Pathet Lao

Laos has been a communist one-party state since 1975 until the proclamation of a constitution in 1991. The elected terms lasted a total of five years, this is due to the National Assembly of their constitution. Key positions are held in the provincial administration which advance from the sixteen provinces within the country. A judicial system is in effect in Laos since the 1990s but there are other influences of the ruling party. A major instrument of government is the Lao Front for National

passed down to each generation. Laos descendants of prior generations have created traditions that continue to be practiced within their way of living. How and what we consider valuable or the norm within our culture is not always similar to another individual’s culture. Completing the interviews and research on the Laos culture has given me an accurate understanding about the differences and similarities that are shared amongst themselves and the Mexican culture. The Laos traditional foods that are

In the short story, “The Things They Carried”(1987), Tim O’Brien elucidates the encumbrance of both the physical and emotional burdens carried by soldiers in war. Written in the third person omniscient point of view and set on battlefields of Vietnam during the war, the story details exactly what each man in a battalion of 17 carried both literally and figuratively; Lieutenant Cross, throughout the story, struggles to reconcile his love for Martha and his commitment to the men in his squadron, an

It took Tim O'Brien 20 years after the war was done for him to write the novel The Things They Carried. When O’Brien wrote the novel the things they carried, he had to relive everything he went through. The purpose of writing this novel was to let everyone that was not there themselves know what it was like on a person. O’Brien was the protagonist and the antagonist is the war in Vietnam. When O’Brien wrote this novel his intended audience was people that were not in the Vietnam War. The novel was

There are many novels about war which are written all around the world and each have their own qualities and values but to find one that shines the light on the true details of war is difficult to pinpoint. The novel The Things They Carried written by Tim O’Brien highlights the details of the vietnam war. Tim O’Brien wrote the novel The Things They Carried in 1990. He wrote many novels on war but the novel The Things They Carried contained the details of the vietnam war. O’Brien teaches creative

have to face within their community. It wasn’t until around the early 1800s when the first wave of Hmong people entered northern Laos. (Xiong 11) Many Lao Hmong war refugees resettled in the US following the North Vietnamese invasion of Laos and Laotian Civil War during the Vietnam War. Most of the first to second generation Hmong parents that moved to America from Laos or Thailand would

The Hmong people claim to have helped in the Vietnam war, but no one knows who they are and how they helped. The Hmong came from southeast Asia, many fled from the war as a refuge from their country and some people were a refugee in their own country. It’s melancholy that people need to do this, but northern Vietnam had different political views. The main cause was a political view and northern Vietnam people started a war and it has dragged on for a while, the war caused many deaths in the Hmong

“…you can miss a lot by sticking to the point” (Fadiman 13). The Hmong is a proud group that withstood a long history of trials and tribulations. Throughout these hardships, they managed to keep their customs and cultures alive, even in the face of adversity. This adversity had many faces. The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down shows us this in the form of healthcare. Medicine has the power to heal, but it is not one size fits all and greatly differs between cultures. Hmong tradition and culture

Cultural Perspective in the Hmong Community The abuses that were mentioned the Hmong community is still happening in America today, yet we do not hear much about it. The reason being may be the cultural perspective in the Hmong community that prohibit or limits an individual to report these abuses. In the article Hmong Immigrants’ Perception of Family Secrets and Recipients of Disclosure, it examines the issues that Hmong families’ have of keeping secrets and it discusses the things that Hmong families

Since the end of the Cold War, the government of Lao PDR (GoL) promoted internal resettlement of indigenous ethnic minorities from remote highlands to lowland areas and along roads as an effort to make the delivery of government services such as health care and education more cost efficient. Though the government considers resettlement a voluntary choice on the part of the village, the government implements incentives for villages to resettle such as healthcare and disincentives for villages to remain