choose for me. However, the year of 2011 marked an important turning point of my life that is deciding to enter the university by myself. When I was in grade 12, the class that would finish my high school time, I was oriented that I should study in Ho Chi Minh university of Education. My friends would like to become a business, a lawyer or a tourist guide… They discussed about their future university every rest time, during the lunch or even when they met each other in the street. At that time, this
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The Legacy of Ho Chi Minh Vietnam is a country which has suffered a lot of turmoil, both political and regional, over the years. After gaining independence from the Chinese in 938 AD, successive Vietnamese dynasties ruled the nation while expanding geographically and politically into Southeast Asia, until the French colonized the nation into of a federation of states called Indochina, which consisted of North, Central and South Vietnam, along with Cambodia in the 19th century. During such turmoil
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“War, what is it good for.” These words, sung by Edwin Starr, characterized American youth during the 70’s. The Vietnam war had been raging since 1955 and most Americans were sick and tired of reasons behind the conflict. As Muhammad Ali, who refused to engage in the Vietnam War, was immortalized with his quote “I ain’t got no quarrel with them Vietcong.” However, wars have existed in some form or other since the dawn of human history. Why do societies go to war, and what is the best explanation
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Reconstructing the Past to Change the Future: An Analysis of Character Development in When Heaven and Earth Changed Places and Journey From the Fall While the characters from When Heaven and Earth Changed Places and Journey From the Fall move on to a life of "comfort and safety" in the US, unsettling memories of the war resurface that force them to revisit their pasts. In order to reconcile their regrets, they must reconstruct memories from their past and address their guilt. This essay follows
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Vietnamese intellectuals revolted everywhere. Dong Du movement by Phan Boi Chau and Duy Tan movement by Phan Chau Trinh are two most prominent movement in that time, however, both of them are suppressed by the French. In 1930, Nguyen Ai Quoc, known as Ho Chi Minh coordinated the unification of the parties: the Indochinese Communist Party, Annamese Communist Party and the Indochinese Communist Union, into the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) with Tran Phu as the first Secretary General. In 1941, Nguyen
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While being informed by a Vietnamese translator that he was fighting The Pride of Ho Chi Minh, or the highly elite 29th Regiment of the North Vietnamese Army (NVA), Lieutenant Colonel Weldon Honeycutt responded by saying “Tell him I’m glad to know they’re around here. Tell him that’s why we came here- to kill North Vietnamese soldiers-and if they are around, they’ll just be doin’ us a favor78-79.” This bold statement, stated by the commander of a unit tasked to take a hill with heavily fortified
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snake venom, the Calmette's serum. * In 1890, Calmette met Louis Pasteur who was his professor in a course on bacteriology. He became an associate and was charged by Pasteur to found and direct a branch of the Pasteur Institute at Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh), in 1891. * Calmette was a French physician, bacteriologist and immunologist, and an important officer of the Pasteur Institute. * He discovered the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG), an attenuated form of Mycobacterium used in the BCG vaccine against
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l'architecture du vieux Hanoi la ville ne comptait que près de 36 rues, dont la plupart font maintenant partie de la vieille ville. Lac Hoan Kiem est un parc agréable dans le centre de la ville, à distance de marche de n'importe où dans le vieux quartier Ho Tay, ou "Lac de l'Ouest", est au nord-ouest de la ville, et est surtout un centre résidentiel de la bien-faire. Sofitel Plaza Hôtel, l'un des hôtels les plus luxueux de Hanoi, est sur ce lac. Moderne et théâtres traditionnels, des cinémas, des bars
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Individuals and organizations involved on both sides of the 17th parallel fought for control of the country. In the context of the Vietnamese society, the wars in Vietnam are better understood by taking a look at the leaders of North and South Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh and Ngo Dinh Diem. Learning more about the two different styles of leadership will help to understand how they gained support from the Vietnamese people and other nations for their cause. The Democratic Republic of North Vietnam consisted
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of Singapore and Malaysia in order to downplay the Communist threat and violence. The Malayan Communist party originated as an overseas branch of the Chinese Communist party in Malaysia in 1925. In 1930 a Vietnamese communist known by the name of Ho Chi Minh directed the Malaysian Communist Party to become an independent organization. He attempted to completely change the way the organization was run- it originally was only beneficial to a Chinese communist movement. His ideals were a party that
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