Download or read book Gods Miracles written by Reverend Dr. Minh Van Lam and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2016-05-04 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reverend Doctor Minh Van Lam was born into a Buddhist family in 1939 in Bac Lieu Province, South Vietnam. His mother said family and friends thought he would live until three years after his birth. After he accepted the Lord Jesus Christ in 1947, when he was eight years old, he asked God to let him live until he was eighteen years old so that he could work and make money for his mother, and then he would die. But God performed miracles, allowing him to continue living. These are some highlights from his early career: • He graduated from the National School of Pedagogy in Saigon in 1959. • He graduated from the English Language School of the Defense Language Institute in Lackland Air Force Base to become a teacher of the English language in 1968. • He was a public elementary school principal and high school teacher in Soc Trang, South Vietnam, as well as the Armed Forces Language School instructor of the South Vietnam Army in Saigon. He holds a bachelor of arts in biblical studies from the Washington Bible College in Lanham, Maryland, a master of divinity from the Capital Bible Seminary in Lanham, Maryland, and a doctor of ministry from the Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary in Lynchburg, Virginia. He has been a mission pastor of Grand Ave Baptist Church in Fort Smith, Arkansas; Vietnamese Hope Baptist Church in Alexandria, Virginia; Vietnamese United Baptist Church in Austin, Texas; First Baptist Church of Pensacola, Florida; Vietnamese Gospel Baptist Church in Orlando, Florida; and Vietnamese Gospel Baptist Church of Alexandria, Virginia (from 1987 to 1995 and 2010 to the present). He was an adjunct professor of the Boyce Bible College of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Extension and the John Leland Center for Theological Studies in Arlington, Virginia, and was vice president of the Vietnamese Baptist Theological School in Dallas, Texas. He has been a speaker at Vietnamese National Church conferences in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia, as well as a speaker for the Alpha and Omega Program at Vietnam Public Radio in Washington, DC. His sermons may be found online at www.vietgospel.org, www.vietchristian.com, and www.tinlanhhyvong.com.

Download or read book Small Business Management in Cross Cultural Environments written by Per Lind and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Products and services created by small and medium sized organizations account for the vast majority of economic activity across the globe. These organizations will prove vitally important to the emerging and developing economies that will shape future decades. Small Business Management in Cross-Cultural Environments is one of very few books to take the cross-cultural context as an opportunity to analyse and discuss the key concepts of small firm management in different parts of the world. This textbook covers important topics, such as: the global economic development process entrepreneurship the role of government SME growth and collaborations in a global context. By explaining how culture shapes and conditions the reality of small businesses and how organizational theories and models fail as management tools, this book fills a significant gap. Supplemented by a compendium of compelling case studies, drawn from across the world, and based upon 25 years of international research by the author, Small Business Management in Cross-Cultural Environments is a useful guide for students and practitioners of SME and International Management

Download or read book The Forgotten Generation written by Vui Le and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While studying to be a Catholic priest in 1975, Vui Le was called out of the seminary by his mother after the Communists overrun the town where his father was stationed. Because she had not heard from his father in several weeks, she summons Vui Le to help plan his father's funeral. It is this event that begins an uncertain future for a young Le and later mottvates him to share this poignant naration of his family's escape from the fall of Saigon and their journey to a new life in America.

Download or read book A Clash of Steel A Treasure Island Remix written by C.B. Lee and published by Feiwel & Friends. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two intrepid girls hunt for a legendary treasure on the deadly high seas in this YA remix of the classic adventure novel Treasure Island. 1826. The sun is setting on the golden age of piracy, and the legendary Dragon Fleet, the scourge of the South China Sea, is no more. Its ruthless leader, a woman known only as the Head of the Dragon, is now only a story, like the ones Xiang has grown up with all her life. She desperately wants to prove her worth, especially to her mother, a shrewd businesswoman who never seems to have enough time for Xiang. Her father is also only a story, dead at sea before Xiang was born. Her single memento of him is a pendant she always wears, a simple but plain piece of gold jewelry. But the pendant's true nature is revealed when a mysterious girl named Anh steals it, only to return it to Xiang in exchange for her help in decoding the tiny map scroll hidden inside. The revelation that Xiang's father sailed with the Dragon Fleet and tucked away this secret changes everything. Rumor has it that the legendary Head of the Dragon had one last treasure—the plunder of a thousand ports—that for decades has only been a myth, a fool's journey. Xiang is convinced this map could lead to the fabled treasure. Captivated with the thrill of adventure, she joins Anh and her motley crew off in pursuit of the island. But the girls soon find that the sea—and especially those who sail it—are far more dangerous than the legends led them to believe. Praise for A Clash of Steel: A Cosmopolitan Best YA Book of 2021 "This deeply immersive adventure features deftly interwoven Chinese and Vietnamese, luscious culinary descriptions, and well-rendered explorations of imperialism, treasure, found family, and love." —Publishers Weekly, starred review "Vividly realized and brimming with romantic adventure. Rooted in the legend of Chinese pirate queen Ching Shih, C.B. Lee’s A Clash of Steel is richly imagined and thrilling to the end." —Malinda Lo, bestselling author of Last Night at the Telegraph Club "Lavishly drawn and studded with jewels from the original, C.B. Lee has written a remix that delves deep into questions of family, love, and treasure. This is a book I wish I'd had as a young, queer teen and it deserves a spot in any collection." —Natalie C. Parker, author of the Seafire trilogy The Remixed Classics Series A Clash of Steel: A Treasure Island Remix by C.B. Lee So Many Beginnings: A Little Women Remix by Bethany C. Morrow Travelers Along the Way: A Robin Hood Remix by Aminah Mae Safi What Souls Are Made Of: A Wuthering Heights Remix by Tasha Suri Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix by Anna-Marie McLemore My Dear Henry: A Jekyll & Hyde Remix by Kalynn Bayron Teach the Torches to Burn: A Romeo & Juliet Remix by Caleb Roehrig Into the Bright Open: A Secret Garden Remix by Cherie Dimaline Most Ardently: A Pride & Prejudice Remix by Gabe Cole Novoa

Download or read book Anh s Anger written by Gail Silver and published by Parallax Press. This book was released on 2009-07-10 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wonderful and engaging 1st book in a trilogy that includes Steps and Stones and Peace, and Bugs and Understanding, gives children and caregivers a concrete practice for dealing with anger and other difficult emotions. In Anh’s Anger, five-year-old Anh becomes enraged when his grandfather asks him to stop playing and come to the dinner table. The grandfather helps Anh fully experience all stages of anger by suggesting that he go to his room and, "sit with his anger." The story unfolds when Anh discovers what it means to sit with his anger. He comes to know his anger in the first person as his anger comes to life in full color and personality. Anh and his anger work through feelings together with humor and honesty to find a way to constructively release their thoughts and emotions and to reach resolve with Anh’s grandfather. The story is beautifully illustrated with handmade collages by New York artist and childrens book illustrator Christiane Kromer. Each collage is a mix of paper, acrylic, and cardboard, and found materials. The materials reflect the connection between the characters and their environment and are indicative of the wide range of emotions that come together in the story. Anh’s Anger teaches children that it is okay to feel angry, and shows the technique, often used by child therapists, of externalizing the emotion. Through taking time to "sit’ with his anger, a young child is able to see his anger and talk to it and together they move through the journey of experiencing the different stages of anger until the feeling subsides and finally resolve. Anh’s Anger differs significantly from other books on anger resolution techniques in showing that the child is able to talk about what transpired and accept responsibility for hurtful things that he may have said or done. The author’s intention is to help parents understand that there is an alternative to "time out’s" as a means of helping children to express themselves when feeling angry, while providing children with a mechanism for internal dialogue during a "time out" or when "sitting" with their anger. Through reading the story, children will learn to acknowledge anger when it arises, understand the cause of their anger, and ultimately feel safe expressing themselves and accepting accountability for their actions when appropriate. By learning these skills, children, will grow comfortable with them and carry them into adulthood with ease and confidence.

Download or read book Life Journey the Miracle of the Lotus Sutra written by WILLIAM DANG and published by Partridge Publishing Singapore. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A simple young man, native of a Province, Vietnam. William was born from a farming family with nine children. Filled with love and support from his loving parents in their beautiful homeland, William Dang spent most of his childhood life in the field. Though life was tough for him, with his nature of being Independent and having strong desire to succeed in life, he was able to climb up the ladder and build his own family of four children with the love of his life – his wife, without the influence of her wife’s family wealth. William Dang began his journey to discover the depths of his inner self and soul from returning to his childhood memories, about his family home where he was born and grown-up, the journey of craving for knowledge, developing a career, and in building a loving family. In this journey, you will encounter interesting stories that had happen in real life. You will experience visual images of South Vietnamese people in the '60s as well as following years of journey towards passion for knowledge seeking and overcoming some life’s obstacles until reaching the self-awakening part of life. Awakening and self-actualization from negative experiences of his life, which he would like to share heartily to everyone to bring about positive energy to motivate and to inspire. As a Buddhist religious follower, you will be surprised that the colours of his own life and his inner awakening all originated from the study of Buddhism. This awakening stage started from prostrating The Lotus Sutra. Thereafter, miracles had happened to his life wholly felt in every second, every breath, and every moment. He felt and experienced the great Love, Compassion, and Sympathy which will be nourished in each one of us every day. William Dang believes that these miracles he experienced through the Lotus Sutra which teaches the way for enlightenment of all humanity, and the enlightenment of the individual in the current life circumstances, will also be experienced by the readers. Whoever or wherever you are, in any country or any religion, he believes that there is an apparent and intimate link not only between people but between us and the universe. Join William Dang in this life’s journey. Surely, you will be inspired by his success story, especially during this pandemic period. You might see for yourself in each challenging step, a great life lesson to ponder and find meaning in your own life from rediscovering your inner self as well. Share the colours of your life as well that will become like a stepping stone towards finding one’s self to experience great Love and Peace.

Download or read book VISA written by Nguyen Quy Minh Hien and published by Nguyen Quy Minh Hien. This book was released on 2015-02-05 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the book Dear Reader. So, I have visited five continents, four homelands of the most famous ancient cultures, three biggest countries. It was my dream when I was a little girl and now I have traveled. Also, something urged me to write my feeling, impression of those travels and I want to share with friends, especially want to share with young friends who is hoping about new lands. This book is not a guide-book to travel. It also was not a list of all my travels or all countries where I came. This book was a collection of my experience, impression and feeling of countries, regions where I visited. It included joy, worry, anxiety, surprise and disappointment, suddenness and interest…Would be more useful when the book was written by bilingual: Vietnamese and English. These bilingual pages could make more enthusiasm and self-confident when you are thinking about trips, preparing or traveling in somewhere. Honestly, when I started writing stories in English, I was unself-confident and knew that I should study so much. One American author, he is my friend, who edited my first stories, laughed when I told that sometimes my English could be “silly” because I was not an American. He said if I though that every American could speak and write English very well then it was not true; United States of America was the country of many people from other countries. It seemed as their “silly” English could make freshness and riches of American-English. It was accepted like as a factor of language development. In this book, feeling and experience of travels spread from near to far, step by step, in five sections. The first section included stories of Asian travels with the starting point was a story of Hanoi, my native city. The second section was my impression in Australia. My experience and feeling of travels in Europe were presented in the third section. The fourth section was stories of mysterious land - Egypt. The last section included stories of my travel in USA, the country with distance is half of the earth from Vietnam. Feeling of a oversea travel started from apply for entry visa. Every time I received a new visa on my passport, I got special feeling. It seemed that a door opened in front of my eyes, step by step, with new things. “Visa” also was the name of a story in this book. For many Vietnamese, “visa” (English word) more familiar than “thi thuc” (Vietnamese word). Therefore, VISA is the name of this book. When the book “Visa” is published, it can bring to me the similiar feeling, it opens door for next books with new travels and new others. The world is a big village. Please, let go and come, try and feel. Thank so much for my friends, who helped me in nice travels and helped me to complete this book. Thank Google’s help to transfer this book to Readers. Thank Reader. Author Nguyen Quy Minh Hien Giới thiệu về sách Bạn đọc thân mến. Thế là tôi đã thực hiện được ước nguyện từ thời bé thơ: đặt chân đến năm châu lục, bốn xứ sở quê hương của những nền văn hóa cổ xưa nổi tiếng và ba cường quốc. Rồi một điều nữa cứ thôi thúc trong tôi là ghi lại những cảm nhận và trải nghiệm của mình về những chuyến đi này cùng mong muốn được chia sẻ với các bạn, đặc biệt là các bạn trẻ đang mơ về những miền đất lạ. Quyển sách này không phải một tài liệu hướng dẫn du lịch. Nó cũng không liệt kê ra tất cả các chuyến đi hay tất cả các quốc gia mà tôi đã đến. Quyển sách này là tập hợp những trải nghiệm, ấn tượng và cảm nhận của tôi về những miền đất khác nhau: có vui thích, có lo âu, có trăn trở, có ngạc nhiên thất vọng, có bất ngờ thú vị… Sẽ hữu ích hơn khi những trải nghiệm này được thể hiện bằng cả hai thứ tiếng: Việt và Anh. Những trang song ngữ này có thể sẽ giúp bạn thêm hưng phấn và tự tin khi bạn đang nghĩ về những chuyến đi, đang chuẩn bị hành trang hoặc đang trong một cuộc viễn du nào đó. Thú thật, khi bắt đầu viết các chuyện ngắn bằng tiếng Anh, tôi cũng không tự tin cho lắm và biết rằng mình phải học hỏi nhiều. Một tác giả người Mỹ, người bạn mà tôi nhờ đọc và biên tập giúp những bài đầu tiên, đã cười phá lên khi tôi nói rằng câu chữ tiếng Anh của tôi có thể “ngô nghê” bởi tôi không phải là người Mỹ. Rồi anh bạn tôi giải thích rằng không phải người Mỹ nào cũng sử dụng tốt tiếng Anh. Thêm nữa Hợp chủng quốc Hoa kỳ là quốc gia của những người đến từ nhiều miền đất khác nhau. Có vẻ như cách dùng tiếng Anh đôi khi “ngô nghê” của họ đã khiến cho tiếng Anh-Mỹ trở nên tươi mới và phong phú hơn. Điều đó được chấp nhận như những nhân tố cho sự phát triển ngôn ngữ. Trong quyển sách nay, cảm nhận và trải nghiệm về các chuyến đi sẽ được trải ra từ gần đến xa trong năm phần. Những câu chuyện về các chuyến đi tới các nước châu Á được giới thiệu trong phần thứ nhất với câu chuyện đầu tiên là về Hà Nội, thành phố quê hương tôi. Phần hai là những ấn tượng về Australia. Tiếp theo là phần ba với rất nhiều cảm xúc và trải nghiệm tại châu Âu.. Sự quyến rũ của miền đất bí ẩn đầy huyền thoại Ai Cập được thể hiện trong phần bốn. Phần cuối, phần thứ năm, là những câu chuyện ở Hoa Kỳ, xứ sở cờ hoa cách xa Việt Nam nửa vòng trái đất. Trải nghiệm về một chuyến xuất ngoại được cảm nhận từ ngay khi làm thủ tục visa. Mỗi khi nhận được quyển hộ chiếu đã đóng dấu visa nhập cảnh tôi lại có một cảm xúc đặc biệt, dường như một cánh cửa đang dần mở ra trước mắt mình những điều mới mẻ. Đó cũng là tên của một chuyện trong quyển sách này. Chữ “visa” thậm chí quen thuộc với nhiều người Việt hơn cả chữ “thị thực”. Bởi lẽ đó, tôi đặt tên cho quyển sách này là VISA, một cái tên ngắn gọn nhưng gợi nhắc nhiều về những chuyến đi. Có thể quyển VISA này khi xuất bản cũng sẽ mang đến cho tôi cảm nhận giống như việc mở ra cánh cửa cho những quyển sách tiếp theo và nhiều chuyến đi với những điều mới mẻ khác. Thế giới là một ngôi làng lớn. Xin hãy đi và đến, trải nghiệm và cảm nhận. Cảm ơn rất nhiều những người bạn đã giúp tôi có những chuyến đi tuyệt vời và giúp tôi thực hiện quyển sách này. Cảm ơn Google đã giúp đưa quyển sách này đến bạn đọc. Xin cảm ơn Bạn đọc. Tác giả Nguyễn Quý Minh Hiền

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Download or read book A Mother s Memoir written by Rose Bui and published by Fission Brands LLC. This book was released on 2022-07-04 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her memoir, the author, Rose Bui, recounts the experiences of her true real-life narrative of how, she, a poor young villager from a family of farmers, became trapped between the ongoing pillars of guerilla warfare. "We needed a substantial meal to keep us going in case we needed to flee as soon as the French planes sounded in the distance, ready to bombard. We ran until we reached the holes in the backyard of our home. Each hole could only fit one person and was about a man's head below ground level." Political, military, diplomatic, economic, and socio-cultural issues all contributed to the French loss of its Indochinese possessions. The French lost power with the fall of Dien Bien Phu in 1954. During a period when Vietnam was at war with France, the French invaded the urban areas, while the Viet Minh party controlled the countryside. On the eve of the Geneva Conference, General Vo Nguyen Giap and his Viet Minh had triumphed. Before 1954, times were drastically different. "My parent's extensive orchard supplied us with an assortment of fruits throughout the year. When mango season arrived, my siblings would collect the green mangoes that fell to the ground after a rainstorm. Everyone relished green mangoes dipped in a mixture of fish sauce and sugar. We often fished along the ditches in my parent's orchard during the summer. We relaxed in the cool breeze, beneath the trees, savoring the tranquility and mangoes." Ho Chi Minh's Viet Minh forces decisively beat the French at Dien Bien Phu, a French bastion besieged by Vietnamese communists for 57 days in northwest Vietnam. The Viet Minh victory at Dien Bien Phu heralded the end of French colonial influence in Indochina, paving the door for Vietnam to be divided along the 17th parallel at the Geneva conference. "Nonetheless, upon his return to Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh, the party's leader at the time, exploited the patriotic will of the Vietnamese people and transformed the party into a communist party, the Viet Cong. When it rained and we were unable to remove the water from the holes before the planes came over, we had no alternative but to remain submerged inside the hole. Thanks to a wooden ladder propped against the hole's wall, we could always escape. During the air strikes, I recall how, after a particularly bloody battle, the peasants fled with their relatives to adjacent towns for safety." In her heroic and desperate attempts to escape Vietnam, she is caught between sacrificing her and her three children's lives in order to cross the ocean to attain freedom. Despite the odds being stacked against her, she outwits the Viet Cong and finds herself responsible for a vessel full of Vietnamese refugees. "Several days had passed while we were at sea. The entire time, I was unable to detect any changes on the horizon and questioned whether we were traveling in the correct direction. It had been days since our last sighting of the land, and I had no idea where we were headed." This book offers previously untold stories about the author's life, beginning with her youth and leading up to her courageous escape, and how she and her three out of four children managed to flee Vietnam and seek refuge in the United States. Since its inception, after 12 or 13 years, this book was eventually completed. In this time period, the author has aged, resulting in a decline in her health that has nearly prevented her from completing her story for this book. As a result, it took her close to seven years to chronologically recount all the events in her handwritten journal entries, which she contributed to every so often. It took an additional three years to translate and complete her Vietnamese memoir into English. This memoir should serve as a reminder to all of us that we are capable of overcoming our failures, no matter how difficult the challenges may be.

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Download or read book White Devil written by Bob Halloran and published by BenBella Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The amazing true story of the only white man to rise to the top of the Chinese mafia. In August 2013, "Bac Guai" John Willis, also known as the "White Devil" because of his notorious ferocity, was sentenced to 20 years for drug trafficking and money laundering. Willis, according to prosecutors, was "the kingpin, organizer and leader of a vast conspiracy," all within the legendarily insular and vicious Chinese mafia. It started when John Willis was 16 years old . . . his life seemed hopeless. His father had abandoned his family years earlier, his older brother had just died of a heart attack, and his mother was dying. John was alone, sleeping on the floor of his deceased brother's home. Desperate, John reached out to Woping, a young Chinese man Willis had rescued from a bar fight weeks before. Woping literally picks him up off the street, taking him home to live among his own brothers and sisters. Soon, Willis is accompanying Woping to meet his Chinese mobster friends, and starts working for them. Journalist Bob Halloran tells the tale of John Willis, aka White Devil, the only white man to ever rise through the ranks in the Chinese mafia. Willis began as an enforcer, riding around with other gang members to "encourage" people to pay their debts. He soon graduated to even more dangerous work as a full-fledged gang member, barely escaping with his life on several occasions. As a white man navigating an otherwise exclusively Asian world, Willis was at first an interesting anomaly, but his ruthless devotion to his adopted culture eventually led to him emerging as a leader. He organized his own gang of co-conspirators and began an extremely lucrative criminal venture selling tens of thousands of oxycodone pills. A year-long FBI investigation brought him down, and John pleaded guilty to save the love of his life from prosecution. He has no regrets. White Devil explores the workings of the Chinese mafia, and he speaks frankly about his relationships with other gang members, the crimes he committed, and why he'll never rat out any of his brothers to the cops. Told to Halloran from Willis's prison cell, White Devil is a shocking portrait of a man who was allowed access into a secret world, and who is paying the price for his hardened life.

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