People’s Army of Vietnam was able to defeat the French in the first Indo-china war due a variety of reasons. It was a combination of Vietnam’s strong sense of nationalism‚ strong leadership led by Ho Chi Minh and Vo Nguyen Giap‚ the Viet Minh’s strengths and military tactics and the weaknesses of the French which would contribute to the Viet Minh victory at Dien Bien Phu. Vietnam’s strong sense of nationalism was a major contributor why Vietnam was able to defeat the French in Indochina. Nationalism
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conveniences of big cities . Especially in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC)‚ thousands of people rush into this city each year. These people want to have better lives. However‚ too many people migrate to HCMC also gives many problems to the Government. Why do they leave their hometown for HCMC? What problems will they bring to HCMC. In this essay‚ I’ll mention about the causes and the effects of too many immigrants in this city. Ho Chi Minh city is a large and important town‚ it has a
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present us with a balanced interpretation of this personality? History presents us with a balanced interpretation of Ho Chi Minh to some a major extent‚ however there are some inconsistencies with views of historians. While the majority agree to some extent that Ho was either communist or nationalist some are divided by this theory and provide us with two different perspectives of Ho Chi Minh. Historians such as Osborne present us with a positive view of Ho and describe him as a great leader. However
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Vietnam war‚ the average American could not point out Vietnam on the map. Now most Americans can point it out on the map and feel ashamed of how the war resulted. The Vietnam war was what in which the north and south of Vietnam were fighting against each other with the support of foreign forces. The weather seems to be a back room or from the Cold War ended tragically. The war in perspective of the united states was just a war on the contaminant. To Ho Chi Minh the was to unite the lands people into
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Union couldn’t risk a war against each other. However‚ they had client states that could continue the fights for them. The Americans actually fought in Vietnam therefore in the cold war ‘game’ the USSR could not. However they supported their fellow communist state‚ China by supplying them with resources such as armed weapons. In return they would equip and arm the North Vietnamese who fought against America. Vietnam was part of the French empire before World War Two. During the war the Japanese took
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Wageningen Agricultural University‚ PhD dissertation‚ 1998 Curtis‚ V.‚ Biram A.‚ Dirt‚ Disgust and Disease‚ Is hygiene in our genes? Perspectives in Biology and Medicine‚ The Johns Hopkins University Press‚ 2001a: 44(1): 17–31 Curtis‚ V.‚ Hygiene: How myths‚ Monsters and Mothers-in-law can Promote Behaviour change‚ Journal of Infection‚ 2001b: 43: 75-79 Douglas‚ M.‚ Purity and danger. An analysis of the concept of pollution and taboo‚ Routledge Classics‚ New York‚ 2002 [new ed Ekanem E. O‚ The street
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of Ho Chi Minh. General Giap’s skills and expertise of were an essential element of the French defeat in 1954. However General Giap cannot be held solely responsible‚ the political skills of Ho Chi Minh (the leader of the Viet Minh independence movement) cannot be underestimated. There were many reasons for the French defeat in Vietnam‚ abundant mistakes were made and the Viet Minh were lead by two of the greatest leaders of the 20th century. Giap orchestrated the defeat of the French and was particularly
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Women’s Health in Ho Chi Minh City Project (1/11/2004 – 30/9/2006) Implemented by Ho Chi Minh City AIDS Committee with technical and financial support from Family Health International (FHI) Assessment of Female Sex Work in Ho Chi Minh City Submitted to Family Health International‚ Hanoi by Nguyen Nguyen Nhu Trang Hang Thi Xuan Lan April 2005 Acknowledgements This assessment was conducted with invaluable support from the collaborators of Quality of Life Promotion (Life)
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Who was Nguyễn Sinh Cung? More commonly known as Ho Chi-Minh‚ he was a champion for Vietnamese independence‚ a member of the Communist Party‚ and later the President of Communist North Vietnam. During the Vietnam War‚ Ho was the figurehead and leader of the North Vietnamese Army‚ and supported of the Communists in South Vietnam‚ the Viet Cong. During his life‚ Ho Chi-Minh accomplished many things‚ such as reigning in the Communist supporters in South Vietnam‚ and turning them into a deadly Guerrilla
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The virtue of ethics as define by Aristotle in its simplistic form is to discover the nature of human happiness. Happiness is the highest good and the end at which all our activities ultimately aim. The difficulty is that people don’t agree on what makes for a happy or good life‚ so the purpose of the ethics is to find an answer to this question. The answer is imprecise because practical circumstances vary a great deal when considering a person’s life as a whole. Aristotle defines virtue as a
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