Genocide

Controversial topics are typically surrounded by a lot of “grey area” and strong opinions. People dispute abortion, war, and genetically modified food. Yet, no sane person disputes the immorality of genocide; likewise, no sane person celebrates when a genocide has taken place. By these standards nearly every human in Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game is insane. Ender Wiggin may be the only sane person, yet he is the celebrated killer in question. Ender’s good intentions do nothing to alter his…

Tourism is an integral part of economies around the country, even around the world. Tourism contributed to 2.6% of the U.S. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2014, and it is only expected to rise more in the coming years (Travel). A fast growing segment of the tourism market is outdoor recreation. From 1983-2000, there was a 45% increase in horseback riding, 53% increase in bicycling, 183% increase in hiking, and 217% increase in backpacking (Olive and Marion 1483). However, as this area of…

The Bosnian genocide actually started in the 70s. It was little known because it was during the time of the cold war. The Cold War officially started in 1947, right after the end of World War 2. Nobody knew about the genos=cide because Russia had nuclear missiles in Cuba and everybody was thinking about that. As the cold war was in the middle of the 45-year war, the genocide started to fade away. There is little known about this because nobody knew it happened until after and witnesses were…

Causes and Prevention of Genocide: Armenia Case Study The Armenian genocide is one of the most infamous crimes against mankind, yet is not nearly accredited as such. Even Adolf Hitler, who is responsible for the deaths of over six million Jews alone, has said, “Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of Armenians?” (“Popular Quotes”), clearly depicting the ignorance and disavowal of the deaths of over 1.5 million Christian Armenians in Europe during World War I. In the years between…

The Armenian people and the Jewish people were both involved in a genocide based on prejudice, with the intent to completely wipe out their race. The Nazi’s and The Turkish people were responsible for the Genocide of these two groups. The Nazis carried out one of the most notorious crimes in history, The Holocaust. They killed countless minorities but specifically targeted the Jewish. During World War 1, The Ottoman Empire was having a lot of turmoil between the two main ethnicities in the…

were an ethnic tribe that inhabited in parts of southern Africa and soon was taken over by the Germans. Around 1904, the Germans killed about 80,000 Herero’s to take over their land and to get rid of them. The Herero and Nama genocide was one of the many colonial genocides that radicalized the scale and scope, along with the methods and practices of the Germans. The primary motive was to set up a settlers colony for the…

Michael Lackey, a professor of English and author of African American Atheists and Political Liberation: A Study of the Socio-Cultural Dynamics of Faith, published the article “The Moral Conditions for Genocide in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness” in the Winter 2005 edition of College Literature. He has focused his studies on the subject of religion, atheism, and politics — all of which he uses within this article as a method to deconstruct the novella by Joseph Conrad. His various…

In a day and age when we hear “Russia” and “fake news” in every other news cast, it is shocking that one of the worst cases of propaganda and fake news has yet to be totally publically accepted. Known as “Holodomor” the Ukrainian genocide continues to be one of Russian dirtiest, well kept secret. Starting in the late 20’s the with mass arrests and deportations, it culminated with a man-made famine from 1932-1933, it is believed that Stalin was able to kill between 7 to 14 million Ukrainian…

Outside Influence Leading to Genocide In Cambodia, glasses marked people for death. Glasses were seen as a sign of outside influence, something the Khmer Rouge wanted to eliminate. While studying the Cambodian genocide, key elements such as outside influence, such as from colonization and from the Vietnam War seem to have lead the perpetrators to commit genocide. Colonization by France left lasting psychological effects and an unstable government. The actions by the U.S. taken during the Vietnam…

The Herero Genocide was the first genocide in the 20th century. The genocide began in the late 1880’s in a part of South-West Africa ruled by the Germans. Many different groups of people lived there such as the Namaqua and the Herero. In 1888, the German commander Curt von Francois stated that, “Only uncompromising brutality will lead to victory.” The Germans took over the Herero land and planned to build a railway which would cross through this territory. A Herero leader named Samuel wanted to…