Phnom Penh

When people hear the word “genocide”, they typically think of the Holocaust. Although the Holocaust is one of the most renowned genocide in the world, the Cambodian Genocide, on the other hand, is just as significant. From 1975 to 1979, the Cambodian genocide took place during the Khmer Rouge regime. The leader of the Khmer Rouge was Pol Pot, whose ultimate goal was to shift Cambodia into a “utopia”. In order to achieve this goal, Pol Pot had his soldiers propel people out of their homes into…

a girl named Sundara and her family living in America. She had to leave her sister, parents, culture, and her love Chamroen. In the beginning she was staying with her aunt Soka, uncle Naro, cousins, and grandmother in Ream, but she had to leave Phnom Penh because the Khmer Rouge’s were going there. Soka just had her baby when they got news that the Khmer Rouge’s they had to hurry and leave but she was still tired. When they got outside there was a crowd of people trying to leave. Since her…

In the poems I have studied writes have explored human mortality from differing perspectives and focusing on different ideas and issues. For example, in “Mother in a refugee camp”, Chinua Achebe explores the profound love between mother and child as well as the theme of premature death in a graphic and violent way. Furthermore in a different way, Carol Ann Duffy in “War Photographer”, focuses on the necessity of exploring the reality of what goes on in the world as well as the traumatic impacts…

is a metaphor that coveys the effect of war, creates an intense atmosphere; the darkness presents horror that creates tension for the readers. He thinks of all the place he has been to, places which have been torn apart by war- “Belfast. Beirut. Phnom Penh”, and remembering all the bloodshed he has witnessed. “ All flesh is grass” is an effective contrast in the poem between what was happening in the places where the photographer has been and what is happening back home. Then it uses…

suffering and pain in war; ordered rows are ironic as photos are an oxymoron to the chaos created by warfare. Duffy shows the theme of conflict throughout the poem to further emphasize that cruelty is everywhere in human society. “Belfast, Beirut, Phnom Penh. All flesh is grass.” The significance and caesura of all these places shows the slowness and the gravity of the poem referring to places of conflict. “All flesh is grass” is a biblical term suggesting everything, no matter what, is part of…

Now that there was no possible way for Cambodians to communicate the horrors that were taking place as the entire population was being used as a sort of slave labor, the Khmer Rouge ideology had prevailed throughout Cambodia and it was time to ethnically cleanse the country and reestablish the “True Cambodia” of old, for the Khmer Rouge this meant the total abolishment of any “Western Influence” which meant policies and social. Some argue that the specific group that was targeted during Pol…

Khmer Rouge.” The Khmer Rouge controlling 85 percent of Cambodia’s territory, allowed them to finally cause the Cambodian Genocide on April 17,1975. The Khmer Rouge were assigned by Pol Pot to target the civilians of Cambodia by marching through Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, and evacuate the civilians of Cambodia into labor camps around the terrain of Cambodia (“The Cambodian Genocide”). The evacuation of the Cambodian civilians by the Khmer Rouge created “one of the most worst decades”…

Death is a huge part of life. Everyone experiences it at least once in their lives. It can affect different people in various ways, some may choose to ignore it, some may get vigorously torn apart by it and others chose to fight it with the utmost of powers. This is shown in the key poems ‘War Photographer’, ‘Do not go gentle into that good night’ and ‘A mother in a refugee camp’. All of these poems show particular differences in their attitudes towards death; which is also seen in the further…

People repeat themselves not History While we take a look at the article written by E. Benjamin Skinner about “People for Sale.” One would pause in the second paragraph and think to themselves, wait is this author really telling me how to buy a slave? As the individual would read on, one would realize yes that is exactly what he is saying. Although this article is four years of research, Skinners trying to get the point across that, “today there are more slaves than any time in human history”…

HIV/AIDS has been an untreatable and intractable epidemic since 1981. Many people are unsure of the drastic changes and developments made with this disease. The Centers for Disease Control made a timeline indicating the exact order in which the scientist reported their finding. The Centers for Disease Control (2015) noted information publicly from June 5, 1981 to October 20, 2015, indicating how the disease was found to the information we possess in the 21st century. In Los Angeles, California…