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Children Of The River Make The Transition Culture
673 wordsChildren of the River is an excellent portrayal of immigration by the Cambodian refugees during the Vietnam War. Linda Crew provided an honest look at the Cambodian people, their hardships, their likes, their dislikes, their talents, and their faults. This honesty and openness is rare when speaking or writing about a race or culture, but it proves that honesty will still teach the most. Irony was one of the most affecting features in this book. The irony of Soka wanting Sundara to marry Chinese ...
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Khmer Rouge Pol Pot
786 wordsVery little is known about prehistoric Cambodia, although archeological evidence has established that prior to 1000 BC Cambodians subsisted on a diet of fish and rice and lived in houses on stilts, as they still do today. From the 1 st to the 6 th centuries, much of Cambodia belonged to the South-East Asian kingdom of Fun, which played a vital role in developing the political institutions, culture and art of later Khmer states. However, it was the Angkorian era, beginning in the 8 th century, th...
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Parking Lot Puerto Rican
4,065 words... and experienced some rather amusing and crazy things during my eighteen-year-tenure at Atlantic Blueberry Company. One July morning in the mid- 1970 s a black man and woman pulled up to Field 29 on Weymouth Road where a Mexican crew was picking. The gentleman asked me if any black crews were on the farm. No! I politely answered. The only black crew belongs to Frances Dantzler over at the May Landing Division Farm. Her pickers call her Miss Frances. Whats your name? the man requested. John! I...
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First They Killed My Father
670 wordsLoung Ung was the next to youngest of eight children born into a middle-class family living in Phnom Penh, and the daughter of a former member of the Cambodian Royal Secret Service under Prince Sihanouk. Conscripted as a major into the new government of General Lon Nol, her father was the incarnation of all that the Khmer Rouge wanted to obliterate when they stormed Cambodia's capital city on April 17, 1975, beginning their reign of terror. Fleeing with her family into the countryside, along wit...
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Cambodian Subculture In Long Beach California
1,769 wordsUnderstanding how culture affects our lives helps us develop a sociological imagination (Kendal, 39). In 1954 the U. S. Agency for International development created a program to educate Cambodian nationals at American universities. Many of the 187 students who came settled in Long Beach and enrolled at California State University of Long Beach. The USAID program was latter discontinued due to the Vietnam War (Press-Telegram, 3). Cambodian history is filled with many horror stories and much pain....
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Las Vegas Motion Picture
877 wordsNew attraction will change the face of thrill ride history and become one of the worlds greatest adventure rides, inspired by Paramount Pictures blockbuster film event, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider starring Academy Award winner Angelina Jolie Kings Island, Ohio Youve played the games. Youve seen the movie. Soon, you can take the ride. Paramount Parks, a unit of the Viacom Entertainment Group, announced today plans to transform this summers epic adventure, Paramount Pictures Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, i...
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20 Th Century Pol Pot
1,066 wordsCould Something Like the Holocaust Happen Today? Today, many people think that the ideas of Communism were being wrongly interpreted and that they are essentially good for humankind. However, they obviously do not know the story of Cambodian genocide, which took place between 1975 and 1978. This genocide came as a direct result of practical implementation of Communist philosophy in its purest form. The name of Pol Pot is associated with indescribable horror. Yet, Marx would have been proud of th...
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Crimes Against Humanity Second World War
1,172 wordsHow the ideas of the "banality of evil" and "gray zones" challenge the hero / villain model. Throughout the history, evildoers were thought to have a certain abnormal psychological traits that were enabling them to defy morals, in order to reach their objectives. Those who perpetrated crimes against humanity were considered to have their evilness attributed to them at all times. Thus, the popular concept of heroes opposed to villains is being formed and it dominated peoples perception in how the...
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Kit Yuen Quan Girl Who Wouldnt Sing Culture
878 wordsIn the memoir The Girl Who Wouldnt Sing, Kit Yuen Quan describes her life experiences growing up as a Chinese girl in America. In her attempt to try and find her place in society, Quan intermingles with several groups of people. Her interactions with a feminist group, two young Cambodian girls, and finally her own father allow her to explore her Chinese background and how that affects her interactions with people. In order to find her own voice in a society that is not really hers, Kit Yuen Quan...
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