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Oral History of Minh Ngoc Tran
No full textThe oral history by Mr. Minh Ngoc Tran who was born in Nha Trang, Vietnam 1963. He immigrated to the U.S. after he escaped Vietnam and settled at a refugee camp in Indonesia. He had some secondary education in Vietnam and had two years of college at Fullerton college under electronics. He started in America with many menial jobs such as being a dishwasher, and eventually became a system technician and then an electrician. Some significant accomplishments he made include escaping Vietnam by boat, sponsoring over his family, moving to the U.S., and securing a well-paying job. He’s married to his wife Dao Thi Tran, and had has three boys. He now resides in Eastvale, California.Recorded digitall
Oral History of Thuan Tran
No full textAn oral history with Mr. Thuan Tran, born in 1965 in Vung Tau, Vietnam. He and his family left Vietnam in 1975 and spent five years in an Indonesian refugee camp. He shares his memories of discrimination and adjustment to life in the Indonesian refugee camp, where he also resumed his Vietnamese education with the resources that were available for young people there. Mr. Thuan Tran also discusses his experiences with acculturating to high school in the U.S. after 1980. From 1984-1988, he attended the University of California, Irvine as an Electrical Engineering major. He shared his memories of campus life and being part of the Vietnamese Student Association (VSA) on campus. After he graduated, he was accepted into a position with Southern California Edison, where he continues to work as the Manager for Protection Engineer to this day. He currently lives in Diamond Bar, California with his wife and daughter.Recorded Digitall
Oral History of Tuan Duc Tran
No full textMy narrator is Mr. Tuan Duc Tran. He was born on July 20th, 1965 in Da Lat, Vietnam. He moved to America in 1993, first stopping by Thailand and the Philippines. Mr. Tran is one out of seven siblings. In Vietnam, he earned his degree in mechanical engineering. His father was a colonel in southern Vietnam and was imprisoned from 1975 until 1980 and was eventually freed and subsequently defected to the U.S. Mr. Tran’s father sponsored the entire family to come to California, first settling in Fremont located in the Bay Area, where he obtained an AA from Ohlone community college. His mother passed away just four years after moving to the US. Mr. Tran is married and has one son. In our interview, we discuss his life in Vietnam, adjusting to American culture, the difference between Vietnamese and American academics, and how he ended up moving to Fountain Valley, where he now lives and works in production management in the health field.Recorded digitall
Oral History of Alexander Tran
No full textAn oral history of Mr. Alexander Tran who was born on March 8, 1984, in Orange, California. His family immigrated to America in 1975 through connections with the U.S. Embassy. His parents were first located in Oklahoma before they decided to relocate in Southern California. Throughout his K-12 education, Alexander hopped around from different schools that had primarily dominant Vietnamese populations among the students. In 2002, he began his studies as an art major at UC Irvine and later dropped out of school in 2005. In 2008, Alexander became apart of an organization called the Viet Rainbow of Orange County, where he found a supportive group of people who focus on LGBTQ issues within the Vietnamese community. Currently, he resides in Irvine, California with his parents and attends Santa Ana College. He also works as a pharmacy tech at Kaiser Permanente and, in his free time, he does freelance makeup and volunteers with the VROC organization.Recorded digitall
Oral History of Thuy Tran Gutierrez
No full textOral history of Thuy Tran Gutierrez, born on September 11, 1961 in Vietnam. She is
currently an Engineering Technician. In her interview, Thuy describes her journey from
Vietnam to U.S. starting from her childhood in Bien Hoa and the adventures and
hardships she experienced on the boat that was lost in Malaysia on the way to U.S., as
well as on a coconut plantation in Malaysia. Then, she shares how living under
communist rule was very hard because her family was forced to give all of their money to
the government and was compensated only with 200 dollars. She said that she learned
about how glorious Ho Chi Minh and communism was as part of the school curriculum.Recorded Digitall
Oral History of Nhut Van Tran
No full textOral history of Nhu Van Tran, born in Saigon, Vietnam in 1935. He was a General in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, and at the end of his military career he was commanding officer for the central region, known for the battle of An Loc. He came to the United States on two separate occasions for training with the U.S. Military. He got married at the age of 22 and has four children. In 1975, he and his family were evacuated to Camp Pendleton and then were sponsored by a patron in Texas. They moved from Texas to San Diego and then settled in Orange County. In America he has held a variety of jobs from gardening to working in an oil refinery and Navy shipyard.Recorded Digitall
Oral History of Annie Thuy Tran
No full textAn oral history of Annie Thuy Tran, born in 1961 in Phan Thiet, Vietnam. She recalls her childhood memories of going on business trips with her father and living with nuns in Cam Ranh Bay, where the U.S. military base was stationed. There, she was able to experience American food. She emphasizes on her experiences during the war in 1975, traveling by boat with her family and passing through Vung Tau and Guam to go to Camp Pendleton. Her family was sponsored by a church and resettled in Huntington Beach, California. After the war, Annie worked with an insurance company while in school and completed her degree in business. Annie currently resides in Orange County, California and has 4 children and 2 grandchildren.Recorded Digitall
sj-docx-1-jvb-10.1177_0145482X231201124 - Supplemental material for U.S. Short Sleep Duration Trends Between 2011 and 2020 by Visual Impairment Status Using Cross-Sectional Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Survey Data
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-jvb-10.1177_0145482X231201124 for U.S. Short Sleep Duration Trends Between 2011 and 2020 by Visual Impairment Status Using Cross-Sectional Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Survey Data by Phoebe M. Tran, Lam T. Tran, Cenjing Zhu and Liem T. Tran in Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness</p
MEASURING COMPETITION FOR TEXTILES: DOES THE U.S. MAKE THE GRADE?
No full textU.S. textile manufacturing is coming under increasing pressure from foreign competition. This paper evaluates the U.S. competitive position in the yarn segment using established quantifiable measures and provides an overall competitive assessment. The study found the industry in a relatively weak competitive position but that U.S. competitive position is improving.competitiveness, cotton yarn, revealed comparative advantage, tariff equivalent, International Relations/Trade, F29, L67, O57,
A TIME-SERIES ANALYSIS OF THE U.S. DURUM WHEAT AND PASTA MARKETS
No full textA quarterly, partial-equilibrium vector-autoregression model of the U.S. durum wheat and pasta markets was estimated and simulated under three trade-barrier changes that are of potential relevance for the current round of WTO agricultural negotiations: a rise in the U.S. market-clearing durum wheat quantity from increased imports; a policy- or tariff- reduction-induced decline in U.S. durum wheat price; and a tariff-induced rise in U.S. pasta product prices. In response to each shock, an array of quarterly dynamic response characteristics are examined: response reaction times, direction and pattern of quarterly responses, response durations, response multipliers, and strength of durum/pasta market interrelationships.Industrial Organization,
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