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Case Study: Cambodia, Congo, and Jamaica Cambodia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Jamaica are countries that gained independence from European powers after World War II. Though located in different regions of the world, and colonized by different European powers, these countries experienced social unrest and economic challenges that remain. Key to understanding these countries is understanding their histories and struggles, which continue to have significant impact on conditions within

Adaptation is a unique word that means the action of process of adapting or being adapted. In the movie Apocalypse Now, Saigon was where the movie took place in Vietnam. The adaptation of Heart of Darkness in the Vietnam War created an atmosphere where the soldiers needed to adapt to their surroundings in the Vietnam jungle. The war was devastating and gruesome for soldiers on either side to be a part of. Even though the Congo River in the 1890s was one way to include it in Heart of Darkness, it

Siam was a small country that was slightly smaller than france. It was never colonized during the Age of Imperialism and instead managed to stay independent. It was the only Southeast Asian state to avoid European colonial rule. Siam, now modern day Thailand, was located at the center of the Indochina peninsula in Southeast Asia. To the north was Burma, which was ruled by Britain, and to the east was Cochinchina and Cambodia, which were annexed by France. With these two superpowers and their mutually

provincial cities. In brief, the essence of 1884 agreement continued the meaning of the program in 1877, but what farther adding was to change the control from protectorate into colonization. Regarding this, Governor Charles Thomas’s gunboat churned up the Mekong from Saigon with small army of French marines and Vietnamese rifleman aboard, causing the king reluctantly signed the agreement. However,

METHOD Study data This study is a secondary analysis of individually recoded data from the 2013-2014 Viet Nam MICS 5 (22). This household survey was carried out as part of the global MICS program that was developed and designed by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to collect internationally comparable data on a wide range of indicators tracking maternal and child health. A stratified two-stage cluster sampling design was used to obtain a nationally representative sample of 10,200 households

According to the Department of State, Russia has consistently failed to meet the minimum requirements to combat and eliminate trafficking and due to its continued failure to meet such standards after nearly a decade, it was automatically demoted to a Tier 3 status (TIPR, 2013, p. 310). “Russia is also a major transit, destination, and origin country for cross border human trafficking” (Tiurukanova, 2006, p. 36). Current Russian legislation, often refers to the voluntary nature of the original connection

Paper 1 Socialism and communism ideologies became popular in Southeast Asia and other parts of the colonial world because they acted like an ideology of removing colonialism and putting the power back into the hands of the citizens. This is due to the core battle of capitalism vs nationalism, which could be shown from the bureaucratic view that professor Culliane, where the bureaucrats who control the Means of Production (MOP) (lecture, 1/26). For example, Ho Chi Minh wanted to get Vietnam out of

Europe (Shrinking population): Europe’s is suffering from low fertility rates that could possibly affect their economy, the elderly, and communities if a solution is not found. This is very interesting to me because we often hear about Earth being overpopulated, but I was unaware that there was a case of not enough children being born in certain regions of the world like in parts of Europe. According to the article from The Guardian, for every baby born, two people die and the number is moving

A genocide that is still currently happening is the one in Laos which is the result of the Vietnam War. It was a war against the communist North and the democratic South with the help of the U.S. The U.S got involved because they want to prevent the spread of communism, which is known as the “domino theory” where if a surrounding country falls into the ideology of … then the rest will fall with it. The leader of North Vietnam was Ho Chi Minh, a strong dictator that managed to get support of his people

in the wild. We must protect these animals in order to keep balance and have these animals for future generations to appreciate. Dolphin and Porpoise Basics Both the dolphin and the porpoise are cetaceans. The Irrawaddy River Dolphin lives in the Mekong River, Ayeyarwady River, and the Mahakam River in South and Southeast Asia. They have short beaks, bulging foreheads, and are seen as a sacred animal to the Khmer and Lao people, also being an important source of income for these people involved