House of Sticks: A Memoir

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This memoir provides me with a perspective through the lens of my sister and I can't tell everyone how much I appreciate her for putting in these years of efforts. Ly Tran is simply a brilliant writer. She brings the reader through her own coming-of-age story, beginning with her family’s immigration to the United States from Vietnam and chronicling her childhood to early adulthood. Working from the “what the team can’t control” list, ask the team to identify what they would prefer be done about the situation and prepare a list for the Scrum Master and Product Owner to raise as impediments to the appropriate audiences.

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On the landscape of nail salons and her family's sweat shop, Ly Tran paints the songs of her courage, dreams, and her fight for sanity and humanity. This is the story of a magnificent lotus who rises up from a pond of mud – the mud of poverty, racism, inherited trauma, depression – with the power and radiance of her storytelling. This is a book that demands us to look beyond just the name of each and every war refugee. This is a book that gives us light." - Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, PhD, bestselling author of The Mountains Sing Lean Portfolio Management Align strategy to execution to maximize value, increase efficiency, and boost

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If the previous is too hard, go to the third obstacle again and do not climb it. Wait until the bulldozer is very close and, if timed right and without holding the run button, climb the obstacle. The bulldozer will go through you and destroy the obstacle; however, you will be alive and end up behind it with a clear shot of the foreman. I think this memoir is as good as Ashley C. Ford's "Somebody's Daughter", if not better. It is a shame that Ly Tran has not attracted the same media attention as Ms. Ford, who has been interviewed by Terry Gross on NPR, and Ms. Ford's book is included Oprah Winfrey's book club. Representation is everything.Ly’s coming of age is an intimate look at trying to fit in while trapped between two cultures. Her guilt for feeling ashamed and perplexed by her odd father. Feeling abandoned by her larger than life brothers, her mother’s acceptance of the ugly world both infuriating and confusing. Confusing because she longs to protect her. Wanting to just be a normal American girl, not feeling like a failure who can’t live up to her father’s expectations. It is an intimate window into loyalty, faith, family and the inheritance the brutality of war leaves for the next generation. It takes years for Ly to come to terms with her father’s fragility, to understand why her mother more often than not sides with her husband, despite the cost. Becoming American doesn’t erase her father’s years of suffering, imprisonment, labor, indoctrination while forced into a “re-education camp”. From a place of freedom, how can Ly fully comprehend everything her mother and father had been through, had given up to provide their children with a better future? In turn, how can they understand the weight their daughter carries in her heart searching for a place for herself, trying to feel like an American with the traditions of the culture they left behind shadowing her every move? A place where she is a dutiful daughter but also a free person, able to use her voice, speak her truth and create a future that feels right for her? This is at times a difficult story but I found it gave me new insights on the immigrant experience from a very different view point . I do recommend it. The visual imagery engages different parts of the brain, allowing the team to expand their thinking about obstacles. Additionally, transforming anchors into goals that can be accomplished using what the team does well teaches the team to focus on how to use their collective strengths to overcome impediments. The Three Little Pigs Retro offers your team another creative sprint retrospective idea to help identify short, medium and long-term actions that will bring stability and value added features to your product. Another cutscene will occur in which Kelso realizes that Elysian Fields bought used lumber from a film studio as construction material; lumber that is unsuitable for building.