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Elizabeth Proctor and I “If you think I am one, then I say there are none”, this quote was said by Elizabeth Proctor. Elizabeth said this when she was accused of witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials. Although Elizabeth was accused of witchcraft she was not hung. Elizabeth and I have very similar personality traits such as honest, unforgiving, and loyal.

The Vietnam war was an absolutely brutal time in American history. The war lasted for the majority of the 1960s and left many young men dead. The short story “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien and the film Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam give us just a glance into the war by giving using the three themes of fear, pressures, and blame/guilt to embody the concept of war and how it absolutely changes a person. War not only destroys countries, but it destroys people.

The Vietnam War can be considered as a hot battle that was part of an even greater conflict, the Cold War. It began with little political involvement and left the country divisive by the concluding years of the war. The atrocities that American troops experienced and committed helped shape the unpopular opinion on the war. The war in Vietnam became America’s longest running conflict that coincided with chaos, controversies and ultimately distraught citizens back home.

the "best people you will meet", Janis, a supposedly lesbian girl; and Damian, a boy "too gay to function". Cady is warned to avoid the "worst people you will ever meet", the Plastics--a clique comprised of three girls: Gretchen Wieners, a girl who's rich because her father invented toaster strudel; Karen Smith, the "dumbest girl you will ever meet"; and Regina George, the unofficial leader and the meanest one. She becomes a hit with the Plastics and eventually assimilates into the clique, only for Janis to ask her sabotage them. After conflicts involving Regina's ex-boyfriend, Aaron Samuels, Cady later becomes tied between being part of them or sabotaging them. Whilst eventually becoming one, she sabotages them. She tricks Regina into eating fattening candy bars that she claims will make her skinny, tries to break her and Samuel up, and tries to turn her fellow Plastics, Karen and Gretchen against her.

Starting from the beginning of Genesis I will travel to the end of chapter 11 giving details of each part as I go along. I will pick parts

Howard Zinn says it best when he writes that “from 1964 to 1972, the wealthiest and most powerful nation in the history of the world made a maximum military effort, with everything short of atomic bombs, to defeat a nationalist revolutionary movement in a tiny peasant country – and failed” (Zinn, 460). Zinn does not mince words when expressing his thoughts about the Vietnam War, because as Zinn says, Vietnam was basically a modern portrayal of David vs. Goliath. One could even go as far as to say that Vietnam was in essence a case of mass genocide in Vietnam. Thousands and thousands of Vietnamese and America soldiers were killed along with thousands upon thousands of innocent, Vietnamese citizens. War is an infectious disease and the Vietnam War is a perfect example of how deadly of a disease war can be. Everybody involved in the Vietnam War was affected, whether it was Vietnamese citizens, Vietnamese soldiers, American soldiers, or even American citizens back home. The disease that was the Vietnam War infected the hearts and minds of two countries half way across the world from each other.

A terrible conflict left a mark on American History that had never been seen before. For the first time in the countries’s history people were not proud of their governments role in a war. Protest engulfed the Nation as people were disgusted with choices made by their leaders and the subsequent actions carried out by their soldiers. When the soldiers came back home they were not greeted with the praise that prior generations had gotten. They were given little attention and in some cases hated. This conflict of course was the Vietnam War.

Although many believe the world would be a better place if everyone were to get along and agree on social differences, but in the end these differences are the root cause of many wars. These two major wars, the Korean War and the Vietnam War, not only had serious impact within the country, but also give a prime example of how similar and different between the two. Both wars were commenced similarly from its conflict with expansion of a communist government and the involvement of the United States. Differences came from the involvement of the United Nation and the outcome of both wars.

The Vietnam War was one of the most infamous conflicts in American history. The conflict resulted in the cost of 3 million lives, including the lives of young, American boys averaging the ages of 17 and 25 (Hochgesang). The opposition to communism, the actions taken during the preceding Cold War, and the imperialistic attitude adopted through its history, lead the United States in the struggle with the expansion of communist ideas infiltrating the governing bodies of North and South Vietnam (History.com Staff).

As has been discussed throughout this class, American Indians have endured a great deal of suffering since Anglo-Americans made contact with the Americas. This suffering, however, has not ended in modern times. American Indians are still treated unfairly in many ways and are also being reduced to several stereotypes. Such stereotypes include beliefs such as that the American Indians are drunkards, savages, promiscuous, lazy, and many others. These stereotypes can be seen in multiple mediums, including advertising campaigns, books, movies, and product labels. With the widespread coverage, these stereotypes can be very harmful to the American Indian culture as they perpetuate beliefs that are untrue. American Indian stereotypes in advertising and movies were very popular in previous centuries, but it has also been proven to still exist today.

Over the extensive course of history of the United States of America, many laws, decisions and events have been developed by the government and Congress. As though it may seem many go over quite smoothly, others have faced extreme retaliation from the people and citizens as it contradicts with what they believe in. An example of these special cases is the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War was a long, costly armed conflict that pitted the communist country of North Vietnam and its southern allies, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and the United States. The extensive war was fought in the dense and humid vegetation of Vietnam, and began in 1954 after Ho Chi Minh rose to power along with his communist party in North Vietnam.

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The U.S. has been involved in numerous wars, but the most tragic and devastating war the U.S. has been a part of was the Vietnam War. The U.S. did not necessarily have to be involved in this war, but one certain attack that happened during this period of time during the war could have been the starting point of the United State’s involvement in the war. On August 4, 1964, war broke out between the U.S. and the North Vietnamese when the USS Maddox was attacked. Due to the attack on the USS Maddox, Congress passed the Tonkin Gulf Resolution. The attack on the Maddox may have been the official starting point of war between the U.S and North Vietnamese, and it led to many more years of war and tragedy.

Gandhi once said, “I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul”.

In John Steinbeck’s East of Eden, the characters of Charles and Cal act as parallels when taking into account the Genesis story of Cain & Abel. The Genesis story of Cain & Abel tells the story of Adam & Eve’s twin sons. Cain, tiller of the ground, was characterized as the ‘evil’ brother, with unsound thoughts and tendencies. While Abel, keeper of the sheep, was characterized as the ‘good’ brother embodying a light pureness and divinity, making him the complete opposite of his brother Cain. Each brother brought offerings to God, and while Abel’s offering of the firstlings of his flock was respected by God, Cain’s offering of the fruit from the ground was not respected. From the rejection God gave Cain, Cain soon grew jealous of his brother Abel,