Country Profile Official Name and Flag Thailand * Officially the Kingdom of Thailand * Formerly known as Siam * On July 20th‚ 1948‚ the Siamese constituent assembly voted to change the name of Siam to Thailand‚ the change to come into effect the following year. Muang Thai or Thailand means ‘land of the free’ and the name had been changed before‚ in 1939 under the fascist military dictatorship of Field Marshal Luang Phibunsongkhram‚ but the anti-Axis powers refused to recognise
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Thailand Thailand is located in the Indochinese Peninsula in South East Asia‚ with its southern parts bordering the Malay Peninsula. Thailand shares borders with Burma‚ Cambodia‚ and Malaysia. Bangkok is the capital city of Thailand. The total area of the country is around 513‚120 sq km with 510‚890 sq km of land and 2‚230 sq km of water. The climate in Thailand is tropical with cloudy monsoons from mid May to September. The weather is using rainy‚ warm and humid. There are central plains in the
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I Love This Country By John N. Panes Why do I love this country? I love stepping out of the house‚ ready to spoil myself with smiles as I sweep through the streets. I love this pill of contagiousness that I know will keep me invigorated throughout the day. I love how Filipinos‚ in spite of having 171 native languages‚ once see the typical curve in a fellow’s expression‚ understand the messages it spirits through – optimism and resiliency. I love how it brightens up my day. I love how the
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A love letter to my country: from a transgender Filipina InterAksyon.com The online news portal of TV5 Mga minamahal kong kababayan (To my beloved Philippines): I know that it has been an emotional three weeks to all of us who have been affected by the death of Jennifer Laude‚ the 26-year-old transgender woman whose lifeless body was found with her head in a motel toilet in Olongapo City‚ Philippines on October 11‚ 2014. I know‚ too‚ that Jennifer Laude’s story has divided us as a nation. While
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My Ways to Love my Country By Joannah Kaye B. Borallo Small.Young.Innocent.Incapable.Weak. These are words of how most of the people describe me especially now that I am taking the risky path of being a doctor. They believe that I would fail or that maybe‚ I can’t do anything with the course I am taking. However‚ I just laugh their thoughts off. This is because for me‚ I know I can do things and in fact as of now‚ I am starting to become a good doctor already by planning and doing things on how
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Last summer‚ my parents took me to Thailand on holiday. It’s a beautiful country. Thailand is a country located at the center of the Indochina in Southeast Asia. Thailand enjoy a tropical wet and dry or savannah climate. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos‚ to the east by Laos and Cambodia‚ to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia‚ and to the west by the Andaman Sea and the southern extremity of Burma. Thailand is 513‚000 km2 large with around 64 million people. The capital and
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I love my country. I am proud to be a Canadian. We live in a beautiful land; we have ample natural resources; we have a long peaceful history; we are a truly multicultural nation; we have made major contributions to the advancement of society; and we are‚ all in all‚ a great people. Canada is the second largest land mass on earth -- and what a beautiful country it is! Surrounded by three oceans‚ it has an incredible variety of landscape. From the vast‚ pure‚ arctic north‚ to the breathtaking Rocky
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LOVE OF COUNTRY? Frederick Douglass’s speech “If I Had A Country‚ I Should Be A Patriot” delivers a blasting reproach on the discrimination of the African American and why he feels indignant about his country and being unwilling to call himself a patriot. Similar to Langston Hughes’s “I‚ Too‚ Sing America” ‚ both employ a chord informative structure and a canting tone simple enough for the audience to incite a reaction from the audience to plead for freedom in America. Both authors though
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My Mother My mother is the most important person in my life. She is an inspiration to everything I do. I would not call her a friend‚ but she is an extraordinary person. She has been in my life since I was born and she will always be in my life no matter what happens. She is the one who has suffered to bring me into this world. I have learnt to love her from the day I was born. My mother was the first person to teach me to draw and walk‚ and she was with me when I took my first step ever! She
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Dora Poole- I Love My Life Dora Poole PSY 202 CGA1149A Althea Artis Dora Poole- I Love My Life I have been through a lot in my forty eight years of life. Some of the experiences have been extremely positive and others leave much to be desired. The study of Adult development theories will allow me to analyze the past and help me to describe the journey my life has taken. The combined experiences have brought me to “Love my Life” today
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