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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://www.englishforums.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Search results for 'user:Phuongninhbao'</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/search/pro.htm?q=user%3aPhuongninhbao&amp;o=DateDescending</link><description>Search results for 'user:Phuongninhbao'</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>XMOD (Build: 3607.32596)</generator><item><title>Re: What you think about the war in the world?</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/WhatAboutWorld/2/drklz/Post.htm#257040</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Aug 2006 05:55:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:257040</guid><dc:creator>phuongninhbao</dc:creator><description>You mention to children and the war.I feel sad to remember some newsreels that I have seen on TV.A littlegirl in a position ready to avoid from thebomb in a bus on the way to school. Some Palestinian little boys ,throwing stones to the soldiers and were killed by the guns of the other soldiers.And all the children kept safe from the bomb in an underground shelter in a frontier village are quite died from this fierce instrument of war I think topray for peace is a good way toavoid war.People couldn't know what will be will be!.Who sows the wind,reaps the whirlwind. 
 Phuongninh</description></item><item><title>Re: Talk about the trend of global weather</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/TalkAboutTrendGlobalWeather/dbvnl/post.htm#257026</link><pubDate>Fri, 18 Aug 2006 05:11:25 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:257026</guid><dc:creator>phuongninhbao</dc:creator><description>Hi! Chaobo 
 I think the scientists have reasons to say so. However, I don't think we can live at this time.The most important thing that we should keep our environment clean and green to avoid the green house effect . It will make us suffer in the disaster such as tidy waves, earthquakes,  typhoon,cyclone..etc .. You're Chinese,do you live nearTaiwan?There are a lot of storms in your country recently, do you feel afraid about pollution?Your industrial tcchnique is developing faster than never before, so there is a lot of pollution, isn't it?I'm very interested in using your productions.They are very cheap and beautiful: MP3,MP4, USB,Radio, VCD, Comestics and even clothes.......Your country is very large,if you don't keep your forests,...</description></item><item><title>Re: The Grapes of Wrath</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/TheGrapesOfWrath/4/clvwd/Post.htm#246313</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Jul 2006 13:42:11 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:246313</guid><dc:creator>phuongninhbao</dc:creator><description>Hey, Roybato! 
 I'm very happy to receive your post. Why do you call stuffs our long message? Did you read all of them? No matter what kinds of comment, it also expresses your interest about the book. I hope one day, someone will design this story into a game. I think it will be very difficult to make these characters run and die such as the treasury course in the "Da vinci" film. By the way, are you Muslim? Do you believe the fate, the destiny? Have you ever met earthquakes? There was once in all my life, I was in the operating room. I didn't know why all thing dropped on the floor. We had to finish our work and when we went out of the room , we were very frightened to see people's faces in the emergency exits. they were hurried to the...</description></item><item><title>Re: Da vinci code.....</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/TheDaVinciCode/6/pbqv/Post.htm#246082</link><pubDate>Sun, 16 Jul 2006 15:42:42 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:246082</guid><dc:creator>phuongninhbao</dc:creator><description>I've seen this film and I have some point of view different to yours.Louvre in the film doesn't give me a deep impression but it seems made me frighten. the girl , the heroin is very nice with her attitude, her appearance, her voice and her tact in dealing with people. Da Vinci is really an impressive film. It reminds me of La Joconda with Mona Lisa's mysterious smile . Further more ,I feel interested in Leonard Da vinci. He's really an artist , scientist and writer. I like the best his career asan engineer. In my country ,Long Co Don and Quoc Hai had made light airplanes with some devices easily to find. Long Co Don is a doctor because oer's will. His father was a doctor in underground air -raid shelter in the war. It's a dangerous job....</description></item><item><title>Re: Did  you know the miserable  story for  victor hugo?</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/DidMiserableStoryVictorHugo/cpqxp/post.htm#246077</link><pubDate>Sun, 16 Jul 2006 15:20:04 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:246077</guid><dc:creator>phuongninhbao</dc:creator><description>Hi1 Roybato. Thanks for your photo . Whatever appearance Victor Hugo has had, I always think he is a famous novelist of all time and everywhere.I have regret to make a mistake to write the name of one of his character  Colette  As you see , I almost got drowned in the sea, so the images of oceanos used to appear in my nightmare and I loved my father very much., though the father's love to her daughter in his novels, poems gave me a deep impression in all my life. I think you are very lively and up to date to have this attitude but what do you think about Zidane when he hit to a footballer in another team who cursed him, spoke ill about her mother? If you read Victor Hugo , You'll have a great sympathize to him.I like very much your...</description></item><item><title>Re: The Grapes of Wrath</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/TheGrapesOfWrath/4/clvwd/Post.htm#245857</link><pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2006 14:54:55 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:245857</guid><dc:creator>phuongninhbao</dc:creator><description>Hi1 Everybody. Thanks for some information about" The Grapes of wrath". I always think the author likes to find special cases in order to attract readers to pursue all of the long story. If he tells only a happy life in a normal family, there is nothing to make people moved to tears. So, he should gather all thing to make we cry, laugh and sad such as some stories about breast feeding. Normally, we respect the person who breasts feed us like our mother if our mother couldn't breast feed us. .However, in the novel, the writer often searches the emotional situation to develop the story.In the past,in our country, when people didn't lift the embargo, we should breast feed for two years to avoid some diseases to our children. Now, we have a...</description></item><item><title>Re: Did  you know the miserable  story for  victor hugo?</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/DidMiserableStoryVictorHugo/cpqxp/post.htm#245847</link><pubDate>Sat, 15 Jul 2006 14:07:33 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:245847</guid><dc:creator>phuongninhbao</dc:creator><description>Hi1 Bacteria. I like this story very much.. It's about a lot of miserables. First, Colette, a little girl who was treated unfair by the hotess .After that, her mother was really a miserable woman! She loved her daughter and expected her child would have a good condition of life with all of her money that she could earn but in reality she was deceived. and Jean valjan , the hero of the story, his life was the most miserable life in the world , when he was in prison, as well as when he was a chief of a province or the good father in a family of a high rank.Almost of his life,he used to be watched by an inspector. In the end ,we see the inspector is the most miserable person in the novel with his suicide.Here are some of my opinion about...</description></item><item><title>Re: The Grapes of Wrath</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/TheGrapesOfWrath/3/clvwd/Post.htm#243411</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Jul 2006 03:54:03 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:243411</guid><dc:creator>phuongninhbao</dc:creator><description>Dear Myth and Irene, 
 I don't know why I like to talk about Rose -of - Sharon.However, I'll wait for your comment on  The Thorn birds ., I think it will be very interesting because there is a lot of rumour about this terrific novel. Any comment - good or bad is better than "no comment' , such as in The grape of Wrath: The vilification from the bankers, the Okies, made Steinbeck famous because of a large extend read of his book.The end of this novel recalls me to the 22nd example of  Showing Filial piety  in ancient Chinese legend like this.: Grandma of Thoi Son Nam couldn't eat. Her daughter- in -law fed breast her to make her live longer.Sometimes, I think it's very ridiculous (according to Steinbeck) if it's not grandma but grandad,...</description></item><item><title>Re: do you believe true love?</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/DoYouBelieveTrueLove/2/cpgwl/Post.htm#243404</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Jul 2006 03:16:40 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:243404</guid><dc:creator>phuongninhbao</dc:creator><description>I agree with you but I think Love is true or not, it's up to you. If you feel it's true, it's true. If you feel it's not true, it's not true. 
 Do you think this love story is a true love? 
 My Foreign language teacher was a rich and handsome man. My Literature teacher was a beauty queen.All of two were our idiols as schoolchildren often got crushes on teachers.One day,he left her and went to a fareway country. All of us hated him because she was blind after weeping a lot. However, at the bottom of my heart, I think he couldn't tell her with his wheeling -car "I love you" to avoid her a miserable life. Due to some blogs (I always imagine she is sitting in front of the screen of the computer with her little niece, a genius of computer,...</description></item><item><title>Re: my heart feels for u</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/MyHeartFeelsForU/cxmdz/post.htm#241561</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jun 2006 10:55:34 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:241561</guid><dc:creator>phuongninhbao</dc:creator><description>I agree with you but I have a little confuse.It's a Nom poem, a style of Duong rule poem written with the sign of Han language.The translation made it easy to understand. Do you know this paralell sentence?: 
 First look made a town collapse 
 Another look made a nation collapse. 
 It's written in Han language. And here is a famous poem written by Ho xuan Huong; 
 My body is round and white 
 Floating and sinking on water 
 Hard or soft depends on maker 
 I still have a red center. 
 And I want to share with you a truth about poem translation. All of my students used to jump on their table and shout: O!Gentleman. Let's take this moon to swear......A very romantic scene of a fine work becomes a ridicule of literature because we...</description></item><item><title>Re: "Characteristic lady"</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/CharacteristicLady/cprwb/post.htm#241554</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jun 2006 10:37:02 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:241554</guid><dc:creator>phuongninhbao</dc:creator><description>To me, I think when someone wants to praise a woman beautiful but she is not really beautiful, people used to say: You're not  beautiful but you have some characters that no one can forget when he 's met you. So, She is such a characteristic lady  means a noble woman with her charming and her special beauty which are suitable to someone.For example: She is too small but she has a nice smile; She is lively with her fashionable appearance. 
 Phuong ninh</description></item><item><title>Re: enjoy their lives</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/EnjoyTheirLives/cprvc/post.htm#241156</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jun 2006 10:30:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:241156</guid><dc:creator>phuongninhbao</dc:creator><description>Your story reminds me to the fable; The cicada and the ant written by Lafontaine with the terrific sentence;  And now....Dance!  After singing all the times in summer, the cicada is very hungry in winter and asks the ant to lend him some food, the wicked ant answers him with this ridicule.To me, it depends on your situation, your condition of life to enjoy life time or grind away. But I like the way Charles Dickens wrote in his  Olive Twist  about the way to spend money. 
 Phuong ninh bao</description></item><item><title>Re: The Grapes of Wrath</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/TheGrapesOfWrath/2/clvwd/Post.htm#241149</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jun 2006 09:44:02 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:241149</guid><dc:creator>phuongninhbao</dc:creator><description>Hi!Every body.  Irene-Myth-Likeguslee . 
 I agree with you, Myth- Irene ,Sharon-of -Rose is very nice. No one can hate her although she was not a good exanple for us to follow. Whatever actions she had, she's always an impressive image in viewers ' hearts.As you see, the Joads were not really in the poverty condition to compare to poor farmers of our country. So, I think Steinbeck didn't imagine too much, he only collected some events in this place, then arranged them in some other situation ,such as in Joad family .And the truth could be more terrific than what he described. If you had lived in a country in the starvation, you would have seen all thing could be happen.As you see, this is why, Steinbeck has received the  Pulitzer prize ...</description></item><item><title>Re: The Grapes of Wrath</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/TheGrapesOfWrath/2/clvwd/Post.htm#240111</link><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jun 2006 08:56:05 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:240111</guid><dc:creator>phuongninhbao</dc:creator><description>I agree with your point of view about Rose -Of-Sharon. She's so nice. Don't pay attention to her open-minded attitude, she's really a delicate woman.By the way, I've read and seen many times the novel Jane Eyre written by Charlotte Bronze and some stories of O'Henry , the most favourite story is The last leaf .And Ann Frank Diary ,some other short stories of Hemingway. My favourite novel is The birds hide to wait for death or may be The birds sing in the bush written by an Australian It 's about a love story between a priest and a young girl. There is something of Freud thought. Hope to see you again. 
 Phuongninh</description></item><item><title>Re: my heart feels for u</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/MyHeartFeelsForU/cxmdz/post.htm#240106</link><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jun 2006 08:33:38 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:240106</guid><dc:creator>phuongninhbao</dc:creator><description>To me, I think it's a translation of the ancient poem of a style influenced by Chinese.It's really written in Han languague,and it's spoken instantly in a suitable situation. When people are sensible with the beauty of something or with the sentiment of someone,they speak it at once. The poem contains some oriental colour.There is a contradiction of the second line and the third line. The author wrote about her appearance and her soul She has nothing besides a vacation. The first line is an introduction and the last line is a conclusion. We could find a faithful person and an optimist point of view through this short poem.From this point of view ,we may understand her hope to meet her love in a different life where there won't be the so...</description></item><item><title>Re: how about reciting dictionary?</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/HowAboutRecitingDictionary/cxkln/post.htm#239374</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 15:50:08 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:239374</guid><dc:creator>phuongninhbao</dc:creator><description>I think it's not a good way but if you can learn by heart a pocket dictionary , you are very great. I learned by heart approximately a hundred pages when I was a little girl .After that , I has forgotten all I learned. Sometimes, I saw people learned dictionary on the bus, the car, I used to smile in my cape.To tell the truth , I should look up on the pocket dictionary frequently. You should be very intelligent to remember all vocabularies in the dictionary in alphabet.Don't forget to enlarge your idioms and other meanings of these vocabu laries. 
 Phuong Ninh</description></item><item><title>Re: The Grapes of Wrath</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/TheGrapesOfWrath/2/clvwd/Post.htm#239340</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 13:50:07 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:239340</guid><dc:creator>phuongninhbao</dc:creator><description>Hi! Myth; Hi!  H'ele`ne.  
 Me, too. There a great sympathy between me and Ma. She helped the family keep together. However, the scene Ma fought the desire to cry when she was treated as human for the first time since they arrived in California. It didn't make me moved.It liked Yang Don Gung in the role of the slave in The promise film .It made me hate them. There is nothing like a little of objection . All their way is to submit to the others. There is no equality between man and man . We should struggle for the equality. There are a lot of ways to realize this state. A great number of novels reveal this objection, particularly the scenes of the American civil war. 
 What do you think about Rose- of- Sharon, the impractical, selfish...</description></item><item><title>Re: What makes a good relationship?</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/WhatRelationship/21/czxj/Post.htm#237410</link><pubDate>Sun, 18 Jun 2006 15:00:52 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:237410</guid><dc:creator>phuongninhbao</dc:creator><description>Do you think: respect, care, sincerity, trust and loyalty are the best relationship in the life of a couple in the state of no marriage? .In an examination of language, a young girl affirm it's a best way to prove the real love and respect the marriage by living in this state. This makes people chocked but I think she's really right  .  She has said it's never broken the traditional culture of our country because people respect their marriage and don't want to marry and after that they will disvorce . Some people have a relationship before their marriage, the others were pregnant before their marriage. So, if people live together without marriage because they love each other and may be there are the disagreement of their family , some...</description></item><item><title>Re: Do you know the chinese film"The promise"?</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/DoChineseFilmPromise/cnjqq/post.htm#234882</link><pubDate>Sun, 11 Jun 2006 10:19:32 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:234882</guid><dc:creator>phuongninhbao</dc:creator><description>I've watched theChinese film"The promise". In my country, people translate it with the tittle "Infinity"I think it's OK because the film mentions to a compelled promise in order to have a good condition of life. I haven't seen "the hero" however,I 'll tell you some of my impression about this film. Besides the slave that Yang Dong Gun played the role, I feel all of the characters in the film are very cunning, trick, violent and fraudulent.It seems I learn a lot of lesson about the trust.We shouldn't trust anybody, we should take precaution against all thing.The film is rich in images.It's really an exponent of metaphors. We find all kinds of symbols: flowers, green fields, white birds and feathers, the immensity of desert, the death, the...</description></item><item><title>Re: School Lost</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/SchoolLost/cldxm/post.htm#234874</link><pubDate>Sun, 11 Jun 2006 09:41:06 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:234874</guid><dc:creator>phuongninhbao</dc:creator><description>The images of two braids of beautiful hair with white ribbons in the poem of your friend remind me of the memory of my childhood. The ribbons of braids of hair seems to fly like the petals of flowers before the breeze in everywhere in the poem.It's very romantic.I remember in my golden chilhood, I didn't have two braids but I had only a Pony tail. I want to have a response poem to your friend's poem but I can't create it because your poem is really a "native poem" However , it reveals my image in the past with an impressive pony tail with the multitude flowers and butterflies. On the promenade at the seaside., a photographer saw this lively picture and asked me to take it for a roll of film . He didn't give me back.And my friends used...</description></item><item><title>Re: Vacation</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/Vacation/cmjgh/post.htm#234858</link><pubDate>Sun, 11 Jun 2006 08:52:46 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:234858</guid><dc:creator>phuongninhbao</dc:creator><description>I like your poem very much, especially the image of " Since my eyes decided to take a walk along the street, I can't hardly concentrate...". It reminds me a famous reading of our romantic poet in the revolution of poem in my country with the sentence that I've learnt by heart:" Some kinds of frogs scattered their souls of cemetary to cover the quiet road and the road was spread of black tar:I wandered slowly, the evening was creeping in my mind from the way of the soul of two eyes". I'm very interested in images, sounds and colours in poem. In our schooling ,we should learn a lot of poems, especially the ones who have a great influence in Chinese such as Duong Poem, an aristocratic poem with rhymes , rhythms accents and the definite...</description></item><item><title>Re: The Grapes of Wrath</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/TheGrapesOfWrath/clvwd/post.htm#233913</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Jun 2006 15:24:52 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:233913</guid><dc:creator>phuongninhbao</dc:creator><description>Dear Myth lad, 
 Nice to see you again.I have regret to confuse this novel with the harvest of Jalna written by Mazo de la Roche.It's about a big English family.The author's point of view is not more impressive than John steinbek 's view. It describes a life of farmers, too The woaks but not the Joads. It seemed that I have seen the film." the grape of Wrath" for a long time However, when you tell me the content , I remember it.The writer had a great affection with the immigrants. My country is an agricultural country. Our standard life is not high so I have a deep sympathy with this family, especially the man who came back from the prison. The develop of the service of the bank is not always a good help to the farmers but sometimes it...</description></item><item><title>Re: rainbow</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/Rainbow/cmxql/post.htm#232282</link><pubDate>Sun, 04 Jun 2006 04:22:33 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:232282</guid><dc:creator>phuongninhbao</dc:creator><description>Your question is difficult to answer. I'll use some steps to make clear some points about poem that you want to know. So I'm very happy and feel that we are Ba Nha and Tu Ky. Only you can understand my poem exactly. Really! Double rainbow, double metaphors, . For example;The symbol of the dead fall, the forest of dead leaves is a metaphor of the life of death, the leaves of some plants never died, they are green forever and wait the resurrection of the death to live an another life.The lovers hope to see their partners in another life, where they are free to meet one another,not to care about responsibility, the law, the rumor, the criticism of people around them Occidental belief or Oriental belief are the same points of view. .To sum...</description></item><item><title>Re: The Grapes of Wrath</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/TheGrapesOfWrath/clvwd/post.htm#232276</link><pubDate>Sun, 04 Jun 2006 04:00:14 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:232276</guid><dc:creator>phuongninhbao</dc:creator><description>Hey Myth Lad, nice to meet you again. 
 To tell the truth, I can't remember exactly what I read and what I see . It seems I've seen the film" The grape of wrath". However, I still remember the heroine in this film is Jane Fonda. As you see, she 's been my idiol for a long time.And I couldn't read this book because of my free time , my English level , my residence etc... May be, I've read an explanation of "The harvest of Gypsies". Could you tell me the content of 'The grape of Wrath" ? I'll compare with what I read to affirm that I've read this fine work.By the way, all of foreigners call me Foong. It's easier to pronounce.Remember to tell me the content of the novel as soon as possible! 
 Phuong Ninh</description></item><item><title>Re: Poem</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/Poem/cmwbr/post.htm#231829</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2006 15:04:38 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:231829</guid><dc:creator>phuongninhbao</dc:creator><description>Question 1; please reread the post of Survivers written on May the 18th 2006 It's the double rainbow of 'someone with your face, a kind of double metaphors. You don't see the scene to miss someone but you miss an another person. 
 Question2I think you can get something in the second poem. 
 phuongninhbao</description></item><item><title>Re: The Grapes of Wrath</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/TheGrapesOfWrath/clvwd/post.htm#231454</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jun 2006 14:28:49 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:231454</guid><dc:creator>phuongninhbao</dc:creator><description>Dear Mythical Lady 
 You are so great.! You have read the famous novel" The grape of wrath " by John Steinbeck. Though you only read four pages, you've read preface and you can grasp the content of the book. I couldn't read any English novel. It's difficult to search English novel in my district. However, I remember when I was a little girl, I spent a lot of time at the Abraham Lincln library to look at this book but I couldn't read it because I couldn't understand anything. The title is very lyric. I wanted to read this fine work but after that I didn't have time to read. To me , I think when we read a book we don't need to understand all words. If you don't understand the conversation in the book you can leave out this part, and...</description></item><item><title>Re: someone with your face</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/SomeoneWithYourFace/cmbxg/post.htm#228937</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 May 2006 14:36:48 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:228937</guid><dc:creator>phuongninhbao</dc:creator><description>From "Someone with your face" 
 I picked up a sprig of Rhododendron 
 On the silicate rock, in the northern region 
 Dead fall; Forget- me- not; Oh! blue flower 
 We've met again; Oh1 Myrtle, Azealea 
    x        x 
         x 
 I've seen a branch of sweet briar 
 Amongst the green covered the old alone soldier 
 Who searched for his friend's makeshift grave desperately 
 In a ravine with plenty leaves of bush and tree 
     x       x 
          x 
 I put on the gravestone a pink wild flower 
 To think the blue sea where she drowned 
 After wading into the ferocious waves in white 
 Like an ant in a flock of broken right 
      x      x 
          x 
 O, God! Let me forget all of this catastrophe 
 Drive my...</description></item><item><title>Re: point of departure</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/PointOfDeparture/cmjdw/post.htm#228926</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 May 2006 13:52:40 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:228926</guid><dc:creator>phuongninhbao</dc:creator><description>Do you think Marius Hancu's answer is right? I agree with him. I have used this expression to describe the starting point of a trip . I'm very interested of Jake's attitude when he said goodbye to the point of departure. in the "Titanic " film. I call this starting point based on the expression " the point of no return' that Trish Thuy Trang, a Vietnamese singer has used it in her video clip to tell about her friend's love story. I also think it's a littlle too poetic when using "the point of departure" instead of "the starting point". 
 Phuong Ninh</description></item><item><title>Re: physical therapy</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/PhysicalTherapy/ckwwp/post.htm#226221</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 May 2006 15:57:21 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:226221</guid><dc:creator>phuongninhbao</dc:creator><description>Hi1 Anno. You don't tell us what level are your students. If they are in the elementary level , I think you can teach them vocabulary. Melody's post of medical tittle and abbreviation is very useful. It recalls me of the first lesson of the fist year of my medicine studying. We learnt about " general practitioner". In our country, we call it "All of branches " doctor { General doctor}. Specialists are always regarded as the first range of doctors . People always think they were belong to the brilliant students.....I was very proud to explain to the last -year -student of English language about this tittle, the generous role of General Practioner in my country and some situation of medical professionals. If your students are in the...</description></item><item><title>Re: Brokeback Mountain</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/BrokebackMountain/chpdj/post.htm#226208</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 May 2006 15:13:11 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:226208</guid><dc:creator>phuongninhbao</dc:creator><description>Hi1 Griffon. It's a reality that none of a community could prohibit their members to imitate the heroes in the films especially the roles of some actors were played well. Not only the actors but also all of us usually have influence in beautiful and impressive characters of the heroes in the film but we should choose good habits, generous gestures to immitate.To love the same sex is not natural so we should avoid it. However,today a lot of men and women have this kind of love. Further more, some of them have surgery to change the sex to protect their love and I heard in the grape that Bill Clinton should give permission to his army to have this love. When we see a film, a best way to be sensitive the beautiful and interesting art is to...</description></item><item><title>Re: "Nobody's story"</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/NobodysStory/cwqlq/post.htm#220617</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Apr 2006 15:52:41 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:220617</guid><dc:creator>phuongninhbao</dc:creator><description>The story reveals me to the first English novel, Robinson Crusoe, a hero of a book of the same name by Defoe. In the past, the hero is a clever man, he could use his few possessor to survive and was help by a servant . People don't like this wild life in a desert island.in spite of his power. .In our country, there was a couple who was in prison in a far away island, and became rich due to their plantation of watermelon. Today, it' not easy to live in an tsland, if you don't have a lot of money. to decrease many difficulties in an isolation. Ship, car or airplane are facilities to move everywhere. In the city and its surroundings , you need only a motobike to go around. That's enough! But in an island, if you want to be rich like An...</description></item><item><title>Re: Brokeback Mountain</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/BrokebackMountain/chpdj/post.htm#219667</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2006 15:09:21 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:219667</guid><dc:creator>phuongninhbao</dc:creator><description>I have some opinions similar to Anonymous. The love story of two gays, an event that people always condemn in the field of morality. Moreover,the adultery is not accepted in our society. the wiwes couldn't tolerate the situation of their husbands to have relationship with others, furthermore with gays. However, the author describes this sin with a romantic context and a sentimental emotion that no one could condemn the story.To be a parent, I can't find some reasonable causes to prohibit my children to see it. I don't support the homo-sexual but I can't hate the story. It contains something of fidelity, of honest, this is why, we couldn't prohibit our children to watched it. The harmonious of the speaceful, melodious beauty spots of...</description></item><item><title>Re: Memoirs of the Geisha</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/MemoirsOfTheGeisha/cjcxc/post.htm#219005</link><pubDate>Sun, 23 Apr 2006 15:45:08 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:219005</guid><dc:creator>phuongninhbao</dc:creator><description>I've watched this emotional film. I think it's really a paint of depicted history. The story is about a geiser in the past, may be in the days of world war I. The servant was treated as a slave. I couldn't hide my tears to see people beat the child. I 've just thought about children nowadays. How naughty they are! Because of the &amp;lt;right of children &amp;gt;, they become so fierce. My hands are burnt because they rub everywhere with the waste of some knds of chemistry element that they have learned in the lab. No one can do anything because we can't caught them red- handed.And these naughty students are talented liars.However, the geiser in the past was volunteer and a lot of people want to reach it.Today , a lot of girls were deceived,...</description></item><item><title>Re: simple question</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/SimpleQuestion/cjcww/post.htm#213265</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Apr 2006 14:00:15 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:213265</guid><dc:creator>phuongninhbao</dc:creator><description>By the way, in our text book, there is a sentence like this: She gave me a photo of her, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,a photo of me. Some of us think it is a mistake of printing but it seems it's a way that American used to say. In our new programme, we teach at the same time B.E and A M..Are these sentences correct? 
 Phuong ninh</description></item><item><title>Re: "made head, strayed back"</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/MadeHeadStrayedBack/cjbxl/post.htm#212958</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Apr 2006 13:53:12 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:212958</guid><dc:creator>phuongninhbao</dc:creator><description>I agree with you "strayed back" means" wander back" but not from the ocean but wander to a strange island instead of a green peaceful island. May be, it's a coral island such as Diego Garcia or Maldives etc....Because there is no flower, no leaf, no creature, no particle of animate or inanimate...... 
 Phuong Ninh..</description></item><item><title>Re: "made head, strayed back"</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/MadeHeadStrayedBack/cjbxl/post.htm#212676</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Apr 2006 14:23:39 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:212676</guid><dc:creator>phuongninhbao</dc:creator><description>I agree with you about the meaning of" made head," nothing moved forward, against the strong current, But it seems to me" strayed back " is " lost one's way", no living creature, no leaf, no particle of animate or inanimate existence. For example: you should down the stream to naviguate to the Indian ocean  instead of against the strong current.to the Carribean sea. 
 Phuong ninh</description></item><item><title>Re: has,had,have</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/HasHadHave/cwqdr/post.htm#211390</link><pubDate>Fri, 31 Mar 2006 15:31:31 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:211390</guid><dc:creator>phuongninhbao</dc:creator><description>Modal verb: I have to study Grammar all the time. 
 Present perfect: I have been in Dalat for twenty years. She has been.......... 
 Present perfect continuous: I have been eating She has been eating. 
 Causative: I have my car serviced 
 If -clause; If I have time, I'll go with you 
         If I had time , I would go with you 
         If I had gone by car, I would have saved time 
 Bare infinitive: Let's have a look about your translation 
 Infinitive: I try to have a good pronunciation 
 Imperative; Have a nice day 
 And a lot of kinds of sentences such as It's isn't necessary that she have a lot of advices to him,. you needn't have gone to the office yesterday..... 
  Phuong ninh</description></item><item><title>Re: You consider it to take it in hand.</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/YouConsiderHand/cwqdz/post.htm#211069</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:05:51 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:211069</guid><dc:creator>phuongninhbao</dc:creator><description>I have the same opinion with Clive. It's God that give him a responsibility to bring up the child in the trouble and grief. I appreciate highly his sacrifice. The victim commits himself and he becomes a father. Sometimes, an act of goodness is not appraised. Only Glod knows about it. For example: I have met a situation like this, I was very moved and try to write some verses and there is a rumour. If you are in a circumstance like me , you'll have sympathy with me. A student of econmic and politic sciences who was good at Maths and Physics, as an example of others, should endure too much of pain and grief and became a cowboy instead of Bill Clinton or Bill Gate. He had been my young brother for years and he has my young brother for ever....</description></item><item><title>Re: What is the opposite of Sin?</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/WhatIsTheOppositeOfSin/2/cwhbc/Post.htm#211054</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Mar 2006 14:05:05 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:211054</guid><dc:creator>phuongninhbao</dc:creator><description>Righteousness is the opposite of sin in some contexts such as you shouldn't cheat, copy your neighbors' task. Sometimes, in your real life , you are not righteousness but you don't commit a sin. For example: In the novel "the miserable" written by Victor Hugo, The Father told to the Police : "He goes to that way" .He was not righteous but he didn't commit a sin. Or the doctor doesn't tell the truth to the patient, she does not commit a sin 
 Phuong Ninh</description></item><item><title>Re: neither ... nor...</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/NeitherNor/cwxnc/post.htm#211048</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Mar 2006 13:42:30 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:211048</guid><dc:creator>phuongninhbao</dc:creator><description>I think we can say simpler: He has no relationship with both Jane and Jill. Or Neither Jane nor Jill has relationship with him. 
 Phuong Ninh</description></item><item><title>Re: What is the opposite of Sin?</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/WhatIsTheOppositeOfSin/2/cwhbc/Post.htm#210040</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Mar 2006 13:39:42 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:210040</guid><dc:creator>phuongninhbao</dc:creator><description>I agree with you and Pienne. The opposite of committing a sin is doing good deeds because I looked up in the dictionary then I found the meaning of commit a sin is do wrong. So do right, do deeds ,do an act of kindness are its opposite.However, I recognized your scoff of learning the language is very graceful, It makes people remember all her life.. Moreover, in some contexts committing a sin is an act which is opposite to a default, a mistake. For catholics, people are sinners at born, so they should be baptised., they go to church, recite prayers, pray for sinners or wait God's jugement. For Budhaists, they go to the temple, burn incense, and be diet,. Further more, both catholics and budhaists used to live an eternal life. In the...</description></item><item><title>Re: if-clause (future)</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/IfClauseFuture/2/cwgxp/Post.htm#209672</link><pubDate>Sun, 26 Mar 2006 05:27:16 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:209672</guid><dc:creator>phuongninhbao</dc:creator><description>If one will scoff the study of the language, let's them scoff. It's very interesting to listen them to scoff, we will learn a lot of thing. I will share with you a truth. In my own language, people told me I was a grammarian, but I coudan't use these rules in speech more fluently than my pupils.I had been a teacher in a continuous educational center for ten years A lot of my pupils were VIP in my district, they didn't know a lot of grammar but they were really eloquent. . They use If clause with a great talent to talk about the future. It makes me surprised. I used to be in trouble in this new kind of sentence: two nouns were added with to be. but they used it skillfull:" Socialism is an important element to decide the existence of the...</description></item><item><title>Re: if-clause (future)</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/IfClauseFuture/2/cwgxp/Post.htm#209224</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Mar 2006 15:18:34 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:209224</guid><dc:creator>phuongninhbao</dc:creator><description>Why don't you replace future in If -clause by some other words such as: Provided, providing, or suppose, supposing.? It's simpler.As you see, some French used to say: "With the If's , we put Paris in a bottle". They talk about Paris but I want to talk about the If's If you will study in a foreign country, what do you need to do? Your If-clause contains a circumstance that will be realized but It's only an illusion if we put it in a conditional sentence with a main clause. But if It's in present tense ,It's really a ray of hope. Future in If-clause is not usual for EFL.so your sentence is a special case. I think.if you want to insist someone, If -clause with stress is not good to use Conditional sentence is a problem as EFL. They are too...</description></item><item><title>Re: I am</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/IAm/cwdqc/post.htm#207534</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Mar 2006 15:47:48 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:207534</guid><dc:creator>phuongninhbao</dc:creator><description>I think ''I'' is a responsible father, a good friend, and a kind brother.He is a sentimental man with a fashionable appearance at his time, TheWestern color of the poem contains some features of Eastern. 
 Phuong Ninh</description></item><item><title>Re: phantasmagorical</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/Phantasmagorical/chrng/post.htm#202859</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Mar 2006 16:22:54 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:202859</guid><dc:creator>phuongninhbao</dc:creator><description>Thanks for your help. I always face the interference between English and Vietnamese. Self-love is not self-abuse but it's not self-fish in our language, it's describe a state of a person who feels very, very hurt but I think you are right because you r English is better than me. Execute means work, do,I think I should use "do" "Economized' means simply she saved a small sum of money.Swinging the keyring means he has the habit to swing the keys in the keyring when he is embarassed, drawn has a mistake'drown:'Memory' means a graduated thesis, essay Liar patient is a patient whodidn't tell the truth about her situation because she's afraid of discrimination,It reflected something beggary and pain, limited sense is meaning of using method,...</description></item><item><title>Re: make a question.</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/MakeAQuestion/chbcg/post.htm#202480</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Mar 2006 13:57:59 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:202480</guid><dc:creator>phuongninhbao</dc:creator><description>I think you should use yes-no question: Has the development of effective birth- control method freed women? It will be an important subject for discussion on March 8th. 
 Phuong ninh</description></item><item><title>Re: due to</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/DueTo/cgmgb/post.htm#200511</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2006 13:43:53 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:200511</guid><dc:creator>phuongninhbao</dc:creator><description>That's right. Due to means schedule, But emotion could make people delirious. My consolation to survivors turn into your lethal injection to kill some survivors for the second time. Here are some ideas to enlighten this situation: 
 It's not in the sea breeze 
 It's not in the whisper of leaves 
 Of the forest trees in the starry night 
 It's really in the fitful gusts of wind 
 It's rumbling in the whip of branches 
 It's jostling in the rush of waves 
 She lies there in the dark night 
 Between two tree-stocks of palm 
 A nice boy with a lamp 
 Decides to bury the girl alone 
 In the arrest of the staffs, in the hesitation of supporters 
 To wait the achievement of legal enquiry 
 In the flickered nght 
 In the roaring of...</description></item><item><title>Re: How can we explain this sentence?</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/HowExplainSentence/cgmbl/post.htm#200509</link><pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2006 13:10:15 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:200509</guid><dc:creator>phuongninhbao</dc:creator><description>Hi1 Tieu Vi. your name rings a bell, it belongs to China, doesn't it.Nowadays, in our country, there are a lot of emigration for economical reason. The government removed the tribes into a fixed location in order to develop a community in prosperity to escape the poverty and the starvation because of their nomadic farming. This plan puts an  end of burning forests to do planting destroying the environment.. Streets are widened.,Schools. health center, houses are built. Plumbing and electricity are fitted. The ,aim is very ideal but in reality it' s difficult to do. It needs a great progress to achieve the plan.May be my explannation is close to our country. 
 Phuong Ninh</description></item><item><title>Re: lyrics</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/Lyrics/cgdjk/post.htm#198996</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2006 15:00:11 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:198996</guid><dc:creator>phuongninhbao</dc:creator><description>No intention 
 I wander in the cemetery near my land 
 White engraves were lying close together 
 The young girl lay in the wet sand 
 Under a stonegrave in red letter 
 x             x 
       x 
 I put a pink wild flower 
 In front of the '"chemistry engineer" words 
 Thinking about the place of my dead sister 
 A common grave of fifty corpses 
 x               x 
        x 
 I used to hear the key-ring of his action 
 A kind boy of her same class in this naviguation 
 Couldn't give a place to her girl friend 
 Because of its second stress in the pronunciation 
 x          x 
       x 
 Ten minutes couldn't pour out anything 
 To dismiss the pain, to stop the blame 
 Of the father to avoid the divorse aim 
 As the...</description></item><item><title>Re: Anonymous</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/Anonymous/4/bpwgr/Post.htm#198965</link><pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2006 13:48:08 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="true">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:198965</guid><dc:creator>phuongninhbao</dc:creator><description>Hi! You're so great! In the first year of Architectural university and have a good level of English at the age of nineteen. You must be a painter in some generations,. I hope you'll be in progress in learning English and have a good opportunity in your career. Your signature is very impressive! Does it belong to the famous song of Marc Lavoine, a Belgian? Sometimes the racists make me sad, not only for their discrimination but also for other thing in the world, the position, the place we live, the level of education, the standard of life... But it's OK, Marc is very kind, very mondial and open-minded. I like the way he write about us.How about you? 
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