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Unit 3: Something Wrong With My Eyes: Group 3

This document is a group assignment for Unit 3 titled "Something wrong with My Eyes" with members Nguyễn Huỳnh Anh Thư, Nguyễn Anh Thư, Tsoi Ý Tuyền, Huỳnh Thị Tường vy, and Nguyễn Thị Phú. The document is a commentary on economic issues, criticizing how large companies lay people off despite making profits, how stock prices rise while people's lives are destroyed, and how promises of change from politicians actually help only those already in power. Throughout, the author questions what they are supposedly seeing in the economy based on their observations.

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Unit 3: Something Wrong With My Eyes: Group 3

This document is a group assignment for Unit 3 titled "Something wrong with My Eyes" with members Nguyễn Huỳnh Anh Thư, Nguyễn Anh Thư, Tsoi Ý Tuyền, Huỳnh Thị Tường vy, and Nguyễn Thị Phú. The document is a commentary on economic issues, criticizing how large companies lay people off despite making profits, how stock prices rise while people's lives are destroyed, and how promises of change from politicians actually help only those already in power. Throughout, the author questions what they are supposedly seeing in the economy based on their observations.

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Unit 3: Something wrong with My Eyes

GROUP 3:
Nguyễn Huỳnh Anh Thư
Nguyễn Anh Thư
Tsoi Ý Tuyền
Huỳnh Thị Tường vy
Nguyễn Thị Phú

1. HARTFORD, Connecticut – Maybe it’s my weary (mệt


mỏi) old peepers ( mắt), but I never seem to see things. 
2. When there is an international crisis (cuộc khủng hoảng), the run up the
price of oil in anxiety. 
3. When wen are in oil glut (nguồn trữ dồi dào), the price goes up instead od
down. 
4. Everywhere , big companies  lay off ( sa thải ) half the work
force, wrecking (phá hoại) the lives of thousands of employees 
5. I don’t see where anyone’s better off (giàu có) for except for a few bosses. 
6. They say I should see that the stockholders are better off ,but what I see is
that they get a quarter or 50 cents more in dividends(cổ tức ) ,a small
increase in stock price. 
7. And for that people live’ s are destroyed , service is gutted(cắt xén ) ,
products and reputations are diminished() 
8. Someone can make pennies (kiếm tiền) and executives can make million. 
9. Fortunstely, there is a least a hereafter (kiếp sau ) where that will
be redressed(giải quyết) 
10.… and into military alliances (liên minh quân đội) with no known purpose
anymore.
11.They say that we will all benefit when the rich get around to trickling it
down (chảy nhỏ giọt) to us later.
12.Companies cut sevices while making bloated profits (lợi nhuận kết xù)
13.Employee rolls (tiền nhân viên) are skinnied up (cắt giảm) and replaced
with part-timers and temp (nhân viên thời vụ)
14.Do you have more money in your pocket because they’ve whittled (cắt
xén) the welfare funds (quỹ phúc lợi) ?  
15.Do you see all those jobs that don’t exist being filled by people who
are straight-arming away ( thẳng tay ) jobs in favor of (ủng hộ) keeping
the peanuts they get from the dole ( tiền trợ cấp thất nghiệp) ? 
16.To thundering self-praise, they tell us they’ve balanced the national
budget (cân bằng ngân sách nhà nước) which will make things better
while, at the same time, spreading suck tax advantages and college aid and
various bits of boodle (một ít tiền) as turn this into the Promised Land. 
17.But maybe the promises are so seldom kept that you will pardon
the squint (sự liếc nhìn) as I keep on the lookout for the thing to happen. 
18.From the left and from the right costly pledges (lời cam kết) of changes fly
only to produce more of the same, helping mostly and only those already
with advantage and authority. 

Idioms

1. Cold weather? It drives up(tăng)
the price. Hot weather? It drives up the price.   
2. Everywhere, big companies  lay off (sa thải) half the work force, wrecki
ng the lives of thousands of employees.  
3. I don’t see where anyone’s better off (giàu có) for except for a few 
bosses.  
4. They say that we will all benefit when the rich get around to trickling it 
down to us later, but i never see that happening.  
Trickle down: chảy nhỏ giọt.  
5. Employee rolls are skinnied up(cắt giảm) and replaced up with part- ti
mers and temps and others on the cheap (theo cách ít tốn kém). 
6. Do you see all those jobs that don’t exist being filled by people who
were straight-arming away (đẩy mạnh) jobs in favor of keeping the peanuts they
get from the dole?  
7. From the left người theo chủ nghĩa tự do về chính trị) and from the
right (người theo chủ nghĩa bảo thủ về chính trị) costly pledges of change fly
only to produce more of the same, helping mostly and only those already with
advantage and authority. 

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