Ideas of presentation

The Chinese Exclusion Act is a great example of showing how the U.S. government was using racism to develop its imperial power in the world. The Chinese Exclusion was just an excuse for helping white Americans to keep their opening of job during the economic recession.. Due to the fact, the U.S. government wanted to protect its own residents. Many white Americans were unemployed, received low wages. It was the battles between organized labor and capitalist class.

draft for vietnam war essay

The Vietnam War were happened from 1958 to 1974, and it was the most representative war which showed how the United States was struggled in dilemma since many people were opposed the scheme to fight with Vietnamese, and judge it as a “mistake”. It also caused the greatest antiwar movement that our nation had never experienced before, and led the war to the end. The reason why the United State decided to help South Vietnam was because our country wanted to prevent the spread of communism power in Vietnam.  Also, it was a good chance showing how strong our military power was to the world. Unfortunately, there were many negative images about the soldiers reported by the photographers in Vietnam. By watching those pictures or films, most people started to think how these soldiers could do it. Who was the enemy that we should kill?
              According to the film “Hearts and Minds”, we could clearly see that our military power was developed very well, and we had no fear either to fight with Vietnamese or others. Our soldiers used the repeating rifle, the primitive machinegun, the submarine, and the steam powered ironclad warship to kill the enemies mainly. When the U.S. soldiers were bombing those peaceful villages, it didn’t make sense if we were using strong military power to kill those innocent people who didn’t even have weapon on their hands. These facts led us felt indignant at our government because they were destroying innocent people’s families but it didn’t relate with the war for our freedom. It had enraged our minds, those images were violent, bloodiness especially a soldier was recorded and said “we are counting dead bodies of dead women and children to prove we are being successful in the Vietnam War”. This was really unacceptable, deplorable, and disgraceful. If the goal of Vietnam War was to kill women and children who lived in the village, then it meant our congresses who had agreed to get involved in the Vietnam War were imbecile. The whole story was an innuendo.  In The Impossible Victory: Vietnam by Howard Zinn. The antiwar movement not only convinced the residents, but also the juries. “One sign that the ideas of the antiwar movement had taken hold in the American public was that juries became more reluctant to convict antiwar protesters, and local judges too were treating them differently.”(p. 241) People that were on the pro-war sides started to change their minds, too.
              In fact, our government was refused to show the images of Vietnam War because the truth would make most Americans felt ashamed. From Realism to Virtual Reality by Anthony Swofford has indicated that “To control these images, the U.S. government set up pools of selected reporters and photographers, confined them to certain locations, required them to have military escorts when gathering news, established stringent guidelines limiting what could be reported or photographed, and subjected all written copy, photographs, and videotape to strict censorship” (p.22) This would prevent a lots of pictures showed to the audiences, but it wouldn’t able to block all the truth that government were planned to hide behind. During the war, many individual viewers would hear other people’s commons from schools, media, newspapers, or work places. That was the main reason why we could see the antiwar movement was being expanded after the images were transferred by war correspondent.
              It would be ethical to show graphic images of war and suffering while the war was just happening. All residents in the whole world have responsibility to know the truth at the first time, and different countries’ government need to update the latest information about the war. The war correspondent who was working into danger had the right to decide what kinds of image should show for viewers. Many people would think that the images provided by news were being chosen since they have relationship with the local government.  Furthermore, if people saw the same image in documentaries, or fictional films, it will catch more people’s attention. The most unforgettable images shape the Vietnam way the war has been remembered is when the American military burned the villages.
              Overall, the Vietnam War is the most important example of showing how images can affect people’s attitude. We should echo people’s voice not only treated them unequally since they have different races. We shouldn’t killed innocent residents and judged them as zombie. Human body lives are valuable.

power analysis (Draft)

As we know, the Chinese Exlucsion Act affected most Chinese immigrants' lives in 1882. We can see the U.S culture had seriously racism on Asian people. Compared to current century, racists were not allowed to say or do something make the conflicts between different cultures since it is illegal. In 1882

In February 1881, a United States Congress John F. Miller had argued that Chinese immigrants were " machine-like", and introduced a bill to bar Chinese immigration for twenty years. Our president Chester Arthur vetoed the policy from twenty years to ten years because Arthur feared that the Qing government would shut Chinese ports to American trade.

Today, I have found a really interesting article The Terrible Chinese which posted on New York Times in March, 12, 1882. Basically, it described Americans' point of view about how Chinese immigrants affect their "jobs". "They are the best imitators in the world" is what New York Times descibe all Chinese workers in 1882. We can see that Americans have racism on Chinese immigrants deeply, especially Chinese. They were the first Asian immigrant in American history and were hired by low-wage. Although this is not fair to all of the Chinese immigrants, it can't change anything since no one were stand on their side. Also, I have found an other useful article The Sino-American Alliance During World War II and the Lifting of the Chinese Exclusion Acts which indicated that how Chinese immigrants band into America's society to earn money after WWII.

Rebrainstorming

I have learned a lot about the Chinese Exclusion from 1882-1906, and it really attracts my attention because it has many details which we can clearly see the relationship between the United States and China. In 1882, our president decided to establish the Chinese Exclusion for 20 years originally, but he afraid it would affected the relationship between  these big countries economically. This is the main reason he changed it from 20 years to 10 years. The U.S. government tried to isolate Chinese immigrant because they believe Chinese couldn't band into the society since they have different cultural background. Therefore, they even declared the citizenship either ABC (American borned Chinese), and mixed Chinese. Within 24 years, the law had been changed again and again, and the situation had improved after 1906.

Research Paper

In fact, I felt so confused about which specific topic should I picked for my research paper. Then, my professor had given me some advice to help me think about which direction that I can go search for. Finally, I have decided to choose Chinese Exclusion as my topic because I want to know more information about Chinese Americans' history in early 19 century. Especially, I am a Chinese immigrant so it will be fun for searching more history about our ancestor. I have notice that Chinese immigrantion in U.S. history had 3 waves, but I would like to focus on the first wave. Also, this situation had changed after the WWII happened. U.S government started to changed Chinese immigrantion law little by little after the WWII.

Hearts and Minds

The film "Hearts and Minds" showed us the "truth" about the Vietnam War. The name of the film representing the opinion by different people. Some people's voice came from their hearts, and others came from their minds which means what you are saying were considering. In fact, I didn't have any knowledge about the Vietnam War since I never pay attention in history class before. I learned a lot in this film, and I was so mad about this country, America. They supposed to let every soldiers know what were they fighting about, accordingly, those soldiers didn't even have a clear idea about the Vietnam War. I really can't understand how could the American government did such unbelievable thing. They were just sending soldiers there, and kill innocent people. Those innocent people were elders, children, people with no wiptom on their hands. What made people felt so proud about the Vietnam War? I really can't understand this.