Le Ly is a Vietnamese woman who, as a girl, worked for the Viet Congs (the party that controls the North). This is a very unique perspective and gives the readers like myself an interesting insight into the war. Not only did she suffer under the Republicans, the party in control of South Vietnam, but also later the Viet Congs unjustly accused her of being a traitor. The Viet Congs thought she was a traitor because she was set free three times when she went to prison. The reason she was set free from prison was because she had a family member that work for the Republicans, which helped her get out of prison twice. This book tells of her being dragged into the forest and raped next to the grave that was meant to hold her body by the Viet Congs soldiers named Mau and Loi. Mau and Loi both were killed later during the story. Le Ly was left in shame and forced to leave her much-loved village. She went to Saigon with her mother and secured a position as a nanny. However, she became pregnant with her boss's Anh's child and was forced to leave her new sanctuary when her boss's wife found out. Faced with this new hurdle in her life, Le Ly and her mother were forced to return to Danang where she became a black marketer. Through these experiences she learned to trust Americans. Nonetheless, she did not base this trust on a uniform, but on the character of the Americans. Her experiences throughout the war were regularly filled with terror, pain, suffering, and horror. But in the midst of all the tragedy is a sense of hope and love of family that is stronger than the hate of either side. Flashing back and forth between the war and 1986, when she returns to see her family, her story is the story of the Vietnamese caught between two conflicting sides but often a member of both. The author was trying to describe the horror of the war in her view and life. The book helped me understand the war more so than ever because it contains details on how the Viet Cong's fighters uses they"re fighting tactics.
Heaven. ... Others still think that heaven is right here on earth; that it is up to us to make heaven or hell of what we have. ... "Heaven doesn't exist outside of earth." ... Linked to this view is the view that heaven and hell is here on earth. ... They believe that if you were good here on earth and performed certain good acts you will go to heaven when you die. ...
One who believes in a god who is the absolute creator of heaven and earth, out of nothing, by an act of free will it a creationist. ... The first image I have selected is symbolic of the creation of the "heavens and the earth". ... Heaven may very well be a place on earth. In Genesis, God created the heavens, meaning more than one, and the earth. My contentions are that earth one day may be heaven. ...
The first words in the Bible say, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth" (Holy Bible). The heavens can be characterized as the solar system. When someone refers to the heavens, they would think that the heavens are upward toward the sky, which is also towards outer space. The Bible also tells us later on that God created the stars, which he decided to place in the heavens. ... "And God said, let the water bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in open firmament of heaven. ...
Infants and Children will without question go to heaven when they pass away. ... The concept of heaven for Islam differs from the Christian-Judao concept. ... (The Afterlife in Islam) It has been said that the lowest level of heaven is one-hundred times better than the greatest life on earth. The highest level is called the seventh heaven. ... The earliest textual mention of atman is in the Rigvedic Pantheon" Accordin will go to dwell in the new life on earth the babies. ...
In the beginning of the Book of Genesis, God created heaven and the earth. ... On the second day God divided the waters and called the firmament heaven. ... On the fourth day he made the stars in the heaven to point out day from night. ... In most cases the earth is female and the sky male but within this creation myth the female is the sky and the male is the earth (Gods). There are many different life forms on earth. ...
This is the first time I heard the story titled The Other Side of Heaven. ... A little faith will bring our soul to heaven but a lot of faith will bring heaven to our soul. With the word of the Lord, day by day we are getting closer to heaven. ... The other side of heaven? ... " Because everybody that lives on Earth was created having their own different and unique purposes in life. ...
If I could create my own heaven, for me to exist in eternally when I die, it would be much like the world we have now - except without all the things in this world that make my life on earth a living hell. ... Upon arriving at heaven, one would lose all memory and theory of all the things that made our world evil. ... I believe that a perfect living on earth can not exist because humans themselves are not perfect to begin with, in that they possess such ideas. ... In fact, nothing would be needed in heaven, since things like greed have already been forgotten. ... Morally and reasonably spe...
It was peace on earth. ... Is this what heaven is like? At that moment I remembered watching the movie Field of Dreams, when Ray Kinsella "s father asks him if he was in heaven, and he responds saying "No this is Iowa". Before this experience I thought heaven was walking on soft cloud steps towards an enormous gold gate with light shimmering from behind. ... It was nothing I could imagine on earth, but after seeing that movie, heaven could be different for everyone and I guess heaven is what you want it to be and what you makes you happy....
