Les Paul

The primary causes of the Darfur Genocide were the increased conflicts between Arab tribes and the Darfuris. “In 1989, General Omar Bashir took control of Sudan by military coup, which then allowed The National Islamic Front government to inflame regional tensions”(Genocide in Darfur). Leaders fought for control of the area, which caused many conflicts. The National Islamic Front government intensified the situation, which caused increased conflicts in the future. In 2003, two Darfuri rebel…

Hotel Rwanda is a film directed by Terry George, released 2004, that is based on the true story of Paul Rusesabagina; the manager of Mille Collines who during the Rwandan genocide, used his establishment to hide 1,268 Hutu and Tutsi refugees. The film follows Paul, played by Don Cheadle, as his world is flipped upside overnight when Hutu militias started their mass genocide on the Tutsi Rwandans. He is able to protect his family, neighbors, and hundreds of other refugees and help them make it to…

Around eight hundred thousand people were killed during the Rwandan genocide in 1942. Paul Rusesabagina, author of An Ordinary Man, sheltered and saved the lives of over twelve hundred would-have-been victims. The following quotes are important pertaining to the plot of the story and the challenges that the author faced. “We are a nation that loves to take people into our homes. I suppose our values are very much like the Bedouin of the Middle East, for whom sheltering and defending strangers is…

lyrics have touched the hearts and minds of many, many people all over the globe for over 50 years, and will continue to do so for many decades more. The beatles member count consisted of four young blokes by the names of George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul Mccartney, and Ringo Starr. These four young men would one day grow into the role of the giants and revolutionaries of the music world and culture, but they all started off as any other young kid growing up in the early 50s and 60s.…

Magical mystery tour is an album by The Beatles that released in United Kingdom under Parlophone label, and united States under Capitol Records which distributed worldwide, with two different format, the album was released with a six song double EP in the UK and an 11 song album in the United States and elsewhere, Magical Mystery Tour happened to be the soundtrack to the film with the same title that was originally broadcasted by the BBC on December 1967. The loss of Brian Eipstein (Beatles…

contributors Alice Paul stated, “I always feel...the movement is a sort of mosaic. Each of us puts in one little stone, and then you get a great mosaic at the end.” Thousands of women were behind the passing and ratification of the 19th amendment in 1920 from Susan B. Anthony to Lucy Burns, a close friend of Paul’s. However, Paul was being too modest in her previous statement. She contributed much more than a little stone to the mosaic that was the women’s suffrage movement. In geological terms,…

Unfortunately, it is not entirely clear from Scripture why Paul wrote to the Ephesian Church back in 62 A.D. from behind the bars of a Roman prison. However, Acts 20:31 (READ THE TEXT) reveals Paul spent three years in Ephesus so he knew the Ephesians well, so one theory as to why Paul wrote Ephesians can be found in (TEXT) Eph. 6:21 in which Paul says, “so that you may also know how I am and what I am doing.” From the text, it can be concluded that Paul was simply letting the Ephesian Church…

Almost two decades ago, song lovers and avid music fans have come to adore a song so iconic that even people of today know it by heart. In the history of music, there are just a couple of songs which reached a status wherein it transcends the movement of time and surpassed the ever-changing trend that the industry promotes. More so, many songs are drained down the oblivion void, keeping a shallow dig on our memory and would soon be forgotten. One track, however, have been dealt with rather…

In the documentary “Ghost of Rwanda” we got to see true event of what had occurred to approximately 1,000,000 people of Rwanda. The film interviewed several people that stayed or were in Rwanda during the genocide, like Phillip Gaillard who was head of the international committee for the Red Cross and how he helped save hundreds of lives in the process. Other interviews told the stories of people like General Romeo Dallaire who was task to preserve the peace between the Rwandan Patriotic Front…

iDebate Rwanda Reflection Paper I had heard and written about the events of the Rwandan Genocide prior to when iDebate Rwanda came to our class, and thus was well aware of the struggles during and after the genocide. Knowing about this massacre, it is amazing to see that the younger generation is finding a way to heal and grow through debate. The genocide itself was truly horrific, and around 800,000 people were killed in the short span of 100 days, mostly being Tutsi and Tutsi sympathizers who…