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May 31, 2007, 12:19 PM
#1
ESE Student
VietNam, My Home Town
Vietnam, My Native Country
Vietnam associated with war and deprivation, which currently has the second-fastest growing economy in Asia. The nation’s poverty rate is also declining-between 1993 and 2003 it went from 58 to 29 percent, and is expected to drop to 17 percent by 2010. Not only are the rich getting richer, many of the poor are finally making headway, too.
One of the cities, Hanoi, Vietnam’s capital, is 1,000 years old and has four million residents, but it feels more like a cluster of district villages. Among them is the Hai Ba Trung area, with its century old European-style villas, Hoan Kiem, given over to crowded outdoor markets (fresh tofu! live snakes!) and dark, incense-filled pagodas.
The most interesting place to see in Hanoi is the Thang Long Water Puppet Theater. The puppets-foot-high dragons, phoenixes, and foxes-danced and scampered across a stage of waist-deep water, manipulated by puppeteers hidden behind a screen.
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May 31, 2007, 12:22 PM
#2
ESE Student
Vocabularies
1. Deprivation
2. Economy
3. Headway
4. Resident
5. District
6. Incense
7. Pagoda
8. Puppet
9. Phoenix
10. Scamper
11. Manipulate
12. Poverty
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