How She Come To Australia From Vietnam Summary

In her book The Vietnam Wars, 1945-1990, author Marilyn Young examines the series of political and military struggles between the United States and Vietnam, a nation that has been distinctively separated as the South and the North. Young chooses to express the daily, weekly, monthly progresses of the affairs collectively called the Vietnam Wars, focusing on the American interventions in the foreign soil. She seeks to provide an answer to a question that has haunted the world for years: What was the reason behind the United States interfering in the internal affairs of a foreign country in which it had no claims at all? Young discloses the overt as well as covert actions undertaken by the U.S. government officials regarding the foreign affairs with Vietnam and the true nature of the multifaceted objectives of each and every person that’s involved had.

Being born on Australian soil for the Indigenous was regarded very important culturally, if a baby was born on the land, they were considered traditional owners of the land. Australian Indigenous women birthing was renowned traditionally as “Women’s Business”. The birthing process involved preparing a hole in the ground, covering the hole with soft leaves and grass as well as red, soft sand. The midwives that assisted the mothers in labour were grandmothers and other women in the community who could offer physical and emotional support that alleviated the discomfort, pain and fear of the birthing process (Jones 2012). Pre-colonisation evidence suggests that Aboriginal women very rarely had medical complaints during pregnancy, the diet women had was very strict and would consist of

During the years from 1914 - 1918 Australia was at constant battle all over the world fighting for the british. With battles deaths always follow. So many people say, “what did we ever gain from WW1 we lost so many people as a country”. Although we lost almost 60,000 men and 150,000 wounded or taken prisoner. After the war the British Government offered ex-servicemen free transportation to some of the colonies, 17,000 migrants arrived in Australia between 1919 and 1922. Community organisations paid for migrants to come over to Australia. Small numbers also arrived independently. It was also said that up to 300,000 men came over from britain post war to live. The British government gave an incentive to migrate over because so many people

The Effect of the Vietnam War on the Australian Society The Vietnam War had great political impact and led to deep division within Australian society. The Australian people were forced to take the issues about the Cold War, Vietnam and the arms race seriously because of Australia’s military involvement in Vietnam from 1962 to 1972. As a result, our fear of communism and of Asia increased dramatically. Australia, occupying a large mass of land, yet having a small population had always lived in the belief that they were threatened some way by the foreign powers and this led to the formation of “The White Australia Policy”, which was set up in 1901.

Mother Tongue is a story that describes how Amy Tan’s mother was treated unfairly because of her “broken English”. As the second generation of Chinese immigrants, Tan faces more problems than her peers do. Her mom, who speaks “limited” English, needs Tan to be her “translator” in order to communicate with the native English speakers. Tan has felt ashamed of her mother “broken” language at first. She then contemplates her background affected her life and her study. However, she changes her thought at the end since she realizes things behind language might be more valuable than language itself sometimes. Through the various different literary devices and rhetorical strategies such as the ethos, pathos, and logos appeals, as well as a

Tan was born to a pair of Chinese immigrants. Her mother understood English extremely well, but

She feels very embarrassed and wishes she were American. In the end of the story, she writes a quote that her mother actually told her, “You want to be the same as American girls on the outside. But inside you must always be Chinese. You must be proud you are different. Your only shame is to have shame” (Tan). In the end the character understood and knew that her mother was right. Tan was not confident with her Chinese identity when she was young, and that influenced some of her works like “Fish Cheeks”.

Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam War was a result of a combined fear of communism and the fall of freedom from danger in Australian democracy and society. The growing web of communism saw the fall of many countries closing in on Australia and New Zealand, and it was believed Robert Menzies’ government that they would find communism at Australia’s shores.

The experiences of Australian women in both World War 1 and World War 2 were similar but also different. WWI was fought from 1914 to 1918, and WW2 was fought from 1939 to 1945. These were the biggest military conflicts in the history of man. The main areas of change in Australian women around these times were employment, roles and positions in the war, and the attitudes towards women at these times. In WW1, the main occupation for Australian women was nursing. In World War 2, however, women were given the opportunity to do ‘a man’s job’ for the first time.

In “The Sapphires” the director Wayne Blair shows how change occurs in a short period of time. Gail the main actress in the movie changed immensely during the journey through Vietnam. It was shown that Gail was a stubborn and bossy lady at first, however at the end of the movie she was more open and kind-hearted. This occurred because of the change in environment, she accepts Kay and she goes through a love relationship.

The Vietnam War was an international conflict in the Indochinese region that was fought between insurgents and the government of South Vietnam both of which a by either North Vietnam or the United States and their allies. Australian forces were involved from 1962 to 1972, however, the cause for Australian involvement came from the apparently imminent threat of communism spreading to Australia and a request from both American and South Vietnamese governments and to regain an ally in the South East Asian region. Australian involvement lead to a minimal impact on creating a better world for both sides, however, the war had more desirable effects in Australia than in Vietnam, however, the conflict resulted in a devastating and disastrous experience for the nations involved. Over the course of their involvement Australian forces The Australian newspaper summarised the sending of troops to Vietnam in 1965 writing, “The Menzies government has made a reckless decision on

Vietnamerica A Family's Journey is a graphic memoir written and illustrated by GB Tran. GB Tran is a Vietnamese American that grew up distant and indifferent to his family’s history. This story talks about many tragic history of this family and homeland they left behind. One important topic emphasised through the illustrations and words was the Vietnam War and its effect on their family.

Caroline Chisholm arrived into Australia in 1838 with her husband, Captain Archibald Chisholm. When she saw the state immigrant females were in, she was surprised and wanted to help them immediately. They lived in terrible living environments. They had no food, or jobs, and in many cases, no place to live. The home government only assisted some immigrants, usually those who were Protestants and not Catholics, meaning that they were unable to have a Catholic faith if they wanted assistance. She knew that most of the females who had immigrated to Australia had come to find better lives, and accept new opportunities, and she wanted to help those who didn’t get that chance. She investigated and promised the females that she would help them as much as she could.

Ruby finally came back from her long vacation to Vietnam. There are tons of works await of her to accomplish them, which means Yvonne and I have a big challenge ahead of us to assist Ruby getting everything done in less a month. Well, I think we should have our fingers cross for ourselves and hope for the

The backbone of Australia’s ideals is a fair go culture but has less clarity, thus, not giving Australians an actual culture of their own. Unfortunately, in the last few years, Australians have become less of a fair go culture due to other ethnic religions wanting to change our laidback way of life and Australians get insulted and angry when situations such as that arise. People of Australia value and respect all cultures, but we expect them to treat us the same way, they should integrate without any trouble as immigrants, the same as the Vietnamese and many other migrants such as those have done in the past. Nguyen and her family had innumerable hardships to face, but they pulled together, became Australian at the same time retaining their