Cambodia

“Equal” and “Free” - There is a Difference The Qing dynasty has proven a relevant component of Chinese society for centuries. However, as indicated by the dynastic cycle, its conclusion was inevitable. Because its traditional ways have been perceived as the cause of the foreign control of economic resources in which nationalism has been triggered, such has arrived in the form of revolution. Those responsible for said revolution are commonly…

book, Benjamin Valentino talks about mass killing and genocide, the perpetrators of such killings and the ethics behind it whilst focusing on mass killings that happened due to certain purposes such as the communist killings in The Soviet Union, Cambodia and China and counter guerilla mass killings in Afghanistan and Guatemala. In the first few chapters of the book, Valentino dwells into why mass killings take place and why they are perpetrated. Mass killings have been done against a wide…

Science and technology are surely evolving but the masses are not. They are getting ever worse! This age is owned, ruled and dominated by brutes. Their philosophy holds that might makes right. But they do their bidding covertly, secretively just like secret societies have been doing for ages. Kings and emperors of the past were responsible for their people, today’s masters are not! They are above the law! They are criminals! Lesser people have risen to power and are subjugating other lesser…

Since I was eight, my parents have been waking me up at four a.m. to work at our family’s business, Chuck’s Donuts. At the time, I saw this as a pain, a chore, something I would rather not do. I was always grumpy and annoyed in the morning, especially when asked to help serve customers or wash tables. My parents constantly scolded me because of my bad attitude, talking back, giving off an aura of nonchalance, or acting like I owned the place. And it should come as no surprise that my academic…

was standing looking at men building a large stone wall. I could feel the warmth of the sum on my arm, as well as the wind on my arm. I was wrapped up in the traditional Buddhist monks attire. My skin was dark brown like a person from Thailand or Cambodia. I remember looking at the men building the wall hearing them chisel the rock, then I turned around and…

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The Kent State Massacre John Filo, photography major from Kent State, won the prestige Pulitzer Prize for his photo taken on the campus of Kent State University. Sadly the image captured fourteen Mary Vecchio screaming over the dead body of Jeffery Miller after he had been shot. Among Miller were three others who died after the Ohio National Guard opened fire on a chaotic protesting group of students on Kent State University. The shooting that occurred on May 4, 1970 will forever be known as…

known that President Nixon authorized operations to destroy the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Cambodia and Laos, the people responded with massive protests. The incident involving protesters and the National Guard at Kent State University was a widely publicized event linked to the use of force outside of Vietnam (Rogers). The death of four student protestors along with the news of the secret military actions in Laos and Cambodia were very damaging to the efforts in Vietnam. These events at home and…

Kent State were not expected to happen, but they did. The protest got way out of hand when the protesters set the ROTC building on fire. “On April 30, 1970, President Richard M. Nixon appeared on national television to announce the invasion of Cambodia by the United States and the need to draft 150,000 more soldiers for an expansion of Vietnam War effort. This provoked massive protests on campuses throughout the country. At Kent State University in Ohio, protesters launched a demonstration…

Prior to the end of the Cold War interventions, that could be considered humanitarian, were depicted as sovereignty violations. The response to the 1978 Vietnamese intervention in Cambodia supports this notion. Vietnam’s intervention exposed ‘widespread killings, torture and persecution by the Khmer Rouge’ (Murphy, 1996). However multiple states in the United Nations Security Council ‘held that Vietnam had illegally intervened in Kampuchean…