Cambodia

Movie: “First they Killed my Father” Format: Netflix Date: 2/9/18 Date Viewed: 2/9/18 Summary: The film takes place during the Vietnam War. In the movie the United States starts bombing Cambodia causing people to flee Cambodia. A man named “Ung” shows regret in trusting the Americans. Ung which goes by “Pa” to his children has to leave the city his family is in because the Khmer Rouge tells him that city will bombed by the United States. The family flees from their city and and go to the kids…

the Vietnam War and is where the presidents felt the most opposition from. Media did use many other tactics to show their opposition to the war. Just as the United States government was using Uncle Sam to get support of the war, anti-war posters gained popularity during the time of the Vietnam War. Posters which said “draft beer, not students” and “girls say yes to boys who say no” quickly appeared all over college campuses, streets and public areas. The poster that said “girls say yes to boys…

Wartime Issues Loung Ung, she is a Cambodian born motivational speaker, lecturer and a human rights activist. In 1975, her family and herself was captured into a meager village in Cambodia and was compelled to work for the Khmer Rouge. The five years she was captured, she wasn’t given the right education, was malnourished, and they scarcely had any free time. Due to her wartime experiences, as a young child, Ung’s adolescence was lost and demolished by the Angkar in various ways and because of…

Defining Globalization Globalization can be defined and found in all countries in the world. It is mainly defined as trade, investment, migration, and knowledge. In the US, they reach out to countries and help them develop in different ways. Some examples are, America buying and selling products to a country and they do the same. When the US outsources to countries like China, Bangladesh, Japan, and others. Also different cultures spreading throughout the world by investing or trading…

The purpose of the project is to teach professionals, faculty, students, Buddhist nuns, and others in advancing their understanding of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (“CPR”), and basic forms of first-aid focusing on splints and burns. As one who is certified to administer CPR by the American Red Cross (“ARC”), I relied heavily on the ARC in preparing my presentation. (American Red Cross, 2015). I also used mannequins in my presentation to demonstrate how to administer CPR. All of the training…

Pol Pot, a previous dictator of Cambodia and the leader of the Khmer Rouge communist party, is an example of this. Pol Pot attempted to completely separate his country from the outside world as a radical experiment. Starting with expelling foreigners to purify the nation, he eventually…

The French lost not only their Indochina colonies of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia but saw similar rebellions removing them from control of Algeria and Morocco. England saw the independence of colonies in Malaysia, Sri Lanka, and India resulting in the decline of the British Empire. Communists used its’ victory as a rally cry to attempt takeovers not only in the neighboring countries of Laos and Cambodia, but revolutions in Iran and Latin America. Dien Bien Phu became a key turning event…

My family and I had our luggage all packed and ready for our annual summer vacation. Having to visit nearly all of the states in the United States, multiple countries in Europe, and a week long cruise in Mexico, I was not excited. I had been to Cambodia when I was 5 and my ideal at the time was to travel to places where I hadn’t before. At the age of 13, I was very stubborn, unappreciative and spoiled brat. I believed that I was old enough to travel by myself and wanted to be treated like an…

It engendered no social perversity — hate and intolerance were for none, limitless loving-kindness and compassion were for all. According to Daniel Patte, who is the General Editor in the Cambodia University Press 2009, he say that “the relationship between Christianity and culture is a perennial problem. In his book Christ and Culture, H. Richard Niebuhr analyzes the different ways in which this relationship has been conceived. In his book…

didn’t have to speak much for the audience to capture the pain he had endured. Another part of the film that captured my attention was the art work Vann Nath painted it was beautiful and had such a way with capturing the events that took place in Cambodia. It is one thing to live during a genocide and surviving it but the way the prisoners and the guards (their former captures) went through and discuss the events as well as reenact what took…