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not hate, it 's indifference.” Seeing all the atrocities of the Holocaust, I couldn’t help but think how the entire world could allow this to happen to a group of people, but then I remembered the countless other genocides that have occurred from Armenia, Rwanda, Cambodia, and Bosnia. Going to this museum made me question humans. Why do humans treat one of their own like the Nazi’s treated the Jewish? Why do we seek to preserve events that provokes…

Buddhism: (1 - 1750) Buddhism originated in N. India, and is traced back to Siddhartha Guatama’s search for an antidote to end suffering in the 5th century BCE. Early Buddhism was spread slowly along the trade routes by Buddhist merchants and monks. In the 3rd century CE, Ashoka, a ruler of the Mauryan Empire, converted to Buddhism. He did not forcefully convert his people, but he sent missionaries to East Asia and left edicts throughout the empire. Buddhism eventually made it’s way into places…

The Roma: Europe’s Most Hated Minority The Romani people are an ethnic group, native to India, who reside in Europe. They are widely recognized as one of the European Union's largest minority groups. It is estimated that there are more than 10 million Roma living in Europe (Brown). Since they arrived in Europe about a thousand years ago, the Roma have been targets of discrimination and oppression. Even today, “...one in three Roma in Europe are unemployed and 90% live below the poverty line,…

Human Trafficking continues to exist in the twenty-first century, long after the nineteenth century when slavery was banned. Human trafficking is a modern form of slavery. No matter where you live, chances are it’s happening in your backyard. It’s a multimillion dollar industry that takes away millions of freedom. It is estimated that around 10,000-15,000 people are entered into human trafficking into the United States, each year, many used as forced laborers. These forced laborers often sign…

Religion played a role in the origins of the Crusades or Holy War. Pope Urban ii called a meeting to deal with the religious issues, to free the Holy Land from the Turks. He form an army and head to Jerusalem, to have a Crusade. Anyone killed on this quest would go to directly to heaven. Some of the first responders were Peter the Hermit and Walter the Penniless, whose followers were some of the poor from Germany and France. They would soon destroy the Muslims and the Holy Land. This would…

Erik Erikson came up with eight stages that he thought influenced the development of man. The first four stages correlated with Freud’s psychosexual stages and the last four stages, Erikson elaborated on the genital stage of Freud’s theory. Erikson said that his developmental stages were more hierarchal and they tended to be cumulative, rather than clear cut stages one gets passed (Erikson, 1969). He also believed that virtues that arose from the different stages needed to constantly be…

Imperialism is the dominance of one political community over another political community through military force or other means of power. For example, the European imperialism in Africa was accomplished through military conquest and colonization. Colonialism is defined as conquering and settling occupied or unoccupied territory for political and economic benefit. For example, England, Spain and France colonized North America. Europeans justified their actions of colonizing Africa by claiming…

Gorbachev came to power as the head of the Soviet Union in the mid-1980s, and during his time in office he introduced a series of reforms which were seen to contribute to the communist bloc’s disillusion. His primary reforms were economic and political, but the policies associated with Gorbachev were glasnost (publicity, openness), perestroika (restructuring), uskorenie (acceleration) and demokratizatsaiia (democratisation). The reforms were so destabilising as the economic reforms were…

Eastern part of Europe? The Eastern Catholic Church refers to the Eastern Christian culture, traditions and the churches which developed on the Eastern side of the Great Schism of 1054. Romania, Greece, Serbia,Russia, Bulgaria, Georgia, the Balkans, Armenia, the Middle East, Asia Minor, Northeastern Africa…

End of the Cold War Sunny Sidhu Athabasca University Calgary, AB Adam Lajeunesse HIST 455 Nov, 16, 2015 The foundation of the Cold War was built on several different disagreements such as the two superpowers at the time having differing opinions, the way the security of the nation should be dealt with, and the governments neglecting each others opinions. All of these disagreements escalated into the war that killed many innocent civilians. Many were injured and disabled…