Papers 2961-2970 of total 3263 found.
…. Using this new production company, Woo used his own version of "A Better Tomorrow 3" and transformed it into a film called "Bullet in the Head". The film relates to the lives of 3 men when they become fugitives in Vietnam because of a murder case in Hong Kong…
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…because drug use escalated. Where there was more drug use there was less gang violence. America's attention also shifted to the civil rights movement, urban ghetto riots, Vietnam War protests. A new racial consciousness had its effect on local street gang…
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…the ghetto to Vietnam. Constant gun shots going off. One day he was at his aunt’s house plaing video games when a lady shot about eight shots at a person then there was a return volley of many shots. LeAlan just continued playing his videogames like noting…
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…glimpse of the streets, in all their petty meanness, a world, an inferno, which most of us will never know first-hand (if we're lucky, at least) but, like the war in Vietnam or the depravities inside the White House, effects us just the same. Mean Streets…
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…has 100 million followers, mainly in Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Sri Lanka and Thailand, and parts of Vietnam. It started in Sri Lanka when Buddhist missionaries arrived from India. They promoted the Vibhajjavada school (Separative Teaching). By the 15th…
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…of offences ranging from being late to work at Beijing zoo to selling military secrets to Vietnam. Given his outspoken criticism of Deng Xiaoping (for using "the time-honoured methods of fascist dictators") the length of his sentence was hardly surprising…
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…commitment. Past United States history has shown that since Vietnam the country is very reluctant to go to war unless we are sure to win (Persian Gulf), also the Nixon Doctrine may be used in retaliation to U.S. increased military presence in Asia. Vietnam
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…Germany, Italy, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. Southeast Asia continued to be a trouble spot. Kennedy ordered U.S. military advisers to the area in 1961 and 1962 when the Communists threatened South Vietnam and Thailand. Kennedy also sent advisers to Laos…
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…of the people in Hiroshima during and after the dropping of the bomb. The last work, Tim O¡¯brien¡¯s The Things They Carried is a collection of short stories about the events of the Vietnam War through personal experiences. Much alike Hemingway, O¡¯Brien¡¯s style…
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…and Black community, 38 and the Vietnam War which diverted White liberals' attention. Woodward's analysis fails to provide a broad perspective of why these events destroyed such a strong movement. There had been riots in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963, yet…
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