HANOI—As Vietnam’s economy has boomed in recent decades‚ so too have pollution levels in its major cities‚ with experts concerned that air pollution could pose a major public health concern. "Environmental pollution in Vietnam is a real problem‚" said Tuong Lai‚ former dean of Vietnam’s Social Science Institute. "It’s not just foreign visitors who have complained about our dust pollution—people in our country are also very dissatisfied with it‚" he said. A study conducted by employment consultants
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“On the Rainy River” The short story “On the Rainy River” is an integral chapter in the memoir The Things They Carried written by William Timothy O’Brien. The short story is written through the perspective of O’Brien in present day and as a young man faced with a draft notice for the Vietnam War. In “On the Rainy River‚” O’Brien portrays the importance of bravery of individuals in the society through the use of symbolism‚ powerful tone‚ reflective point of view‚ narrative devices‚ and through the
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to tell the story in their own words and in another way ot strategie thereby changing the main idea of the real story. Dealing with characters‚ non-fiction involves real people who were present but fiction only creates characters. In ‘On a Rainy River’‚ the author seems to be physically calm especially while talking to the old man. But he has a lot of negative thoughts about going to the war as well. He is more of a coward because he was scared to go fight and did not have the courage to stand up
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The River of Earth The novel River Of Earth by James Still is a story about life in e Appalachia just before The Great Depression. The story provides a very clear description of the problems and challenges the mountain people faced after the settlement of their land. Even though the novel is shadowed by other writings of the time period dealing with poor southern life‚ it is still considered a great neglected masterpiece. The story is about a family that considers awkward. They struggle to
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Delaunay and Torrisi: FDI in Vietnam INDIA‚ CHINA AND AMERICA INSTITUTE 1549 CLAIRMONT ROAD‚ SUITE 202 ● DECATUR‚ GA 30033 USA WWW .ICAINSTITUTE.ORG FDI in Vietnam: An Empirical Study of an Economy in Transition Christian Delaunay & C. Richard Torrisi Journal of Emerging Knowledge on Emerging Markets Volume 4 November 2012 Produced by The Berkeley Electronic Press‚ 2012 1 Journal of Emerging Knowledge on Emerging Markets‚ Vol. 4 [2012]‚ Art. 4 FDI in Vietnam: An Empirical Study of
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Global Restaurants‚ Inc (KFC Vietnam 2008). The company now was known as Yum! Brands Inc which included all the restaurants: A&W Restaurants‚ Long John Silver’s‚ Pizza Hut and Taco Bell. KFC has more than 11‚000 restaurants operating in more than 80 countries and territories in the world. Today it is one of the most famous and strongest brand names in the fast food market (Entrepreneur Media 2009). In 1997‚ KFC restaurants opened its first outlet in Ho Chi Minh City - Vietnam. Today‚ due to the trend
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It is one of the fastest growing segments within the tourism industry‚ generating millions in revenues for cities and countries. MICE is also the popular trend of tourism in almost every country in the world‚ including developing countries like Vietnam. However‚ Europe and America still remain the major markets worldwide in respect of the number of meetings‚ conferences and exhibitions. Here is the rank of countries which have the highest number of meeting last year 2007. You can easily find out
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Throughout Saints at the River there are many uses of symbolism in the novel. One of the main uses of symbolism is the Ghost that is brought up several times throughout the novel. Ghost in Saints at the River don’t actually mean real ghost that we think of but they are memories from the past that come back to haunt Maggie. Rash uses the ghost very effectively throughout the novel to make them symbolizes haunting memories from the past. The reason why Rash uses ghost as s symbol for the past is because
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3 (February 14) – Vietnam: market entry decisions Answer the following questions: 1. Does Vietnam represent an attractive investment opportunity? Vietnam is 12th nation in the world with more population and its economic growth is expected to keep increasing in the following years. Thanks to the Doi Moi economic reforms since 1994 the country’s GDP is the third in growth rate in Asia‚ the inflation has decreased from 775% to 14% and the FDI is everyday more important. Moreover‚ the population
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these supports. Divers were sent into the river to see if they could discover exactly where the body was lodged and how to get the girl out of the river. Political pressure and clout also played an important role in both accounts. Governors‚ senators‚ government agencies‚ and people that lived in the area where the accident occurred were pitted against each other in the attempt to determine how to retrieve the drowning victim. In the book Saints at the River‚ dynamite was used in order to recover
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