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    The Happiest Refugee

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    The Happiest refugee, by Ahn Do, is a memoir which tells the story of his family, his life before and after fleeing war-torn Vietnam, and his dramatic journey through pirate-infested waters. Did you know that refugees contribute an average of $10 billion to the Australian economy in their first 10 years of settlement? Illegal immigrants don't come to Australia to commit crime; they come here to escape war-torn countries such as Iraq,Syria and historically, Vietnam. Despite this, the majority of…

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    The poem “Facing It”, by Vietnam soldier Yusef Komunyakaa, tells a story of himself visiting the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. The impact the memories and the memorial have on him are evident when he describes his emotional experience first seeing the 58,022 names. This is shown through the meaning behind his writing, figurative language, and the structure of the poem. The meaning in this poem is to show the impact the Vietnam War had on the soldiers and the family and friends of the soldiers.…

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    Pho 75 Week 2 Analysis

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    Thesis: When looking for Pho in Philadelphia, PA I found the restaurant Pho 75. Located at 1122 Washington Ave in Northeast Philly, this restaurant serves amazing Vietnamese food. It is hard to standout due to the vicinity of so many competitors. So how the establishment flourished, attracting Anthony Bourdain from the Travel Channel. Pho 75 has easily become one of my favorite Pho spots because of the food, price and service. When searching for a secondary source to evaluate for the assignment.…

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    The next area that causes the Khmers to be superior to the Polynesians is their strength in having a strong government and strong rulers who lift the lives of all people who follow. Some strong leaders that changed the way of life in the Khmer Empire were rulers such as Jayavarman II, Jayavarman VIII amd Jayavarman VII. This was an advantage as it caused the Khmers to win many battles as leaders of the Khmer Empire were very smart and had a lot of knowledge to be able to defeat other empires.…

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    The Indonesian Genocide 1965-1966 was an anti-communist attack, tat lead to the overthrown president Kusno Sokarno being replaced by Suharto who was an army general. Killings followed a coup that took place on October 1, 1965, in Jakarta. This coup killed six army generals, and it formed a revolutionary council, seizing power from Sukarno. General Suharto was elected as President, filling in for Sukarno. Suharto led the genocide that killed about 1 million people, and left 100,000 people…

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    Genocide was committed too many times. The time in Cambodia was very gruesome. Approximately 2.3 million people were tortured and murdered. 2.3 million men, children, women, fathers, brothers, sons, daughters, sisters, and mothers all killed for no reason. The word genocide wasn't a word before 1944. The word genocide was then used after the holocaust. A Polish/Jewish lawyer named Raphael lemkin created this word to emphasize the Nazis killing Jewish people. The word genocide refers to…

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    another's beliefs or ideas, even if you don't always agree. Have you ever been placed in situation like this? Many people have, including famous people in history like Anne Frank and Adolf Hitler. Another situation like this was the Holocaust in Cambodia. Not many people are aware about this. Being tolerative is a good trait to have in situations like these. Anne Frank was a young girl, that was born in Frankfurt, Germany, to her parents Otto and Edith Frank. Her family went into hiding in…

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    especially in Cambodia, where it is only getting worse everyday. The environment crisis is considered as a top priority issue in this country due to the challenges the country needed to overcome in trying to mitigate the impact it has on its citizens. The three major problems that Cambodia has been facing nowadays are deforestation, lack of waste management and air pollution. Firstly, the main problem that causes environmental crisis is associated with deforestation because Cambodia has been…

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    employee’s right at work, through the contract for work. Every country in the world, in some ways, possesses labor law and the Kingdom of Cambodia is not an exception. The Cambodia Labor Law is divided into nineteen chapters and three hundred and ninety-six articles which clearly states the intent of the law. However, in the focus of this paper, Minimum Wage of the Cambodia…

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    even something as simple as riding a bike. However, in “The Embassy of Cambodia,” Zadie Smith shows readers the real meaning of struggle through the main character, an unpaid housemaid by the name of Fatou. There are many protruding themes in the story, but the most prevalent moral of the story is no matter how many times the big guy may knock one down, they must always get up, and never let him win. In “The Embassy of Cambodia,” the game badminton and the Embassy itself are metaphors for Fatou…

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