Rwandan Patriotic Front

Even to entertain such thoughts could, in the long run, cause cataclysmic events- reference the Rwandan Genocide or the Holocausts. Rather, I see people, in the world, divided consciously into two types of perceptions: one of existentialism, entropy, and oblivion and legacy, remembrance, and perpetuity. The ultimate existential bummer is entropy and…

On 7th, April, 2004, the world observed a moment of silence to remember the victims in the Rwanda genocide. As the world remember the 10 year anniversary of the genocide, the country continued to live with the devastating affects of the brutal event. Some of the most significant aftermaths were the the lasting children suffrage, disproportion of men and women population, and the extreme slow recovery of the economic and education system. Rwanda, even now, is never fully healed from the massacre,…

Still receiving opposition from the members of the mandebele clan, an elite squad of North Korea trained brigade known as ‘Gukurahundi’ meaning(, the early rain that washes away the chaff before the spring rain’). As a result of the raid, at least 20000 civilians lost their lives. This was the beginning of the many human rights violations from torture, assaults, unlawful arrests, rigged elections, discrimination, police brutality and ethnic cleansing among others that were carried out on the…

War in Syria DBQ Essay There has been a war going in Syria for the last 5 years now. There are parties in Syria who are against the government. What is fueling the violence? The anti-government parties can are be terrorists but some aren't. There are teenagers who are being arrested for being against the Syrian government. “...writing anti-government graffiti on a wall”. This type of behavior can be illegal in Syria, but if teenagers want to the government there might be something wrong.…

The question of morality is consistently paired with the consumption of animals and animal byproducts. Those who favor consumption defend their belief with testimony of ignorance, claims of non-involvement, and tradition. Opponents of this consumption defend their belief by citing instances where human consumption of animals and their byproducts have adversely affected the environment and permitted the mistreatment of factory farmed animals. If it is wrong to torture animals for gustatory…

Garret Hunter, Darfur Genocide, Period 2 As the first major genocide of the twenty-first genocide, taking place in Sudan, Africa, the Darfur genocide is a brilliantly dark and horrifyingly realistic representation of what can happen when the human mind becomes corrupted. Sudan, Africa. Located in the Northeastern region of Africa, near Egypt, Ethiopia, Libya, and right across the Red Sea from Saudi Arabia, Sudan is home to nearly forty million people (data.worldbank.org). Darfur, in Western…

This image was taken in Iraq when Hundreds of thousands of men, women and children were killed during an organized attempt to exterminate the Kurdish people in the late 1980. They were tied together and shot together. Their towns and villages were attacked by chemical weapons, and many women and children were sent to camps where they lived in terrible conditions and man and boys were shot. I was one year old when the genocide against Tutsi 1994 in Rwanda happened when more than one million…

The death told of the Genocide estimates to be over a million people. Those who were lucky enough to escape from the genocide fled to the Middle East, Russia or the United States. Either the killings of the Armenians or the deportation the number of Armenians living in Turkey fell from 2 million to under 400,000 by 1922. According to the website armenian-genocide.org, "The great bulk of the Armenian population was forcibly removed from Armenia and Anatolia to Syria, where the vast majority was…

Korostelina states that, "social identity is connected not only with the perception of similarities with an in-group but also with the perception of differences between this group and the members of other groups or categories" (24). Looking at the Rwandan ethnic genocide, their movement was begun through totalism, alienation, socialization to aggressiveness and other…

In his guide to obtaining political power, The Prince, Machiavelli asserted that effective leadership comes only through instilling fear in one’s subjects rather than promoting a loving environment. Machiavelli appears to ignore the powerful combination that fear and love create when put together: respect. In order to become a successful leader, cultivating respect among one’s followers is far more advantageous than choosing fear or love alone. Both fear and love are relatively easy to establish…