Looting

children, starving and whipping them. Later down the road, rubber would start to be manufactured and Leopold got his hands on it. Around this time, he had gone into some debt with his Congo investment (Hochschild, 159). Leopold’s soldiers started looting all the food sources of a village. They also held women, children, and sometimes chiefs hostage until the men produced enough rubber. The hostages were held in stockades, many died of starvation, and women were raped (Hochschild, 161).…

There were many factors that led to the genocide that occurred in Rwanda. On page 91 there is a chart that accounts those factors and how they ultimately produced the mass killing of Tutsis. At the top of the chart there are two factors that are the beginning to the chaos; the assassination of the president and the multipartyism war. In the chart, only the assassination of the president is written, the reality is that there were other political leaders that were assassinated as well. Straus also…

During World War II savagery was an awful but also a large part of it. Savagery is quite a broad term. Throughout the war quite a lot of savage things happened. The worse I could find was called U.S. liberated the Germans which is iconic if you truly think about it cause in reality the article is all about then the U.S. raped and stole from German civilizations. The article talked about how it all started out innocent there was no stealing or sexual violence. The U.S GIs was told to search…

No one imagined the 16th century to be compelling, so when people started resisting the Pope and challenging the “Spanish rights to the New World and its riches”(76-77) people were shocked. During this time, Spain was looting the New World while being at war with France. The Huguenots, who were French Protestant had no ties with the pope, but with the conflict between Spain and France, the French would create raid acts of warfare. According to Konstam, Angus, The French had no part in the…

The Mongols had very strict laws and if someone broke these laws the punishment would be so severe that a quick execution would be considered merciful. For example, if anyone was caught committing adultery, it would be punishable by execution. After great consideration, I think that the Mongols were more culturally destructive. The Mongols did assist in benefiting cultural exchange in some ways however, the destruction far outweighs the exchange. A lot could be said about the Mongols, but they…

Such flawed reporting is not within the code of ethics most news sources claim to live by, but unfortunately there are too many examples of misrepresentation of the black population to ignore them. One problematic example of this is the issue of “looting” versus…

Rameses had tons of men working for him. But they blamed them for looting too (Egyptahotep, 6)! Because King Tut was known as one of the best kings in Egypt, everybody liked him, so they left the riches for King Tut. King Tut’s tomb had tons of riches. His famous, gold mask is shown inside museums this moment! His coffin…

Ideological Analysis of The Dark Knight Rises The 2012 film, The Dark Knight Rises is the third installment of the Batman trilogy directed by Christopher Nolan. The film is a portrayal of the constant battle between good and evil, and does so through the representation of our justice system. The lines between good and evil are hard to distinguish, however due to the police force in Gotham being as well known for its corruption, as it is for its actual crime fighting, and the Villains of the…

generators were to fail. b. What risk control techniques does Walmart’s Emergency Operations Center use? (2 points) Loss reduction- Walmart had backup generators and fuel shipped to their stores in case of power outages. Wal-Mart also did not have looting on a mass scale because they gave out food and water to those in need. Loss…

African Americans. The Newark Riots began with the brutality that John Smith experienced at the hands of the Newark Police department. In 2014, nearly 47 years later, riots broke out in Ferguson, Missouri after police fatally shot Michael Brown. Looting and vandalism occurred, leading to the ever growing Black Lives Matter movement. Black Lives Matter advocates against racial profiling, racism, and police brutality. Protesters have been able to come together to uphold their role in fighting for…