Cambodia

Chapter 5 - Discussion 5.1 Thailand and Lao PDR “We are stronger together than we are alone” ,Walter Payton. The famous quote about teammate and none-solitude relationship works well for Thailand and Lao PDR. For Thailand is a country of various transport facilitation but lack of connection with several trading countries. Whereas Lao PDR is a landlocked country, with no any seaport of its own, has direct route to powerful trading country, China and another country, which outside Thailand border…

When they got to America a church helped them with finding a place to stay and work. At home it was hard picking fruits and vegetables, and the other family from Cambodia that thought they were better than them, and Sundara kept feeling guilty about Soka’s baby dying. She went to Oregon High School. On the first day, they had to write a poem and she read hers in front of the class and was so nervous. She made a…

There are many immigrants in the United States, and I believe that every immigrant is bi-cultural. I am also bi-cultural. Cambodia has a king, and the United States has a president. People of Cambodia usually are dependent, quiet, and traditional. People of American are independent and outspoken. Khmer is Cambodia language, and English is the American language. Being bi-cultural in the US, I am influenced by the language, figure it out my identity and how to cope and understand the different…

each generation do not want to follow this or pray differently. What types of active kinship ties did you have growing up? Did your children have? Escaping the country and moving away from my home during the war was difficult. We had to get out of Cambodia before the war got worse. We needed to have a better life. My children had live a better life in America than they would have in…

During the 1900s is when the domino theory took place after an important speech in a news conference .The 20th century is when the cold war had begun, and that is when it all begun on April 7, 1954 was the domino theory also known as the domino effect. The domino theory was simply the spread of communism. If one country fell under communism soon the other countries would follow. They started calling it the domino theory because just like a domino when one falls another does but only this its…

authority. Yong’s Song written in response to the actions of Ohio’s National Guard who used excessive force to stop a protest demonstration ending in the deaths of 4 Kent State students. Protesters were against President Nixon’s order to invade Cambodia. The students represented the faces and lives of Vietnamese citizens which sparked anger. Yong wrote, "Tin Soldiers and Nixon's coming, we're finally on our own, this summer I hear the drummin', four dead in Ohio, gotta get down to it,…

world to find the negative impacts of globalization on developing countries and developed nations. In Kelsey Timmerman’s novel “Where Am I Wearing”, his search revealed mixed conclusions about globalization. When he met factory workers in China, Cambodia, and Bangladesh, he saw the positive impact of globalization in that more people had better opportunities and were coming out of poverty. However, they still worked in terrible conditions, were underpaid, and worked unmatched hours compared…

community, my heart broke for the teenagers who lived tremendously different lives simply because they were born somewhere else. My leadership in The Cambodia Initiative was intense and at times strenuous, but the skills I’ve developed and the thrilling vitality I’ve extended to my own community and the community of teenagers in Banteay Meanchey, Cambodia will enable me to rally my peers at Calvin. I plan to be an advocate for the environment, grounded in the belief that…

I would like to travel over sea and work with patients in a remote area where I can help educated and assist them with their mental illness. Being a biliaugh person I can help target Cambodia population and help educated them to have a better understanding of mental illness. Being Cambodia myself I would have a better understanding of the cultural and able to speak language. So this way the client can trust and be more open to the treatment. As for my strengths I have to say that I…

Primary Sources: Ung, Loung. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2000. Print This book helped me see Loung Ung View as a child on what happened in her life during the Killing Fields Period. This book shows the struggles that she faced to become who she was today. It shows the terrible experiences she faced under the Pol Pot's Regime. And how she managed to survive through, losing her family and slowey reunited with her family. This…