Cambodia

Genocide is a word meaning many horrible things that happen in one of them. Many have happen all across the world from Asia to the Americas. Many people have died from these acts for whatever reason these people wanted. Murder is a small word compares to this, not even mass murder, or man slaughter even match it genocide will always be number one on the list. Genocide happens for ignorant excuses like religion, color, race, or smarts. There are people who follow them blindly and the ones who…

“Refugee temporality” is a designated term that defines how a refugee themself understands “the long and unbroken time and space” (Tang 21) of one’s captivity. This expression highlights “each crossing, resettlement, and displacement, an old and familiar form of power is being reinscribed” (Tang 21). In Unsettled, Eric Tang follows Ra Pronh and her movement throughout the neverending imprisonment. Ra, and the other Cambodian refugees embody the “immigrant struggle to survive and build a new…

Australia, 2014). This essay will then discuss humanitarian intervention, and how from a cosmopolitan perspective, it may seem obvious that the ethics involve exceeding the boundaries of the nation-state, such as the UN peacekeeping operation in Cambodia in the early 1990’s in response to Vietnams invasion. However, from a realist branch of communitarianism, moral righteousness is not always a factor in intervention, such as US intervention in the Middle East in the late 1990’s (Jones, 1960).…

The Capitol could be compared to the rich nations of the world, including the United States, while the Districts represent the poor nations such as Haiti, Nepal, Cambodia, and more. Are these movies nothing more than a caricature of the world we live in? Admittedly, we don’t live in a perfect society, however, in comparison, we are the lucky ones. We live on top of a mountain of food, medical care, and frivolous technology…

Osse, Jennifer 1. “It appears that more girls have been killed in the last fifty years, precisely because they were girls, than men were killed in all the battles of the twentieth century” (p. xvii). Why is the dire state of women in impoverished cultures, as set out by the authors in the introduction, also a great opportunity for them? • The state of women is dire in these countries; there is also a great opportunity for people to begin the movement to change the societies and the lives of…

diagram of the domino theory, which represents the countries that were affected by communism through the domino theory and what was going to eventually be impacted. It shows that South Vietnam’s fall to communism concluded with the fall of Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, which would finally lead to Indonesia. This is what Robert Menzies, along with President Lyndon Johnson feared. They feared that Australia, Indonesia’s neighboring country,…

“Positive stereotypes about Asian Americans are rooted in reality: They are more educated, wealthier and value work, marriage and family more than Americans as a whole, according to a Pew Research report out today” (Nasser, 2012). The above caption resembles the sensationalized and overstated articles in the past that has left society with the false impression that all Asian Americans are successful. The unfortunate circumstance of such “positive stereotype” for them is that it dismisses the…

The Pacific Theatre was fought primarily on the Pacific Ocean as well as various islands located in the Pacific Ocean. The first Island captured by Japan was Indochina, including the French colonies of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. This is what made tensions rise between the US and Japanese forces and what started the Japanese’s fight against the United States. The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, but they also attacked "the Philippines, Wake Island, Guam, Malaya, Thailand,…

In Vietnam, the country was temporarily divided into North and South, called the 17th parallel, where civilians could move freely between two states. Two years later elections were held to make a unified government. The U.S. government did not like this because the elections might not be fair and if the Communist won the Vietnam war, Communism could spread and it could be a bigger threat to U.S. Basically the Vietnam War started because of Communism. In 1950, the Indochina War begins. Also,…

Asians and Latinos have immigrated to the united states for most of our county’s history. Recently these two groups have begun to swell and despite the challenges that come with coming to a new country they have continued to thrive. These two groups are the two quickest growing ethnic groups across the country. In addition to having numbers on their side, many families that immigrate here from these groups tend to move into areas that are known to be ethnically similar to them. Latinos tend to…