Loung Ung

mistakes and give us tips on how to improve the person we are today. Memories can also be used to teach others and give people an insight on the world’s past. Loung Ung’s memoir, First They Killed My Father, gives a great example of memories that can be used to teach others and give an insight on the world’s past. Loung Ung embraces her memories of the Cambodian Genocide rather than hiding them from the world. She teaches us a historical event while telling us her story of the genocide. Her

When humanity commits atrocious acts, it is the job of the survivors to ensure that these events are remembered and the victims honored. The construction of memory through various methods of remembrance – whether it be memoirs, films or museums – is a delicate art as perceptions can be easily skewed. A biased perspective has the capacity to completely alter the way an event is viewed. The War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh about the Vietnam War for example is more propaganda than history and dishonors

This past summer, I volunteered at Mayo Clinic for 9 weeks. Serving in the PACU, I worked alongside nurses and patients. Also, I refreshed the atrium with piano music! 1 of 5 selected from 80, I represented the students at Mayo Team Leader Forum. Having served over 300 hours since 2013, I've been an active Key Club Member for almost 4 years now––during the last 3 of which I received the Member of the Year award. Though I ran for office thrice, pure leadership is action––not position. Head pianist

15-year-old visiting an extermination and concentration camp located in Poland, where the scenery left by our past generation of the Cambodian genocide leaves her with her eyes widened. Whereas the story called “A Birthday Wrapped in Cambodian History” by Loung Ung consists of her experience during the Cambodian genocide where she witnessed a bomb, killing her best

The Khmer Rouge Society: A Communist Cambodia The memoir First They Killed my Father by Loung Ung is a captivating and riveting account of the Khmer Rouge reign in the country of Cambodia. The memoir follows Ung’s family as they are forced to move from village to village and work in what became known as the killing fields. The question arises, what kind of society was Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge trying to create? It is evident throughout the course of the novel that the Khmer Rouge attempted to form a

The Cambodian Genocide, similar to every other genocide during the 20th century, occurred because of a government’s desire to equalize the citizens under their rule. Executed by the Khmer Rogue, the genocide involved the classification, displacement, and eventual extermination of around 25% of Cambodia’s population. In their pursuit of a utopian society, the Khmer Rouge capitalized on Cambodia’s fear of war to not only rise to power, but also rationalize their actions during the genocide. Despite

In what way should people interpret how the process of genocide works when coming across a statement from Adolf Hitler (1939) saying, “My pact with the Poles was merely conceived of as a gaining of time. As for the rest gentleman, the fate of Russia will be exactly the same as I am now going through with the case of Poland. After Stalin’s death…we will break the Soviet Union. Then there will begin the dawn of the German rule of the earth” ("Poland Will Be Depopulated and Settled with Germans” document)

English is my second language because I was not born in the United States. Reading is a difficult task for me since I was 10 years old. When I was in Elementary School, I like to read books with a lot of pictures because I can understand the story much better. I started to read Dr. Seuss’s books, it is the book for beginner with short poems, colorful pictures and rhyming words. The stories in the Dr. Seuss can help me learn new words. The stories behind the book are teaching the readers useful lesson

The Khmer Rouge carried out one of the most horrific genocides in the twentieth century. The nation of Cambodia was in a near-decade civil war between the Communist (Khmer Rouge) and the monarchy and then the Khmer Republic. The Khmer Rouge won the civil war and controlled all of Cambodia from 1975 to 1979. During this time, they committed horrific crimes against their own people. This genocidal regime was one of the worst events in the later years of the 1900s, and it is not well talked about in

In between 1975-1979 during the Khmer Rouge’s reign in Cambodia, a total of roughly 2 million people were killed.  A significant amount of these people were victims of execution enforced by the regime (Cambodia’s Brutal Khmer Rouge Regime). By killing this amount of people in such a short period of time, millions of families were forced into a state of emotional turmoil and grievance without some loved ones alive. Also, the current population suffered an immediate blow with the loss of all of these