Q. In times of upheaval, it is one’s family that is important. Discuss.
First They Killed My Father is a highly emotional, moving account of the survival of a family - a family brought together through challenging times. The importance of family in the survival of Loung and her siblings throughout and beyond the Khmer Rouge years cannot be overstressed. Essential family values such as a mother’s love for her children, obedience to caring father’s advice and cooperation with each other through putting aside of differences all were important factors in the survival of Loung.
Tough times can either strengthen or destroy relationships. While Pa had excellent relationships with all his family members, the relationships among Loung and her siblings were greatly improved and strengthened through hard times. Hard times, such as the death of Keav, created an awareness of the family’s need for each other and the importance of how they treated one another.
Relationships are often hindered by weaknesses and flaws in individuals which lead to arguments. This is also true of family relationships. However, in times of upheaval, when people have no choice but to turn to one another, the experience forces them to overlook weaknesses and flaws. We can observe this through the progression of Loung and Chou’s relationship. Forced to put aside their differences, Loung and Chou are drawn closer together. (quote…)Working together is another important aspect of family life portrayed in First T...
The majority of life on Earth depends on photosynthesis for food and oxygen. Photosynthesis is the conversion of carbon dioxide and water into carbohydrates and oxygen using the sun’s light energy (Campbell, 1996). This process consists of two parts the light reactions and the Calvin cycle (Campbell, 1996). During the light reactions is when the sun’s energy is converted into ATP and NADPH, which is chemical energy (Campbell, 1996). This process occurs in the chloroplasts of plants cell. Within the chloroplasts are multiple photosynthetic pigments that absorb light from the sun (Campbell, 1996).
The process of photosynthesis is present in both prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells and is the process in which cells transform energy in the form of light from the sun into chemical energy in the form of organic compounds and gaseous oxygen (See Equation Below). In photosynthesis, water is oxidized to gaseous oxygen and carbon dioxide is reduced to glucose. Furthermore, photosynthesis is an anabolic process, or in other words is a metabolism that is associated with the construction of large molecules such as glucose. The process of photosynthesis occurs in two steps: light reactions and the Calvin cycle. The light reactions of photosynthesis take place in the thylakoid membrane and use the energy from the sun to produce ATP and NADPH2. The Calvin cycle takes place in the stroma of the chloroplast and consumes ATP and NADPH2 to reduce carbon dioxide to a sugar.
A parent may want to understand their child and connect to them, but they may not know how to do it. In Li-Young Lee’s poem “A Story”, the literary devices point of view, metaphors, and the structure of the poem are used to portray the complex relationship of the father and child and their inability to be able to connect with one another despite their wishes to do so.
Photophosphorylation occurs in the thylakoid membrane while the Calvin cycle takes place in the stroma. In P680 and P700, sunlight is used to power the system. Water is split into oxygen and the electrons are traveling through the proteins. As the electrons move through the proteins, protons are pumped from the stroma into the lumen. In ATP Synthase, the protons are pumped back out, moving a rotor which produced ATP. Also NADP accepts the protons in the stroma to make NADPH. In the Calvin Cycle, RuBisCo is attached to carbon dioxide to form two three-carbon molecules while using ATP which is broken down into ADP and Pi. NADPH gives off a proton to form NADP+ and G3P is created. RuBisCo is then created again from G3P and ATP is used as well.
Brockmeier’s short story represents a damaged marriage between a husband and a wife simply due to a different set of values and interests. Brockmeier reveals that there is a limit to love; husbands and wives will only go so far to continually show love for each other. Furthermore, he reveals that love can change as everything in this ever changing world does. More importantly, Brockmeier exposes the harshness and truth behind marriage and the detrimental effects on the people in the family that are involved. In the end, loving people forever seems too good to be true as affairs and divorces continually occur in the lives of numerous couples in society. However, Brockmeier encourages couples to face problems head on and to keep moving forward in a relationship. In the end, marriage is not a necessity needed to live life fully.
The family's personal encounters with the destructive nature of the traditional family have forced them to think in modern ways so they will not follow the same destructive path that they've seen so many before them get lost on. In this new age struggle for happiness within the Kao family a cultural barrier is constructed between the modern youth and the traditional adults with Chueh-hsin teeter tottering on the edge, lost between them both. While the traditional family seems to be cracking and falling apart much like an iceberg in warm ocean waters, the bond between Chueh-min, Chueh-hui, Chin and their friends becomes as strong as the ocean itself.
690-692). Furthermore, the authors of this work pointed out that the changes of a person’s race should not be seen as permanent because, the individual can shift from one race to another (Saperstein & Penner, 2012). It all just depends on the life events that the person goes through which shapes the racial perception of the individual and how he or she is identify themselves. So, this results support the ideology of Saperstein and Penner (2012) in which it mentions that race should not be seen as something that is attributed at “birth” and “fixed,” rather as something that can change overtime due to the social position in which the person
Therefore, family problems can have a great effect on the lives of the people within the family. Kaslik shows this by making Giselle and Holly’s verbal and physical fights, and their creation of imaginary friends. But in the end no matter how you deal with stress, whether by loss of appetite or jumping off a bridge, family is family, and they are always there for each other even if they feel like the family is separated.
The Cambodian Genocide has the historical context of the Vietnam War and the country’s own civil war. During the Vietnam War, leading up to the conflicts that would contribute to the genocide, Cambodia was used as a U.S. battleground for the Vietnam War. Cambodia would become a battle ground for American troops fighting in Vietnam for four years; the war would kill up to 750,00 Cambodians through U.S. efforts to destroy suspected North Vietnamese supply lines. This devastation would take its toll on the Cambodian peoples’ morale and would later help to contribute that conflicts that caused the Cambodian genocide. In the 1970’s the Khmer rouge guerilla movement would form. The leader of the Khmer rouge, Pol Pot was educated in France and believed in Maoist Communism. These communist ideas would become important foundations for the ideas of the genocide, and which groups would be persecuted. The genocide it’s self, would be based on Pol Pot’s ideas to bring Cambodia back to an agrarian society, starting at the year zero. His main goal was to achieve this, romanticized idea of old Cambodia, based on the ancient Cambodian ruins, with all citizens having agrarian farming lives, and being equal to each other. Due to him wanting society to be equal, and agrarian based, the victims would be those that were educated, intellectuals, professionals, and minority ethnic g...
In conclusion, co-dependency and rivalry is very common in the world today. Though it is not a big issue out in the open, it is an emotional attachment that only one can define. In this short story the two main aspects of having siblings is the theme which revolves around codependency and rivalry. Having siblings is a part of everyday life and problems do occur which sometimes makes a person, or changes a person in ways. In this situation, Pete and Donald are completely different people but they are in fact very dependent upon one another.
“First they killed my father” is a powerful and touching story. It highlights the horrifying and painful cambodian civil war. It dramatically impact the readers and also informs them about sacrifice, and that it is necessary in hard times.
The first stage is the light dependent reaction(it was called the light reaction), and the chloroplast traps light energy and changes it into chemical energy which is (NADPH) and (ATP), these are two molecules used in the second stage of photosynthesis. In the second stage, this is called the light-independent reaction (it was called the dark reaction), NADPH gives the hydrogen atoms to help form glucose, and ATP gives the energy for reactions used to make glucose. The stages are literal meaning of photosynthesis, to build with light. In the light-dependent reaction photosynthesis depend on the energy flow started by light energy. Electrons are small particles that move in a specific orbit around the nuclei of atoms and have a small electrical charge. Light energy causes the electrons in chlorophyll and other light-trapping pigments to increase up and out of orbit; the electrons automatically fall back into place, releasing energy, or vibrating energy, as they go, all in millionths of a
Photosynthesis occurs in the chloroplasts, using chlorophyll, the green pigment. It occurs in plant leaves, and little in stems. The leaf of the plant consists of the upper and lower epidermis, the mesophyll, the stomata and the veins. The epidermal cells do not contain chloroplasts, hence photosynthesis doesn’t occur there. They protect the rest of the leaf. The stomata are little holes, situated in the lower epidermis and are for air exchange, CO2 goes in and O2 out. The mesophyll cells have chloroplasts and photosynthesis occurs there. The chloroplast includes the outer and inner membranes, stroma, thylakoids of grana and intermem...
Photosynthesis occurs in a series of steps. First, the needed carbon dioxide enters a plant’s leaves through the pores in the
As it can be seen from the characteristics of the two servants, they have some differences. These differences not only affect their characteristics but also their relationships with others too. In the book we can see two servants with different relationships with the same person who is Prosp...