Good afternoon. There are many organisations that exist to keep the amazing cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum alive. They run continuous projects that aim at the restoration of these two sites to help keep them available for as long as possible for future generations to see and future archaeologists to excavate. Without these NGO’s‚ Pompeii and Herculaneum would most likely not be visible to us today. Excavations have been taking place in Pompeii and Herculaneum since before the 1800s. The attempts
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INTRODUCTION Vietnam and the 20th Century Experience The Buddhist crisis was a period of political and religious tension in South Vietnam which led a series of repressive acts by South Vietnamese government. The crisis was precipitated by the shooting of nine unarmed civilians who were protesting a ban of the Buddhist flag in the city of Hue. According to Moss 2010‚ “thousands of Buddhists took to the streets to protest the shootings and to demand religious freedom. Diem responded by rejecting
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this event are; the division of Vietnam‚ 1946 and the first Indo-China war‚ 1946-54. The battle of Dien Bien Phu also had important consequences that affected the lives of the Vietnamese. These are; the Geneva conference‚ 1954 and the appointing of Ngo Dinh Diem as Prime Minister of the State of Vietnam. The first cause of the battle of Dien Bien Phu was the division of Vietnam in 1946. After thousands of years of occupation‚ Vietnam and it’s people had developed a strong sense of nationalism
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Madison Krause M. Sherman AP English February 6th‚ 2013 Effects of the Vietnam War When people are asked what they think of when they hear the words “Vietnam War”‚ they may envision Rambo on a bloody‚ barbaric‚ and yet heroic killing spree or Forrest Gump getting shot in the buttock. Others may think of a grandparent or parent who fought in the grizzly guerilla warfare. Many can still recall their direct experience with the war‚ whether
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writings in addition to demonstrations through hunger strikes‚ extreme acts that included of self-sacrifice‚ along with peaceful protests (Toong‚ 2008). As these protests and exhibitions elevated to extreme levels‚ the public that had once supported Ngo Dinh Diem and the US’ role in backing his leadership began to decline. According to Moss‚ “Diem’s extreme actions caused U.S. officials‚ including President Kennedy‚ to support the coup that destroyed the Diem family oligarchy” (pg. xv). Diem and
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In the months that followed the Geneva Conference of 1954‚ the United States and the South Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem (c. 1901 – 1963) formed an illustrious and faithful partnership that transcended the humble disagreements of the previous months. The United States relied on Diem as an instrument to further the establishment of independence‚ and anti-communist ideas in the Southern reaches of Vietnam‚ which would in turn‚ stand as a bulwark against the expansion of Communism in the Southeast
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Globalization: Technology and Development 22 April 2012 Tech Project: A Proposal to a Wind and Solar Energy NGO in Turkey INTRODUCTION Background. For many reasons‚ there has been an influx of demand for renewable energy production. All this demand rises from the initial issue that‚ at the moment‚ the world essentially runs on finite resources.Much of the world’s energy is currently produced and consumed in ways that are unsustainable if current technology and practices were left unchanged
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The Vietnam War -A History project- Nadine Gan‚ Grade 9 Part One. The Overview History ~ French Indochina ~ Vietnamisation ~ Epilogue Vietnam was a part of the French colony‚ Indo-‐China. Then at September 1940‚ the Japanese decided to invade Vietnam to prevent China from sending supplies through French Indo-‐China. Having invaded by
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book‚ Zinn covers the Vietnam war and the resistance to it. As the chapter title states‚ Zinn argues that the U.S was fighting a war that they could not win as the Vietnamese people were in favor of the government of Ho Chi Minh and opposed the of Ngo Dinh Diem‚ thus allowing them to keep morale high. Meanwhile‚ the American military’s morale for the war was very low‚ as many soldiers were put off by the atrocities that they were made to take part in‚ such as the My Lai massacre. Zinn also tries
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Water Quality and Human Health in Southern Africa: Application to Scenarios to Zimbabwe Tarirai Manyevere A Dissertation Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MSc in Enviromental Sciences(Pollution and Monitoring) Brunel University(United Kingdom) 2010 ABSTRACT Parsons and Tredoux (1995) in their research noted that water quality requirement for a particular use plays an important role in the management
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