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Ecce Homo Sex and the Passion in Tiffany Reiszs THE PRINCE Trigger Warning: Discussions of rape follow. Earlier this year I started a little project of rereading Tiffany Reisz’s Original Sinners series with the intention of taking a critical look at Reisz’s use of theology and biblical reference throughout the eight book series. My plan was to write one long essay on the topic that tried to identify a series wide pattern. But about three books into the note taking process, two things happened: 1. I realized that this was going to be WAY too much information for a single essay. 2. I stumbled across something in The Prince (book 3) that had escaped my notice in previous rereadings of the series, and it made my nerd brain light up like a Lite-Brite. Before I get started: there’s no way to break down the two scenes I’ll be discussing without spoilers. So if you haven’t read the Original Sinners series yet, caveat lector. Series Summary In brief, the Original Sinners is an erotic romance series with a vast cast of characters, but most of the plot revolves around three central figures: Nora Sutherlin, an erotica writer and professional dominatrix; Kingsley Edge, an ex-spy and the king of the series’ BDSM underground; and Søren, shadow king of the underground, consummate sadist, and priest. Reisz and her fans call these three the unholy trinity (though I’m not sure who coined the term), and that’s not just a tongue in cheek reference to Søren’s profession. Over the course of the series the three of them do, in fact, come to embody the figures of the trinity, sometimes interchangeably. The scene in The Prince that I want to pull apart and look at in detail takes place between Søren and Kingsley, at a moment when King is very much standing in the role of Christ. However, in order to understand both the scene and its significance to the larger series, I need to start with a brief moment from the first book of the series, The Siren. Ecce Homo In The Siren, Nora introduces her editor Zach Easton to a reproduction of Antonio Ciseri’s painting Ecce Homo, which hangs in her (and Søren’s) church. During the ensuing conversation, readers are given two important pieces of information: a description of what Nora calls “Søren’s impressively twisted theology of the trinity”: “God the Father inflicted the suffering and humiliation, God the Son submitted to it willingly and God the Holy Spirit gave Christ the grace to endure it.” (120) and an analysis of Ciseri’s painting that both illustrates Søren’s theology and foreshadows the scene form The Prince that I will be discussing. I have always loved sacred art. It ranges from the beautiful to the gruesome, and sometimes manages to be both at the same time. Depictions of the Passion in particular fit into either or both of these categories, depending on the artist’s interpretation. The painting by Ciseri (above), for example, prefers beauty. Though the scene of the scourging technically calls for blood and physical wounding, Christ’s body here is depicted as untouched. As Nora explains to Zach, “Ciseri is emphasizing Christ’s beauty, not His beating” (121). She goes on to point out that it’s not very accurate, but then most depictions of the crucifixion aren’t technically accurate because they always show Christ partially clothed. But in fact victims of the crucifixion were always stripped “to add to their shame and humiliation”. These few pages of The Siren during which Nora analyzes and contextualizes this image of Christ make up only a tiny moment of the 400+ page novel. But contained within this single scene is the essence of what ended up being (at this point) an eight book series which has spawned a prequel novel as well as multiple novellas and short stories.  The scene concludes with Nora telling Zach that Jesus understands the “purpose” of all the pain and suffering, that better than anyone he understands it’s all for salvation and love. And the idea that suffering (in a myriad of forms, good and bad) and love are inseparable is very much the theme of the entire Original Sinner’s series. But it is when Nora directs Zach’s attention to the women in the painting that she begins to touch on the aspect of Ciseri’s painting that is most relevant to the “Ecce Homo” scene in The Prince that I want to look at. The two women who appear in Ciseri’s painting are Mary Magdalene and Mary, Jesus’s mother. And in the painting they are the only two not gawking at Jesus the way Pilate invites the crowd to do. Mary cannot even look, she has her back to the scene, and though Mary Magdalene it seems cannot or will not turn away, even her eyes are downcast away from his exposed form. “Look how Ciseri painted Jesus. See the curve of His back and shoulders. It is a classic feminine posture. His hands are tied behind His back, and His robe is falling over His hips. And all the men are just pointing and staring and gawking. But the womenâ€"see them?â€"they can’t bear it. One’s looking down and she […] can’t even look. She has to hold on to the other woman just to keep from collapsing. […] They know what He’s feeling. The women always know. They know it isn’t just a beating or a murder they’re being forced to witness. It wasn’t even just a crucifixion. It was a sexual assault, Zach. It was a rape.” (122) It’s a big claim. I remember just having to sit with that analysis for a moment when I first read The Siren because it was so different from every reading of that scene Id been taught. And I’m sure it would send some scholars screaming into the night, though others might agree with her interpretation. But what is important about Nora’s analysis of the painting isn’t its academic validity or lack thereof. Rather what is important is, again, the way it both illustrates the theme of the entire series andâ€"more specific to my purpose hereâ€"foreshadows Søren and Kingsley’s violent (albeit consensual) first time in The Prince. Behold the Man Depending on who you ask (or which reviews you read) the scene in which Søren and Kingsely first have sexâ€"in a flashback to their teenage yearsâ€"is either the first act in a consensual if questionable relationship between two damaged and estranged teenage boys, or it’s a rape. It’s a divisive scene in an already divisive series. But it’s not just the readers shouting rape. The general consensus of the adults in Kingsley’s life is that he has been raped, though they never know it was Søren who was responsible. Even readers who don’t view the scene as a rape are aware of the deliberately ambiguous way in which it was written. Reisz created a scene that was both violent and tender, beautiful and bloody, and leaves it to us to argue over interpretation. She depicts Kingsley’s first submission to Søren as nothing less than a sacrifice of pain and suffering, willingly given. The imagery and staging in the scene is deliberate, and the similarity to the stages of Christs passion unmistakable once you see itâ€"I kicked myself when I realized that I had somehow missed it in prior rereads. I think the only reason that I saw the connection this time was that I was collecting quotes related to Catholicism in Reisz’s series, and had just read the painting scene from The Siren the day before. The scene in The Prince actually begins with Kingsley running away from Søren. From the moment they met the connection between the two boys felt more like something preordained than just a case of teenage lust (with which Kingsley is very familiar), and Søren frightens Kingsley as much as he attracts him. He is fully aware how much this strange attraction between them has changed his life already. He reflects, moments before the scene in question, that Søren, who he knew then as Stearns, “had ruined him. Ruined everything.” (122). They’re about to be separated for the summer, and instead of celebrating three months back in “civilization,” he’s lamenting being away from Søren/Stearns. He thinks about him constantly. And yet when Søren can no longer resist the connection between them, Kingsley turns and runs into the forest: “Stearns took a step forward. Kingsley took a step back. Stearns stopped. Kingsley ran.” (123) I was stuck on this scene for the longest time, trying to figure out why Kingsley runs. He mentions being afraid. Does he have a moment of doubt like Jesus in Gethsemane? On the previous page one of teachers at the school jokes that his rose garden is his Gethsemane, and it is in this Garden, right before Søren/Stearns appears, that Kingsley is praying for strength. But why is he so afraid of something that up until that moment he wanted so much? Or is he afraid because he wants it so much? The dense woods around the school frighten Kingsley but in that moment he runs towards that unknown. Because what’s behind him, what Søren represents, is even more frightening? It literally took me writing this piece to realize that it’s Kingsley’s fear, not the source of this fear, that matters. His flight through the forest is the portion of the encounter that mimics Jesus’s progression towards Calvary. As Christ must have been afraid while walking towards his death, so Kingsley was afraid running towards his own fears and “death.” So it doesnt matter whether he was running towards or away from his fears, Kingsley runs knowing that he won’t escape Søren one way or the other. Knowing as Christ did that the sacrifice he is moving towards is inevitable, destined. Though, unlike Christ, Kingsley has no way of knowing what his sacrifice will buy. As he runs branches whip him, “stinging his skin, his face,” and he forces himself to keep going “despite the pain of the branches beating him, despite the fear that nearly felled him” (124). The scourging. At one point Kingsley drops to his knees to crawl under a thicket and cries out “when the thorns of a bush cut into his forehead” but still he keeps going. The crown of thorns. When Søren catches him at one point, and shoves him against a tree, the bark “bites” into his back, and when Kingsley manages to get loose he rips a little silver cross off of Søren’s neck in the process. He takes it with him when he resumes running, carrying the cross “up the side of the mountain.” When Kingsley can go no further, Søren strips him naked and forces him down to the ground, and it is Kingsley’s thoughts in that moment which link us linguistically with the painting scene in The Siren: “This wasn’t how he wanted it…not here on the forest floor, broken and bloodied and terrified. But he would take this pain, this humiliation. For the communion he’d prayed for, he would take it all.” (125) When Søren first penetrates him, that moment that echoes the piercing of Christ’s hands and feet, Kingsley is laying with “One arm stretched out to the east. The other to the west.” (125) which both indicates that his arms were outstretched in the form of the cross, and which references Psalms 103:12: “As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our sins from us.” And all the while Kingsley clings tight to the cross in his hand. This is where it gets really interesting for me. Because this isn’t just a sex scene that was written this way to be shocking, and the proof is in that verse from Psalms. As Christ died on the cross to forgive the sins of the world, so Kingsley “died” for the forgiveness of Søren’s sins. Of all the characters in this series, Søren’s background is the darkest, and the most horrifying. He can’t forgive himself for what he did (whether it was his fault or not), or for what he is. Not until Kingsley. And it is because of his love for Kingsley, which helps Søren to unlock his heart, that he is ultimately able to become a priest and one of the most compelling, holy figures in the series. Søren is God to Kingsley, to the point where he has such faith in Søren that he is willing to sacrifice himself, despite his fear, in order to earn Søren’s love. But the great beauty of this whole scene is that, to Søren, Kingsley is Christ crucified and Søren himself only a lowest si nner, saved by grace. The Purpose of Suffering Okay, so why? Why write this scene this way? Why did Kingsley voluntarily offer himself up to be stripped naked and brutalized on a forest floor, to such an extent that it would take him weeks to heal? And during which period of healing he’d have to suffer being asked by everyone around him who had raped him, as they unknowingly belittled the most transcendent moment of his life? Why subject himself to the pain of any of it? Why did he have to submit himself to all that just for Søren’s sake? Because in the moment of Kingsley’s death, he understands what Nora refers to in that first sceneâ€"what she says Jesus understands: “the purpose of pain and shame and humiliation” (The Siren, 122). “What is the purpose?” Zach asked, truly wanting to know. Nora’s eyes returned to the two women in the foreground clinging to each other in sympathy and horror. “For salvation, of course. For love.” If youre interested in learning more about Tiffany Reiszs series and her other works, the best place to start is her website. Along with the Original Sinners series shes also written a few contemporary romances for Harlequin Blaze, two erotic romances in a second series, and three fantastic novels that lean more towards literary fiction. I put together a Reading Pathway that can get you started with Reiszs works, and keep an eye on posts here at Book Riot. For instance, her most recent novel  The Rose turned up on our Most Anticipated Books of 2019 post at the start of this year. 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We have started effects on cash flow besides initial outlay in 1981 due to the installation taking place at the very end of 1980. No effects from the improvements will be realized in 1980. Overall, the installation of this laminate is a great project. Power savings will lead to an IRR of 16. 37% for the 15% power reduction case and 18. 14% for the 20% power reduction case. The NPV of the project became positive $ 97,000 for the 15% power reduction case and $ 1. 23 million for the 20% power reduction case when discounting at the WACC (Exhibit III). Attractiveness of Collinsville Proposal on economic grounds From an economic standpoint, the Collinsville proposal is not attractive due to a negative NPV. This acquisition will devalue of the firm by $ 1. 8 million and will provide a 12. 86% IRR which is below WACC for Collinsville plant. Namely, expected return of the project will not satisfy estimated risk. Thus, Dixon should not invent in the plant and is recommended to research other alternative projects if possible. In more competitive market, easier entrants can push any economic revenue down to â€Å"zero. † The sole reason why the firm decides to enter the competitive market is to take alive economic revenue. For this Collinsville plant, there is no economic driver for Dixon to enter the market with the acquisition. Attractiveness of Collinsville Proposal on Strategic grounds From a strategic standpoint, Collinsville appears to be a good investment for Dixon even though there is no beneficial motivation on economic ground. From the fact that Dixon Corporation had produced a number of chemicals for sales primarily to the paper and pulp industry, it can be said that it is a value-added business with the experience rather than venturous business. As such, the acquisition of the Collinsville plant would fit well with Dixon’s strategy, incorporating a new product in its business, thereby giving it a more comprehensive range of products and a new source of revenue. In addition, since Dixon and Collinsville share a number of major customers, economies of scale can be applied, allowing the corporation to save on selling costs by marketing sodium chlorate through Dixon’s existing sales group. Besides the potential synergies obtained from acquiring Collinsville, Dixon should consider the opportunity costs incurred if they do not purchase the plant. For one, if Dixon does not acquire the plant it is a reasonable assumption that one of their competitors will. Another consideration is the market share Dixon may gain from expanding its product line. Decision and Recommendations We believe that Dixon should not approve the acquisition of the Collinsville plant. This acquisition has a negative NPV and will devalue $1. 8 million of value to the firm. Even though there is benefit on strategic grounds, it is still hard to say firmly â€Å"But it. † We made some requirement to approve the acquisition. Only condition is that Dixon guarantees benefits on both strategic and economic grounds. We analyzed that there is strategic benefit to acquire the plant. In other hands, we were unable to find economic driver for Dixon. As we projected â€Å"Incremental Cash Flows Associated with Acquisition with Laminate Technology Investment†, we know a way that can overturn a negative NPV to a positive NPV. That is Ramp;D. Investment in new technology would be only way for Dixon to survive this competitive market and be leading company. There should be cash outflow for Ramp;D expenditure, but it would bring competitive advantage of cost-saving which results in considerable increasing of IRR and NPV. From the fact that Ramp;D is the most important factor on this project decision, we recommend the Dixon to invest/ acquire plant that is long-lived. And with less attractive appreciation schedule with longer term, purchase price would be amicably negotiable. We would recommend that Dixon would choose to invest in another project even it had never experienced. It should also satisfy benefits on both strategic and economic ground. Within the scope, if Dixon finds an alternative project meeting both benefits and has favorable funding required, it will be more valuable project than Collinsville plant. The dilemma for Dixon to make a decision on any potential project is the degree of importance on strategic and economic grounds. We understand that both are critical criteria for project judgment. But we insisted that importance on strategic ground is superior to that on economic ground. Simply, economic ground depends on whether NPV is greater than zero or not. It is like â€Å"True/False† question. Once, Dixon sees there is economic benefit, the strategic driver dominates. This strategic approach is long-term driven business implementation.

Sonnet 130 - My mistress eyes are nothing like th Essays

Sonnet 130 - My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun William Shakespeare In Sonnet 130, the speaker describes the woman that he loves in extremely unflattering terms but claims that he truly loves her, which lends credibility to his claim because even though he does not find her attractive, he still declares his love for her. The speaker says that the dark lady's beauty cannot be compared to the beauty of a goddess or to that found in nature, for she is but a mortal human being. The sonnet is generally considered a humorous parody of the typical love sonnet. Petrarch, for example, addressed many of his most famous sonnets to an idealized woman named Laura, whose beauty he often likened to that of a goddess. In contrast Shakespeare makes no attempt at deification of the dark lady; in fact he shuns it outright, as we see in lines 11-12: "I grant I never saw a goddess go; / My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground." Here the poet explicitly states that his mistress is not a goddess. In Sonnet 130 Shakespeare is talking of his mistress, her fault and his feelings about her and her faults. The sonnet is about how love will remain permanent. It assures us that his love is strong even if the woman has flaws. Sonnet 130 asserts the power of love. In the first stanza, the speaker says that his lover's eyes are "nothing like the sun," her lips are less red than coral; compared to white snow, her breasts are dun-colored, this means that her breasts are grey-brown, and her hairs are like black wires on her head. That means that her hair is not smooth nor it is silk. The speaker confirms that his mistress is ordinary when compared to the sun, coral, and snow . She is not as beautiful as these things. In fact, she is quite the opposite, with dark eyes, pale lips, brown breasts, and black hair. In the second quatrain, "I have seen roses damasked, red and white" he explains how he have seen the different changes of color in roses, which he has never seen in her cheeks. As Shakespeare further his comparison of his lover he states that perfume has a more delightful smell that the breath she "reeks". "I love to hear her speak, yet well I know that music hath a far more pleasing sound; I grant I never saw a goddess go; my mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground". He is saying that she is a human being. In these, lines he lets the reader know that even though he love the way she talks, music has a more pleasant sound. Also, although he has never seen a goddess, he knows that goddess doesn't walk on ground. So, his love one cannot be compared to a goddess because she walks on the solid ground. With each quatrain there is a progression of what seems to be a metaphorical mockery on traditional love poems of the period. With her pale cheeks and malodorous breath, Shakespeare seems to be listing all of his mistress' imperfections. His lack of flattery for her is flattery in itself, as he loves her despite her physical faults. The extensive list is detailed into each quatrain. Shakespeare resists the conventional simile "my mistress' eyes are like the sun"; he instead uses a negative simile "my mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun". Shakespeare is mocking the traditional beauty. In the couplet, however, the speaker declares that, "by heaven ," he thinks his love as rare and valuable "As any she belied with false compare"that is, any love in which false comparisons were invoked to describe the loved one's beauty . In those last two lines of the poem, the Volta there is an obvious change in attitude, and showing the point of the poem, the speaker proclaims that his love is "as rare/As any she belied with false compare". Even though the speaker has just brought attention to the many shortcomings of his love, he not only loves her, but he loves her and thinks more highly of her than any woman who has ever

The relationship between inflation and unemployment in Vietnam Essays

The relationship between inflation and unemployment in Vietnam Essays The relationship between inflation and unemployment in Vietnam Paper The relationship between inflation and unemployment in Vietnam Paper Part I Vietnam s economic growing depend on two chief factors: internal ( the stimulation of economic system export and import ) and external factors ( planetary environment market and Vietnam s fight ) . In general tendency, Vietnam s GDP has gone up from 7,8 % in 2004 to 8.5 % in 2007. But, it merely reached merely 6.2 % ( 2008 ) and 5.3 % in 2009 because of fiscal crisis.[ 2 ] In 2009, Vietnam economic system has a positive alteration: GDP increased over the quarters for all twelvemonth, this increasing is about 5.32 % . In this twelvemonth, the GDP growing despites a lower growing rate of 6.2 % in 2008 but has exceeded 5 % mark set[ 3 ]. Vietnam s economic system is divided into three big sector economic system: agribusiness, forestry and piscaries. In 2008 Vietnam exported about 64.8 billion U.S dollars, of which about 32.1 % of export value was the heavy industry and minerals ; 45.2 % was light industry and handcraft ; 32.5 % were agricultural, forestry and piscaries. During that same twelvemonth, the import value reached 60.8 billion dollars, of which the estimated 30.2 % of imports were machinery, equipment, tools of all sorts and 63.7 % were natural stuffs informations, merely 6.1 % for consumer goods. Vietnam s mean income existent GDP per capita has grown quickly since the state launched the Doi Moi Reform, turning at an mean one-year rate of 5.06 per centum between 1986 and 1997 ( pre-Asian Financial crisis ) and at the higher rate of 5.64 per centum between 1997 and 2009 ( Figure 2.1 ) . Vietnam stood out as one of the fastest turning economic systems in the universe during this period leting it to make the lower middle-income group in 2008 when its per capita income exceeded USD 1,000. And it continues to do important advancement since, despite the recent fiscal crisis [ 4 ] The foreign investor considered that Viet Nam is a 2nd absorbing finish next to China in the Asia- Pacific country. FDI capital have an of import portion in National budget and to assist besides Vietnam economic system higher growing in the last few old ages.[ 5 ] In 2010, the economic growing has estimated at 6.5 % . The growing is the fastest in Southeast Asia but it still inferior China, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand when they were at similar phases of development. But the monetary value could transcend 12 % in the approaching period, bespeaking the hazard of raising rising prices.[ 6 ] In the close hereafter, Vietnam s economic growing advancement will concentrate mostly ability to pull foreign investing and do a alteration in Vietnam s economic competitory ability. Vietnam will hold to travel tete-a-tete with China in pulling increased sums of foreign direct investing. Part II Inflation Inflation is one of the major challenges to Vietnam s economic system. It is besides the ground for slow growing of the province of the economic system of Vietnam. Inflation is understood as the uncontrolled addition in monetary value. It mean the devaluation of Vietnam currency. Because of the fluctuation of the US economic system, the exchange rate between Vietnam dong against US changed a batch within general increasing tendency which is showed in the figure beside[ 7 ]. As a consequence of that, most of company applied USD in their dealing alternatively of Vietnam dong, particularly in export goods. Beside that, several of Vietnamese individual who want to salvage their money in USD. Both of the grounds make the exchange rate kept traveling up and up. The escalation of monetary value make the consumer monetary value index in Vietnam has besides increase as show in figure following to with lift 1,05 % in October, 2010 by higher monetary values of instruction and nutrient sectors.[ 8 ] It is besides make the cost of goods or merchandises grow up. Viet Nam is one of the most state import really much ( 90 % GDP ) , the higher monetary value of fuel, stuff cause the higher monetary value of goods or merchandises. The company will bring forth less and the monetary value of goods maintain increasing. The rising prices in Viet Nam does non halt fluctuation. It comparative low in the mid-2000s and keeps traveling faster in recent old ages. The rising prices over the bound ( 9 % ) . In 2007, the rising prices is the double-digit rising prices. Between 2008s and 2009s was peculiarly terrible with the highest per centum of inflation- about 25 % . The rising prices is traveling down in 2010 ( 7 % ) because of the authorities policy.[ 9 ] On the other manus, the payment on the authorities is one of the biggest grounds, which cause the rising prices. If the authorities wage more money for goods and services, the money they pay is travel straight into the economic system, which cause the higher demand. Examples: The monetary value of rice export in 2007 go up 15 % from 2006 so the demand of rice export go up. At that clip, the supply can non run into the demand because of the catastrophe or another factors. All factors cause the demand -pull rising prices which makes monetary value of goods, merchandises or services grow up.[ 10 ] Viet Nam is a little economic system in the Asia, but Viet Nam makes an impressive by velocity of economic grow. So that is the ground why Viet Nam must pay for their fast and large success. To forestall the rising prices, the authorities should make many thing to forestall the turning of rising prices. They need to command the money they give to the economy-increase the value of money. On the other manus, the authorities must utilize their power to take down monetary value some necessary things such as nutrient or household usage in other to assist the hapless people and do the balance between demand and supply. Part III Unemployment The unemployment rate in Viet nam is a peculiar job. There are some grounds for this issue. It makes demand and supply of labour unequal, in fact, more supply than demand so that unemployed has rosin. What is unemployment? Unemployment is a statement that economic experts use to stand for all of people who in working age and ca nt happen a occupation or the workers who lost their occupation, but they are valuable for work at current pay rates. Unemployment rate is the figure unemployed expressed as a per centum of the labour force. [ 11 ] The statistics below which shows the unemployment rates in the different urban countries in Viet Nam signifier 1996 to 2008[ 12 ]: The highest rate was about 7 % of Vietnams population in 1998, and the general tendency went up from 1996 1998 and so went down 1999- 2008, except 2009. Most of unemployees are in the large metropolis and major economic country like Ha Noi, Ho Chi Minh metropolis, Da Nang or Dong Nai states. % First, Vietnams population growing has reached 86 million people ( 2009 )[ 13 ], the 6th in Southeast Asia, and besides extremely increase in one-year. Its about 50 % of population are in working ages. It makes the socioeconomic development and making new occupations ever under the force per unit area. Most of Vietnamese workers graduated high school merely. The others who finished college or university with ill qualified to work, or low at proficient accomplishments because Vietnamese instruction system and preparation system has many problems.w Year Population ( million ) Number of people in working age ( million ) 2005 82.4 42.8 2006 83.3 44.0 2007 84.2 45.2 2008 85.1 46.5 2009 86.0 47.7 Figure 2: The relationship between Vietnams population and labour force. Second, the unsuitable population imbalance arrange among vary countries and concern lines.[ 14 ]Most of the immigrant are form the rural countries. They move to lives in the large metropolis where placed tonss of industrial Parkss. It makes the urban population is acquiring crowed. So on, the unemployment rate are ever high. The competition between the houses are the 3rd cause for unemployment. They had competed together in many concern field, particularly in engineering. Therefore, the little 1s will shut down. On the other manus, 1000 of mill has reduced its employees because of planetary economic sciences diminution and the fiscal crisis in 2008. The company can non sell or export their goods and services. Some of them has to halt working and the workers lose their occupation. As a consequence of that, the figure of unemployed workers maintain traveling up. Part IV THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INFLATION AND UNEMPLOYMENT The same with many states all over the universe, Vietnam s Economy besides has the rising prices and unemployment. The unemployment and rising prices have the stopping point relationship with the sensible rising prices rates can do diminish the unemployment rates and advance the economic growing. The Viet Nam economic system was the same with what the Phillips curve show about. In the short tally, when the rising prices rate was low, the rate of unemployment was high and when the rising prices rate was high, the unemployment rate was low. In 2003, Vietnam GDP was less than 7 % with the rising prices rate was 3 % and the unemployment rate was 7 %[ 15 ]. The Government wanted to diminish the unemployment rate around 5 % , so the Government used the pecuniary policy by pouring out the money into the economic system. It increased the money supply and decreased the involvement rates. As a consequence, people were easy to borrow money from the bank because it was inexpensive. The concerns had a batch of alterations to increase their concerns ; they wanted to put more and more ; they hired more people to work for. Therefore, in 2004 the unemployment rate began to travel down approximately 5,6 %[ 16 ], it besides made the GDP increased and reached 8,48 % while the rising prices rate went significantly up about 9,5 %[ 17 ]. We can evidently see in the chart below: EMBED Excel.Chart.8 s