Cambodia

Her education was to learn how to take care of her future family and home. She had an arrange marriage with the love of her life, my grandpa. They moved to Cambodia near the…

of victory. There was no sign of victory because the Vietcong were an invisible, elusive enemy: the US troops had little idea of how many Vietcong fighters existed, as they merged into village populations and retreated to Cambodia, where the US would not touch them because Cambodia was neutral. An example of an event which worsened morale is the May 1969 Battle of Hamburger Hill. The aim of this battle was to win Hamburger Hill for strategic advantage. The US won the battle after killing 630…

Nature. One can become a Buddha, an enlightened being if one practices diligently and attains purity of mind. 7. Where is the Religion/ Philosophy most influential today? Today, Buddhism is found mostly in Asia, like Thailand, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, Japan, and China and in some parts of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Mostly in European countries and the USA. The Buddhist population of the world is over 500 million. 8. How is the religious leadership organized? The religious…

Between 1933 and 1945 approximately six million jews were murdered. One million of them were children, two million of them were woman, three million of them were men. And only aproximately 900,000 survivors.It is imparitive for people to continue to learn about and remeber historical events such as the holocoust because history repeats its self, show respect for the ones that suffered, and you can’t understand where we are if you dont know where we have been. “Those who do not remember the…

“The Vietnam war was a war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to 30 April 1975” [1].” Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam war did not only had extensive effects on the Australian society during the late 1960’s, but in the early 70’s as well. Australia was greatly involved with the Vietnam War from 1962 and all the way until the end of the war in 1975. An effect of this was the amount of casualties that took 520 lives and left 2,396 wounded (and not to mention…

The Kent State Massacre John Filo, a photography major from Kent State, won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for his photo taken on the campus of Kent State University in Ohio. Sorrowfully, the image captured fourteen-year-old Mary Vecchio screaming over the deceased 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 at Kent State University. The shooting that occurred on May…

oppression?” She answered, “No! Or maybe!” Her further explain was about the difference oppression on Muslim women based on their historicized and geographical. Then, I recalled my memory about the discussion about sex before marriage with my peers in Cambodia. No one agreed with the idea of Cambodian women can have sexual intercourse with their partners before getting married, and they challenged that Western women can have sex with their partners before marriage due to their free culture.…

Zen & Theravada Words are often the very things that hinders us from the immediate contact with the honest nature of things. Having the quietness with a mix of experiences of the tangible universe can take us on a journey that surpasses the verbal language and thoughts to the pulse of reality itself (Molloy 168). Zen Buddhism, a school of Mahayana Buddhism has begun and then had made its way to Japan (Molloy 166). Chan Buddhism roots can be found way back to a Buddhist monk Bodhidharma. The…

police force. The movement was an effective way of preventing further involvement and intervention in Vietnam, proven by president Nixon’s abandonment of ‘Operation Duck Hook. Massive public outcry and demonstrations erupted after the invasion of Cambodia and prompted the US Government to prevent further escalation.…

Wars in Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Afghanistan and even through Latin America and Cuba emphasized the heat of the proclaimed Cold War, as European states and the iron curtain identified what made it cold. The war's end however, can be directly correlated to the fall of the Soviet…