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    and continued throughout the 50’s and 60’s. As the Cold War intensified‚ America strengthened their policies against the Soviet Union and anyone who was allied with them and in 1955 President Eisenhower pledged to support South Vietnam and Diem‚ their leader. Diem was a dictator who found anyone who sympathized with the North Vietnamese and tortured and executed them. In 1961 President Kennedy sent a team to build up American military in South Vietnam. The “domino theory” was a major part in this decision

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    Humans have performed dangerous stunts since the beginning of time. These daredevils‚ deemed as either utterly insane or as possessing death wishes‚ are usually viewed by society as mere lunatics: people who do not value their lives. On the surface they are laughed at‚ but underneath the public condescension and jeering they are viewed with a kind of horrified admiration. Why is this? It is because these individuals are doing what they love without holding back and with no reservations. They are

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    AWAKEN THE GIANT WITHIN A book by ANTHONY ROBBINS [pic] [pic] Title: Awaken the giant within Author: Anthony Robbins Genre: Self-Interest‚ Self-Help‚Nonfiction‚ Business & Investing. Publisher: Simon & Schuster Publication Date: July 1‚ 2005 Hardcover: 544 pages Synopsis: "How to take immediate control of your Mental‚ Emotional‚ Physical and Financial Destiny" Number 1 national bestseller‚ Bestselling author of inner strength and unlimited power. Praise for Awaken

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    Names for the war Further information: Terminology of the Vietnam War Various names have been applied to the conflict. Vietnam War is the most commonly used name in English. It has also been called the Second Indochina War and the Vietnam Conflict. As there have been several conflicts in Indochina‚ this particular conflict is known by the names of its primary protagonists to distinguish it from others.[56] In Vietnamese‚ the war is generally known as Kháng chiến chống Mỹ (Resistance War Against America)

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    There was many reasons for the USA to get involved in Vietnam between the 1950’s and 60’s however they were all in stages‚ not just in one go. They called America and USA’S ’clash’ the "Cold War" which began mainly due to America and the USSR’S political differences. The USSR was a communist state and the USA and the other countries who were their partners were capalist states or countries. Many people believed that capalists and communists could not live alongside each other for long and that one

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    Ho Chi Minh‚ who was fighting for liberation of colonial power (“The Cold War in Asia”). The war lasted 9 years and it resulted in the creation of two nation-states: North Vietnam controlled by Ho Chi Minh and South Vietnam controlled by Ngo Dinh Diem and supported by

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    Assess America’s role in Vietnam in the 1960’s‚ considering: a. Diem’s assassination - Americas role in the Diem assassination was that President Kennedy at first sent American forces to South Vietnam to help protect Diem from the communists long enough to allow him to enact basic social reforms favored by the Americans‚ but Kennedy eventually despaired of the reactionary Diem and encouraged a coup against him. b. The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution – Was a result of Northern Vietnamese fired

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    Yoder‚ J. D.‚ Hogue‚ M. Newman‚ R.‚ Metz‚ L. & LaVigne‚ T. (2003).  Exploring moderators of gender differences: Contextual differences in door-holding behavior.  Journal of Applied Social Psychology‚ 32‚ 1682-1686.   The social roles theory suggests that social contexts have different gender role expectations and those gender role expectations can maximize or minimize gender differences. For instance‚ there are three competing hypotheses as to why and in what situations certain people hold doors for

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    The reports in this novel are prefaced with a quote by Robert Shaplen‚ which sums up the feelings of those Americans involved in the Vietnam conflict. He states‚ "Vietnam‚ Vietnam . . .. There are no sure answers." In this novel‚ the author gives a detailed historical account of the happenings in Vietnam between 1950 and 1975. He successfully reports the confusing nature‚ proximity to the present and the emotions that still surround the conflict in Vietnam. In his journey through the years that America

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