Essays on Vietnam

The Rooftops of Vietnam Are you searching for a place that provides thrilling adventure and peaceful relaxation? Nestled on the coast of the South China Sea, small, tropical Vietnam is a place of natural wonder and great human ingenuity. One city in particular is a...

Hidden in a labyrinthine network of roads and backstreets, in the heart of a humble inner-city suburb, the Mai Tam House of Hope fosters abandoned children and struggling mothers infected with HIV/AIDS. From the outside, the House of Hope was no different from any other...

The Tonkin Gulf Resolution was a joint resolution passed by the United States Congress on August 10th, 1964 after a military incident between the United States and North Vietnam in the Gulf of Tonkin bordering the coast of Vietnam. The military incident was an attack...

At 3:00 in the morning on January thirty first, 1968, North Vietnamese and Vietcong forces underwent a lot of concurrent assaults on South Vietnamese and American forces in major cities, towns and military bases throughout South Vietnam. The combat, the wars fiercest, was on the...

Everyone in this world all has their own cultural identity, the culture where they belong to. As a Vietnamese teenager, I have been wondering in my whole life asking myself tons of questions about my cultural identiy and where I actually belong to. Who am...

China and Vietnam have established some of the most promising payments for ecosystem services (PES) initiatives for watershed conservation and forest management. China’s Sloping Land Conversion Programme (SLCP) and Vietnam’s pilot projects for Decision 380 subsequent PES laws are one of these initiatives. The selected...

Mekong Delta has been favoring Vietnam tourism for many years with its beautiful landscapes filled with rice paddy fields and other green luxuries. There are many different adventurous activities one can unleash in Mekong Delta, which has indeed made Mekong Delta tour packages a popular...

Halong Bay, a stunning UNESCO World Heritage site is a popular tourist destination Vietnam. Being one of the most breathtaking travel destinations and a must travel place in my bucket list, I finally toured the Halong Bay last week. For my Halong Bay Dream Cruise,...

Post-memory Post-memory refers to the generational transmission of memories about events. It entails a generation living to memorize the experiences of the past generation that witnessed the event and working to pass on the memories to the next generation. Vietnamese Americans and Layered Memories Vietnamese...

My family has 6 people: my father, mother, one sister, and two brothers. My sister is a very nice person, but she can get annoy by others easily though. She’s my favorite person in the family, probably because she’s fun and not as strict as...

Education system may vary among countries but always be of considerable concern to almost all people throughout the world. Thus, there is a wealth of ongoing debates surrounding its role, its function or its efficiency on a global scale. According to John Holt (1969), “school...

THE PARIS PEACE ACCORDS: Compromises to end the Vietnam WarHarini Venkatachalapathi World History Honors Period 2 Mr.Coburn 11 / 18 / 18 “Was it the poor decisions made by civilian leaders, a hostile media, and the antiwar movement , or was it doomed to failure...

Halong Bay Location Halong Bay is located in the North East of Vietnam, is part of the western part of the Gulf of Tonkin, including the waters of Ha Long City, Cam Pha Town, and part of Van Don Island District. It borders Cat Ba...

Introduction The Ho Chi Min city also known as Saigon is metropolitan area in Vietnam. The city was brought upon because of its unique history and pivotal role that it played in the Vietnam war. Ho Chi Minh was a political leader who formed the...

Before the Vietnam War The Southeast Asian country of Vietnam had been under French control since the 1800’s and went through French rule. Later during World War 2 the Japanese invaded Vietnam and around the same time the Vietnamese political leader by the name of...

Catastrophic consequences Lasting for 20 years (1955-1975), the Vietnam War, as bloody as any other wars, took away more than 2 million lives, in which many of them were civilians. 3 million were wounded, and hundreds of thousands of children were left orphans. The war...

Introduction The years after the Second World War was full of unrest for Vietnam. The Vietnam war which simply started off as what seemed to be civilians trying to gain independence became more of a common ground for the superpowers to express their influences in...

It is evident that every country will display a different culture that best fits the citizens and working system. Without the diversity of cultures, the values, beliefs and perceptions of different countries citizens wouldn’t be prominent, leading to every country being similar. Divergent cultures make...

Halong Bay (the bay where the dragon landed) is a small bay on the west coast of the Gulf of Tonkin in the North East Coast of Vietnam, including the sea island of Ha Long City, Cam Pha City and part of the island district,...

Although the failure of the US in Vietnam can be partially due to the clever strategies of the North Vietnamese armies and the guerrilla tactics that they employed to counter those of Technology employed by the far more advanced American Army. The Vietnamese army used...

Deep in the jungles of central Vietnam, there is a cave. It’s called Hang Toi, or Dark Cave — and rightly so. With no artificial lights inside, it is simply six kilometers of pitch blackness. Instead of the usual limestone, it’s made mostly of basalt,...

Beautiful Hoi An is not just a random city in Vietnam. It is also a UNESCO World Heritage Site. This marvelous place was originally a trading port, dating all the way back to the 15th century. Since it received many imports, its architecture has taken...

Whenever I thought about visiting Vietnam, Me Kong was always on the top of my list. Honestly speaking, I was a little bit afraid and confused before coming to this place because someone who has already visited this place told me that most local tour...

By the end of 2016, the Ministry of Information and Communications has granted official licenses to four large enterprises in Vietnam to implement the fourth generation (4G) mobile telephony system, namely Viettel Telecome, VNPT (Vinaphone), Mobifone and Gtel Mobile. The 4G market in Vietnam is...

In both the Tet Offensive and French experience at Dien Bien Phu, both countries lost greatly to the Vietnamese; losses that were supposed to act as an example for future similar Vietnamese wars. In France at Dien Bien Phu, the Ho Chi Minh defeated the...

There is a variety of animals become critically endangered species all over the world such as Amur Leopard, Black Rhino and Bornean Orangutan. In particularly, in Vietnam, South China tiger and Asian elephant are two species that face the danger of extinction because human activities...

Last year, I had the experience of studying abroad through a student exchange program and my destination was The Netherlands. Vietnam – a Southeast Asian country with long history being under the heavy influence of China, can be described as a collectivist society, while The...

Nowadays, more and more people are living with HIV and it became a serious epidemic in Viet Nam. The disease is spreading fast from its core population of intravenous drug users, and one of the chief barriers to prevention and treatment is the stigma that...