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Vacation My long vacation began last weekend. I spend three day for staying home because it is raining. It makes me sad and miss my city where has rain six months in the year. That is a big city in Vietnam with many big building and traffic jam but I love HCM city too much. I like to go around downtown every evening with my friends under the rain. It is very romantic and funny in my memories. It is like a special thing that I cannot forget it. Now Christmas is coming soon, I feel alone in here when I listening to the rain outside my house in the dark night. I still remember raining night in my country that the time we eat something hot such as mushroom soup, baked sweet potato, and banana cake. They are very delicious food in the night rain. It also makes the rain in my country to become a lovely season. However, in here – the US I don’t have anything in rain night and the only thing I have that is lonely feeling. I miss my mom’s food and the smile of my family. Some people said that they love rain because CA doesn’t have rain in the year. I compare with my country it is very difficult we have 6 months for rain and 6 months for sun. We don’t have winter and autumn because I live in southern of Vietnam. All in all, I hate rain in CA and I hate the feeling of homesick. My vacation has just begun 4 days and I still have more than one month. What I need to do on the next day. Don’t say with me study – It is not interesting with my on this time. I think I will go to cinema and watch love movie for Christmas season. I hope every people don’t feel sad when it is raining like me. Happy Christmas and nice vacation to everyone! English and Vietnamese I began to study English when I was in junior high. I feel that it is very difficult to learn a second language because it is nothing like my mother language. Therefore, I have a good determination to find the similarity and the difference in English and Vietnamese. There are many similar and different points between English and Vietnamese like pronunciation, communication syntax, and grammar. First of all, pronunciation of English and Vietnamese are different but very similar. They have the same alphabet in pronouncing sounds. For example, the English sound /b/, /d/, /m/, /n/ is the same sound in Vietnamese. However, Vietnamese does not have /f/, /w/, /z/, / θ/ sound in the alphabet. So the Vietnamese find it very difficult to pronounce these sounds. In addition, English sound enunciates the ending sound while Vietnamese doesn’t pronounce ending sound. It explains why Vietnamese speak English without end sound. Beside that tune in both English and Vietnamese use intonation in question and admiration sentence. In rising intonation, the voice goes up at the end of question sentence. In falling intonation, the voice goes down at the end of admiration. English language has many differences from intonation in speech compared to Vietnamese. Good intonation comes from stressing the right word – this is because English is a time – stressed language. It moves the tongue so much when it speaks vowel sound / iy/, /a/, and /uw/. /iy/ pushes tongue forward and up while /a/ puts tongue down and back and /uw/ pulls tongue up and back. Vietnamese is considers of syllabic and doesn’t have too much intonation in speech. To sum up, English pronunciation and Vietnamese pronunciation have some similar sounds and intonations but different ways of pronounce them. Secondly, it is the difference and the similar in grammar of English and Vietnamese. Both of them have verb tenses as the past, present, and future tenses. They also have the same structure (subject + verb + object) for instance; “Tom goes to school” equal “Tom di den truong”. On the other hand, Vietnamese grammar doesn’t start with auxiliary verbs on question sentence. Irregular verbs are used in English sentence; adversely Vietnamese does away with that kind of verbs. Furthermore, the two languages make use of verbs plus prepositions followed by the gerund the same way. “I gave up smoking” is depicted similarly as “toi da bo hut thuoc” in Vietnamese. One of the differences between these two languages is the way they present plurality. In order to show something as plural, most often “s” can be added at the end of a subject. Vietnamese does not work that way; “nhieu” is added in front of a subject to show more than one. Thus, English and Vietnamese share some common grammar structures, but mostly they are very different. Finally, there are some differences and contrasts in communication syntax between Vietnamese and English. One of the differences between English and Vietnamese is that Americans use I and you to denote the first and second person. In contrary, Vietnamese first and second character are dependents on people who are involved in the conversation. It is disrespectful to call someone older than yourself “you” or even call them by their names. “Uncle” or “aunt” is used to call elder. When it comes to close relationship between two persons, Vietnamese and English use the same kind of words. “Honey” is used to call a lover in English where as “em yeu” means the same in Vietnamese. During daily conversation, Vietnamese and English use simple and short sentences. Slangs are heavily use in both languages. Consequently, it can be very difficult to distinguish these two languages from one another just by the way they use syntax. In conclusion, languages all over the world have the same basic rule and purpose. I think you will find many interesting, differences, and similarities things among each language. All languages are related to one another one way or the other. English and Vietnamese are similar but they both have many of the same and different points in pronunciation, communication syntax, and grammar. Disadvantage in Tourism Nowadays, oversea travel is very popular in the world. There are many people want to discover about other countries. It helps to develop of the economics for many countries. Besides that, it also brings many problems for them. Vietnam is becoming increasingly important as a source of revenues to many countries but its disadvantages should not be overlooked. These disadvantages of tourism are culture and custom, and natural landscape. The disadvantage of tourism is many influences to Vietnamese culture and custom. The Vietnamese were very simple in the traditional fashion. For example; from a long time ago, women wore “ao dai” or “ao ba ba”. It was very be careful in their clothes. However, Vietnam opened door with many countries therefore many people came to Vietnam. They brought so much new things coming to Vietnam. The Vietnamese culture and custom changed too. The young person begin wear short with low cut décolleté. It has never seen before life. They like to outside more than stay at home. They begin to try club and bar like foreigners. There are many hotels, restaurants and public services. I can see many children don’t go to school but they become street vendor for the traveler. I saw many people in country side changed their life because they want to copy the tourists’ custom. The life style has influenced by the traveler. Many vices appear in live such as drug, prostitution, and robber from city to country. Thus, it is very difficult controlling disadvantage and keeping culture and custom in public. Another disadvantage from tourism is natural landscape. Vietnam has many natural landscapes with long coast running follow the length of country. Some of them have destroyed by the people. Tourism is developing in my country so many foreigners want to travel Vietnam. Some of them want to know about landscape, other want to try food, another want to discover culture. That is the reason why many people travel to Vietnam every day. It means the hotels and the recreation services are opened in everywhere from mainland to island. So many natural beauty places have gone with developing of travel. It hadn’t extensive forest with tiger, bear, and rhino because human used land for build house. The island isn’t exclusion; it becomes nice place with big buildings, huge hotels, and vast sea ports. The ocean water has changed by sweepings from tourist. They throw many kind of trash when they play on the beach. The environment is also devalued by tours from people all the world. This is the worst in all disadvantages of tourism that we would not be overlooked. As most of country, Vietnam has many policies to protect culture, nature, and human from bad influences of travelers. Furthermore, culture and human, and environment are the most important in our life so we have to protect them. Traveling is an interesting thing in live but it is a big disadvantage for many countries in the world. It is culture and custom, natural landscape when the tourism developing as a main field in economy of country. Disneyland vs SeaWorld San Diego California is one of the famous places in the world with Disneyland and SeaWorld parks. Therefore, many people come there to visit all the year. I came to SeaWorld about eight months ago. I also had been at Disneyland one time too. I like and surprise when I visited those two places. Both Disneyland and SeaWorld are very beautiful and interesting. However, they have many different points that make them become famous in the world. That is why I want to introduce about Disneyland and SeaWorld. Disneyland locates in Anaheim and own by Walt Disney. It opened on July 17, 1955. Disneyland is the second most visited in the world after Walt Disney World. You just pay from 59 dollars to 100 dollars for ticket and stay all day with two parks. Coming to the gate you will amaze with beautiful castle on the tales and alive with strong games. You also find many famous cartoon characters and movies there for instance; Finding Memo, Aladdin, and Peter Pan. It is not interesting with children but also with adult from other countries. Traveling around the park by train and railroad is very funny. You can see dinosaur and on the way. Beside that you also have romantic trip on the river with sailing ship Columbia. It adventures with strong feeling games like Splash Mountain, Space Mountain, and Haunted Mansion. Some games are very funny and lovely like Mad tea party, Peter Pan’s Flight, and One Man’s Dream II. Disneyland is a happiest place in the world. On the other hand, SeaWorld is also most famous place in the United States. It locates in San Diego, California. It was born on March 21, 1964. SeaWorld San Diego is different with Disneyland because it is a chain of marine mammal park. It doesn’t have characters in the cartoon movies or stories but it has famous Orca, sea lion, and dolphin shows. The ticket in SeaWorld is cheaper than Disneyland. An annual pass to this place costs around 50 dollars. First on the list are SeaWorld’s aquatic shows with Shamu’s adventure. It looks like you coming to the oceanic wild life. Next, you will enjoy with dolphin discovery and Ignight. You can also hear dolphin’s song and dance. They are very nice and lovely too. Dolphin’s circus is very intelligent. However, you don’t want to miss sea lion shows for example; Sea Lion Tonite, and Clyde and Seamore’s Risky Rescue. There are comedy shows with hilarious episodes. The most important thing is you can come to training areas and you can touch your favorite animals. SeaWorld has a lot of animals such as red stork, white whale, and penguin. Therefore, SeaWorld San Diego becomes one of the places to visit in California. All in all, SeaWorld San Diego and Disneyland are two interesting and beautiful parks to visit when you come to California. There are my most favorite places here in the United States. I will visit SeaWorld again on this autumn. I want to play with penguin and watch killer whales show. SeaWorld San Diego and Disneyland are not only fun place but also places to relax and enjoy with families and friends. Saturday Morning Every weekend I like to wake up late in the morning. So I felt very hungry and I went to around kitchen finding something to eat breakfast. It was about 10:30 to 11am but nothing to eat. I decided to cook Vietnamese food that it was Cha Gio (crispy spring roll). It is also famous Vietnamese food as Pho. Cha Gio looks like Chinese roll but it is different taste. The raw material includes; ½ lb. lean pork, ½ lb raw shrimp, 1 medium carrot, and 1 large taro. I was minced both of them and mixed together in a big bow. Next, I put 2 eggs, 3 small spring onion, and 2 large garlic cloves. After that I put ¼ coffee - spoon black pepper, and 1 coffee - spoon fish sauce. Finally of preparing period, I used 1 pkg. round rice paper to roll one by one. At that time I began to cook with boil oil on the frying pan and fry crispy rolls with small fire. When crispy spring rolls became yellow, it meant the rolls finish. I ate crispy spring roll with salad, mint vegetables with chili fish sauce and team rice. My breakfast became my lunch after one hour to cook Cha Gio. I finished my Saturday morning with the lunch with my husband. So I feel I had enough energy for to do my homework first draft number one for my composition class. Vietnamese Culture Vietnamese culture may still be mysterious and unknown to most people outside the country. Today, more and more people are going to Vietnam for tourism and trading. Getting to know Vietnam and its culture is interesting and fascinating. I hope with my writing, you can find one of the fascinating resources to understand Vietnamese culture and beyond. Those are pregnancy and birth customs of Vietnam people. Normally in Vietnam especially in the countryside regions, three generations live under the same roof. Based on Confucianism telnets, when a girl gets marry she has to follow her husband and live in her spouse family. It presents some difficulties for the wife when she is pregnant and has baby at the first time. The first-born child custom means that the wife can come back to her family to have the first-born baby, and from the second child she stays at her husband’s family. Why Vietnamese has first-born baby custom? Because in the past the marriage age is young, (woman from thirteen and man from sixteen can get married), and when a young wife has a baby for the first time, she does not have any experiences during pregnancy. Furthermore, she still hesitates to depend on her mother-in-law or her sister-in-law for help and it would be easier to ask for help from her mother and sister. Any subsequence baby she already has enough experiences to deal with difficulties by herself so she can stay at her husband’s family. Some days before confinement, the parent-in-law or the husband goes to the wife’s family to talk with the wife’s parents to take the wife home. After confinement and when the baby is strong enough, the husband prepares some presents to pick his wife up and take her back to his home. The grandparent-in-law of the baby is very careful mark a smut on baby’s forehead as a way to drive ghost away from the little one. According to the old custom, after checking the family annals, avoiding the profanation of taboo names (name of a child is same as the name of ancestors); the newborn child is officially given a name. In case of the name of the child is similar the name of ancestors, it has to be changed. The ceremony to announce the name of the newly child is very simple. The needed equipments are incense, betel and a glass of wine. Normally this ceremony is organized annual during ancestor death anniversary. All children who are born in that year are invited to announce their names during the ceremony. The order of each name in family annals is sorted by year. There are number of forms which are used to record the name but all of them contain the following information: name, parent, generations, branch of family, first-born child or not, date of birth and the date of recording this information. In short, Vietnamese culture has many customs and tradition from a long time ago. They are special and interesting to foreigners when they visit Vietnam. Vietnamese culture also is a part of its people life. It always is kept and developed by Vietnamese from thousands years. I want to introduce my culture to all of my friends in and around the world. I’m very proud of my culture. It helps shape my life rightfully and encourages me to thrive in this new and different country. My Leisure Time My favorite past time activities have changed after one year. Last semester it was the first time I came here. I like to discover about America country so I usually went out with my friends after school. We tried many kinds of food like Thai food, Korean food and American food. After that we went to window shopping every Saturday. Some time I hung out with my friends to eat barbecue. I thought that meeting friends helped me know about American culture. I also could improve my English from them. That was a good way to imprive speaking and listening skill. Once semester was over; I didn’t want to hang out with my friend because it was not help me more on my English. Therefore I changed my mind on the last vacation when i came to Noble bookstore. I can read and drink coffee there. i find that reading is very interesting. It will help me learn about vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation. Then I have begun study at Barnes & Noble bookstore whenever I have free time. Reading is very helpful to me. My English has better than last semester. I feel confidence when I talk with my friends. Reading also gives me new vocabulary and grammar structure. I like to read at bookstore because I can find many kind of books. Beside that I don’t need to pay money to buy book. Bookstore is a good place for international student to read book and lean about American culture. To sum up, reading at bookstore is my favorite activity every weekend. I’m a Vietnamese Every person has influenced the features of their cultural identity. I’m a Vietnamese so I have some Vietnams’ features for example gentleness, housekeeper and diligence. Vietnam has developed wet rice cultural from a long time so Vietnamese is very gentleness. It is impregnated in my spirit day by day. I love my family and respect all elderly persons. My parents always teach me to be respectful to everyone. I’m taught obedient from my childhood days. So obedience is a virtue of Vietnamese children. I think it is different with other cultures. Talking back to your parents is something that will not tolerate in my house. Next, Vietnamese women love housekeeping works. When I studied at elementary I knew how to cook rice from my mother. She taught me how cook many kinds of food and how to do family chores. I not only like to cook but also like to find and experiment new dishes. In my country most women handle housekeeping works in addition to their daily job. That is the reason why Vietnamese women are working more than Vietnamese men. Therefore I think I have inherited the diligence and gentleness features from them. Diligence and gentleness are two features of Vietnamese. We have a famous saying proverb: “diligence over shadows intelligence”. From thousands of years Vietnamese has known that diligence is necessary for the successful. I know study hard is a feature of diligence. I think regardless of where you live, you can be easily identified by your unique characteristics based on your cultural identity. My unique cultural identity makes me different from others and I’m proud to be a Vietnamese. Advantages of Being Single So many people are sad and lonely because they are not in any intimate relationship. However other people think that single has many advantages as compare to someone who is being in a relationship for instance freedom and independence. Today I want to point out some of the great advantages of being single. First of all, you can do whatever you want and go wherever you feel like going to. No question asks and you come and go as you please. You don’t have to worry about anyone but yourself. You don’t need to make excuses every time you come home late at night. You don’t have to call your boyfriend to check in on him and ask him permission to go somewhere. Secondly, you can go around with as many people you want. You can have a lot of fun and spend time with your friends overnight. You can walk around without worry. Many married people don’t have much time to spend with their friends anymore. You can go out to places that you otherwise couldn’t go to if you have a family. Meanwhile, you are free. You don’t have anything holding you down or back. You can really focus on your career, education, fitness, and goals. You have time to improve yourself and become a better person. You don’t have to listen to any one. In conclusion, it is worthwhile to stay single while you can because of its many upsides and advantages. My Favorite Cartoon Doremon I like several kinds of movies and books but cartoon is a kind of movie I like best. For example Doremon, I don’t remember how many times I watched it. Doremon was published in Japan and popular in Vietnam in 1991. Doremon is very funny cartoon featuring an intelligent robot cat and his owner. Doremon has lot of power to help his owner – awkward Nobita. Together they are passed over many problems in Nobitas’ life. Doremon helps his boss study and resist his bad friends Chaien and Seko. I love the way Doremon helps Nobita retaliating bad friends. They become two best friends. in the end Doremon was out of energy and that broke Nobita’s heart. Nobita was faced with a difficult answer. He can revive his friend Doremon by recharge energy for Doremon, however by doing so Doremon will lose all of his previous memories with Nobita. Nobita decided help Doremon by studying hard and becoming a good scientist. I usually watch this cartoon when I have free time. It helps me relax and happy after a long day. I’m also study the way how I can play with my friends and how I can become good person. I have begun with Doremon movie from junior school untill now. Sometimes I face with challenges and wish that I have Doremon to bail me out. That is the reason why I like to watch this cartoon movie. Wedding in My Country Wedding custom is very importance in my country. it is considered as one of the most sacred day of everyone's life. Therefore, preparation takes a long time, sometime it could take up to several months. The preparation consists of picking out wedding dresses, creating wedding cards and choosing a restaurant. Vietnamese are very superstitious therefore wedding date and time are carefully chosen. The bride and grooms’ house decorated with beautiful ornaments. Bride and groom wear traditional long dresses on their wedding day. Grooms’ family responsible to bring five different fruit, food, wine, oriental robe, and jewelry trays to ask for the bride. These trays are being carry by five unmarried men. Wedding ceremony is taken place at the church or at home depending on their religion. At the brides’ place, five unmarried young women receive the trays from the young men. The groom family’s spokeperson introduces the groom family and ask to receive the bride. The bride family’s receive the gifts and introduce the bride family. Family members from both sides give bride and groom special gifts and wishes. Gifts are including money, jewelry and general stuffs. At this time, the bride and groom are pronounced husband and wife. Pictures will be taken at this time. The ceremony takes around one hour. Five aforementioned trays are being divided in two equal pieces and return one back to the groom. After that they proceed to the groom's house to pay respect to the his ancestors. Finnally, ceremonial party will be started at the restaurant at prearranged time. Groom will wear either white or black vest and bride will wear wedding gown. Friends and family members will be greeted at door of the restaurant. Every wedding attendees will take picture with the bride and groom. The party lasts about two hours and ended with dancing. My Junior High School I graduated junior high school thirteen years ago. There were many unforgettable memories during my time in junior high school. That was a beautiful time in my school years. July 19th is the anniversary of our class. We always have a party and go out together on that day. I loved my 9A1 class. I liked soccer very much when I was a student at Phuoc Thang School. We divided into two teams and played soccer game after class. We didn’t care much about gender difference; anyone can join in regardless of their gender. My Math teacher was forced to be an arbiter although he wanted to play instead. Often I sat on bench ready to play when my name is called because I was small. However I had a special job that was to keep score for every game. I often lost my voice after a game because I was shouting too much. Every game was last for one hour including fifteen minutes rest time. After each game my friends and teacher would go to monitor’s house and ate noodles except for me. I had to come back home on time. Sometimes I came home late with dirty clothes or injury on my body. I didn’t tell my mom because she didn’t allow me to play soccer. She wanted me to go back home on time and didn’t want me to hang out with my friends after class. That was my secret in my young time. All members in our class have grown up but we always keep in touch by email or phone. I still miss our memories and friendship in junior high school. This Is My Intelligence When I was young my father told me many fairytale stories. It is my most favorite fairytale story. The story begins like this. A tiger comes from the forest. It sees a peasant and a buffalo that plough on the field. The buffalo tries step by step; from time to time it is hit one rattan in the buttock. Tiger is very surprise. In the afternoon, opens the plough, tiger comes near buffalo and asks, “hey, you look strong. Why do you let the people beating you so much?” The buffalo spoke in a low voice whisper in tiger’s ear, “the people are small but they have intelligence”. The tiger doesn’t understand and curious asks again, “what is the intelligence? How does it look like?” The buffalo didn’t know how to explain and answers, “intelligence is intelligence. What do you think it is? If you want to know ask the human.” The tiger went to peasant and asks, “where is your intelligence? Can I see it?” The peasant thought for a moment and said, “my intelligence stays at home. I come back and give you. If you need I will give you a little bit”. The tiger heard that and it was very happy. The peasant had just gone and remembered something and said, “but what if you eat my buffalo after I leave”. The tiger was still wondering, the peasant continued, “let me tie you to this tree while I’m away?” The tiger agreed and the peasant went ahead and tied the tiger to the tree. He then stacked hays around the tiger, started the fire and shout, “this is my intelligence. This is my intelligence”. The buffalo was laughing so hard, he fell and hit his teeth against the rock and broke his front teeth. The rope finally broke; the tiger run straight into the forest and never looked back. From there on, all tigers have little black dots and all buffalos don’t have any teeth on their upper row. Sport Sports have been around in this world for thousands of years ago. Sports have evolved throughout the years. They appeared in the ancient festivals, modern Olympics, school playing yards and in every household. Sports have been introduced to everyone and every country. They are played by everyone from the little kid to an elder. Sports have had and always will have influence in the lives of many people. Many people love to play and watch sports. There are three major advantages of playing sports. The inclusion are to help develop physical skills, make new friends and bring financial benefit. The first reason is to help people develop physical skills. Sports will help improve and strengthen muscular tissues. People who have a lot of muscles, they have to train and exercise every day. For instance, go jogging routinely improves legs muscles; football is good for all parts of body, boxing helps hands and chest muscles. Swimming, aerobic and gymnastic can help produce symmetrical body. Besides that, sports help burn calorie and prevent diseases. Some people restored their young body by routinely exercise and play sports. In some cases sports can help prevent, cure critical illnesses and even death. Cancer and heart diseases and muscular degeneration are some of the illnesses that playing sport can help reduce. It is also prevent stress, lack of sleep and lose weight. Therefore, practicing physical skill is very important and necessary for life. The second reason is to meet and make friends. Sports help people stay and play together as a team. They will learn to play as a member of team. How they can play fair and improve self – esteem. They will know what common spirit of comradeship and feeling of solidarity. Good team members can come a long way in their professional working days. People who are able to work well with other team members are most likely to be successful. That’s why good team members can help them in their behavior of life for example; resilience and friendliness. Then, it is a place where people can make friends. Sports bring people together every time and everywhere whether at the airport, restaurants or school. You can see sports all over the world. The final reason is to bring financial benefit. There are more than thirty football teams in the United States and each one of them represents a billion dollars corporation. They earn their money from selling tickets, advisements and televised networks. Sports also allow many people to be millionaire. Michael Jordan is a good example of someone becoming millionaire due to sports in particularly basketball. David Beckham becomes a rich man from soccer. There are many big contracts in sports world, sometimes they could get up to hundreds of millions dollars; Alex Rodriguez, a baseball superstar just signed a big contract with the Yankees for 275 million dollars. Beside that Sports help provide college scholarships. If you are a good student athlete you will a chance to apply to great college and eligible to receive scholarships. Every year hundreds of top schools award athletes over $1 billion in sports scholarships. There are often other benefits to sports participation. The goal of this site (http://www.athleticaid.com) is to help high school athletes find information and advice that can guide them through the university and college sports recruiting process and help them find the opportunity that is right for them. Sports also allow people to travel around different cities and countries. For instance, the Chinese will organize the next Olympic. Therefore sportsman from around the globe will go to China to compete and travel around Beijing and other cities there. They will view beautiful sight and eat different kind of foods. To summarize, sports have many advantageous; all of them are means for better and healthy life. Sports help prevent catastrophic diseases. Sports also bring wealth and fame to many people as well. Sports can teach things that can never be taught in a classroom or at a workplace. Most importantly sports help bring people with different personalities, ethnic and races together which in turn will create a better world. My True Love The person who made a difference in my life is my husband. Many people say that I’m lucky and happy. Everything in my life happened so smoothly and predictably. For example, I went to university and graduated with two degrees. I had a good job with a stable salary. I thought that was enough, but life was not as easy as I thought. After two years of working in Saigon, I was transferred to an isolated island called Phu Quoc. Life on the island was completely different than what I was accustomed to, especially not having . and the peasant went ahead and tied the tiger to the tree. He then stacked hays around the tiger, started the fire and shout, “this is my intelligence.