http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/pentagon/manifesto.htm.

Project instructions:
Purpose: To contrast the content, style, context, and positions of two primary source documents.

Audience: Your classmates

Topic: Select two sets of documents, either:

?The Final Declaration of The Geneva Conference: On Restoring Peace in Indochina, July 21, 1954? http://vietnam.vassar.edu/doc2.html and “The American Response to the

Geneva Declarations, 3 July 21, 1954” http://vietnam.vassar.edu/doc3.html

?Manifesto of the Eighteen. Saigon. April 1960? http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/pentagon/manifesto.htm and ?Memorandum to President Kennedy from Ambassador John

Kenneth Galbraith on Vietnam, 4 April 1962? http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/pentagon2/doc112.htm

Process: Summarize, analyze, and evaluate the documents. Compare and contrast them. Especially consider how the documents give different perspectives on similar

historical events.

Consider these questions:

– What is this document about?
– What does the author say about the subject?
– What seems to be the purpose of the document?
– What was the historical context of the document?
– Do the documents conflict in any aspect?
– Who are the writers? Are they credible?
– Who is the intended audience?
– How are the documents structured?
– What does the writer?s language and word choice, reveal about the writer?s opinions? Give examples.
– Which document do you find more credible and more persuasive? Why?

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