At a glance text 1 structure is very different than text 2. It uses paragraphs, titles and contain more information comparing to text 2 only a picture and a dialogue. I think their purpose is to warn the citizens on the situation of the Vietnam War however text 1 comes from Vietnam and text 2 comes from America. These two text supports on the disapproval of the American government to expand the war. However text 2 is more to wanting to stop the war. Text 1 creates a realization to the audience
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DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE OF THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF VIET-NAM Ho Chi Minh's Speech, Ba Dinh Square, September 2, 1945 "All men are created equal. They are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights; among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness." This immortal statement was made in the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America in 1776. In a broader sense, this means: All the peoples on the earth are equal from birth, all the peoples have a
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Ho Chi Minh Ho chi minh was born on May 19th 1890, in small farming village Kim lien in Annam (central Vietnam), he was born with the name nguyen sinh cung but later adopted the name Ho Chi Minh meaning “he who enlightens”. After completing a primary school education in 1907 at a local school, he travelled to the city of hue accompanied by his brother to study in the franco-vietnamese academy, 3 years later Ho dropped out and work as a school teacher in the town of phan thiet. In 1911 ho got
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The Vietnam War started in 1955 after the Ho Chi Minh rose to power. More than three million people died in the war (History). The Vietnam War proceeded over a long period of time. The war changed the United States’ role in the world because it was the first time that people argued that Americans “lost” (English). Soldiers all over America either volunteered or were drafted into the war. It was a war between North and South Vietnam. The United States was trying to keep the South from becoming communist
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The Vietnam War was a long, costly, and gruesome war that America wants to keep in their distant memories. It was fought between the United States and South Vietnam against North Vietnam and their Southern allies, Viet Cong. The Vietnam War initially began as a fight between the two Asian countries, North and South Vietnam, for territory; North Vietnam wanted complete ownership of South Vietnam’s land, and the invasion of their territory ignited a war. The United States later joined in the battle
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that is, to sustain the trustworthiness and integrity of the pledge of Washington to restrain the evil menace, communism, across the globe. In 1950s, the communist regime expanded into North Vietnam under the leadership of Ho Chi Minh. The U.S leaders at the time believed that Ho Chi Minh could barely crushed the armed forces of France in the 1950s (Moyar 2006) or provoked the United States ten years after without firepower support from Beijing and Moscow, the two major communism headquarters. Fearing
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THE KOREAN WAR * The Korean War lasted from 1950-1953. * The peninsula was divided after World War Two into a Russian-backed north (The People’s Democratic Republic) and the American-backed south (the Republic of Korea). Each claimed the right to the other half in an effort to unify both. The division was the result of the occupation of Korea by the communists after the end of the war with the country eventually being divided at the 38th parallel. * In June 1950, the North Koreans launched
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1954 because of different economic ideologies. Communist was in the North and capitalist in the South. Ho Chi Minh was a Vietnamese revolutionary leader, who established the communist governed Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1945. Ho Chi Minh became president of Democratic Republic of Vietnam from 1945 to 1969. He died in 1969. After the fall of Saigon in 1975, the Communist Party renamed Ho Chi Minh City in his honor. In 1975, the Communist Party unified the North and South as one. The country’s
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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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