fighting in the Vietnam War. Some people supported the U.S. sending troops to Vietnam to help in the war‚ and others opposed this action. The story called Waiting for Dan and a letter which is called A Letter Home are texts written about some of the events that took place during this time in history. Although these pieces of text are about different protests‚ the protestors in them have similarities that are significant to the overall happenings of this time period. Although the protesters from both the
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Assess the reasons for the communist victory in the 2nd Indochina War The communist victory in the second Indochina war was highly due to the failures of conventional warfare from the US and ARVN such as the bombing of the Ho Chi Minh Trail and search and destroy missions which did little to bring down the Viet Cong. The Tet Offensive also contributed by being a turning point for the war‚ leading to a decreasing American support for the war as it caused media chaos. The end of US aid through the
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Dear headmaster‚ I am writing to complain about the fact that students from my son’s school‚ Cardif Highschool are often left unattended. Although your school is one of the best in the entire country‚ as a parent I feel that my child isn’t treated good enough and not supervised enough. Therefore ‚neither me nor my wife thought that maybe we should change the place where our kid learns. Furthermore when I bring my son to school I can see the brutality of those who are in a greater grade they
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Welcome to Vietnam! If someday you decided to go to visit other countries‚ you should go to visit the very beautiful country‚ Vietnam! It is located in Southeastern Asia‚ nearby Thailand‚ Laos‚ South China Sea‚ alongside China‚ and Cambodia. It is very interesting that Vietnam has the geographic shape looks like the letter S. The weather is hot‚ rainy and humid from May to September and it is dry from October to March. There are a lot of big cities in Vietnam‚ for example‚ Ho Chi Minh City‚ Ha Noi
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Letters from Rifka The genre of my book is fiction. The setting begins in a train station on September 2‚1919 in Berdichev‚ Russia where the sun rose above the trees at a train station and Rifka stood outside a boxcar. Rika is the main character and she is a 12 year old jewish girl from Berdichev who is trying to flee with her family to America. The main characters of the story are Rifka‚ her mother and father and her two brothers Saul and Nathan. Her and her family are trying to escape from
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Letter from a Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr. mentions the atrocities of racism and describes his endless battles against it. King does this in an effective and logical way. King establishes his position supported by historical and biblical allusions‚ counterarguments‚ and the use of rhetorical devices such as ethos‚ pathos‚ and logos. With the use of King’s rhetorical devices‚ he described the ways of the Birmingham community and their beliefs‚ connected to the reader on an emotional level
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The Letter of St. Arthur To The Church of Jesuit High School at Tampa I.Greeting Arthur‚ a loyal disciple of Jesus Christ‚ was appointed by God to write letters to communities that he thought was struggling. God chose him because he believes that Arthur has the best ability to have a large impact on the community at Jesuit Tampa Church. They have been a thriving community but they have started to stay away from God so it was necessary for him to write a letter to them. II. Prayer First‚ I would
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The Vietnam War “End the war now! Bring the troops home‚” (Figure 1) is one saying of many that American’s used to protest the war. The Americans protested the Vietnam war to stand up for their country and civilians around them. They were not willing to get involved in yet another war and see many men die in war again. The Vietnam war was America and South Vietnam versus North Vietnam. North Vietnam was communist and South Vietnam and America were anti-communist. America helped South Vietnam stay
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In the two texts "A letter home" and "Waiting for Dan" it has come to my attention that there are plenty of similarities but also many differences between the two stories in the text. In the two texts "A letter home" and "Waiting for Dan" there are a few similarities that string along between the two texts as well as there are differences. In the text "A letter home" the story is basically all about people’s feelings and how they feel about the military raiding Cambodia‚ "any students were outraged
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Character Essay- Mai from "Goodbye‚ Vietnam" Mai is the main character in the story "Goodbye‚ Vietnam". She has a nice personality. She works hard in the rice paddies as well as in her school. She obeys her parents and gets along with her sibling‚ Anh and Thant. Mai never whines and is always there to help. As the story progresses‚ she becomes stronger as a person does. Her strengths are being able to get along with easy‚ working hard‚ and being a very mature person. Her largest strength is being
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