cultural, social, and political push and pull factors during both conflicts. The purpose of this inquiry essay is to determine what those push and pull factors were, and why they lead these men to willingly engage in two of the most destructive conflicts in human history.

One of the first antiwar groups to come about during the 1960s was the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW). This group assembled in 1967 and brought veterans from previous wars to fight against the actions of Vietnam. Unity and patriotism toward the war now shifted to the efforts of the men and women who marched to get out of the Vietnam era. In Andrew Hunt’s book, The Turning: A History of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, he discusses how the group came about and how these veterans saw the opposite side of the war. One of the veterans in the group stated, “It’s not democracy we brought to Vietnam- it’s anticommunism…Anticommunism is a lousy substitute for democracy.” Yet again, one could see how the word communism could trigger Americans into thinking that the Vietnam

T- Despite what Islam believes and teaches against suicide and the killing of the innocent, terrorist group as such as Al Qaeda have been made to mark the absence of mankind.

Tarrow, Sidney G. Power in Movement: Social Movements and Contentious Politics. Cambridge University Press; 2 edition (May 13, 1998).

In the mid 1960s a pervasive anti-war atmosphere came about surrounding the Vietnam War. Encompassing this war, the anti-war movement was fueled by three ambitious groups who, in their quest for distinct changes, induced the downfall of the liberalist democratic party and set the stage for the new conservative republicans with three movements that made up the anti-war radicalism. These three movements include, the New Left movement, Black Power and Women’s liberation movement. All three movements were initiated due to the negative effects of the Vietnam War on their needs, “suggesting that the American “system” was connected to the evolution of the war.” Therefore, one by one, these sub-movements in the Anti-war atmosphere against the

In the novel, The Attack, by Yasmina Khadra, the suicide bomber is a young female who appeared to be very innocent. When individuals experience an act of violence, which may put them

“What is ironic, however, is that the young conservative activists had a broader following and more lasting influence. Many leftist groups collapsed soon after Vietnam ended, while more conservative groups went on to expand on their already strong political foundation” (Gahr 184).

Some of the psychological factors behind martyrdom have been the fabrication of stories, or laying your life down for a higher power. In Japan in the 1940’s the Kamikaze’s would attack ships, and other strategic points to an idea that the emperor was god. This destruction of themselves transformed into a glory to the empire, and that idea was not uncommon. In the last several years, the Middle East has literally exploded with suicide bombers, and terrorists.

Often times in life people will find a specific time period that is fascinating to them. During the interview with The John Hopkins University Press “An Interview With Kerry James Marshall” by Charles H. Rowell in the winter of nineteen

According to the presenter, young men are willing to commit suicide in the name of religion because they are being lied to. They are not being told what's really in the Koran. They don't even know the language, so basically these young men are being brainwashed. They are being told that commit suicide in the name of religion is to make God happy, and on the judgement day God will look at that as something a hero would do and this will rewarded them with paradise. These young men are being told that if they commit suicide in the name of religion, they would have 72 virgins when they die and also plenty of food.

Examining the modern-day political culture of where our society is at and where it is heading is something that people have struggled with in past history. Take for example the Germans of the early to mid-twentieth century, it is here where the people cannot see the full context of what is happening in the world and how they were impacting it. Think of the Romans that were born at the beginning of the fifth century, they would have no idea that the mighty Roman Empire would cease to exist within one hundred years. This happens because we cannot predict the events of the near future. However, by taking a step back and unbiasedly analyzing what is happening in the here and now, we can get a better look at what our society is and where it