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Entry 13 : BREAKING NEWS! Today in August 4, 1944, we have just discovered eight Jews hiding in the attic of an office building. I suspect they were hiding in the attic to avoid the terrible fate of the Holocaust. Unfortunately their efforts are in vain when German officials got information from some anonymous person about the location of their hiding spot. Nazis forcefully entered the office building and found the families. The families were arrested and sent to different concentration camps.…

As we watched the television series, “Band of Brothers” a variety of traits were shown throughout military leadership. Though not all of the traits were considered good, many of them came to form multiple great leaders. Speaking of which, Captain Richard Winters There are a numerous amount of ways to be specified as a bad military leader. For instance, not following directions, not being able to take action when needed, lack of listening to commands, not following a plan, dismissing ideas that…

The article “Eating Frogs to Extinction” by Ian Warkentin addresses amphibians, particularly frogs, contributes a significant role in the gastronomy of several cultures, thus leading amphibians susceptible to mass extinction. The article begins with a list of factors that is leading to the rising cause of amphibians’ extinction; from environmental degradation to community instability to individual mechanism. These factors include their role as important prey and predators, habitat loss,…

Rwanda is a small landlocked country in East Africa, with a population of about 11 million, Rwanda was one of the last countries to be infiltrated by European contact. Rwanda has been showing signs of rapid economic development. Internationally many countries are concerned with Rwanda’s declining human rights. Rwanda is an amazing country that has been able to renew and rebuild its economy. There were three peoples in Rwanda Twa, Hutu, and Tutsi. The Twa preferred hunting and gathering and…

After Rwanda’s independence from Belgium, many events have jeopardized the Hutu’s right to rule from the late 1980s economic crisis, the invasion of the Rwandan patriotic front (FPR), a Tutsi rebel group, and the civil war of the early 1990s. The Hutu elite also had to protect their power…

Congress of Vienna was an assembly of 5 powers of the continent(British, French, Prussia, Austria, Russia) , held from Sept-1814 to June 1815 to discuss the state of Europe and how to deal with the aftermath of Napoleonic wars. The aim of the assembly was to create balance of power among the European Empires to avoid future wars in the continent. This summit successfully maintained peace among these Empires for 40 years . It was only after 99 years an all-out war took place involving the…

the Belgian Army. The historic Belgian city was located on high ground on the banks of the river mense. The city was surrounded by fortresses, built as defence to keep it in the hands of the Belgian Army. This city was an important way to get into Belgium through the Dutch border. There were twelve main forts built around liege, these fortresses had levels under the ground, they have tunnels that are miles long and are connected which was a great help in the defence of the city. French…

The Central Powers World War I was started with the assassination of Franz Ferdinand. This sparked Austria-Hungary and Germany to declare war on Serbia, and it all went downhill from there. But before we get too far ahead let’s take a look back to 1879 when the first alliance of World War 1 was formed. The dual alliance was signed by Austria-Hungary and Germany on October 7, 1879. This treaty promised that these two countries would aid each other in case of an attack by Russia, or in the event…

Rwandan Genocide History has seen its share of civil wars, massacres, and failures. The most violent, perhaps, of the crimes have occurred more recently, in the 20th century. As war “etiquette” has relegated, the atrocities committed against human beings have evolved. A new manner of channeling anger and hatred of a certain group arose; genocide. The Armenian genocide was one of the first crimes committed against an ethnic or religious group. The deaths experienced, however, does…

World War II, if not the bloodiest, was one of the most bloody and expensive wars in all of history. WWII claimed millions of lives, cost billions of dollars, and spun the entire world upside down. While there were many different causes, three of them were the most significant including the Treaty of Versailles, the rise of Fascism and Nazism, and The Great Depression. The social, economic, and political instability that existed in Europe after World War I caused World War II. The first…