The Truth of War
The Truth of War was a project studying the Vietnam War also we dove into little bit into the Cold War and the idea of a proxy war. If it wasn't for the Cold War the Vietnam War probably would have happened. Besides learning what happened in the cold war my group and I got to interview a veteran from Vietnam to hear what happened to him and what he had to go through being in the war.
Art Piece
Dangour Orange
Adobe Photoshop
In this piece I'm trying to show Agent Orange and the aftereffects of the chemical. Agent Orange is a toxic chemical that the U.S. created in the Vietnam War. The U.S made this chemical to strip off the leave of the plant life in the jungles of Vietnam. The U.S did not know that lives would be lost with the invention of the toxic chemical. To be able to show this, I had a picture of an airplane dropping the chemical on a forest in Vietnam. As you look further back into the forest, it starts to turn grey as it symbolizes death in the forest, not just with the plants, but also with the people in it. That leads me to the little kid in the sky with the deformed head. She was exposed to the chemical Agent Orange. With the U.S. flag is whos did this to the little girl and to the forest of vietnam.
Jason Clark
January 2016
Durango, Colorado
Adobe Photoshop
In this piece I'm trying to show Agent Orange and the aftereffects of the chemical. Agent Orange is a toxic chemical that the U.S. created in the Vietnam War. The U.S made this chemical to strip off the leave of the plant life in the jungles of Vietnam. The U.S did not know that lives would be lost with the invention of the toxic chemical. To be able to show this, I had a picture of an airplane dropping the chemical on a forest in Vietnam. As you look further back into the forest, it starts to turn grey as it symbolizes death in the forest, not just with the plants, but also with the people in it. That leads me to the little kid in the sky with the deformed head. She was exposed to the chemical Agent Orange. With the U.S. flag is whos did this to the little girl and to the forest of vietnam.
Jason Clark
January 2016
Durango, Colorado
Story Corps
The Truth of War project we got the privilege to interview a veteran from the war. We used this website called story corp that has other stories from veterans not just the Vietnam War. This website was made to share war veteran’s stories. Thing from this project will hopefully stick with me for a long time. One question we asked him was when he felt true fear. “When he was in a cabin with six shooters and in the middle of the night he heard a noise and just started shooting through the straw walls in the cabin.” Said Teddy Jack He never got any sleep that night. This interview changed some of my understandings of the war about the way they were treated then the got back after the war. They were beaten and spit on once they got off the plane and whenever they wore their coats in public. If I was to interview a veteran again I would study the app more to get the feeling how the app works.
The Things They Carried Socratic Seminar
The socratic seminar that we did in class was on the book “The Thing They Carried’ By Tim O’Brien. I was impressed with myself. I rarely talk in a socratic that’s because I don't feel comfortable. This socratic was different I felt comfortable. I was well prepared I knew what was everyone talking about I had my notes all ready so I could drop some mind bombs.Thing I would do again in a semir would be having not in the book or topic that were working on because that helped me drop mind bomb and I felt prepared for this seminar. What I’ve learned by doing this seminar is taking notes paying attention to what other people are talking about in the seminar. I feel that is important because you get a handle on what people are talking about and if you need to get something clarified something in the circle has to have an answer to your question.
Writing a True History of the Gulf of Tonkin Incident
For this part of the project we had to write a easy about the Tonkin Incident using articles that we got in a packet. We had to use historical thinking skills to break down the the document and find the true meaning within the documents. For an example I used contextualization allowed to analyze the document I had in front of myself to grab quotes for my timed write. For an example in one of the document I found a quote “Of course if you start running away from the communist, they may just chase you right into your own kitchen.” I forgot who said this but I stuck with me about how america was afraid of the communist taking over vietnam. They never had proof that the Vietnamese were going to go communizem we just assumed.
Take-Aways and Enduring Understanding
The truth about war is telling the stories of the people who lived them. “That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.” That was a quote from Tim O’brien who wrote the book “The Thing They Carried”. In that book we had to tell how to decide if it's a true or false war story. I made a list of how to tell if it's a true or false war story and one that I made that stood out to me was the people. How telling the story is portraying the person and remembering them. Anothering to tell if it real or not would be morals and how the author portrays them in the book.