Other people heel by music and arts. For example‚ in the article “Arts are important as hospital”. Chorn Pod lived in a trauma. He was separate from his family; he was forced to do many things. “music is the reason I’m alive today” (2). In 1975‚ he was separated from his family because of the murder that befell 80-90 %of the county artists and musicians‚ including his parents‚ who run out a group of opera. He was forced to learn to play the flute to make propaganda songs that the regime would blast
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The epic poem Beowulf does not portray Grendel in a fair manner. One of the main characters in the epic poem is called Grendel. Grendel is a monster who lives in a cave with his mother. He hates his mother and thinks that he is the most intelligent species and no one else’s life has meaning. Grendel in the epic poem is portrayed as a monster who only kills and cannot think for himself. John Gardner‚ an author of the book Grendel felt like the epic poem was one sided and Grendel did not get to share
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reach them. One of their claims in their report is if tourism is done responsible and sustainable it could help a countries economical and social development. In Cambodia where they had one of the worst regimes in human kind history() with the Khmer Rouge (1975-1979) that massacred 25 per cent of the population‚ civil war ending in 1999 and one of the world’s worst health statistics.() This is a perfect example of how tourism has changed a developing country. Tourism in Cambodia started later than
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The policies pursued by Pol Pot were done in order to maintain ideological purity‚ absolute control‚ and party security. So‚ did philosophers like Fanon and Marx have an undermining influence on the morals of elitists in the political realm? In response to the extreme process of purification from anything “other”‚ Fanon stated that‚ “violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction; it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect”
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including people who grew food for the prison.[2] Several of these workers were children taken from the prisoner families. The chief of the prison was Khang Khek Ieu (also known as Comrade Duch)‚ a former mathematics teacher who worked closely with Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot. Other leading figures of S-21 were Kim Vat aka Ho (deputy chief of S-21)‚ Peng (chief of guards)‚ Mam Nai aka Chan (chief of the Interrogation Unit)‚ and Tang Sin Hean aka Pon (interrogator). Pon was the person who interrogated important
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Genocide never happens as a surprise. (It was cruelty that overtook them.) Genocide is always politics. Of course‚ there are political goal‚ but those political goals can be reached or achieved in different ways. Some people think that exterminating people or exterminating a group will help their goals‚ so that is why they do it (commit genocide). Genocide is something people do not like to talk about and genocides happen in every corner of the world‚ to every type of people. The numbers in the
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is the greatest mass murder in the history of the world and that no one should ever go through that kind of pain and suffering ever again. The holocaust is not the only example of genocide in the last 70 years: Cambodia‚ 1975-1979‚ Communist Khmer Rouge seized power in 1975. He emptied the cities of people and forced them to work on collective farms. Those considered to be threat to the peasant class- including doctors teachers and lawyers or if you were just wearing glasses-were murdered. People
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state model --Conurbation Cities: (Importance and what country they’re in!) People: -- Hong-Kong -- Ho Chi Minh -- Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) -- Pol Pot/Khmer Rouge -- Bangkok -- Mao Zedong -- Kuala Lumpur -- Chiang Kai Shek -- Singapore -- Corazon Aquino -- Jakarta -- Aung San Suu Kyi FILM: (Know the MAIN IDEAS‚ Main Characters‚ and Main Storylines)
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By 1970‚ the Cambodian monarchy was abolished and the Southeast Asian country was proclaimed to be the Khmer Republic. Following a five-year struggle‚ Communist Khmer Rouge forces captured Phnom Penh in 1975 and ordered the evacuation of all cities and towns; over 1.7 million people died from execution‚ starvation‚ disease or enforced hardships. A 1978 Vietnamese invasion drove the Khmer Rouge into the countryside and touched off more than a decade of fighting.” (Key Data 1) Until the Paris Peace
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was a big factor. In the Stalin Genocide race and religion was a great cause of death as well. The Russia Soviet Union would target the Muslims or the non Greek Orthodox. The deaths in Cambodia’s Genocide was also because of race/religion. The Khmer Rouge would attack Cambodians and those who were officials of a former government‚ and anybody who questioned or opposed the
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