The Monster that Was Pol Pot Essay

There is such kind of monsters, remain their appearance as a human, yet the things they do can only describe as monstrosities. They are not monsters in books and literature, a fear of unknown or sexual desires. People were, or still are facing actual brutal violence or psychological terror from those monsters. More importantly, the monster being talked here is one of our kind. They are human, yet described as “inhuman”, under the inhuman category of Stephen T. Asma’s book On Monsters, a bloody history

“Who does now remember the Armenians?” This famous quote, spoken by Adolf Hitler, gives us a small glimpse of the mind regarding a cruel monster. When Hitler said this, he was referring to the Armenian Genocide, which to this day, the Turkish Government still refuses to acknowledge. He believes that the world will not remember the “extermination of a people”. Although these are harsh words to speak and ugly thoughts to think; Hitler is accurate with these words. In our modern society, few people

believed that heroes and monsters do not exist in the real world, and that only children would use those labels. Heroes may not be as epic as Beowulf, but that does not mean that they do not exist. De Vigny is misguided in his belief that there are no heroes and monsters; those that embody the values of a society are heroes, and those that perform acts society sees as appalling are monsters. Furthermore, changing values can result in those once seen as heroes becoming monsters, and the opposite is true

infant, but the figure of a beast the monster was absolutely clueless. Victor didn’t have power by money or influence, but rather in the knowledge and the ability to create the monster however he choses. Throughout the story the monster became a victim of the choices Victor made. First Victor didn’t consider what the monster’s situation would be once he was alive, then he abandoned the monster when he created it, and finally he refused to create a friend for the monster which tortured the poor lonely creature

Zedong and Pol Pot are perhaps the most infamous examples in recent history of despots who controlled every waking moment of their subjects' lives from inside the impenetrable boundaries of their countries. But nations, like people, can heal quickly and it has taken only a couple of generations since the slaughter, hidden from the eyes of the world, for Russia, China and Cambodia to open up and join the community of nations. But there are still some hermit countries where the monsters dictating the

Days Later to Paul W.S. Andersons Resident Evil. This renaissance of zombie cinema has resurfaced in response to the cultural, political, and social volatility experienced in today’s society, much like its predecessors. A zombie film, unlike other monster movies, plays more with the real-world fears and anxieties, presenting the audience with inescapable realities. However, to understand why this subgenre has been brought back into the mainstream cinema, a comparison is needed across generations of

On the 6th November 1945, a United States bomber flies over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The only cargo aboard that B-29 bomber was an atomic bomb waiting on its target. At 8.15am the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, taking 140,000 lives with it. Most of the 140,000 died instantly, horrifyingly the rest of the innocent civilians that were not in direct contact with the bomb died painful deaths in the four months following. They died from radiation sickness and different types of cancers. Whilst

which distinguishes him as a Christ-like figure. On the other hand, “The Wardrobe” portrays a sacredness underworld that is similar to the sacred reality interpreted from the Bible. The Chronicle of Narnia illustrates the Bible story of how the world was created through Christ and the

7 million people died during his brutal reign. The  same thing happened in China under the rule of Chairman Mao Zedong and his Communist  revolutionaries. Approximately 70 million people had died from starvation and execution. In  terms of crop failures, from 1931­1932, there was a terrible famine across the Soviet Union.  Encyclopedia Britannica says that approximately 6 million peasants died. In terms of human  suffering, the faults of Communism clearly are greater than those of democracy. Faults of  democracy, such as laws taking a long time to be passed

Atheism "The Christian god can easily be pictured as virtually the same god as the many ancient gods of past civilizations. The Christian god is a three headed monster; cruel, vengeful and capricious. If one wishes to know more of this raging, three headed beast-like god, one only needs to look at the caliber of people who say they serve him. They are always of two classes: fools and hypocrites”(Jefferson). Atheism is the belief that God does not exist and Judaism believes in only a unitary