1960s Diary Entries
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Kimberly Schuchmann
First Diary Entry: Witness to the assassination of Malcom X
Dear Diary,
Today February 21, 1965 I witness the assassination of Malcom X also known as Malcolm Little. We have lost a legacy not just in the African American community but as a society. Malcolm X was a strong speaker, and was moved by many African Americans. He did so much to make us feel connected with our African American heritage. He would say the words that we would think but were scared to say. Malcolm X lost his life by the Nation of Islam; everyone is surrounded by questions of this fearless man’s death. The files The Files of Malcolm X, reveals The Smoking Guns in the FBI reports, which was dated for February 22, 1965, the files declares that Malcolm X had 10 gun shots penetrating to the chest, his thigh and ankle, also there were 4 bullets pleats into his chest and thigh. When his autopsy was done, they found 1 gun being noticed as a millimeter slug, 1 – 45 caliber slugs, with numerous shotgun shots, that were all around and about in his body, torn through the heart of Malcolm X was born in Omaha, Nebraska. When Malcolm was in prison, he got religious, he wanted to change his criminal past, and became a member in the Nation of Islam. After Malcolm was released he started to preach on street corners time.
“Malcom X was born on May 19, 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska to a family of eight children, a homemaker for a mother, and his father was Earl Little, was an outspoken Baptist minister that was an activist for civil rights.” http://www.malcolmx.com/about/bio.html He an is childhood friend Jarvis also known as “Shorty” moved to Boston where a troubled Malcom begin a life of crime. During his seven year prison sentence he began studying the Nation of Islam. Malcom X was a strong individual who studied and learned the teachings of Islam and became a minister and national spokesman for the Nation. He is a prime example of second chances because he turned his life of crime into a positive form that helped African Americans connected themselves to their heritage, stand up for themselves and how to be more outspoken about ones rights. His death was a great lost to society.
The Term Paper on Muslim, Islam and American culture
The main purpose of this paper is to explore the current experience of Muslims in America and the quest for clues as to the future interaction between Islam and American culture. In particular, I will concentrate on three areas: Islamic influence on the culture of Americans with emphasis on how it has affected political and social development; the interaction between Islamic traditions and ...
Shanna Strouble
Second Diary Entry: A nurse serving in Vietnam
Dear Diary,
I am thankful for today, April 30, 1975 the day the last few Americans deploy from Vietnam, it was a long fight but the war is finally over. Being a nurse during this war is difficult and heart breaking because it’s not just soldiers I see coming in and out of the hospital I have taken care of women and children who have suffered injuries do to an air strike, landmine or grenade. The last I recently finished nursing school and I would have never thought that in 1969 I would have been selected to join the Vietnam War as a head nurse to aid to those who were impacted by the tragedies of war. I could never forget the cries and the screams of the wounded as they are being rushed in from the streets. Being here for the last 4 years I glad to finally say that the war is over. The death, attacks, and injuries to the United States soldiers as wells as both the North and South Vietnamese soldiers and civilians. “By 1969 more than 500,000 U.S. military personnel were stationed in Vietnam and by the end of the war more than 200,000-2500, 000 U.S soldiers had lost their lives.” http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/628478/Viet-
nam-War I often wonder if the war was really necessary or worth the heart ache and pain that United States felt as well as the Vietnamese people. “A lot of other American felt the same way because the Vietnam War weakened public faith in government, and in the honesty and competence of its leaders.” http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/vietnam/postwar.htm
The Essay on Explain the Impacts the Vietnam War Had on Soldiers
The Vietnam was a war like no other and the nature of the fighting in this war had great impacts on the soldiers. At this time, communism was seen as a great threat, especially by Western countries, and so extreme emphasis was placed on the domino theory that when one country falls to communism, others would follow and that forward defence would be the only solution to this issue. Also during this ...
“The Vietnam War was an important factor in bringing down the American Economy from the growth and affluence of the 1960s to the economic crises of the 1970s
http://www.historycentral.com/sixty/Economics/Vietnam.html, so as I plan to return home, I think about how the economy has suffered and the struggle that I will face once back in the states. Threw it all my experience serving my country in the Vietnam War will not be forgotten but it was a long time coming and I am glad the war is finally over.
References
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/628478/Vietnam-War
http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/vietnam/postwar.htm
http://www.historycentral.com/sixty/Economics/Vietnam.html
http://www.malcolmx.com/about/bio.html
