No period of time passes without leaving its mark on human history. It is uncommon‚ though‚ for a decade to be as transformative on a society as the 1970s – and closely related events in the 1960s and 1980s – were on the United States. The Vietnam war and the counterculture’s response reached their zenith. Environmentalism as a sociopolitical force found new and much stronger footing. The mobile phone and microprocessor‚ the foundations of large-scale modern telecommunications‚ were invented. However
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The Vietnam conflict began in the late 19th Century. France forcefully took ownership of the islands and made the Vietnamese islands a protectorate of France. The Viet Minh‚ or the League Of Independence was formed sometime around 1940. They were a group of people seeking independence from France. The French Government opposed this action and decided to try and stop the Viet Minh from advancing their political ideals into the rest of Vietnam. In the city of Dien Bien Phu‚ the Viet Minh surrounded
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running a marathon that would never end. My body was hot and cold all at the same time. My muscles shook as I sat up in my bed trying to calm my racing heart. The same dream haunts my mind every night. I’m standing in the middle of a war and people are just dying all around me there bodies falling to my feet as they take their last breath “dramatic I know but unbelievably realistic”. In my dream‚ I have this intense feeling that this war is somehow my fault. Unfortunately‚ no matter how hard
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2. METHODOLOGY AND DATA 2.1 Holdridge Life Zones In Holdridge (1967) life zones approach (Figure 1)‚ there two assumptions: 1) The temperature and precipitation variables are main factors determining life zones (or biomes). 2) The vegetation is assumed to be independent of animals. According to the assumptions‚ the primary influences on life zones are those factors that make up climate of the Holdridge system. In this respect‚ it is not unlike the systems of Köppen (1931) and Thornthwaite (1948)
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I am a “boot” adjusting to my new life in kilo company‚ and corporal has recently returned from a nasty deployment in iraq. He says that he is my father and that he knows what’s best. he kicks sand at me while i am timed to see how fast i can pick up all the yellow cigarette butts he dumped on the floor to “fix” my attention to detail and remind me of my ignorance‚ as he yells‚ “you are going to war soon‚ and I won’t be there to babysit you!” During the deployment workups in the states‚ we spent
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Jubayer Ahmed Mr.Disiro period 8 Imagine a war without the use of weapons. The Cold War was a standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union without a use of arms (Nuclear Weapons and the Arms Race). It was a period of time with great resentment and pressure. Even though both sides never had a direct military confrontation‚ they engaged in “proxy wars” and threatened each other with nuclear annihilation (Nuclear Weapons and the Arms Race). For over forty years the Soviets and Americans
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Vietnam http://www.warchapter.com/Vietnam_war_Tunnels.html The tunnels were a complete underworld‚ it was al there; kitchens‚ hospitals‚ workshops‚ sleeping areas‚ communications‚ ammunition storage‚ even some entertainment.The life was harsh though: the spaces were cramped‚ the air was of poor quality‚ it was moist and there were lots of insects and rats. Above all that living in a tunnel meant no sunlight all day‚ operations were at night during the cover of dark. This was effective because
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since my discharge‚ I felt excited. As I drove the I-96‚ I listened to a Grateful Dead tape‚ and I remembered my Uncle Galway’s funeral. As I looked into his casket‚ my uncle seemed lost between the satin upholstery on the sides of his box. His handle bar moustache and square chin reminded me of pictures of middleweight boxers from the Gay 90’s. On the wall of his favorite bar were the pictures of local boxers. They were Poles‚ Irish‚ and Welsh fighters‚ and only in the memories of my uncle and
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October 21‚ 2010 Saint Augustine v. Vietnam America saw many changes in the sixties as the younger generation found their voice. Amidst all the excitement and change the civil rights movement brought to the country there was still one haunting force that many Americans feared was lurking just outside of our boarders. Americans were plagued with the red scare‚ the extreme fear of communism. Americans trembled at even the sound of names of communist dictators such as Mao Zedong from China‚ and Nikita
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Thanksgiving potluck party‚ my family including my parents‚ Huy‚ Kay‚ Hien‚ Tien‚ and me decided to come back to Vietnam for visiting our relatives there. I knew that this decision was a surprise for everyone. However‚ I didn’t know that this event has become an unforgettable memory in all of us. Hung now becomes a successful filmmaker. He made two movies and both of them were getting the positive feedbacks and also reaching the ticket target in the theater. When he saw me back to Vietnam again‚ he asked me
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