The Things They Carried
"The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien is a book written about the Vietnam War and really tells a great story about the soldiers who put their lives in danger and gives a profound study of men at war. This book gives different points of views of the sam...
Who is Jane Fonda? This is a question often asked by many people with no one right answer. She is an actress, a fitness guru, a former communist sympathizer, and most importantly, an antiwar activist during the Vietnam War. Although Jane Fonda was honored as one of the "100 Women of the Cent...
Vietnam today is a country on the eastern edge of the large Asian landmass known as Indochina. Before the Vietnam War many Americans did not know where it was located. When American troops finally came home, they sometimes found themselves still embattled. One of the most painful events in all ...
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is a very emotional memorial that remembers something that once wanted to be forgotten. People then realized that we couldn't forget it because it was part of our history and it would be remembered forever if we wanted it to be or not. In Washington DC, the Vietnam Vet...
Civilians Treatment
Tim O'Brien is If I Die in a Combat Zone is a realistic tale of day to day life in the Vietnam War. Tim is not only the author of the book, he is also a veteran of the war. Tim creates a detailed picture of what life was like for a United States soldier. Tim also sho...
The Vietnam War
Throughout the past century, there have been numerous controversial topics from suffrage to slavery. Perhaps one of the most controversial, at least in my opinion, was the war in Vietnam. Even today, right now, if you ask someone what he or she thinks about the Vietnam...
The Vietnam War was a war between the Southern and Northern zones of Vietnam. It began gradually during 1959-60. In the early 1960s, the United States was worried about the situation in South Vietnam. They believed there were over 20,000 Viet Cong guerillas in the south, and about another 100,000 of...
