The Killing Fields

The Cambodian Genocide was an event where a mass amount of Cambodians were killed for their ethnic differences. The website states, “The Cambodian Genocide took place in Cambodia, a country in Southeast Asia. It began shortly after Cambodia’s seizure of power from the government of Lon Nol in 1975 and lasted until the Khmer Rouge was overthrown by the Vietnamese in 1978. North Vietnamese forces seized South Vietnam’s capital, Saigon, and by the Khmer Rouge and its leader, Pol Pot, in 1975.”…

matured tremendously throughout the text can see that although Loung thinks like her age at one point she does show her levels of maturity and change at another. Loung feels as though there is nothing that anyone can do to bring back her loved ones. Killing and torturing these soldiers will only have people feel relief but it can not and will not fix anything back to the ways they were…

Imagine you’re world being turned around from living peacefully and happy to murdering people that you don’t want just to stay alive. This is what people had to go through in Cambodia when Khmer Rouge, a radical Communist regime, came to power in 1975. They started to move people in the countryside and made everyone work, even childrens. Millions of people died by starvation and sickness. In Never Fall Down by Patricia McCormick, people’s physiological states changes three ways, person's…

In 1975 Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge took control of the Cambodian Government and established a communist government. When the Khmer Rouge took control Pol Pot declared that 1975 was “year zero” would set the Cambodian Calders to year zero. During the time the Khmer Rouge was in control the government started the Cambodian Genocide. In which the government targeted Buddhist monks, intellectuals, officials from the “old” regime, and enemies of the state. The government attacked monks because…

My topic is the Cambodian Genocide. It all started with the Khmer Rouge party leader Pol Pot who tried to make Cambodia an agrarian society. I found this topic interesting because the Cambodians were fighting against the French for their independence and the Khmer Rouge came and the Cambodians thought they were being helped out by the Khmer Rouge. In fact, the Khmer Rouge’s only goal was to defeat the French so they could take over. I found this interesting because how does it feel to know…

Malcolm X once said, “There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.” Loung Ung is a victim of the 1975 Cambodian Genocide and lost almost everything that she held dear to her including her home, her parents, and two of her sisters. However, she did not let their deaths weight her down as she went on to survive the wrath of the Khmer Rouge. The Khmer Rouge started a takeover…

Try being forced to move away from your home country, family, and everything you know to escape an unsafe environment. About 1.7 Million out of 7-8 million Cambodians were killed due to the Khmer Rouge Genocide, not one person has been persecuted for their actions during this time. Loung Ung was forced to leave everything she knew in Cambodia including her sister Chou, to move to America. She moved with Meng and Eang, Meng is Loung’s oldest brother and Eang is his wife. She moved because of the…

The story consists of two men who go by the names Ulrich von Gradwitz and Georg Znaeym. Both men had been mortal enemies since day one. They hated each other with a passion because of a dispute between their grandfather's about forest land. One day while Ulrich was doing his usual patrolling in the woods, he comes across Georg who was doing his fair share of hunting to prove that the forest land was also rightfully his to use. Both men held their rifles at each other. They could easily kill each…

“There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs” (Martin 270). Jack, one of the boys who is helpless after the crashing of their plane, embraces his inner beast in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies in such a way that it affects his fellow survivors and all of the boys’ resolve to stay true to the humanity they have. Jack, the Devil Figure in this novel, expresses a life lesson about the slope to savagery through his…

brutal killing of a momma pig . The boys had been stalking the pig and planning to hunt her . They had ran after her while throwing spears until she was down . “she squealed and bucked and the air was full of sweat and noise and blood and terror.” (Golding 135) The boys had kept torturing her by pushing the spear deeper into her . The momma pigs squealed almost seemed to excite the savage boys more and more because they giggled when it was all over. The boys had found the joy of killing…