Richard Pindell

Richard Pindell, an award-winning English professor, has withdrawn from teaching classes for the foreseeable future. He is assumed ill, and his departure has left his students, many of whom sought his classes because of his popularity, with substitute teachers and altered class requirements.


Students who enrolled in Pindell’s courses, because of his popularity within the department, are finding themselves having to conform to a different style of teaching and different requirements.


Strehl attributed Pindell’s popularity to his unique teaching style and personality.

1.  facts about Richard's life :

• He is a very private man
• Pindell’s reputation has been more than enough to fill classrooms.
• Pindell started teaching in 1969, winning the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching from 1974 to 1975.
• his students says he is really funny as a teacher
• he is unique when comes on teaching.

Vietnam

Officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by People's Republic of China (PRC) to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea. With a population of over 89 million, Vietnam is the 13th most populous country in the world.


Why is Vietnam an interesting place?


Vietnam is an interesting place because it have some attractive places like P Hanoi, Saigon, the old imperial capital of Hue, World Heritage Sites of Hoi An and the Cham temples of Mỹ Sơn, the coastline such as Nha Trang, the caves of Halong Bay, Marble Mountains, and many other sites. 


How does the lotus seed relate to the Vietnamese?


In Buddhist symbolism, the lotus represents purity of the body, speech, and mind as if floating above the muddy waters of attachment and desire. In the classical written and oral literature of many Asian cultures the lotus is present in figurative form, representing elegance, beauty, perfection, purity and grace, being often used in poems and songs as an allegory for ideal feminine attributes. 




Here are some images that could convince you:


     marble mountains...


        Ho hoan kiem...


     Hanoi temple...

whooping cranes and Sandhill cranes

What is a crane?

Cranes are a family, Gruidae, of large, long-legged and long-necked birds in the order Gruiformes. There are fifteen species of crane in four genera. Unlike the similar-looking but unrelated herons, cranes fly with necks outstretched, not pulled back.


What is the difference?


Whooping cranes:
from my point of view this bird is all white-skin with a red spot in the front of it head


Sandhill Cranes:
This bird, when being an adult, is usually grey but when being in their first years they are like brown.


but they have somethings in common...
But are great large neck birds, also they are helped by varius organizations. Both live aproximately 22-24 years in wild. Both puts two eggs but ussually one of  those two calves survive.






Photos:
 a whooping crane


 sandhill crane (adult and chik)