Bosnians

and world war two. Where many Armenians and Jewish faith were killed. As well as many other wars in humans past and present. Such as the Bosnian and Darfur genocides that happened as early as 2003. Killing hundreds of thousands of locals. And even into the future were mass scale wars can explode from current tensions, such as an Indo-Pak nuclear war or second bosnian war. Which would result in a mass genocide of the entire human race. Awareness has expanded to the internet and to the people.…

Witnessing this war was unimaginable until reading Zlata’s Diary. Zlata was only eleven years old when she started writing in her diary that documented her experiences during the Bosnian Conflict. The Bosnian conflict was the ethnic cleansing of Bosnian Muslims from Bosnia. The push factor of the conflict drove Bosnian Muslims out of Bosnia. There was often violence in the process since ethnic cleansing uses the same methods as genocide.…

Genocide is an unpleasant and interesting topic. This is when a large group of people are killed because of their race, culture, beliefs, and etc. Sadly, genocide is a hard thing to prove because it has to happen in a pattern not a single event. Many acts of mass murder have been committed, but have not been considered genocide. Multiple cruel things happen in the world and this is definitely one of them. The Holocaust was a very detrimental act of genocide. Millions of people were killed in…

I have been blessed with many different opportunities in my life to experience diversity through my school, church, and work. Being a part of a church has taught me to always have open arms to anyone that may be different than myself, with that being said my church has introduced me to many different people from all different walks of life. My church also has a large congregation of the Asian culture. Through the many social events of my church I have learned a lot about the Asian culture…

The Fall of Yugoslavia Yugoslavia was a nation that was formed in the aftermath of the First World War and was located in the South-East. Its inception was in the year 1918, and although it was created with an intention to remain intact as a republic, it did break up in the year 1992 to the current nations of Slovenia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. There were various. Its downfall was not a one-day affair and took quite sometimes before it was officially…

Doubt, Keith. "Evil and the ritual of shame: A crime against humanity in Bosnia-Herzegovina." Janus Head 7.2 (2007): 319-331. Doubt uses a sociological lens to examine the ethnic cleansing in Serbia, stating that the root of ethnic cleansing lies in an “attempt to transform the public identities of individuals and a community.” (Doubt) This means to debase an individual or group into a lesser being(s) in the eyes of the witnesses, or the world community. This is the essence of how sociologists…

Nationalists that rage war or genocide create terror and the destruction of society and relationships. In addition to supporting the cause of violence, this hostile environment is also achieved through extra -lethal activities. From the book Show Time: The Race, Power and Violent Display by Lee Ann Fujii, chapter 7, called Sideshows, explains why is it important to look at ‘extra-lethal’ activities that are sideshows of a war or genocide. The ruthless acts of nationalists are extra lethal…

Caucasian hairdresser who was expecting her second child and was unsure of her relationship with the child’s father. At the grocery store, the counselor interacted with a cashier in a wheelchair, and later she met a Bosnian house painter who was a highly regarded artist in Bosnian before the Bosnian War. In each of these situations, the counselor had the opportunity to monitor whether or not her humanistic leanings worked in her everyday life. The counselor notice she was able to have…

Essay One: Rough Draft Both Aleksandar Hemon and Eula Biss both argue that having a sense of belongingness to a community is important for people to feel, and I agree with that because having a place to call home can make someone feel like they are a part of something and makes them feel comfortable. On the contrary, if you do not feel as though you belong to a certain community, you lose a sense of uniqueness and having a special emotional tie to where you live. In Aleksandar Hemon's "Lives…

The word genocide can’t help but to strike a cord in the minds of people internationally. The connotation of the word is strong, an implicit call to action, but what if the word itself created more problems for conflict than solutions? A fatal flaw with genocide is the way the term has evolved away from being a legal definition of a crime, to a threshold of evil that can be manipulated to fit or not fit different actions. Genocide, while important, has the detrimental power to create a…