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Cơm Gà Xé

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  • This was a course in reading ancient prose. It required a lot of preparation for class which mainly consisted of translating and discussing the text. Professor Raish admitted to being biased towards his personal translations, but was open to arguments about why something should be translated another way and did not hold his opinions against the students when grading.
    College Year in Athens: Fun and Frustrating | A review for College Year in Athens: Athens - CYA
  • Regrettably, the introduction of the Nôm language inadvertently reinforced societal divisions and hierarchies during Vietnam's long-standing monarchy. Education, a privilege reserved for the affluent, remained inaccessible to all classes. Consequently, only children from wealthy families could study and become proficient in the Nôm language, while the majority of the population remained uneducated or self-taught to a limited extent, unable to fully engage with Nôm.
    Phrasly.AI - AI Humanizer
  • “You don’t very often find someone who wants to be isolated and disoriented like this.”
    The Woman Who Spent Five Hundred Days in a Cave | The New Yorker
  • Starting [at a young age] he’s read everything that he could find about business. The subject that interests him, he’s read newspapers, biographies, trade press. He went over to his grandfather who was a grocer and he read the progressive grocer magazine, and he read articles on how to stock a meat department... What he’s really done is he’s created this immense vertical filing cabinet in his brain of layers and layers and layers of files of information that he can draw back on now for more than 70 years worth of data.
    Curius / Onboarding