The Killing Fields

“Through the Eyes of Auschwitz and the Killing Fields: Mutual Learning between Engaged Buddhism and Liberation Theology” by Sallie B. King, 2016 James Madison University, Emerita discusses the differences between the engaged Buddhist and Liberation Christians mostly of the German origin about their social and political lives. The information from Sallie’s portrays the role played by religion in influencing social and political lives of the followers. Sallie has noted the main different to be…

for food or aid didn’t kill them directly, but it impacted it in such a way that, in Singer’s eyes, is on par with killing someone by recklessly driving. You didn’t intend for anyone to die, but you were the cause nonetheless. In a very harsh and to the point quote he says, “…we contribute to the impoverishment of some people to our own benefit.” Because while we are not actually killing people, by us buying luxuries when others don’t even have necessities, it is contributing to their life’s…

Upon entering the rooms of NA about 4.5 years ago, I was told some crazy things, by far the crazies was don’t kill yourself in the 1st 5 year of recovery because you will be killing someone you do not know. I remember thinking what a ridiculous idea. I have been living for 40 years of course I knew who I was. How does someone get to be 40 and not know who they are? Yes it was true that I was a drug addict but that did not mean that I had no identity, or that my core values and my worldviews were…

He proudly admits to killing the samurai and raping his wife while even B7 giving the impression that the wife enjoyed the experience. Then, afterwards according to Tajomaru, the wife puts her rapist on equal standing with her husband. Both of them were with her intimately, but…

In the non-fictional story Alive in the Killing Fields, Nawuth Keat, who is a survivor of the Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia tells his story. The author conveys the fact that the citizens of Cambodia faced hardships and this actually happened to them. The Khmer Rouge was the name given to the followers of the Communist Party based in Kampuchea, Cambodia. The Khmer Rouge did all kinds of harsh things such as home invasions,…

The Cambodian Genocide The “Killing Fields” of Cambodia, the most common name for the genocide that killed approximately two million, 1.7 million to be more exact, Cambodians. The “Killing Fields” of Cambodia needs to be kept in mind, like every other genocide for the same exact reasons. It is of import to learn and remember why and what happened, reactions of other countries, and how it is looked upon today, to learn how to avoid cases like this in the future and how to prepare for them in…

A genocide is a horrific killing of a larger number of people. Two instances of genocides is the Killing fields of Cambodia and the Holocaust. In 1995, Cambodia was taken over by a heavily communist group called the Khmer Rouge who wanted to control every aspect of their people’s lives. The leader of the organization was Pol Pot and his intentions were to, “forcibly construct a peasant society”(The Killing Fields). In doing so he killed over two million out of seven million, over 25%, of…

“The Texas Killing Field” Rhetorical Analyisis on M. William Fields. M. William Phelps is a non-fiction crime author in Dark Minds—a discontinued tv show on Investigation Discovery. Mr. Phelps revisits unsolved homicides to bring justice to the families using his own personal experience to formulate theories and although some cases have been justified he brings light to the homicide again to help along with other similar homicides and that happened to be around same area. This episode, “The…

his regiment received an order “to kill all bloodhounds and other valuable dogs in the country.” This policy prevented their future use by Confederate forces and decreased the household wealth of Southern homes. Union soldiers also presented the killing of dogs as acts of retributive justice involving the newly freed people Iowa newspaper later in the same year: “Some of our men escorted by niggers and prisoners paid a visit to…a second Legree, who kept a pack of bloodhounds…the boys disposed of…

Butler crossed the river to Augusta and surrendered himself to be placed in the jail for his safety. The other accounts would merely assert that a guard was placed by the regimental officers to protect the Butler property from further intrusions. The killing of “slave-catching dogs” while perhaps under discussed by historians was not an uncommon practice by Union soldiers during Sherman’s March to the Sea. The Iowa City Weekly Republican, by far the most mentioned publication in the letters of…