History of Vietnam

biggest mistakes in the US’s history is partaking in the Vietnam War. With the use of new warfare and an unknown terrain, the US was vulnerable for the first time. The United States soldiers were seen as monsters, baby killers, and other horrible names, along with the fact that the government was lying to the citizens didn’t help their cause. Art during this era was very important especially for the soldiers, they were able to paint or draw their experience in Vietnam. During this war the…

influenced our defeat in the Vietnam War and I wanted to research a topic that not many people may know about. To find the information for my topic, I found a book, Vietnam: A History, which provided an overall perspective of the Vietnam war as a whole, and I found a book concentrating mainly on the controversy of the decision-making system in place, The Irony of Vietnam: the system worked by Leslie H. Gelb. Along with these sources I researched many websites on the Vietnam War and the Gulf of…

keep people in line, her parents went to the extent to ensure their finances from the government. According to the BBC, “Vietnam, is a one-party Communist state…” meaning there is only one political party. The laws that were established in Mylinh’s country are to contain people and keep them in line, they are much stricter than it is in America. Some laws, America and Vietnam can agree on, such as prostitution and illegal drugs. These are two offenses which can result in some serious jail time…

where communism had overthrown the French rule in Vietnam. As a teenager in the mid-1960, she joined the Communist Party, serving as the leader of a Communist youth brigade. In the early 1980’s, there was a major shift in her temperament and beliefs about the role of Communism in her country and was expelled from the Vietnamese Communist Party in 1989. Huong’s novel included criticism of the communist government and was banned to be published in Vietnam. In Huong’s Paradise of the Blind, she…

The Hybridity of Vietnam and American In the United States, there are nearly 41 million immigrants in 2012 (Nwosu). When people come into a new country, they will have their own culture, and it can change after time is passed over, but it is not completely change. It just meshes with another culture. According to the book, “East Eat West”, by Andrew Lam, he said, “the theme of hybridity is central to a global society, and a large part of that entails accommodating one’s tongue to the…

onto Earth. Guan Yin, the goddess of mercy, felt sorry for the lion and came to Earth to help it. She tied its head back onto its body with an enchanted ribbon that would protect the lion and scare away evil spirits. This story has made its way to Vietnam, where the Lion Dance is performed yearly during Tet. Since it is said that the enchanted ribbon used to tie the lion together had magical properties, the dancing of the lion is believed to frighten away bad spirits and give good luck. Along…

For the past ten years Ecuador was ruled by Rafael Correa who constantly was taking away the rights of his citizens. He denied his constituents free speech and attacked those who spoke out against him. He also limited health care and had terrible prison conditions. Even though Correa treated his people poorly he was still very much loved. Before he stepped down as president in May of 2017 he was still popular with a 50% approval rating (https://tinyurl.com/y9txapoe). Correa decided to step down…

The Cambodian Genocide was an event where a mass amount of Cambodians were killed for their ethnic differences. The website states, “The Cambodian Genocide took place in Cambodia, a country in Southeast Asia. It began shortly after Cambodia’s seizure of power from the government of Lon Nol in 1975 and lasted until the Khmer Rouge was overthrown by the Vietnamese in 1978. North Vietnamese forces seized South Vietnam’s capital, Saigon, and by the Khmer Rouge and its leader, Pol Pot, in 1975.”…

started in Vietnam, as the superstitious practice of sweeping and cleaning out the bad luck and spirits from a home in preparation for the new year. Additionally, she says that they clean the house before Tết because it is traditionally bad luck to clean on the first day of the new year because one will sweep out all of the luck for the year. The reason this tradition has stayed so constant is because Gabrielle’s grandparents, both maternal and paternal were born and raised in Vietnam, only…

To begin, the Khmer Empire is much more advanced and superior than the Polynesian Expansion as they were vastly superior in these three areas, buildings and architecture, form of government or ruling, and weaponry. This is as the Khmers had much more knowledge and vastly better skills than the Polynesians. The first area that the Khmers were stronger in was their use of skills and knowledge to build and create ideas for structures that could stay up for a very long time and were difficult to…