Download or read book Of Rice and Men written by Richard Galli and published by Presidio Press. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spreading democracy takes more than cutting-edge military hardware. Winning the hearts and minds of a troubled nation is a special mission we give to bewildered young soldiers who can’t speak the native language, don’t know the customs, can’t tell friends from enemies, and–in this wonderfully outrageous Iraq-era novel about Vietnam–wonder why they have to risk their lives spraying peanut plants, inoculating pigs, and hauling miracle rice seed for Ho Chi Minh. Brash, eye-opening, and surprisingly comic, Of Rice and Men displays the same irreverent spirit as the black-comedy classics Catch-22 and MASH–as it chronicles the American Army’s little known “Civil Affairs” soldiers who courageously roam hostile war zones, not to kill or to destroy, but to build, to feed, and to heal. Unprepared, uncertain, and naive, they find it impossible to make the skeptical population fall in love with them. But it’s thrilling to watch them try. Among the unforgettable characters: Guy Lopaca, an inept Army-trained interpreter who can barely say “I can’t speak Vietnamese” in Vietnamese, but has no trouble chatting with stray dogs and water buffalo. Guy’s friends include “Virgin Mary” Crocker, a pragmatic nurse earning a fortune spending nights with homesick soldiers; Paul Gianelli, a heroic builder of medical clinics who doesn’t want to be remembered badly, so he never goes home; and Tyler DeMudge, whose cure for every problem is a chilly martini, a patch of shade, and the theory that every bad event in life is “good training” for enduring it again. Pricelessly funny, disarming, thought-provoking, as fresh as the morning headlines, and bursting with humor, affection, and pride, Of Rice and Men is a sincere tribute to those young men and women, thrust into our hearts-and-minds wars, who try to do absolute good in a hopeless situation. From the Hardcover edition.
Download or read book Soil Survey of various Counties Etc written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Soil Survey written by and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Rose Has Its Own Thorns written by Huy Nguyen and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2023-02-07 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ha and Phuong are best friends in high school. But they took different paths in life after college and both are successful. One day, Phuong found out Ha was having an affair with her husband. After the divorce, Phuong tried really hard to move on and she found a new love in her life, Hoa, but she did not know whether she should be in love with him or not because he was younger than her. With Ha, she had her own problem with her life where her husband's family was strict with her and her husband and her mother-in-law hated her. It led her to have an affair with Adam, Phuong's husband, who Ha truly loved. Two women with different stories, they both had struggles in their lives and this is their story.
Download or read book House Documents Otherwise Publ as Executive Documents written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on with total page 1490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A tagmemic comparison of the structure of English and Vietnamese sentences written by Du'o'ng Thanh Binh and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-12-04 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Leave the Land You Love written by DO AN DUC TRI and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remarkable story of survival and of a risky escape out of the iron curtain to the open world, with poetic brilliance, the Leave The Land You Love, Love The Land You Live is really a memoir that will never steal away from your mind and heart. Leaving the Vietnam fatherland he loves, the former home-arrested resident of Danang lingered as a boat people refugee in Hong Kong transit centers for 15 months. The author finally settles down as an information technology senior engineer in Baltimore, Maryland to love the new land he lives in.
Download or read book Vietnamese Basic Course written by United States Department of State and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Women on the Island written by Ho Ahn Thai and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deep in the forested Vietnamese island of Cat Bac, a jungle seethes with the irrepressible force of its own history. Haunted by agonies of temptation and frustration, “the women on the island” are prisoners of the power of the place, the power of the past, the power of desire and constraint. Yet like the jungle of jackfruit trees and bamboo itself, desire is a force that cannot be subdued. This novel illuminates the plight of a generation of men and women in post-war Vietnam. It explores issues of family and gender and charts Vietnam’s effort to redefine its relationship to its past and future. Popular writer Ho Anh Thai brings into view the struggle of women who survived their service during the war years. Like male veterans in America and Vietnam, they returned to a society which they had defended, but which in many ways had no place for them. By confronting these issues, Ho Anh Thai has contributed to the debate in Vietnam over the rights of unmarried women with children. Through the lens of this particular time and place, The Women on the Island probes the timeless question of how we find ways to live in harmony with the tangled and contradictory compulsions of our own souls.
Download or read book Ad Hoc Mobile and Wireless Networks written by Thomas Kunz and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-07-29 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Ad-Hoc Networks and Wireless, ADHOC-NOW 2006, held in Ottawa, Canada, August 2006. The book presents 25 revised full papers and 10 revised short papers together with abstracts of 2 invited talks, in sections on routing in sensor networks, Routing in MANET, short papers on routing, security, wireless MAC, short papers on security, QoS and TCP, and upper layer issues.
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Download or read book The Presidential Determination of full Faith Cooperation by Vietnam on POW MIA Matters written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on National Security. Military Personnel Subcommittee and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book God S Miracles written by Reverend Dr. Minh Van Lam and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2016-05-04 with total page 202 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 Human rights in Vietnam written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on Africa, Global Human Rights, and International Operations and published by Amicus. This book was released on 2005 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amicus Readers at level 1 include: a picture glossary, a table of contents, index, websites, and literacy notes located in the back of each book. Additionally, content words are introduced within the text supported by a variety of photo labels. In particular, this title describes the forces of push and pull using everyday objects such as strollers and wagons. Includes experiments.
Download or read book Daily Report Foreign Radio Broadcasts written by United States. Central Intelligence Agency and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Boundaries written by Arnold L. Sweeten and published by Arnold L Sweeten. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction to Boundaries This is a story about life, family, love, human path through the experiences of a young man of the first half of 8x. With the fierce inner struggles when standing on the threshold of life, entering the first love. Between good and evil, between angels and demons, love and instinct, sometimes just apart by a "Boundary" is fragile ... forced reason will have to choose... It was first set in 2001. At the beginning, the young man's perspectives are at puberty with sexual curiosities... And rekindled her first love with her classmate. Starting with the struggles between the true love and the opaque thoughts that exist in his mind, he will have to choose the right direction for himself to be able to express the instincts that exist in himself in the hope of finding a noble love ideal in life. What's he going to do? The true depictions will probably shock many people, but sex is not the mainstream of this work but it is just one of the factors that contribute to highlighting the theme of the work: "BOUNDARIES," emphasizing the contrast between two dark lights in each person. He also talks about love, but also about family feelings, friendships as students, and above all human love.... human affection in the hidden corners at the bottom of society, behind the grim fate ... Persistently read and feel...
