The anti-war movements and protests reflected on the soldiers in Vietnam and led to the defeat of the US armed forces. The media portrayed war in such a negative manner that resentment is still present today. The introduction of televised news coverage of the Vietnam War set a precedent of fear of war within the American culture. The vivid footage and images of combat educated the American people of the true horrors
AAS 300 Jia Kim The Chosŏn Dynasty and Confucianization 1. State the critical reason for Chosŏn Confucian scholars’ condemnation of Buddhism. In koryo, Buddhism was embraced as the state religion but became an enemy by adherents of Confucianism. Choe Sung-no, a model Confucian argued that frequent Buddhist ceremonies harmed people and that Buddhism thinks about the afterlife rather than the present. Some of the Confucians of the late Koryo period opposed Buddhism as they burned down temples and slashed the throat of monks.
Film Analysis of Platoon (1986) “Rejoice O young man in thy youth…” (Ecclesiastes). The Vietnam War was a very controversial war in which thousands of young U.S. soldier’s lives were lost. It was a time when America was torn in two and the people were more concerned with skin color then those who were half way across the world fighting a war. The American people turned their backs on their own youth and tried to ignore the fact that there was a war. The U.S. soldiers put their lives on the line and in return they received nothing but negativity and hate.
Not all people liked the spread of Buddhism throughout China. In “Memorial on Buddhism” Han Yu, a leading Confucian scholar and official at the Tang imperial court, disliked Buddhism. He said that Buddhism is no more that a cult of the barbarian peoples spread to China. Han Yu says that if the spread of Buddhism in China is not stopped then there will be people cutting off their arms and mutilating there flesh in an offering to the Buddha. He also says that the Buddha is a barbarian and that his bones should be cast into a fire and that his evil should be rooted out.
The Catholic people were in support of Diem, where the Buddhists were not. Buddhist were soon prosecuted for their beliefs, and “under Diem’s family rule, Catholics received favored treatment and enjoyed special privileges and opportunities. Priests enjoyed political influence; most district and province chiefs were Catholics” (Moss 104). The Buddhist crisis took full force in June when a seventy-three-year old Buddhist monk immolated himself in front of many onlookers. When news footage of this event was received around the world, Americans were criticized for supporting a government that would allow religious persecution.
Creating Killers In the book, “The Good Soldiers” ,David Finkel demonstrates how the war creates killing machines out of otherwise normal human beings. The soldiers abhorrence for their conditions and the violence of war evolves into a hatred for the Iraqis. It is a sequence of revulsion and violence that leads to an unstable army ready and overjoyed to kill. These conditions create the ailing men and women that they become, a killing force with serious mental instability. The soldiers live and fight in terrible conditions.
Families, relatives and friends have lost their home and the effect of this conflict has in turn permanently scared the minds of the innocence. According to the quote “Each day of war takes us farther from all we could hope to be or do. We gain nothing but heartbreak, and lose everything we cherish” by a Vietnamese survivor shows us how war creates nothing but death and devastation. Because of the disagreement between the borders of the country, a ruthless war changed Vietnam, who was once a peaceful country, into a land of battles and war zones. Therefore, conflict between the relationships of others can cause war and lead to problems.
People were so upset because they were afraid that sending troops to Iraq would take the focus off of Afghanistan and the mission to find Bin Laden. Seeing the way that people just turn against and decide that they want to kill innocent people just does not make since. Looking at this serious situation, many people see that the September 11th attacks badly because it was more of a modern day situation. Also it was in the United States, which we live in. The attack was a very tragic and hurting time in American history.
My friend did not like Muslim people because he thought that all of them were here to make our lives worse by blowing up another building or plane. As the evidence that would support his hypothesis he would talk about the tragic 9/11 event in the US and grievous accidents in the other countries. He was always ready to hear bad news and they characterized the entire nation for him. Being from another country I felt embarrassed of him sometimes because I could not accept his idea of judging all the people by the acts of few. Unfortunately, none of the good stories reached his ear; they seemed to vanish in his mind.
People are also breathing in toxins from, the guns, and bombs that cause so much damage. Which can lead to deathThese people have to perservere through the civil war. They must keep fighting through the tough time, they must move on. Another real world exmample is the Holoaucaust. During the Holocaust, Germans murdered 6 million Jew just because of their religion.