millions of people to labor camps” (United to End Genocide- “The Cambodian Genocide”). They took the idea of shared farms and polluted it until it became labor camps‚ killing fields‚ and mass graves. The Khmer Rouge targeted the well educated when Pol Pot‚ the leader himself‚ and many other high-ranking members were university-educated and relatively affluent (United to End Genocide- “The Cambodian Genocide”). The Khmer Rouge wanted to eradicate the well educated and wealthy‚ possibly to limit the
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Economic history of Cambodia Cambodia was a farming area in the first and second millennia BCE. States in the area engaged in trade in the Indian Ocean and exported rice surpluses. Complex irrigation systems were built in the 9th century. The French colonial period left the large feudal landholdings intact. Roads and a railway were built‚ and rubber‚ rice and corn grown. After independence Sihanouk pursued a policy of economic independence‚ securing aid and investment from a number of countries
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everything in their capacity to help others. Awkwardly‚ times of conflict tend to expose the most admirable and disrespectful qualities in human behaviour. Loung Ung’s 1997 Nobel peace Prize winner novel‚ “First they killed my father”‚ exposed on the Pol Pot communist regime as it ruthlessly oppressed people in order create what they called a “Classless society”. Throughout this period of time‚ people struggled to survive due to lack of food and therefore became forced to steal‚ kill and turn in family
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Marcela SanchezAizcorbe POLS 100 Professor Gillespie October 30‚ 2013 National Council of La Raza and Immigration Reform For those familiar with the American public school system‚ the “melting pot” is a metaphor central to any elementary social studies class‚ with millions of children learning that America is an intermixture of racial and cultural identities. However‚ the process by which we achieve this “melting pot” is heatedly debated in Congress today. Immigration is an issue that affects countless of citizens and
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Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon Project AP Euro Value -50 points Task a) Pick 2 event sets out of your 3 assigned connection sets. b) Each name or event in your connection set must be in bold text. c) Connect each event in your “connection set” to the next event. Think “cause and effect”. Why is the event important in European history and how does that event connect to the cause of the next event. d) Each set of connections must be one full typed page. So the total
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The first unalienable right which is defined in The Declaration of Independence is “Life” and when nations leave God out of the equation‚ life is not protected. This results in dictators (e.g.‚ Hitler‚ Stalin‚ Idi Amin‚ Lenin‚ Kim ll Jong‚ Pol Pot) who unleash totalitarianism (e.g.‚ genocide‚ mass murder‚ confiscation of property and human rights). Fidel Castro died today and it is interesting that many leaders‚ including our POTUS‚ is paying homage to a totalitarian dictator who murdered
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Causes of Genocide In 1944 after the second World War a man named Raphael Lempkin coined the word genocide. Genocide is the killing of a group of people with the intent to destroy‚ and even though the word genocide wasn’t around until 1944 doesn’t mean that genocide wasn’t around. This horrible act has been around for as long as people have been on the earth. In class we learned about the many different cases of genocide and found out that they all had something in common‚ and that was the causes
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WHY IS WAR A NECESSARY EVIL There is no double that war is evil‚ human suffering in the biggest man-made disaster. It brings death and destruction‚ hunger and dieses‚ and run in its wake. If looking back to the havoc war only brings destructive effects to social and economic of this world. However‚ according to Richard Gabriel nations normally just customarily measure the ‘costs of war’ in dollars‚ lost production‚ or the number of soldiers killed or wounded. Rarely do military establishments
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The Marxist view of the world is that society is based upon class conflict; created by Karl Marx this ideology argues that society is split into 2 separate classes the upper class known as the Bourgeoisie and the lower/working class called the Proletariat. In a capitalist society the Bourgeoisie own the means of productions therefore exploiting the lower classes by forcing them to work manual jobs with little pay. However the Proletariat is lured in a false class consciousness; meaning that they
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people are wicked; hence he decided to slaughter them. It’s so ironic though‚ because he thought he was doing the right thing by mankind. These people are often delusional. You would have to be extremely naïve though‚ to think that someone like Pol Pot (under his leadership of Cambodia‚ his government caused the deaths of at least one million people from forced labour‚ starvation‚ disease‚ torture‚ or execution). Surely he wasn’t
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