a friend named Angela who stuck by my side like gum. We went everywhere with each other and we always helped each other in times of need. One day‚ Angela called me saying her youth group needed an extra dancer for their performance at the annual Vietnamese new year celebration. Of course‚ I told her to sign me up right away. The first day of dance practice was strange. Growing up in a Buddhist environment‚ I had never been to a catholic church before. The minute I walked in the room‚ everyone stared
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every Mid-Autumn Festival‚ Vietnamese kids use beautiful lanterns to light up the road for “the moon man” to come back to the Earth. Four things that are essential preparation for the occasion are fruits‚ moon cakes‚ lanterns‚ and lion dances. In Mid-Autumn Festival‚ people buy seasonal fruits such as grape fruits‚ logan fruits‚ bananas‚ apples. Parents usually create funny things by those kinds of fruit. For example‚ they use grapes to make beautiful dogs. Vietnamese moon cakes are influenced by
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There are many British words which are different to American words. For example: • A lorry is a slimmer truck. • A lift is an elevator. • A fortnight is two weeks. • A chemist is a person who works in a drugstore. • A dual carriageway is a freeway. Lisa and Sofia Efthymiou‚ an American mum and daughter‚ have listed below a few of the differences between British and American words. Visit also our Glossary of British Words We have arranged the words in categories to make
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Discrimination against Vietnamese Immigrants in America Vietnamese did not magically appear in the United States‚ the Vietnam War sparked the immigration of Vietnamese to America. Vietnamese did not virtually exist in the United States until 1975 when the war forced Vietnamese to evacuate (Povell). The war began after Vietminh defeated France and split into North and South Vietnam (O’Connel). In 1956 communist Ho Chi Minh ruled the North Vietnam‚ and Bao Dai ruled the South‚ who the United States
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convince you to live a healthy lifestyle. What exatly is a healthy lifestyle? A healthy lifestyle is a kind of life without bad habits‚ unhealthy food‚ and all those things that negatively influence your health. You all should want to grow up and be succesful in your life‚ but you can’t do that without living a healthy lifestyle. Get rid of any bad habits‚ eat healthy‚ and focus on your goals and what is good for you. A great way to begin living a healthy lifestyle is to design an exercise routine
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Conflict Theory A. What is Conflict Theory? Farley (2000:73) contends that conflict theory arose primarily from the work of Marx and was continued in the work of C Wright Mills and Ralf Dahrandorf. The general underlying assumption associated with conflict theory is that society is made up of groups with competing self-interests. Often the competing groups have unequal power. People compete for resources that are in scarce supply. Generally‚ the resources that are in short supply involve wealth
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Sedentary lifestyle Research: The Negatives of Sedentary Lifestyle Xi Zhang HNES 100‚ 2012 Fall Semester‚ Small Activity Group 7 Paul Christianson November 26‚ 2012 Xi Zhang HNES 100 November 26‚ 2012 Sedentary lifestyle Research: The Negatives of Sedentary Lifestyle As the human society develops‚ humans do not need to be busy run about food any more. But more and more people form a bad lifestyle‚ sedentary lifestyle. Sedentary lifestyle is a kind of lifestyle
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`Italian Culture vs. American Culture` Kimberly Nyholm Anthropology 101 Ms. Winn September 2‚ 2009 Cultures 2 Abstract `Being born in a multicultural family I have always been curious on my Italian side. My Mother’s family is all Italian and I have always been so interested in their or our culture. My father is German‚ Irish and Swedish so all together I am a melting pot. The Italians just really interest me I’m not sure if it’s because they are very verbal‚ or what
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Vietnamese Immigration Families Nowadays‚ according to Chris Brown‚ Codi L. Schale and Johana E. Nilsion which are authors of article “Vietnamese Immigrant and Refugee Women’s Mental Health”‚ the Vietnamese immigrants’ population to 2006 is 1.1 million people. Therefore they become the fifth largest immigrant community in the United States of America (66). The immigration officially began after the fall in Vietnam War in 1975; the South of Vietnam was taken by the North Communism’s government. A
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Vietnamese Law on Enterprises 2005 Contents: CHAPTER I. General Provisions Article 1 Governing scope Article 2 Applicability Article 3 Application of the law on Enterprises‚ international treaties and relevant legislation Article 4 Interpretation of terms Article 5 State guarantees2 for enterprises and owners of enterprises Article 6 Political organizations and socio-political organizations in enterprises Article 7 Lines of business and business conditions Article 8 Rights of enterprises
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