... BABAWE15097 INSTRUCTOR’S NAME: Đoàn Kim Khoa TOPIC: Is Tet no longer suitable for Vietnam? (Thanhniennews.vn) SUMMARY OF THE ARTICLE According to the writer of the article, Tet is not appropriate for the current Vietnam economic situation. There are three main reasons the author argued. Firstly, the majority of the poor have to spend a great amount of money during Tet event, which pauperizes them and may get them commit crimes. Secondly, before and after Tet celebration, people get lazy and pay less attention on work, which not only slows down the whole business but also waste time and money. The final reason is Tet holiday interrupts Vietnam economic sectors while our country is integrating global economy, which can bring to some serious consequences. THE COUNTER-ARGUMENT ESSAY Global economy has become a common trend nowadays. Vietnam, a developing country, has to face lots of difficulties in making suitable policies for current economic situation, so that the international integration can be rapid and effective. One policy according to an author of the article “Tet is no longer suitable in Viet Nam” (Thanhniennews.vn) is that Tet festival should be removed or modified because it has many negative impacts as well as inappropriate for Vietnam economy. In my opinion, Tet is the most valuable traditional festival, hence we should keep respected and preserved. According to the writer, consumption in Tet is more harmful than good because it exhausts the poor. This may...
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...2 Dear Journal, I have been fighting this war since January 30th, 1968. There was supposed to be a cease fire in place, but the Viet Cong attacked the attacked the forces of the Republic of Vietnam and us, Their U.S. ally. I heard on the radio that there was supposed to be a two-day cease fire to honor the Tet Lunar New Year, but they tricked everyone by attacking in the early morning on January 30th. We were blindsided by the power of 80,000 communist troops that were well coordinated and able to attack over 100 towns and cities from what I hear. This is the most action we have seen up to this point. We have done our best to try and beat back and contain this wave of Communist forces. I can’t believe I survived the month long Battle of Hue, with all the destruction our side did to the city. The inhumanity of the Viet Cong was unlike anything I could ever imagine witnessing. They executed thousands of residents in Hue; some of the guys are referring to it as the “Massacre at Hue”. I was weary of our commitment to this war before, but somebody has to stop them. I fought them for another two months when they transferred me to the combat base at Khe Sanh. We fought them back and were victorious after in spite of all their persistence. We may have won this battle, but we had many casualties and underestimated the abilities of the Communist to be able to stage such a large scale attack due to all the defeats we have handed them in the past. We were able to kill over 8,000...
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...The Tet offensive is considered one of America’s greatest intelligence failures. The word Tet means Vietnamese New Year and it come from the word Tet Nguyen Dan, which means “Feast of the First Morning of the First Day”. The Tet celebrations is very important to the Vietnamese people and is the busiest time to the country. Most of the Vietnamese population travel throughout the country visiting family and friends. For the Vietnamese people the Tet celebration is a fresh start and a time where debts and paid, old disagreements are forgotten, and a house cleaning is done removing all the clutter. This is all done in the name of receiving good luck and fortune in the new year. On January 30, 1968, which was the start of the Vietnamese Buddhist Tet holiday, the Vietcong and North Vietnamese emerged from their tunnels and launched a colossal military offensive that proved to all that the war was not close to being over. The surprise attack was against the Dang base and the American embassy. The Communist forces saw a great number of casualties, but the Tet offensive drove the United States military out of the country. The United States and allies underestimated the over eighty thousand North Vietnamese force used during the offensive. Due to this underestimation “the allied intelligence had failed in its...
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...The Tet Offensive is an important event in American history because it was a battle that marked a climacteric turning point in American participation in the Vietnam War. It was a series of attacks against South Vietnam. Tet is a holiday on the Vietnamese calendar that has been valued by many people. It had been an occasion for an unofficial peace agreement in the Vietnam War between the South and North. On the eve of the holiday, South Vietnam found themselves caught up in war. North Vietnam attacked the city of Hue, on the eve of the New Year holiday, knowing that everyone had let their guards down that night. The attacks were meant to stir up uprising among the South Vietnamese population and scale down American involvement in the war....
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...The tet holiday in Vietnam Tet - Vietnamese Lunar New Year, is the most important Festival of Vietnamese people. The Chinese New Year and Tet, the Vietnamese New Year have many similarities. Tet is the abbreviation of Tet Nguyen Dan which means the first morning of the first day of the new period. Tet marks the beginning of a new year on the lunar calendar, and the beginning of Spring. Vietnamese are constantly aware of the phases of the moon. All events are planned by the lunar calendar. The New Year begins on the first night of the first moon after the sun enters Aquarius. This is sometime between January 21 and February 19 on the solar calendar. Although officially a three-day affair, festivities may continue for a week or more with every effort made to indulge in eating, drinking, and enjoyable social activities. It is also a time for family reunions, and for paying respect to ancestors and the elders. Gifts of food are made to friends, neighbors and relatives in the days before Tet. Families save money, store food, and plan far in advance for Tet, major holiday in Vietnam. They buy new clothes, paint and clean their homes, cook three days worth of food, pay off all debts and make amends to rid themselves of all bad feelings. Cleaning is frowned on during Tet because one would not want to sweep out any good luck. Digging and drawing water is also not allowed so the ground and water can enjoy the holiday. The marketplace is very busy the week before Tet, as people...
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...Comments on FUTURE SHOCK C. P. Snow: "Remarkable ... No one ought to have the nerve to pontificate on our present worries without reading it." R. Buckminster Fuller: "Cogent ... brilliant ... I hope vast numbers will read Toffler's book." Betty Friedan: "Brilliant and true ... Should be read by anyone with the responsibility of leading or participating in movements for change in America today." Marshall McLuhan: "FUTURE SHOCK ... is 'where it's at.'" Robert Rimmer, author of The Harrad Experiment: "A magnificent job ... Must reading." John Diebold: "For those who want to understand the social and psychological implications of the technological revolution, this is an incomparable book." WALL STREET JOURNAL: "Explosive ... Brilliantly formulated." LONDON DAILY EXPRESS: "Alvin Toffler has sent something of a shock-wave through Western society." LE FIGARO: "The best study of our times that I know ... Of all the books that I have read in the last 20 years, it is by far the one that has taught me the most." THE TIMES OF INDIA: "To the elite ... who often get committed to age-old institutions or material goals alone, let Toffler's FUTURE SHOCK be a lesson and a warning." MANCHESTER GUARDIAN: "An American book that will ... reshape our thinking even more radically than Galbraith's did in the 1950s ... The book is more than a book, and it will do more than send reviewers raving ... It is a spectacular outcrop of a formidable, organized intellectual effort ... For the first time in history...
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...How accurate is it to say that the Tet Offensive of 1968 was the most important reason for US withdrawal from Vietnam? There are many reasons that lead to the US withdrawing from Vietnam, like the Tet Offensive which can be seen as the most crucial turning point in the war for America as it was the first wide-scale organised attack by the Viet Cong and raised doubt among American public about the causes and the outcome of the war. However it is not the only reason that could have led to withdrawal; the election of the tough President Nixon, the media’s unflattering coverage of US forces and influencing public opinion, the process of withdrawal and the decreased threat of communism due to the Sino-Soviet split. Without any one of these major events or situations I don’t think withdrawal from Vietnam would have been in 1973 but possibly later. The Tet offensive was extremely significant as it was first and foremost a moral boost for the NVA who saw the success if short-lived of strategic surprise on the US troops and bases in the South. The US troops did not understand the willingness the NVA were to die for their cause and so it was in huge contrast to their own feelings about fighting in Vietnam- the Viet Cong weren’t going to give up easily. It was more of a shock to Americans than a defeat as Tet is a national holiday in Vietnam and was typically a truce but using their large numbers and weapons; the Viet Cong did not succeed in maintaining any control in the Southern cities...
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...the American public with the war on an almost hourly basis." Despite initially positive media coverage of the war, it soon became increasingly negative, in some cases falsely so. It has been suggested that the media coverage of the Tet Offensive was an exaggeration of the true course of events that helped shock the American Public. But did the media coverage of this major battle really change public perception leading to America withdrawing from the Vietnam War? With the outbreak of the Tet Offensive the Vietnam War had hit the urban areas and had subsequently become more reported on than at any other point previous in the war. Many of the Journalists had not experienced war at first hand to such a scale and were shocked by what they were seeing and the ferocity of the attacks. The surprise nature of the attack coupled with the warfare inexperience of many journalists present in Vietnam saw many of them change their verdict on this war in Vietnam. They no longer accepted the official reports of progress from government and military announcements. The Tet offensive seemed to show that America was not winning the war against the communists in the North and so subsequently the media coverage reflected this. The most famous report on the Tet offensive was by CBS News reporter Walter Cronkite. In a...
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...Unwinnable war II The unwinnable war speech is a speech that is written and spoken by Robert F. Kennedy, which will say, that he is the sender of this text. The speech was hold under the circumstances of the Vietnam War. At the time the speech was hold, USA was loosing in Vietnam and Robert F. Kennedy was presidential candidate. Which will say that he by some knew about the war and its consequences. The speech is turned against the explicit audience of the USA population, who assumed that the US was winning the war in Vietnam. He is using rhetorical devises as logos and Ethos, he is well formulated and trying to make his points as clear as possible and do it with a passion about the topic. He uses logos when he want’s to make a point clear to his audience: ‘’Imagine the impact in our own country if an equivalent number—over 25 million Americans—were wandering homeless or interned in refugee camps, and millions more refugees were being created as New York and Chicago, Washington and Boston, were being destroyed by a war raging in their streets.’’ (l. 58-61, p. 3) So as we can se in this example, he both use some sort of figurative language because he compares the Vietnam situation in a American perspective and while he do that, he is emphasizing he’s argument by putting numbers to the bigger picture and appealing to people with logos. He does also uses pathos in a smaller degree as here, when he both appealing with logos and pathos at the same time: ‘‘you cannot expect...
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...Please print or type. (Form designed for use on elite (12-pitch) typewriter.) UNIFORM HAZARDOUS 1. Generator ID Number WASTE MANIFEST 5. Generator's Name and Mailing Address 2. Page 1 of 3. Emergency Response Phone Form Approved. OMB No. 2050-0039 4. Manifest Tracking Number PSC Generator's Site Address (if different than mailing address) Generator's Phone: 6. Transporter 1 Company Name 7. Transporter 2 Company Name 8. Designated Facility Name and Site Address U.S. EPA ID Number U.S. EPA ID Number U.S. EPA ID Number Facility's Phone: 9a. HM 9b. U.S. DOT Description (including Proper Shipping Name, Hazard Class, ID Number, and Packing Group (if any)) 1. 10. Containers No. Type 11. Total Quantity 12. Unit Wt./Vol. 13. Waste Codes GENERATOR 2. 3. 4. 14. Special Handling Instructions and Additional Information 15. GENERATOR’S/OFFEROR’S CERTIFICATION: I hereby declare that the contents of this consignment are fully and accurately described above by the proper shipping name, and are classified, packaged, marked and labeled/placarded, and are in all respects in proper condition for transport according to applicable international and national governmental regulations. If export shipment and I am the Primary Exporter, I certify that the contents of this consignment conform to the terms of the attached EPA Acknowledgment of Consent. I certify that the waste minimization statement identified in 40 CFR 262.27(a) (if I am a large quantity generator) or (b)...
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...Section 1: Identification and Evaluation of sources The focus of this investigation is “To what extend did the Tet offensive change the United States’ public perception and military plans regarding Vietnam?” The essay will compare and contrast how the United States reacts to Vietnam before and after the Tet Offensive, while also evaluating any other factors that might also had a role. Since the Tet Offensive is a series of events, the essay will analyze all effects since the start of the offensive through the end. Source 1: “Tet” section of “Vietnam: A history” by Stanley Karnow Stanley Karnow worked for Time, Life, the Washington Post, and NBC to cover Asia from 1959-1974. He started to write this secondary source book when he arrived in Vietnam on July 1959. The book serves to...
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...The Tet Offensive, was a series of North Vietnamese surprise attacks on many cities and outposts in South Vietnam. It is estimated that there were 39,000 U.S. casualties during the Tet Offensive. This marked a turning point for U.S. officials to start gradually withdrawing the U.S. from Vietnam. Nearly two months after the Tet Offensive another large event took place that would change the way people saw this war even more. The My Lai massacre took place on March 16th, 1968. U.S. soldiers had murdered more than 500 My Lai civilians. The commanding officer of the unit attempted to cover the massacre up, however it was seen by a helicopter gunner from a different unit. After investigation, Lt. William Calley was convicted and charged. The My Lai massacre had both an effect on U.S. soldiers and citizens. During the same month of this massacre, President Johnson halted the bombing in North Vietnam and announced...
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...Vietnam was tangled in a decades-long civil war, and the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was the start of the United States formal involvement in the Vietnam War, with the stated goal of stopping the spread of communism in the region. It passed commonly in the U.S. House of Representatives, and with only two conflicting votes in the U.S. Senate. Tet Offensive: The Tet Offensive was a harmonize series of North Vietnamese attacks on more than 100 cities and frontier in South Vietnam. What was annoying was the bid to agitate rebellion against the South Vietnamese culture and boost the United States to scale back its involvement in the Vietnam War. Even though heavy casualties, North Vietnam accomplished a critical victory with the Tet Offensive, as the attacks marked a turning point in the Vietnam War and the beginning of the slow, painful American withdrawal from the...
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...The Tet Offensive began January 31, 1968 as the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong broke a cease-fire that was declared for the duration for the Tet Celebration. These attacks were launched at over sixty districts, thirty-six provincial capitals, and in major cities all across South Vietnam. This attack was successful due to the extreme lack of intelligence and communication between the United States and the U.S. embassy in Saigon. This attack led to major changes in the political and civil systems in both the United States and South Vietnam. This was a major turning point for the war as it caused many problems within the governments’, as well as within the American public. By the fall of 1967 polls indicated that the public support for the...
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...The Vietnam War was one of most hated wars of the United States history. This war was almost last twenty years long. This war was heavily covered in the media of the time period due to fact that it was an uncensored war. The media coverage at the beginning of the Vietnam War was for war was for the war, but there was a turning point in the media coverage that changes public opinion. This event was the Tet Offensive which is a very famous military event of the Vietnam War. This event was one of major changing point of the Vietnam War and public opinions of the Vietnam War. This can be seen in the newspaper articles that were published after the Tet Offensive. This essay with focus on the newspaper for the Vietnam War to argue the point of...
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