Stephen T. Asma 's Book On Monsters

How to Fight Monsters by Sherman Alexis is about an Indian boy who explains from his point of view what it’s like to go to attend a white people high school while being the only Native American. Arnold Spirit Jr. or Junior for short, had transferred from his reservation high school to the Reardan high school which was full of white people. He came from a very poor family, while his classmates wore fancy branded clothes, he carried his books on a garbage bag. He was looked down by his classmates just for being an Indian, leading to being called various racist nicknames. Junior followed a set of rules that dictated when you had to fight someone, which basically is when anyone insults you or anything you love. Considering he followed this set

Monsters and the Moral Imagination by Stephen T. Asma is an exploration into why, as of recent, society has become so fascinated with monsters. Asma considers a vast amount of reasons why this surge in interest could have come along, such as; “social anxiety in the post-9/11 decade, or the conflict in Iraq” (Asma). Another possibility is even the fall of the economy that occured around December 2007.

How does one know if they can trust themself—that what they believe to be the truth is really true? Sometimes one can lie to themself without even knowing it, other times one worries that they are lying to themself, but they cannot tell if they are. In Monster by Walter Dean Myers, Steve Harmon and James King are put on trial for the felony murder of a drug store owner, Mr. Nesbitt. During his jail time due to the trial, he writes a movie script and journal entries, which is how the information is presented to the reader. Kathy O’Brien, Harmon’s lawyer, helps him to be innocent in the eyes of the jury while the prosecutor, Sandra Petrocelli, and King’s lawyer, Asa Briggs attempt to link Harmon to King. Throughout Harmon’s writing, it is evident

Who is Steve Harmon? Steve Harmon is the main character in the book “Monster”. Steve is a young adult on trial for being an accomplice of manslaughter and a robbery. The court found Steve not guilty. This was not a good verdict. Steve was an accomplice to murder. He was involved and he did indeed talk to Bobo and King before the “robbery” was supposed to happen. Also Steve lied to the court about nearly everything when he was on the stand answering questions.

This paper investigates and distinguishes, through my opinion, the impacts that Khmer Rouge’s also known as the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK) had on a global scale. First, by addressing the impacts to the immediate country, Cambodia and the tactics used by this abhorrent organization. Furthermore, the ideologies used by said organization, to instill fear and distrust in the population; which lead to there early demise, but not after 1.7 million people lost or sacrificed there lives for their country, per se. The lesson to be learned from this is, no matter who you are or what power you have, eventually you will have to answer to the international community if you commit such egregious acts of violence.

If people always believe that one is telling the truth, there would not be such thing as lying. Monster by Walter Dean Myers is about a sixteen year old named Steve Harmon and a twenty three year old named James King who are on trial for the murder of Alguinaldo Nesbitt. Through Steve’s time in jail, he writes notes about everything that happens. The theme of this book is one shall not always believe themselves because one is not always right.

Cambodia is a small country of Southeast Asia, less than half the size of the state of California (“World Without Genocide: Cambodian Genocide”). The Cambodian government in the mid 1970’s was unstable as Lon Nol, the Cambodian prime minister, and his forces were being stretched dealing with conflicts of Vietnamese communists, and a rising group of Cambodian communists called the Khmer Rouge Party. (Peace Pledge Union) As the government grew weaker and began to loose control, The Khmer Rouge Party overthrew the country. They began killing for their cause in 1975. The Khmer Rouge Party, under the rule of a man called Pol Pot, enforced a new way of life following values and rules similar to Maoist-Communism (“World Without Genocide: Cambodian Genocide”). The Khmer Party attempted, in simplistic terms, to nationally centralize the middle or farming class of Cambodia (“World Without Genocide: Cambodian

To many Americans the Cambodian Genocide was the most unknown genocide that took place. Just like the catastrophic event known as the Rwandan Genocide, this genocide is also not known. The Khmer Rouge committed the same crimes. Some of their murderous methods were very similar. During this time the Khmer Rouge put local Cambodians in prison, hospitals, and some schools to be executed or just to stay there to slowly suffer and eventually die.

“To spare you is no profit, to destroy you is no loss.” Pol Pot, the leader of the Khmer Rouge, once said this truly horrifying statement (Cambodian Genocide 1). It is no wonder that he went on to orchestrate the killings of more than two million innocent Cambodians. At the time of the mass killings in Cambodia, the Vietnam War was raging on. It is possible that the Vietnam War masked the true horrors of what was happening in Cambodia. The terrible events left emotional scars and traumatized countless people.

The very obvious monster in the film is the pale man. It looks like a monster and acts like a monster. Stephen Asma’s definition of a monster suits the pale man well. It is “deformed” while keeping the general shape of a human being since the pale man has legs, arms, and a head. The pale man and Captain Vidal are closely linked.

Cambodia also known as Kampucheea to the Cambodians (and my family) is a country located in Southeast Asia. The country itself borders Vietnam and Thailand, and similar to all of the countries within Southeast Asia has a rich culture and language unique from its neighbors. From April of 1975 to January of 1979 the communist party of the Khmer Rogue led by the dictator Pol Pot had killed ¼ of the Cambodian population through starvation, labor concentration camps, and even execution (Tang). After the regime of Pol Pot had ended however, what happens to the survivors? What happens to the people in the country that now have to figure out what next? Many Cambodians decided to escape Cambodia

The underlying foundations of the Cambodian genocide are found in the Maoist political and economic beliefs of the Khmer Rouge administration. The most important leaders, all of whom studied in Paris in the 1950s and became active in the communist movement together, were Saloth Sar (who would later re-brand himself as Pol Pot), Ieng Sary, and Khieu Samphan. 30 The significance of their time together in France is that they developed what to them seemed a coherent political and economic model for the future of their home country, Cambodia.31 The last real stage in transforming

In the teleplay “The Monsters are due on Maple Street” written by Rod Serling, there was a script and a moving picture, with in those two there are similar things and different things about them. In the teleplay it states, “He and Charlie exchanged a look. Then they start to walk away from the group. Tommy comes into view. He is a serious-faced young boy in spectacles.

This quarter, I read Monster by Walter Dean Myers for my book report. Monster was published in April 24, 1999. It’s 281 pages long and A very interesting book. Monster takes place in the court for just about the entire story. Monster takes place in the courtroom.

In 1976, after massacring hundreds of thousands of former government officials and supporters of the previous government, the Khmer Rouge began purging their own ranks. They utilized brutal tactics such as, “’the victory pole’ where four people would be tied together, their backs to the pole, facing opposite directions. Then a guard would shoot one in the head covering the others in blood and brains.” (Dunlop 87). They converted city schools into prisons and arrested people for any slight charge perceived against the revolution. Distrust with each other became so rampant among members inside the party that “vanquishing the enemies” became the most important task of the Khmer Rouge Regime. Food shortages occurred, electricity became scarce, and disease became a major problem for the population. Even the most useful resource for the Khmer Rouge executioners became scarce; they sometimes ran out of bullets after a heavy night of prison executions.