Defoliant

The Vietnam War continues to have lasting impacts even though the war ended more than forty-three years ago. The herbicides used during the Vietnam War can still be found in high traces in some places in Vietnam. The environmental impacts caused by Agent Orange and other herbicides than lead to many deadly illnesses for soldiers and local natives. The used of Agent Orange during the Vietnam War has effects millions of people and it will affect many more in the years to come. Clearly, herbicides…

7 Orobosa Omede Professor Epstein History 340-01 Paper 2 The Vietnam War: The battle of The Ia Drang Valley Orobosa Omede Professor Epstein History 340-01 Paper 2 The battle on Ia Drang Valley sets the foundation leading to numerous conflicts of American involvement in the Vietnam War. The engagement between American and North Vietnamese troops were significant in that it persisted even after the American troops withdrew from Vietnam. The…

Why did the United States find it so difficult to ends its involvement in the Vietnam War? In this essay, I will outline and explore the reasoning behind the United States involvement and withdrawal from Vietnam and why the decision to withdraw from the war, was one of great complexity. The Vietnam War was a civil war fought between the communist’s states of North Vietnam and the capitalist South. The North Vietnamese wanted to join with the south as one united communist country. Whilst the…

“The Corporation” documentary by Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott & Joel Bakan shows that businesses are dishonest to the people to continue earning more revenue while the people are getting sick. The film also shows how corporations cause health problems and environmental issues by using unethical methods to obtain additional profit. This documentary examines the history of the corporation and the role they play in society. The main point throughout the documentary is that competition is important…

I sat in my car gazing through the window as the lightning violently struck through the air. My heart was drowning in the rain as I looked at the broken picture in front of me. I have no dad, at least not one present at the moment. I see a mom at her wits end trying, but I know it's all pretend, an illusion that doesn’t have an ending. Looking at our house, our doll house, with all its broken figurines I can see the lights are on but nobody's home and everything has been left alone. The dust…

the Air Force Commander never implementing the remarking of planes, because he thought it didn't make sense to change them. (Buckingham 1982) The United States and Ali countries sprayed Agent Orange from 1961-1971. Spraying 21 million of gallons defoliant over Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos causing destroy much of the plant life. This intentional defoliation caused destruction of the jungle canopies and crop land. The destruction affected the enemy in more than one way. The defoliation took do…

I. Introduction From World War I to shortly after World War II, the Western world created numerous significant treaties and agreements including the Treaty of Versailles, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, and The Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare, otherwise known as the Geneva Protocol. However, the Geneva Protocol is one of the most comprehensive and arguably successful agreements to come from the time…

Most industrial areas do not have waste water treatment plants and, around Vietnam, only 14% of waste water is treated. This has resulted in the loss of many ecosystems. The war also had a great effect on the environment. Agent Orange was used as a defoliant, bulldozers were used to remove vegetation and topsoil, landslides were purposely created, melaleuca forests were burned and elephants were bombed. It is estimated that 20,000 square km of forest and farmland were destroyed because of the…

Introduction Within history, there are individuals that are in charge of composing the books, but they only write the facts that the government tells them to. The books of history are meant to describe the historical events in order to teach those who could not witness it. History books do not always get every fact and feeling of witnesses from these events. They tell the facts of the events, but rarely do history books include personal interviews from people that have experienced it. My…