Canada ’s Complicity & U.S Aggression in the Vietnam War Submitted by: CHST 711 Canada and The United States July 11‚ 2013 Canada’s status during the Vietnam was officially that of a non-belligerent passive observer. Despite this‚ Canada would remain a major supplier of goods to the United States during the war‚ many of which would end up going to Vietnam to support the war effort. Canada traded raw materials to the United States as well as military gear‚ munitions‚ napalm
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Suicide Bombing History has revealed that terrorists are capable of carrying out bold and destructive acts that at first glance appear to be unexplainable. What kind of person would sacrifice his or her own life in order to kill innocent people? What could possibly motivate a young person to become a suicide bomber? In the wake of many tragic events‚ it can be difficult to analyze objectively the causes and processes leading up to them. For many‚ understanding the motives behind suicide bombing
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Matthew-Donald Toombs C & D Block 12-5-12 Vietnam‚ Just or Unjust? Some ask the question‚ was the Vietnam War just? Some may say yes it was just‚and others say that it is unjust. However‚Certain people view justice as slippery concept. There are always ways to get aroud justice‚ and that is why people believe that justice is a slippety concept. Even Plato one of the brightest of his time could not figure out whether war was just or unjust. A Certain individual‚ by the name of Aquinas‚ also
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space mission was launched from Cape Kennedy and the Russian unmanned spacecrafts Luna 16 and Luna 17 land on the Moon. Salvatore Allende‚ the first elected Marxist leader in the Americas‚ is voted in President of Chile. 1971 U.S. planes bomb Vietcong Supply routes in Cambodia‚ spreading the war beyond Vietnam. Dictator Idi Amin takes power in Uganda. Cigarette advertisements are banned from U.S. television. Rolls Royce Company declares bankrupcy. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
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Prisoners of War (POWs): In international law‚ term used to designate incarcerated members of the armed forces of an enemy‚ or noncombatants who render them direct service and who have been captured during wartime.1 This definition is a very loose interpretation of the meaning of Prisoners of War (POWs). POWs throughout history have received harsh and brutal treatment. Prisoners received everything from torture to execution. However‚ in recent times efforts have been made to reduce these treatments
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The tanks crushed the main gate entrance‚ without any resistance from the palace guards (actually all guards had already vanished before that time). Moments later‚ the North Communist flag‚ the red flag with a yellow star in the center‚ and the Vietcong ’s flag flew on the roof of the building. Within the next hour‚ the President of the defeated South Vietnamese government‚ General Duong Van Minh‚ was heard over Saigon Radio making an announcement of his government ’s unconditional surrender to
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of the best in this company are taken from the unit to fight elsewhere. Lt. Colonel Moore and his unit ships out and arrives in Vietnam the next morning‚ November 1965. The first thing he sees is an American fortification is being attacked by Vietcong and he orders his men to spread out among the Landing Zone to fight them off. Soon after one unit recklessly runs after an enemy scout‚ and gets pinned under heavy fire on the top of the ridge above the LZ. The Military Intelligence unit estimates
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Communist China uses propaganda and force to hide the truth from the public‚ as well as controlling them in a sense. Ha Jin writes Waiting and in this book he comments and portrays communist China in great detail. Waiting’s main character‚ Lin Kong‚ is commonly criticized as indecisive and unable to love. In an interview published in Asia Week in 1999‚ Ha Jin comments on Lin’s inability to love: allegorically…sum up a sort of internal psychological damage to the Chinese… the Revolution was to
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winning photos rocked and shook the public. The “Self-Immolated Monk” was part of a protest where a monk burned himself alive because of the persecution of Buddhists. “The Saigon Execution” was a photo where a Southern Vietnam General executed a Vietcong officer with no remorse. The last example of “The Napalm Girl” shows an innocent Vietnamese girl with her clothes burnt off from a bombing raid by the Southern Vietnamese‚ a U.S. ally. With each of these photos the public witnessed‚ the people of
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shed in order to bear that weight following Lavender’s death? What point is O’Brien making? 5. Why do you think the medic would need “M&M’s for especially bad wounds” (para. 9)? 6. In paragraph 29‚ the soldiers find the burned corpse of a teenage Vietcong soldier at the bottom of a ditch‚ and Sanders says‚ “there’s a definite moral here‚” before cutting off the boy’s thumb and giving it to Bowker. Dobbins doesn’t see the moral‚ and ultimately‚ they decide‚ “There it is.” What do they mean by that
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