On April 17‚ 1975‚ Communist dictator Pol Pot led the Khmer Rouge into the the capital city of Phnom Penh‚ Cambodia. As people fled the capital‚ the Khmer Rouge took control of the Cambodian government‚ establishing their rule shrouded in blood and murder. Their goal: turn the country of Cambodia into a communist agrarian utopia. Although the Khmer Rouge only held power for four years‚ it was an incredibly brutal time. The Khmer Rouge murdered between 1.7 to 2.2 million people in an attempt to create
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Growing up more than half of my life in New Orleans‚ Louisiana and then moving to Baton Rouge‚ Louisiana‚ I find that the distance of the two cities is so close. Baton Rouge is far behind New Orleans in many ways. Although there are some features of the two cities that are alike‚ there’s an abundance of differences. For Instance‚ in New Orleans the food is full of soul. It’s compared to country food because of its fatty‚ tasteful‚ and very unhealthy‚ but it taste so good. A better word for it
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Pol Pot‚ the main leader of the Khmer Rouge in the Cambodian Genocide‚ was in March 1925. His birth name was Saloth Sar. He was offered a scholarship by the French government to study electronics at the Ecole Francaise d’Electronique et d’Informatique in Paris. When Saloth was in Paris‚ he joined the Khmer Students’ Association‚ and the French Communist Party. These groups basically fought for freedom for French peasants. However‚ Saloth was forced by the university to return back to Cambodia in
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This resulted in the creation of the Khmer Rouge which subsequently caused a civil war. The Cambodian Civil War cultivated an environment which allowed the Khmer Rouge
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1975 to 1979‚ Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge carried out a genocide in Cambodia killing all people who seemed to oppose them and their communist government (“The Cambodian Genocide”). Before genocide had a name‚ Raphael Lemkin‚ a Polish-Jewish jurist was trying to get protection
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When the people in the outside world were living the life of their dreams‚ the Cambodians were left all alone with their broken hearts that’s been shattered into pieces. It was the time period between 1975 and 1979‚ when the Khmer Rouge organized the mission to “reconstruct Cambodia on the communist model of Mao’s China.” (Peace Pledge Union) Many intellectuals and educated people at the time were eliminated‚ along with their extended family and their affiliates. According to The Angry Skies‚
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the leader of the Cambodian communist movement called the Khmer Rouge. He was also the Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea from 1975-1979. Pol Pot’s totalitarian regime brought severe hardships on Cambodia‚ killing at least 1.5- 3 million people. This is at least one-fifth of the Cambodian population. Pol Pot brought a reign of horror with devastating effects to the people of Cambodia as a ruthless dictator for 4 years. The Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot had made a significant effect on history‚ by attempting
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execution in what became known as the Cambodian genocide. A group known as the Khmer Rouge took control of the country in April 1975. Over the course of four years‚ many innocent people were killed in the hopes that it would lead towards one large society of peasants. Things like banks‚ medicine‚ and religions were outlawed. If you were a person with something of value‚ you were automatically a target for the Khmer Rouge. With the entire mass death happening‚ one could see bodies littered on the streets
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A few days after Khmer Rouge took power‚ they forced 2 million people in Phnom Penh and nearby cities into the countryside to do agriculture work. Thousands of people died during this evacuation. The Khmer Rouge had plans to do away with poor people‚ rich people‚ and exploitation. Their way to accomplish this feat was to: abolish money‚ free markets‚ normal schooling
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CHAPTER 1: Auteur theory in the context of Film theory Although the term auteur dates back to the 1920s in the theoretical writings of French film critics and directors of the silent era‚ it is worth pointing out that in Germany‚ as early as 1913‚ the term ‘author’s film (Autorenfilm) had already been coined (Hayward‚2000: 20). Hayward believed that the Autorenfilm emerged partly as a response to the French Film d’Art (art cinema) movement‚ which began in 1908. Film d’Art was particularly successful
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