Quang Vu This is the interview that I,Quang Vu, had with Mrs.Toussant on Octcber 17,2000. The interview was taken place on October 17,2000 at Southern University between Mrs.Toussant who is a nutritionist teaching at S.U and Quang Vu. Mrs.Toussant graduated with B.S from Southern University in May,1973.She passed the R.D examination in 1975 then moved to New York and worked at Saint Louis Medical Hospital.About one year later,she had worked at Simply Hospital in Washington D.C.Then she moved to Texas and started M.S program at Texas Community Study and received M.S degree in 1994.She also had to have seventy-four hours of continuing education for every five years so that she would be able to keep her nutritionist license.She has been teaching at S.U since 1994 and planning to receive PhD degree in 2003. The reason for me to choose Mrs.Toussant is that first off all,she is a dietician and teaching me.When I have questions to ask ,she answer them perfectly.Second off all,she knows so many things that others do not and she speaks very clearly so that I can understand her well.She always tells us what we should do in order to be successful in the career that we have chosen.Furthermore,she emphasizes the importance of our career. I admire Mrs.Toussant and pay my respect to her because she has done so many things that some people can not such as planning to receive her PhD while working and teaching at the same time. This is the interview that I,Quang Vu,had with Mrs.Toussant on October 17,2000. Quang Vu:Could you tell me something about your educational background? Mrs.Toussant:Graduated from Southern University with B.S degree in May 1973. Worked at St.Louis Medical Hospital in New York.Served Dietetic internship ... ... middle of paper ... ... with B.S degree in May 1973. Worked at St.Louis Medical Hospital in New York.Served Dietetic internship at Howard University.Received Master degree in 1994.Started teaching at S.U after having Master degree. Quang vu:What are your work experiences and qualifications? Mrs.Toussant:Worked at St.Louis Medical Hospital.Worked at Fed Rant Home New YorkWorked for Community Health.Also worked at Charity Hospital In N.O and E.B.R Parish School Service from 1978-1996. Quang Vu:Why did you choose in career? Mrs.Toussant:Food is everywhere so jobs are available.Like working independently and do not like to work under pressure of others. Quang Vu:Tell me some advantages of the career? Mrs.Toussant:Have many specifications paths and can be self-employed. Quang Vu:The disadvantages of the career? Mrs.Toussant:Not making much money,hard to get promoted….
The phenomenal recent discovery of the species saola (Pseudoryx nghetinhensis), was found in the Annamite Mountains along the Laos/Vietnam border in 1992. The saola was the first latest large mammal to be discovered in over 50 years, making it one of the biggest zoological discoveries of the 20th century. Also known as the “Asian unicorn,” the rare saola species prefer living in moist, dense evergreen forests with little or no dry season. The saolas have been attempting to survive in the condensed
she arrives there the hate for the country tripled and she starts to pick apart the entire place and everywhere she goes. As she moves through the countryside her feelings of hate start to show them self’s in her thought and words. The feeling of deja vu, she has been there before, starts to come in after all of the years of maps and description of the foreign land. Through the use of emotional arguments and social appeal the author, Kincaid, gets the feeling across that she was a victim of England
The Deja Vu Experience It has happened to me and it has probably happened to you. It is sudden and quick, leaving you as unexpectedly as it came. While the experience is clear and detailed it is often difficult to recapture. After feeling it, you usually find yourself saying, " Wow, I just had the strangest deja-vu." Through research I have become knowledgeable of interesting facts and causes behind deja vu. Because it is still a puzzling ongoing phenomenon, I hope to give you (my audience)
The Déjà Vu Experience People of all varieties in all parts of the world have reported experiencing déjà vu. According to Art Funkhouser, creator of the Déjà Experience Research website, a variety of people, young and old, both within and outside the U.S.A. have sent him unsolicited accounts of their déjà experiences (Funkhouser, 2014). On his website, he posts these firsthand narratives as a resource for other researchers and so that visitors who have experienced the phenomena may parallel their
The Difference Between Deja Vu and Coincidence Déjà vu, this term has been around for quite awhile now, but what exactly does it mean. Many of us use this term in conversation and writing with out knowing the correct meaning of the word, or even what it truly is. The word 'déjà vu' has basically become a cover-all label for any hard to explain occurrences which have an eerie and unexpected recognition, or just someone having trouble identifying the events that seem so strangely and intensely familiar
natural instinct. In fact, some have already had an intuitive experience. The experiences can be anything from a feeling that something will be good or bad, a feeling that we need to pay attention or that something is wrong with someone, or even deja vu. Most of the time, we ignore these intuition and we use our reasoning and logic instead. Although reasoning and logic are very good for solving our Smith 2 problems, our intuition may provide us with the answer to that problem more helpfully or accurately
a reservoir of human experiences that is passed from generation to generation. It includes the archetypes of self, which are archetypes for different kinds of people or characters in literature (Jung 67). They can be described as things such as déjà vu, or love at first sight. It is the feeling that what is being felt or experienced has been felt or experienced before. Jung describes the hero as an "archetype of transformation and redemption," (Guerin 163). The character of Oedipus is a concrete
Déjà vu, each require characters to travel through time to solve a mystery. Frequency was released by New Line Cinema, directed by Gregory Hoblit, is set in Brooklyn, New York in the 20th and 21th century in the future. Déjà vu was produced by a company called Touchstone Pictures, it was directed by Tony Scott, and released November 22, 2006. Even though the movies were six years apart they had different and similar qualities. The movie Frequency is about a father and son and the movie Déjà vu is about
through difficulties. The chick is very important to Ha’s Brother Khoi. When they are on the ship there is a stench that lingers. It comes from Brother Khoi. “He keeps clutching something in the left pocket, where the stench grows”(Lai 83). When Brother Vu holds Brother Khoi down and forces him to open his palm it is revealed that he was holding a flatten chick. Ha takes a handkerchief and raps the mouse- bitten doll and the flattened chick in it. Together they then decide to throw the handkerchief overboard
grade novel by Thanhha Lai which recounts the fleeing of Vietnam by Ha and her family and their immigration to the United States of America. In 1975, ten year-old Ha lives in Saigon, South Vietnam, with her mother and three older brothers, Vu, Khoi, and Quang. They are a close-knit, traditional family, though their father was captured by the Communists on a naval mission nine years before. The family endures high prices and scarcities in food as North Vietnamese forces move toward Saigon. Uncle Son
Vietnam is one of the beautiful countries in Southeast Asia with an anciently culture. Vietnam’s terrain is very diverse according to the natural areas. Also, Vietnam has a tropical monsoon climate in the south with only two seasons: rain season from mid May to mid September, and the dry season from mid October to mid April, and monsoon climate in the north with four seasons :spring, summer, autumn and winter. And Vietnam has a lot of famous places to visit. Vietnam is a country with a curved shape
back again by Thanhha Lai relates to the universal refugee experience. The book takes place in Vietnam, Alabama, and everywhere in between during the year 1975. The characters that are mainly affected in the refugee experience are Ha, Mother, Vu, and Quang. Refugees go through many challenges including; escaping a country that may not want you to leave, learning a new language, and just surviving. In the novel Ha is just an average person then gets turned inside out by war and fleeing then turned
husband, whom she hasn’t seen in nearly a decade, gave to her. Ha’s life eventually comes “back again” as she and her family makes a new home for themselves in Alabama. One example of them going “back again” is in “NOW!”, where she writes, “Brother Quang takes us to the grocery store. Mother buys everything to make egg rolls for a coming holiday when Americans eat a turkey the size of a baby.” This shows how their lives are coming “back again”, as Ha and her family are now able to buy food without
14 million refugees, men, women, and children are forced to flee their homes, towns, and family. The refugees are scared to stay but have to leave (Gervet). Refugees have to face losing a loved one to losing a little thing like a doll both hurts them greatly. Like many refugees, Ha the main character in the book “Inside out & Back again” by Thanhha Lai, have to face the similar losses as other refugees.Many refugees, like Ha, face the feeling of turning “Inside out” when they mourn the losses of
The self-immolation of Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc at a busy intersection in Saigon on June 11, 1963 utterly shocked most Americans who could not fathom why a person would commit such a horrific act. Without trying to explore any feasible explanations within this man’s religion, many decided that he was probably just a fanatic who wanted to make a political statement in the most appalling manner possible. Was that the case? Was Quang Duc simply a political activist pushed to the limit