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Native American Participation in the Vietnam Conflict, 1998.
An argumentative paper about the contributions and participation of Native Americans in the Vietnam War and their mistreatment.
3,265 words (approx. 13.1 pages), 7 sources, £ 64.95
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This paper focuses on the Native Americans who fought in Vietnam. The author stresses the Native American participation in nearly all America's wars and the important role that they have played in American history arguing that their appreciation and recognition has been ignored.
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"Native American participation in the Vietnam War has been greatly ignored. Not much is mentioned about Native American participation in the Vietnam War. Why is this? It is not as if Native American participation in America?s wars is something new. Ever since the days of the Revolutionary War, the United States has sought the help of Native American allies. Later, in the Civil War Native Americans were highly sought by both sides, the north and the south. Basically in every war the United States has participated in, so have Native Americans. Even after the conflicts that have come between the U.S. and Native Americans, the U.S. armed services received contributions in its war efforts from Native Americans. Native Americans have always seemed to have been ready and willing to go to war."
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Vietnam Conflict: American Prisoners Of War, 2002.
A look at the treatment of American prisoners of war in the hands of the Vietnamese.
3,650 words (approx. 14.6 pages), 8 sources, £ 92.95
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This paper discusses the torture and hardships, which American POWs were subjected to during imprisonment in Vietnam. During the 11-year long conflict, tens of hundreds of soldiers were taken prisoners by the Vietnamese armed forces and they were treated in the worse possible manner. It was in 1973 that Vietnam declared that it had no Americans in its prisons and this brought an end to the issue of POWs/MIAs. While many maintain that some American soldiers were never released, the government in 1973 officially ended the search for the missing soldiers as 591 soldiers came back home after may years of confinement in Vietnamese torture cells.
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U.S. and Vietnam?s Misperceptions during the Vietnam Conflict, 2002.
This paper explains how the U.S. and Vietnam?s misperceptions of each other affected the way they fought the war, mentioning the My Lai massacre and the affect this had on the way Vietnamese perceived the United States.
1,360 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 8 sources, MLA, £ 31.95
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Because of the way the Americans fought this war, the Vietnamese had different perceptions or misperceptions of the United States. All of the assigned readings make this point valid. Many of the Vietnamese civilians saw the American soldiers as instruments for America?s leaders wanting their war machine to defeat the North Vietnamese, not to help Vietnam, but just to win. American leaders were making their decisions by listening to certain people ?who didn?t really know what they were dealing with.? This paper explains how the Americans misunderstood the Vietnamese and what went wrong when they tried to take over the fight between North and South Vietnam.
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"After reading the assigned books for this paper, I have come to the conclusion that the way the US fought this war was not very honorable. The American military leaders back in the United States did not know enough about what was really going on in Vietnam and as a direct result, they underestimated the power of the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese Regular Army. Herr makes this evident when he says ?there is a point of view that the United States got involved in the Vietnam War ... simply because we thought it would be easy.?1 "
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Vietnam Conflicts and Interests, 2005.
An analysis of the emotional and physical stress of the Vietnam War through a review of "A Rumor of War" by Philip Caputo.
1,693 words (approx. 6.8 pages), 3 sources, MLA, £ 37.95
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The Vietnam conflict was a horrible tragedy in which a lot of American lives were lost. Not only were American lives lost, but most of a country and the lives of many Vietnamese civilian lives were destroyed. It looks at how some people, such as Philip Caputo, still argue that the war effort that spanned for three decades on Vietnamese soil was pointless and examines how "A Rumor of War" by Philip Caputo strongly argues these points and doubts all war efforts as a whole in completing and outweighing the advantages compared to losses.
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"Schlesinger describes it as trying to tend to a small garden with a bulldozer. In other words America almost destroyed the country that it was trying to protect from a political communist invasion. In February, 1965 Operation "Rolling Thunder" was deployed. It was a bombing campaign that lasted for three years. Using progressive air strikes against carefully selected and controlled targets, the objective was to persuade the North Vietnamese government that it could not win the war. The results of the offensive actions had just the opposite effect. It caused a hardening of enemy defenses and it also made many other nations disapprove the war efforts of the US in Vietnam."
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Vietnam Conflict, 2002.
An analysis of the causes and consequences of the Vietnam War both for Americans and Vietnamese.
1,075 words (approx. 4.3 pages), 3 sources, MLA, £ 25.95
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This paper presents a detailed discussion about the Vietnam conflict. The writer discusses the reasons for the escalation to war, as well as the domestic implications of the war. In addition the paper answers the question as to the war being a civil war or a global conflict.
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"While the conflict was centered around the 1960?s and 1970?s the actual escalation began several decades beforehand. Ho Chi Minh had been in exile for more than three decades when he decided to return under a shroud of secrecy in 1941. Once he returned he organized the Vietnam Independence League(Seeds of Conflict 1945 - 1960
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/vietnam/index-1945.html). This league teamed with the US to harass Japanese troops in the Jungle during World War II and to aid downed American pilots in their rescue. In 1945 with the end of WWII conflict continued between France and the Vietnam factions who wished to maintain a communist regime in Vietnam. This desire for freedom caused political conflicts and the next few years were spent trying to gain the independence that Minh spoke of that day. The United States became involved militaristically in 1950 when then president Truman authorized $15 million to the French by way of military aid. There are many conflicts between Vietnam and France for several years and when Dwight Eisenhower was elected president of the United States in 1953 he gave even more aid to France to prevent Vietnam from becoming a communist nation."
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Soviet Strategy and Goals During the Vietnam Conflict, 2001.
This paper examines the aims that the Soviet Union had when incorporating the U.S. into Vietnam.
925 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 2 sources, £ 22.95
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This paper describes how the Soviet Union hoped to use the American war in Vietnam to bring the United States and China into conflict with each other. The USSR also hoped to use this time to catch up to the US in the strategic arms race.
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"The Soviet Union had two goals in mind regarding the conflict in Vietnam: to contain China by drawing the Chinese into conflict with the United States and to buy time to catch up with the Americans in the strategic arms race by keeping them occupied in southeast Asia. In 1957, Mao Zedong was prepared to remove China from the control of the Soviet Union. Stalin?s death, the Soviet succession struggle, and his own internal political and economic positioning had made this opportunity possible."
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Vietnam Conflict, 2002.
A study of the historical development of Vietnamese War.
2,290 words (approx. 9.2 pages), 11 sources, MLA, £ 48.95
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This paper examines the political atmosphere in Vietnam that lead to the Vietnamese War, which begun in the 1960s. It analyzes the French colonial power in Indochina and its long history of conflict. The paper investigates the United States involvement in the conflict and their prior lack of political knowledge of the inner conflict in the region that caused the Vietnamese War. The author describes America's long battle against the communists there and the immense loss still felt today over a war so far removed from everyday American life.
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"The French era in Vietnam started after some 900 years of self rule. American involvement in Vietnam started in the Eisenhower era and then shifted in the Kennedy era to become a full-fledged war by the time of the Johnson Administration. America did not seem to notice the changes in the early period. American involvement actually started in 1954 when the French were the ones caught in the Vietnamese quagmire. This beginning involved full awareness on the part of the American government that, as Eisenhower said, it would be a great tragedy for the United States to become involved in an all-out land war in Asia (Chafe 259). America sent aid to the French prior to 1954 at a time when the French were losing the war no one thought they could lose. Some said the French lost because the U.S. Administration was not fully committed to a policy of winning. Full American involvement was considered prior to 1954 and rejected, in part because Eisenhower did not believe that a military victory was possible given the political situation in the region. This was because the people supported the Viet Minh and identified Ho Chi Minh as the leader of their independence movement (Scheer 274-275)."
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Vietnam-the Real Conflict, 1989.
An exploration of the war as it was and how it was reported by the military and the media. Including an overview of strategies, political attitudes, goals, outcomes and causes.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 2 sources, £ 27.95
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Vietnam - The Real Conflict
I. Introduction:
" The Vietnam War was between the United States and North Vietnam. Technically is was a war between anticommunism and communism. Both sides intended to win a total victory. The United States lost because it failed to understand the opposing ideologies.
II. Body:
A. How the United States, North Vietnam and South Vietnam fought the war.
B. Political attitudes of each side.
C. Reality of the war and what was reported as true."
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Native and Non-native Tensions in Canada, 2005.
An analysis of the argument between native and non-native Canadians over claims of land.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 5 sources, £ 30.95
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This paper analyzes the land claims of the aboriginal people of Canada. The paper discusses the history over the struggle between native and non-native Canadians, in regards to their struggle over land, fishing and hunting rights upon property in the country for many years. The paper presents the argument of the aboriginal people and the counter-claim of those non-native Canadians who are opposed to the claim, as well as their solution to the problem.
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Native vs. Non-native Anthropology, 2005.
This paper contends that distinctions between native and non-native anthropology are insignificant.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 4 sources, £ 42.95
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This paper explains that a native anthropologist is one who conducts research in their own society whereas a regular anthropologist conducts research in any society. The paper considers how some would argue that there should be a distinction. This paper presents the hypothesis that the distinctions between native and regular anthropology do not matter. To support this argument, the work of the following two anthropologists is considered; Vincent Crapanzano, who is considered a Native anthropologist because he is doing research in his own society and Anne Allison, an American doing research in Japan.
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"Native Knowledge for Native Ecosystems", 2007.
A review of Robin Wall Kimmerer's article, "Native Knowledge for Native Ecosystems".
1,070 words (approx. 4.3 pages), 3 sources, APA, £ 25.95
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This paper briefly reviews Robin Wall Kimmerer's 2000 article, "Native Knowledge for Native Ecosystems" and highlights the article's main points as well as how it approaches the broad concept of ethno-ecology. More importantly, the paper also touches upon how the article approaches the linkage of local and/or traditional knowledge of ecological systems with academic and/or scientific knowledge of those same systems. Finally, the paper discusses the significance of the aforementioned linkage as it pertains to the future of human beings in the global ecosystem.
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"Simply put, Kimmerer's argument is that Native Americans intensively cultivated the land so that it would provide them with sufficient foodstuffs to brave the grueling winter months. While modern-day efforts to restore the ancient biological vitality and bio-diversity of the American woods and ecosystems is a laudable goal, it is not possible without also considering how the natives were able to so successfully manage the world around them. In effect, Kimmerer argues that modern-day conservationists must "heal" their relationship to the land and understand the land spiritually and emotionally as well as intellectually. Less abstractly, Kimmerer states that twenty-first century man must adopt the "site-specific" or "diachronic" knowledge which well-served Native Americans in the past and which lends itself to successful local site restoration. "
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Domestic Conflict and the Vietnam War, 2000.
A discussion of the origins, causes, effects and examples of social and political divisions caused by Vietnam War, 1963-1975.
3,375 words (approx. 13.5 pages), 12 sources, £ 82.95
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"Domestic Conflict Caused by the Vietnam War
This research paper examines the origins, traces the course and analyzes the effects and consequences of the domestic divisions caused by the American involvement in the Vietnam War.
Until the administration of President Lyndon Johnson sharply escalated the military involvement of United States forces in that war in 1965, the domestic antiwar protest movement was weak and scattered, largely a carryover of prior opposition to nuclear atmospheric testing by liberal and radical pacifist organizations and other fringe groups. As the Americanization of the war proceeded without producing demonstrable progress toward officially announced goals, it increasingly polarized American public opinion on the war and energized the antiwar protest..."
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African-Americans in Vietnam, 2002.
A look at the contribution of the African-American soldiers to the Vietnam War.
2,900 words (approx. 11.6 pages), 13 sources, £ 73.95
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This paper discusses the experiences of African-American soldiers in the Vietnam War, examines the discrimination they suffered, and demonstrates that African-Americans were victimized in Vietnam by racial abuse despite the fact that without them the war would have been lost much earlier than it was.
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American Policies In Vietnam, 2004.
This paper explains how American policy failed in Vietnam.
1,808 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 9 sources, MLA, £ 43.95
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The paper contends that American policy failed to prevent a communist takeover in South Vietnam. The paper explains that American military strategy was flawed due to its overemphasis on search and destroy missions and its neglect of counterinsurgency or pacification in South Vietnam.
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"This research paper examines the policies and strategies pursued by the United States during the Vietnam War, the reasons why they failed and possible alternatives. Directly or indirectly, the United States was militarily involved in Vietnam for roughly a quarter century. American policy was to contain worldwide communist expansion and in particular to prevent a communist takeover of South Vietnam by communist North Vietnam and Vietcong in the South."
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