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    Grossman is a former U.S. Army member holding several different titles through his career‚ and now a psychologist specializing in the study of killing‚ and has taken the role of countless other civilian roles. In his publication‚ “On Killing”‚ Grossman attempts to reveal to the audience the factors that are taken into account by the individual‚ and by the forces training him while killing another human being. He also expresses how the use of violent media and violent video games is indiscriminately

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    WHY AND HOW DID AMERICA GET INVOLVED IN VIETNAM? America first became involved in Vietnam helping the French against the Vietminh during the Indo-China war by indirect means. This meant America did not send troops into Vietnam until 1964. They were not prepared to send more American soldiers into war after the Second World War. Instead it funded the French army to fight against the Vietminh. They supported the French campaign in Vietnam. In 1950 president Truman agreed to send the French $15 million

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    of Tonkin was the main reason that the US got involved in Vietnam because shortly after the event happened‚ it lead to various battles between North and South Vietnam in which two élite battalions of South Vietnam troops were defeated by Vietcong ambush tactics. However‚this event has speculated other possible reasons why the US got involved in Vietnam which include: President Johnson’s desire for a blank cheque‚ the Domino Theory and the Policy of containment. These factors will be explored in the

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    very fundamental concepts that show up throughout this film. One shows the best of worst of humanity by illustrating to us that war is a tool for the powerful and that just because someone is your enemy does not make them evil. He also portrays both Vietcong and American soldiers in a manner that is correlative. Even though they were fighting each other for different reasons and dying for different countries‚ both sides were human and their deaths brought grief and sadness to someone. Early in the

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    February 1968 during the Vietnam War shows the execution of Vietcong officer Nguyen Van Lem‚ also known as Bay Lop by South Vietnamese Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Loan‚ chief of the national police. The prisoner’s hands are tied as “Colonel” is about to pull the trigger. This picture was taken in the city of Saigon on the second day of the Tet Offensive; a series of attacks on all of South Vietnam’s major cities by the communist North Vietnamese and Vietcong rebels. The offensive was carried out on Tet‚ the Vietnamese

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    point – that marine preparing was difficult – is surely substantial. The graduates go ahead to Vietnam‚ where the Tet occasion is approaching. Joker (Matthew Modine) has turned into a military correspondent. "A brother in insight says Charlie [the Vietcong] may attempt to pull off something important amid the Tet occasion‚" he says. "They say the same thing each year‚" snarls his leader‚ Lockhart (John Terry). Despite the fact that numerous Americans accepted the Vietnamese could never assault amid

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    I’m not trying to dodge the draft. We are not supposed to take part in no wars unless declared by Allah or The Messenger. We don’t take part in Christian wars or wars of any unbelievers." Also saying that "I ain’t got no quarrel with those Vietcong" and "no Vietcong ever called me

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    The Vietnam War Vietnam is a small country to the south of China (’Vietnamese’ means "non-Chinese people of the south"). In 111 BC‚ Vietnam became part of the Chinese Empire. For the next thousand years Vietnam struggled to gain its independence from its much larger neighbour. This was achieved in 938 AD. The long period of Chinese rule had left its mark on Vietnam. The language‚ religion‚ architecture‚ system of government and most other aspects of Vietnamese life‚ reflected the influence of the

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    control South of Vietnam. However‚ French fail in Dien Bien Phu battle so they need agree with Geneva which device south and North Vietnam in 17 parallel. In the South of Vietnam be control by communism‚ the leather is Ho Chi Minh and they know as name Vietcong. Furthermore‚ The North of Vietnam under the control of Ngo Dinh Diem and having support from American try took South of Vietnam and destroyed communism. However‚ Ngo Dinh Diem had a big mistake is ban the main religion so this thing made in unpopular

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    of the South. The main problem in the war for the Anti-Communist forces was the Vietcong‚ which was a lightly armed south Vietnamese communist Guerrilla which was hard to fight‚ especially for the heavily armed US army. The Vietcong dug complicated tunnel systems and trenches to fight the US in to them unknown territory. The Vietcong preferred this Guerrilla warfare in the rainforests to open battle. The Vietcong also used traps‚ mines and their knowledge of the region to bring a whole load of

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