Laos

Lao Tzu, a wise man, stated, “If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.” People think doing what they want will make them end up where they want but in real life that is entirely wrong and might hit them unexpectedly. Like Scrooge, he acted selfishly and inhuman. Scrooge direction is greed, and selfishness and the only thing he cares is money. At first when he was poor then he met a girl, and they loved each other very much, and Scrooge treated Sweetheart like a jewel…

Located in Southeast Asia, Laos PDR is centrally positioned around Myanmar (Burma) and the Northwestern part of China. Vietnam lies west of Laos and Cambodia borders the southwestern portion. Lastly, Thailand borders the southwestern and west area of Laos. Thick forestry landscaped areas and mountainous terrains are abundant around Laos. The Annamese Cordillera mountain range is a notable Landmark in Laos that runs along the Vietnam border in the North and South direction. (Evans). There are…

Southeast Asia is a home to a diverse set of cultures and ethnicities, ranging from Vietnamese to Filipinos to Cambodians. These various groups of people have their own unique histories, yet they have also encountered similar past experiences. The focus of this paper is on the homogenous impacts of French colonialism, the Cold War, and Communism between two groups of people, the Vietnamese and the Hmong people. The history of the Vietnamese is somewhat similar to the Hmong, such that there were…

will. Human trafficking is the illegal movement of people, typically for the purposes of forced labor and commercial sexual exploitation. Child labor is the use of children in industries or businesses, especially when illegal or considered inhumane. “Laos is a source, and to a much lesser extent, a transit and destination country for women and girls subjected to sex trafficking, and men, women, and children in conditions of forced labor in factory work, domestic labor, agriculture, and…

story follows Lao Dao’s journey between all three spaces in an effort to earn money for his daughter to go to kindergarten. Hao claims she uses the differences in the spaces to illustrate problems between classes and allows them to be more easily understood and impossible to ignore. Hao’s use of stories instead of statistics allows people to feel empathetic towards the fact that it takes a miracle to move up classes. This is illustrated through the standard of living, gender differences,…

balance and its importance. Throughout Cultural Perspectives, many authors have addressed this same theme. Siddhartha Gautama Buddha, Plato, and Saint Augustine have all discussed this important topic; however, Aristotle best complements and contrasts Lao Tzu’s Tao-te-Ching in his work Nichmachean Ethics. When comparing and contrasting these two texts, one can see that these two authors had very similar ideas on the concept of balance. When comparing the two texts’ thoughts…

expanding the war more by invading and occupying Laos and Cambodia. The United States was in Laos and Cambodia before, yet it escalated its involvement much more. The United States entered a “Secret War”, which was against a communist insurgency group called Pathet Lao in Laos. President Lyndon B. Johnson had started an involvement in Laos and through 1964-1969; the United States had released one hundred fifty thousand tons of bombs in Pathet Lao territories. Air attacks were going on…

The philosophical influences of the poem Ta Te Ching have extended beyond China. The first two lines of chapter one of the poem Tao Te Ching suggest the writer, Lao-Tzu named something, “The tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao”, and “The name that can be named is not the eternal Name” (Lao-Tzu). Those two opening lines suggest that Lao-Tzu is emphasizing that, “There is no name for the phillosiphy I am describing, so I’m calling it Tao.” The philosophy of the Tao Te Ching is defined as,…

Cambodia-Laos-Viet Nam (CLV) Development Triangle Area Summit took place in Siem Reap, the Kingdom of Cambodia on 23/11 and 24/11, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has recommended setting up local mechanisms among the three countries to reduce the cost of communications, promote closer cooperation, stimulate the economic development of the three countries. To complete this mission, Viettel Group (Viettel) and Metfone (Viettel’s Brandname in Cambodia) and Unitel (Trademark of Viettel in Laos)…

lasted from 480-221 BCE (Dr. Godshalk’s presentation on China). This period gave rise to the development of new philosophies that would lead, if followed, the reunification of China. One of the major religions that were introduced is Daoism (Taoism) by Lao Tzu. Taoism stresses not only the idea of a country unbounded my laws,…