My daily schedule is to wake up, go to class, do homework, eat and hang out with my friends. I think my life is too boring and I was really surprised when I heard my parents talk about their childhood, I was jealous of them. Said by Tran (personal communication, March 2, 2014), children could go out with their friends without permission because they just needed to go to class in the afternoon and so on. Sometimes, I wish I could swap my life with that of my parents. However, I realize that a teenager’s life today is better than in my parent’s time because of the country’s status, food resources, education and health care. To understand the reason why I make this decision, I will first explain the difference of country’s situation, then I will give my comparisons between two lives, now and then based on the three aspects that I have given by far.
My mother said that her generation grew up during the Post–Vietnam War era (1945-1975) (Vu, personal communication, March 3, 2014). At this time, the government was having various problems to solve. The economy had become exhausted, food could not be provided to everybody, the civilians and government had to face three different enemies: food shortage, illiteracy, and invaders (Diet giac doi…, 2012, n.p.g.). Moreover, because of helping Cambodia’s civil war in the 1960’s and 1970’s (Szakmary, n.d., n.p.g.), Vietnam was prevented from receiving international supports. The only country could be able to help Vietnam during that period was Russia (Russia strengthens ties…, 2013, n.p.g.). For that reason, Vietnamese government finally had the chance to bring the country through the crisis itself. Its efforts have paid off tremendously. From 1990s, Viet Nam has changed enormously (Changes in V...
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Lawrence’s purpose in writing this book was concise and to the point. In recent history, due to the fall of the Soviet bloc, new information has been made available for use in Vietnam. As stated in the introduction, “This book aims to take account of this new scholarship in a brief, accessible narrative of the Vietnam War… It places the war within the long flow of Vietnamese history and then captures the goals and experiences of various governments that became deeply embroiled in the country during the second half of the twentieth century” (Lawrence, 3.) This study is not only about the American government and how they were involved in the Vietnam conflict, but highlights other such countries as France, China, and the Soviet Union. Lawrence goes on to say that one of his major goals in writing this book is to examine the American role in Vietnam within an international context (Lawrence, 4.) Again, this goes to show that the major purpose of Lawrence’s study included not only ...
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Vietnam was a highly debated war among citizens of the United States. This war was like no other with regards to how it affected people on the home front. In past war’s, the population of the United States mainly supported the war and admired soldiers for their courage. During the Vietnam War, citizens of the U.S. had a contradictory view than in the past. This dilemma of not having the support of the people originates from the culture and the time period.
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From the year 1955 when the United States vowed to help support the South Vietnamese fight off the Northern communist, a total of about 60,000 soldiers dead and 300,000 wounded. The soldiers who offered their lives were on average the age of 23 meaning many gave up education and a family to fight for the lives in the bloody massacre we call the Vietnam War. At the beginning the United States only gave minor assistance to South Vietnam, but as the years continued and the Northern Communist began crippling the South, the United States offered more military aid. In 1961 after President John F. Kennedy sent a group of officials to assess the progress of preventing the spread of communism. It became evident that more military support was needed. “Working under the "domino theory," which held that if one Southeast Asian country fell to communism, many would follow, Kennedy increased U.S. aid, though he stopped short of committing to a large-scale military intervention”(History 1). After a group of generals over threw Ngo Dinh Diem the president of the government of the public of Vietnam the South Vietnam government become very unstable. Three weeks later President John F. Kennedy was assassinated befo...
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This war on communism did not bring any solutions because even today Vietnam is still a communist country; therefore, the soldiers do not feel they had fought for a real cause. No one received anything that was satisfactory to him or her from the war. The men ended up going home scared for life at the violence and death they had seen in the Vietnam jungle.... ... middle of paper ... ... Works Cited Bremner, J. & Co., Ltd.
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In Hayslip’s book When Heaven and Earth Changed Places, she talks about her life as a peasant’s daughter and her and her family’s involvement in the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War has not only affected Vietnam itself, but also the United States, where in the beginning they did not want to get involved. However, with the spread of communism, which had already affected China, the president at the time Lyndon Johnson, thought it was time to stop the spread of the Vietnam War. With America’s involvement in the war, it caused great problems for both sides. In Vietnam, it causes the local people from the south and north side to split up and either becomes a supporter of communism or of the US’s capitalist views. In addition, it caused displacement for those local people, thus losing their family. In America, the Vietnam War has brought about PTSD, post-traumatic stress disorder, and deaths of many soldiers, more than World War II. With the thought of containment for communism, the US had gave back Vietnam their war and “gave up” on the war, leaving Southeast Asia in the sphere of communist views. With the thought of the domino theory that a country will fall in similar events like the neighboring countries, like China as Vietnam’s neighbor the United States tried to remove communism from Vietnam. US’s involvement in the war caused problems for both sides of the war.
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First, the importance of having a moral in youth could help those avoiding social problems. In family, parents play an important role in teaching them about moral values. They are the role model of their children and should be more concern about their children’s activities and who’s their friends. If the parent spends more time on their teenagers especially, it will decrease the social problem that have been seems rising these few years. Parents should take an action right now by taking care of their children with care and disciplines. For some parents, they are very strict about their teenagers loitering arou...