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    Nanking Massacre Essay

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    International Safety Zones Community built a safety zone. Not long after it was built more than 200,000 people move into it. Thanks to the International Safety Zones Community’s effort, this left a legacy in the Chinese history in standing up to the Japanese. Before the Massacre started, the Japanese first have to settle in China. Japan wanted access to more resources as well as land and so they conquered Manchuria. Manchuria was counted as a puppet state due to it’s weak emperor who follows the Japanese’s every command." In less than half a century Japan has taken over Formosa, Korea, and Manchuria. More recently Japanese aggression has been…

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    The Rape Of Nanking Analysis

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    The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang relates the invasion of Nanking by the Japanese army and narrates what the Japanese did to the Chinese army, citizens and other people of the city and how the different people acted during the event. Iris Chang's description of the Japanese soldiers, the Chinese, and the Westerners follow what Machiavelli, Locke, and Rousseau say about human nature. Their ideas on how people behave in the state of nature and Machiavelli's behaviors that leaders should exhibit…

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    Rape Of Nanking

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    European, American nor Chinese government authorities have sought after the matter to any extraordinary degree.The deniers of the Nanking Massacre regularly start by exhibiting Japan as having "no expectation of beginning the war against China, the Sino-Japanese War.” They even say that the Japanese government offered a peace proposition in August of 1937. Their story is that the war was extended to Shanghai, as "the Japanese Army kept on torment from the adversary suppression. Eventually, a…

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    The Rape of Nanking is a best selling book published in 1997 written by Iris Chang. The story follows the events that took place for six weeks starting on the 13th of December, 1937 through January 1938 within Nanking, China; the capital at the time. The occupation of Nanking lead by the Japanese resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Chinese children, women, men and elderly alike. There was no discrimination in the eyes of the young and obedient Japanese soldiers, their mission…

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    In the midst of the horrors of the Rape of Nanking, there were few individuals who were able to save many innocent lives by keeping them within the International Safety Zone. One of these individuals was the head of the Nazi party in Nanking, named John Rabe. A man who had lived in the city for 30 years, working for the Siemens China Company, and had become deeply fond of the city. During the invasion by the Japanese, Rabe had been titled the head of the Safety Zone. Throughout the time of the…

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    to accomplish this and the first step was to conquer China. The Nanking Massacre started on December 13, 1937 in the City of Nanking, China, and it ended horribly for China on January 24, 1938. “The Japanese troops committed 28 mass slaughters, killing 190,000 people and 858 periodic killings taking the lives of over 150,000 Chinese. In total this took over 300,000 Chinese lives.” (Chang, page 2) The tensions between China and Japan started a long time ago. It…

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    The Rape of Nanking The Rape of Nanking was a horrific and brutal massacre. It shows the world’s failure to acknowledge the cruel acts of people who take advantage of their ranks in government, meaning this went on for six weeks, thousands of people were killed, and no other countries even noticed or helped all of those people. is a human rights violation because pretty much all of the human rights were violated especially 3-5. “Article 3: Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security…

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    When the Holocaust is mentioned, one immediately thinks of the Jewish genocide in Europe. However, a few years prior to World War II, Japan invaded China, captured Nanking, and performed a number of cruel atrocities on the people in and around the city. This horrible event, known as the Nanking Massacre or the Rape of Nanking, included brutality that rivaled the infamous Holocaust. “Many thousands of [the women] were killed after gang rape, and...others brutally injured and traumatized.…

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    In The Rape of Nanking Iris Chang tells the story of one of the largest, and most secretive, instances of mass murder on earth. Following the Japanese capture of the capital of the Republic of China on December 13, 1937, the Japanese launched a campaign of violence unlike any other. Chinese civilians were slaughtered by the thousands in some of the most violent ways possible, eventually killing up to 350,000 people in just a little over six weeks. Chinese men were used for bayonet practice,…

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    Budget Limitations Essay

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    salary, trained properly, provided a vehicle capable of accomplishing their tasks, and provided the tools and equipment needed for their safety. Each vehicle on the road must be purchases, maintained, fueled, and replaced when worn out. Response time is an important consideration among departments because many measure their levels of preparedness by their response time. The average citizen…

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