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…U.S. suicides involve firearms. In 1997 alone, 35,957 Americans were killed with firearms, in homicides, suicides, and accidents. In comparison, 33,651 Americans were killed in the Korean War and 58,148 Americans were killed in the Vietnam War. According…

…. The one man whose real interest in seeing a man land on the moon had passed away, but his dream was very much alive. Now it was up to Lyndon B. Johnson, the man later responsible for the U.S. involvement in Vietnam. The years between Kennedy's death…

…of what was happening to the marines in Vietnam, they had many great losses there. Money: NASA has gathered more than 30 billions USD pretending that they were to land on moon. To win space race with Russians: once they realized that they were not able…

…be adversely affected by the Vietnam War. A novel written by an Australian about World War Two would be discriminatory against the Japanese and the Germans among others who were also involved in the conflict but where on the other…

…it really is. Modernism was a time period that when people were confused and conflicted. It saw two wars, (Korean and Vietnam), the beginning and middle of the Cold War and race to Arms, and the Cuban Missile Crisis. Confusing times called for confusing art…

…structure and also changes in the adolescents themselves. When the times change, ways of life have to change as well. With the onset of wars (American Revolution in 1775, the Civil War in 1861 and the Vietnam War in 1959, for example), industrialization…

…administration found to be false. The freeze on American aid led to cutbacks in reproductive health services worldwide, from Vietnam to Bangladesh to Kenya. Even more devastating has been Bush's reinstatement of the Global Gag Rule, which denies federal funds…

…and the late 1990's. The media coverage of the wars after the Vietnam War has allowed society to view death and tragedy with relative indifference, an issue Luhrmann addresses through his use of violence. The fight that occurs in Mercutios death scene would have…

…. The Korean War, the Vietnam War and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan were some of the occasions when the tension between those two ideologies took the form of an armed conflict, but much of it was conducted by or against surrogates and through spies and traitors…

…government had tried to negotiate many times with Japan's leaders to withdraw their troops from China and put an end to the war. Japan had already seized many bases in northern Vietnam and occupied the south in July of 1941, threatening a route to China…