SUPERSTITIONS IN VIETNAM Vietnam has many customs involving superstitious activities. Some of them are: burning votive paper‚ meeting fortune tellers to ask for a prediction of future‚ especially some negative superstitions prevent some young couples from marriage because of their contrasting ages. Vietnamese people think that it is a lucky thing to pick some buds from a pagoda‚ receive lucky money on Tet holidays. Some people also think that if they eat tofu and peas before an exam‚ they would
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History of photography The history of photography has roots in remote antiquity with the discovery of the principle of the camera obscure and the observation that some substances are visibly altered by exposure to light. As far as is known‚ nobody thought of bringing these two phenomena together to capture camera images in permanent form until around 1800‚ when Thomas Wedgwood made the first reliably documented although unsuccessful attempt. In the mid-1820s‚ Nicéphore Niépce succeeded‚ but several
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Vietnam War The war first began in 1959‚ five years after the division of the country by the Geneva Accords. Vietnam had been split into two. The communist government in the north was under Ho Chi Minh and democratic government in the south was under Ngo Dinh Diem. The Vietnam War stated because France tried to make another attempt to takeover Vietnam by having a foreign power to rule. In Vietnam the target of containment was Ho Chi Minh and the Vietnam front he had created in 1941. Ho and
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have to do with the 1960’s? Look for things besides rebellion against the Vietnam War. The student movement was the next major social change movement to develop in the 1960s. Many of its early organizers had first become politically active in the early 1960s working alongside blacks in civil rights protests. The student movement worked primarily to fight racism and poverty‚ increase student rights‚ and to end the Vietnam War. At the core of the student movement was a belief in participatory democracy
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Vietnam Independence ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● a) What happened? The war started from 1959 to April 30‚ 1975 1858 to 1884 France invades Vietnam and makes Vietnam a colony. September 1940 Japan invades Vietnam. May 1941 Ho Chi Minh‚ also known as the leader of vietnam establishes the Viet Minh (League for the Independence of Vietnam). September 2‚ 1945 – Vietnam become Democratic Republic of Vietnam. May 7‚ 1954 The French suffer a decisive defeat at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu
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The Vietnam War was a brutal war that affected millions of people in many different countries. All wars start because there is a difference in people s opinions‚ and the Vietnam War was no different. It started because France and a Vietnam leader‚ Ho Chi Minh‚ had a difference in opinion about the type of government Vietnam should have. To find out why the war broke out you will have to go back to the 1750 s. This is where the French started their so-called protectorate state of Vietnam. For many
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drive ahead and leave beggars behind might be unemotional one. The selfishness makes them become hard to give something to someone else. In the same way‚ most people in Vietnam ignore beggars and homeless people because they are fear to be treated by liars. According to Vietnam online newspapers‚ nearly 80 percent of beggars in Vietnam are normal people. They pretend to be disabilities in order to get help from drivers and walkers. This figure indirectly encourage people not help homeless ones because
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Response for Chapter 1 After read the book of Susan Sontag’s On Photography‚ the idea of essential of photography comes into my mind. Photography is really important in our daily life. It can capture the moments of the life‚ whatever it is happy or upset. In this book‚ the writer discusses how perspective changing through by photography. In chapter one‚ Sontage gives readers a idea which “the most grandiose result of the photographic enterprise is to give us the sense that we can hold the whole
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As a digital photographer‚ if you haven’t been asked this question you eventually will: “Do you manipulate your photographs?” Sometimes it comes under another aspect: “Do you change the colors?” And occasionally it goes straight to the heart of the matter: “Is this real?” There is a certain percentage of the public who believes that fine art photographs must represent reality. There are people who do not know that there are differences between what they see and what the camera captures. Finally
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Why Did the USA Become Increasingly Involved in Vietnam? The Vietnam War- one of the bloodiest‚ grimmest‚ and most trying times of the Cold War. A war that many believed was fought in vain and without purpose and that “…produced no famous victories‚ no national heroes and no patriotic songs…” A war that threw the USA into public disdain for intervening where intervention was not needed; for causing bloodshed when none was called for- and all in the name of a failed policy of Containment and the
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