playing in this simulation was Wai Cheng who is a Chinese diplomat. At the time of the simulation‚ China and Cambodia were close allies as both regimes were communist. Cheng is well acquainted with most of the Khmer Rouge‚ however‚ does not defend Pol Pot and his actions during the time of his reign. My overall goal is to ensure that the Khmer Rouge is not made as the scapegoat. Therefore the pressing issue I will seek to negotiate is accountability; who should be prosecuted and how? Cheng also believes
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Erik M ENG 102 – 32816 8 Oct. 2008 Climate Change’s Effects on Glacial Melting On the sheltered slopes of the highest peaks in Glacier National Park‚ in Montana‚ the beautiful and majestic landmasses known as glaciers are quickly melting away. These giant landmasses are found all over the world‚ on both North and South Poles‚ on all seven continents‚ and even on the high peaks in the tropical regions near the equator. Over the past few decades‚ the global climate has been subject to vast changes
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did horrible or terrible things with torture‚ overworking their prisoners and citizens to the brink of death. The evil people that were unnamed are Pol Pot and Ilse Koch are examples of people who are inhumane and immoral. Pol Pot and Ilse Koch actions on other people are seen as sick and dirty‚ because of the way they treated people. Pol Pot‚ right after winning a civil war‚ would make‚ “ Former civil servants‚ doctors‚ teachers and other professionals were stripped of their possessions and forced
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Pol Pot- Dictator of Cambodia Pol Pot was a Prime Minister of Cambodia from 1976-1979. Pol pot or Saloth Sar‚ was born in 1925 in a small village north of the cambodian capital called Prek sbauv. His family owned 50 acres of rice. In 1934 Pol Pot moved to Phnom Penh‚ where he spent a year at a Buddhist monastery before attending a French Catholic primary school. His Cambodian education continued until 1949‚ when he went to Paris on a scholarship. While there‚ he studied radio technology and became
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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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years ago. My wide spread use over the course of human existence is the very reason that no one knows who discovered me. I belong to the group of elements called the transition metal group. I have several oxidation states and I also have a very high melting point which is around 1337.33 Kelvin. That is very high‚ in Fahrenheit it is 1947.92 degrees and in Celsius it is 1064.18 degrees. I am also paramagnetic‚ which means that I have very weak attractions to magnetic forces and can only be attracted when
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Cambodians Under Pol Pot Cambodia‚ a small country just west of Vietnam‚ gained independence after nearly 100 years of French rule. They first faced the problem of Communism during the Vietnamese Civil War. They remained neutral by contributing equally to North and South Vietnam. North Vietnam was a Communist country while South Vietnam was advised by the U.S. The Khmer Rouge‚ a group of Communist rebels‚ was led by Pol Pot. They soon took over Cambodia‚ killing hundreds of thousands of people
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Over the centuries‚ immigration has benefited the United States for the use of slavery‚ but what about for the economy or just the country itself? The US has been given the name‚ “The Boiling Pot‚” because we have a lot of different races combined into one country. Have you ever wondered how the boiling pot could’ve just been some scrap metal if immigrants hadn’t come into the United States and built it a little? Some people think that immigrants just want to steal our jobs‚ but do they really? Maybe
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question in 50 to 150 words. Provide citations for all the sources you use. 1. What is diversity? Why is diversity valued? I think a great way to describe Diversity would be the “melting pot theory” (Richard T. Schaefer‚ 2012‚ p. 24) America being the pot and the people who live here being the indredients within the pot. We are a huge group of indviduals who all add a little something to the country. Diversity is valuable for the mere fact that it allows everyone to learn something new‚ try something
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would we be?" (Orwell page 50). These examples prove Napoleon‚ ruler of Animal Farm‚ and Pol Pot‚ ruler of Cambodia‚ are indeed similar. Pol Pot was Dictator of Cambodia and head of the Khmer Rogue from 1975-1979. The Khmer Rogue was a communist party within Cambodia. The Rogue first initiated a coup d’ētat in 1970‚ which sparked a civil war which lasted 5 years
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