Pogrom

France and England fought against each other in the Hundred Years’ War (1337-1453). In the end, France beat England and won the Hundred Years’ War, as the tide of battle turned in favor of the French by the forces of Joan of Arc. Several reasons on why France may have beaten England were Joan of Arc, who the French attributed their succession of victories to after she repulsed the English from Orléans in 1429, and the unified relationship between France and Burgundy that drove England to an…

Adolf Hitler It doesn’t a matter if the leader is bad or good in person but the leadership was good or bad. Several leaders passed away and today they are history but few of them are still alive due to their leadership skills, achievements, movements and remarkable actions. One of the famous commander and leader in history, Adolf Hitler was born in Austria and raised up in Linz. He moved to Germany in 1931 and then joined the German workers party, forerunner of the NSDAP in 1921. He attempted a…

promises to make major changes. This is how he was considered a leader of Germany. Therefore, “After the Nazi party rose to power, state-enforced racism resulted in anti-Jewish legislation, boycotts, ‘Aryanization’, and finally the Night of Broken Glass pogrom, all of which aimed to remove the Jews from German society. After the beginning of World War II, anti-Jewish policy evolved into a comprehensive plan to concentrate and eventually annihilate European Jewry.”(“The Final Solution.” United…

Mark Oppenheimer, in his thought-provoking op-ed piece titled, “Reclaiming Jew” surfaces a societal problem. Jews do not feel comfortable introducing themselves as a noun. Instead of “I am a Muslim” or “I am a Christian,” secular Jews say “I am Jewish.” It is as if using the noun is too solid and prideful, whereas the adjective feels slippery and insecure. An adjective can simply describe an aspect about something, but the noun is. The underlying question of this preference in title is: where in…

Origins of Genocide 1. Genocide is exceedingly pervasive in human history. Genocide is present in the book of Genesis of the bible. (Jones 4) It is also present in Greek culture as “...of historical events such as the Assyrian Empire’s root-and-branch depredations …. and the destruction of Melos by Athens during Peloponnesian War...” (Jones 5) Genocides also take place in Crusades in medieval era. The practical obstacles to understanding this aspect of our past are that historical records are…

The Bubonic plague is caused by a bacterium yersinia pestis that is found on the fleas of rats. The disease spread to Europe from the Far East in the 14th century along the trade routes of the silk road. The East was experiencing a great boom in trade and economics under the Mongolian Empire that Genghis Khan had built. The Silk Road saw much more use do to the Mongol conquests and the subsequent Pax Mongolica. This intracontinental trade resulted in the people of Italy seeing their first…

devastation to human civilization. Amongst atrocities recorded in human history, the Holocaust initiated by the Nazis Germany and the the Cultural Revolution by the CPC seem the most brutal and irrational. These two mass murders, the former being pogrom, genocide, or ethnic cleansing, the latter being purging of dissenters, or cultural cleansing, took place on two continents as the modern forms of violence They share striking similarities and differences. The following…

Our country is arguably the best country in the world, but that does not mean that we should have to be the superhero of the world by taking in refugees because of costs, safety and the availability of our country. Bringing in refugees to our country is not the best idea because of costs, safety and other countries being able to do the same. Costs to bring in refugees is a lot more costly than one may think. In our current economy, it would cost 1.1 billion dollars to bring in around 70,000…

The Armenian Genocide “The fallout caused by denial was inherited by later generations of Armenians, linking them to the fateful days of 1915, and compelling them to set the record straight.” This was written by author Michael Bobelian, who wrote about not only the events of the Armenian genocide, but the continual denial of it that continues even today. Today, despite pressure from around the world, the Turkish Government still continues to deny the events that occurred against the Armenian…

Japanese were also barred from traveling to certain locations because they were guarded off by the military (Caylor 2). The same idea as what was happening to Jewish people in Germany under the Nazi regime. Japanese were forced into certain areas, like pogroms and were forced to stay in these areas, which restricted Japanese’s ability to live a normal life. Many politicians wanted “No Japanese- except in internment camps” showing how prevalent racism towards Japanese was present in the United…