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Poetry When Presence Pokes

on February 21, 2018

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Let Them Drink Water! Daniel Engber

Let Them Drink Water! Daniel Engber According to Daniel Engber, soft drinks include excessive amounts of sugary ingredients which is a real cause of obesity so sodas and energy drinks should be taxed and highly charged yet more other appropriate policy should be implied to minimise the eating habit of drinking soft drinks. The rise of obesity is one of the serious problems of America as Obama has stated time and again. He argues that the government should be discouraging Americans by increasing taxes on such beverages and decreasing on healthy items. However, see value in stressing the notion that foods are addictive, and believes that the drug-like effects of certain foods would be helpful in getting the public to see their true dangers. Engber asserts that fat tax is a solution to encourage people to lead healthy lives. Junk food and sodas are as addictive as drugs. In spite of the fact that it's difficult to draw a line bet...

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The Gift in Wartime Tran Mong Tu (translated by Vann Phan)

Tran Mong Tu was born and grown up in Hai Dong, North Vietnam in 1943. She worked for Associated Press in South Vietnam in the 1960s. She moved to the US in 1975 after South Vietnam fall. Tran had wanted to be a writer since elementary school, but her poetry was not published until she reached the United States. Today, she frequently contributes poems and short stories to Vietnamese literary publications in the US and other countries. “War is a terrible thing,” says Tran, who has first-hand experience of the Vietnam War (1954-1975). According to Tran, “The Vietnam War is a shameful experience, for both Vietnamese and Americans.” Many people in both countries felt the terrible tragedy of the war. Losses in the war were heavy; more than two million Vietnamese and 57,000 Americans died. In the poem 'The Gift in Wartime', Tran addresses an absent person. For example, as she says, “I offer you roses,” the person to whom she is speaking is not present and can neither hear nor under...

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