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A 5 page research paper that reflects on the Vietnam conflict and why the US lost. The writer explores this question as to differences in motivation, as well as from a military point of view. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: D0_khvietls.rtf
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assignment, the writer/tutor is not sure whether to start with fiction or non-fiction as the "story" that generates reflection. Needless to say both can be used as a springboard
toward reflection on as broad a topic as Vietnam. If the student meant fiction, try starting by looking Tim OBriens The Things They Carried, a marvelously evocatively novel about Vietnam
that pulls the reader into the fractured, wartime experience of the American soldier. If starting from a non-fictional standpoint, the student could begin the fact that President William Clinton
announced the normalization of relations with Vietnam on July 11, 1995,stating that it was time to move forward and bind up the wounds from the war (Chronology of US-Vietnamese Relations).
Further news accounts of this event can be accessed by using the keywords - Vietnam, relations, US, or American - on any Internet search engine. This could then be used
as a springboard to reflect on the causes of the war and the question that most Americans arrive at sooner or later - why did the US lose? Whether
starting from a fiction or non-fiction "story," the student can arrive at this question as the central focus of his or her paper. There is no doubt that the
Vietnam War stands out in US history as one of Americas greatest traumas. For the American people, it was a bewildering affair from the beginning (Drew and Snow). However, the
question that reverberates in the background of consciousness when reading or seeing anything about Vietnam in the media remains the same for many Americans - "Why did we lose?" By
investigating scholarship on this question, satisfactory explanations quickly come to light that not only demonstrate what went wrong, but also how complicated the international situation was at that time.
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