Burma

After reading these two passages, I felt angry and depressed. How could someone possibly live with themselves knowing that they rushed someone to their death. Not only that but tell someone how to live their lives or even what to believe in. In the passage of about the History of Burma By Thomas R. Lansner, it explained how Burma's people over many centuries were largely revoked of their authority after Britain's 19th century conquest of Burma. I say that no one should have the right to take anything from anyone who had struggled for it for so long. A scene that made me very angry was when the people or Burma tried to protest and fight for their equality the dictator ordered the soldiers to shoot, arrest, or torture them. As a read this,I tried…

Burma (Myanmar) was an independent for the last 14 years until the rise of the military dictatorship which led them being isolated from their country. Burma is known to be the second most isolated country in the world due to the large part of the military dictatorship. The reason why I chose this topic is because my parents, my aunt, and my uncle grew up there. When I was a child, I never understood the background story or the life of Myanmar that my parents told me. Even today, I still do not…

A problem for the effectiveness of policy in Burma is the lack of the role of the countries belonging to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Thailand and other members of ASEAN are large investors in Burma, and therefore have no interest in sanctioning their economic partner (Green, & Mitchell, 2007). Thailand has said that it believes sanctions are the wrong policy toward Burma and that it would not participate in sanctions (Tansubhapol, 2009). The currently uninvolved countries…

Burma is a nation that has overcome many challenges in order to become the democratic country it is today. But like all nations in the world, Burma has its own history to the development of the country. Burma’s colonization and decolonization began the process for its governmental development. Despite establishing a government, Burma’s decolonization plagued the country with political instability which created long-lasting problems that created a military regime. As time went on, political…

The Muslim Rohingya minority have lived alongside the predominately Buddhist majority in Burma since the 11th century (“Persecution of,” n.d.). According to Wikipedia, Burmese King Bayinnaung banned prominent Muslim holidays such as Eid al-Adha and Eid al- Fitr (“Persecution of,” n.d.). Shortly after, Burmese king Bodawpaya slaughtered four of the country’s most influential religious leaders for refusing to eat pork (“Persecution of,” n.d.). Recently, in June 2012, the brutality escalated…

Currently one of Burma’s most prominent democratic leaders, Aung San Suu Kyi, founder of the National League of Democracy (NLD), is taking a stand in history by helping Burma overcome the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC). By peacefully protesting against Dictator U Ne Win and the organization he is behind since 1988, she has saved numerous Burmese citizens from losing their lives and family members. When Suu Kyi overcame Dictator U Ne Win, Burma became a Democracy, and Aung San…

Are you still haunted by certain decisions you deemed regrettable? In the essay, “shooting an Elephant” George Orwell described an unsettling personal experience that occurred while he was employed as a British police officer in Burma. Even though Orwell was an authority figure with military supremacy, Orwell was still being ill-treated and made a mockery of by the Burmese. Orwell is soon involved in a predicament with dealing with a must elephant that killed a coolie. Now, Orwell is helplessly…

excerpt from his book called, “1984”. In this story, Orwell explains a situation in which he was working as an officer in Lower Burma, where he was forced to shoot an elephant that was having an attack of must. In this story, he uses very good symbolism, including the elephant, the gun and multiple shots he fired, and a dead unskilled worker, called a coolie. In the excerpt, Orwell uses the elephant that he shot to symbolize the British Empire, the world power that he worked for but also…

George Orwell critiques British rule in Burma through John Flory by having Flory detest the imperial rule, yet have him also feel caught up in the riptides of the imperial movement as though he must go on with it or face being isolated from everyone else around him. In Burmese Days, when thinking about his fellow Englishmen’s culture during a conversation with Dr. Veraswami, John Flory thinks to himself, “Dull boozing witless porkers! Was it possible that they could go on week after week, year…

One innocent man was put on the spot and no one would have expected this to happen. A poor man in lower Burma had to make a vital decision whether he should bend the rules of his British peers or to follow his own heart. Throughout “Shooting an Elephant” George Orwell attains many main accomplishments. At first he shows us his personal experience while he stayed in Burma. This story was full of metaphors which pointed out the main themes. The elephant is a metaphor for many things like the man's…