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Neil Sheehan (the author) spent over three years in Vietnam observing the war and its effects, as a correspondent for the New York Times.
In his essay, "Not a Dove, But No Longer a Hawk" (1966), New York Times correspondent Neil Sheehan told of his experiences viewing the war close up from 1962 to 1966. "Americans, because they are Americans," he wrote, arrive in Vietnam full of enthusiasm and with the best of intentions. After a prolonged period of residence, they leave with their enthusiasm a victim of the cynicism that pervades Vietnamese life and with their good intentions lost somewhere in a paddy field." His own years in Vietnam brought Sheehan to realize that Americans were defending a government that did not deserve to be defended, one that was unable to win support from its own people or meet the needs of its people. He wrote: “Our responsibility for prolonging what is essentially a civil conflict may be one of the major reasons for the considerable amount of confusion, guilt and soul-searching among Americans over the Vietnam war.”
In paragraph 2, the quote is: I knew how to scrub floors on my knees; but I had never seen a Hoover vacuum cleaner.
- The contrast clue words are "Knew" vs. "never seen."
Analytical Sentence:
- The speaker's knowledge of scrubbing the floors and her ignorance of the Hoover vacuum cleaner shows that she was not exposed to modern technologies.
In the sentences provided, we see that contrast is drawn between the speaker's knowledge of the vacuum cleaner and her inexperience in the use of the Hoover Vacuum cleaner.
This contrast exposes the fact that she was not used to modern appliances.
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