Western Armenia

and simply people were sharing their knowledge about that event. In the introduction part of the film the look was taken on who was the Armenians and their ancient history as well as was explained their culture and religion. In the 15-th century Armenia was conquered and became the part of Ottoman Empire. The legal position for the minorities of Ottoman Empire wasn’t pleasant, everyone should obey to the sultan and to his laws, pay high taxes and other similar policies…

The Slaughterhouse Province The book I read is entitled “The Slaughterhouse Province: An American Diplomat’s Report on the Armenian Genocide, 1915-1917” (Aristide D. Caratzas Publisher). It is considered the first unearthed eyewitness account from a neutral party, published by a diplomat about killing hundreds of thousands of Armenians who lived in the Ottoman Turkish Empire. The reports in the book were written by Leslie Davis, who was a lawyer and U.S. consul in Harput in eastern Turkey from…

Beginning in 1908, the Ottoman Empire wanted to strengthen their power after it had weakened because of corruption in the late 1800s. This lead to a new government power in Turkey; a assembly of activists, who called themselves “Young Turks”, conquered the power of the Ottoman Empire and established a more current constitutional government. With this government, Armenians were optimistic that they would have an equal status in this new state; however, they quickly realized the nationalistic…

Armenian Genocide "Who, after all, speaks of the annihilation of the Armenians?" Hitler once said this when addressing the Nazi army about the upcoming genocide of millions of Jews. A genocide is the systematic killing of a group of people based on religion, race, or culture. Genocides are crucial to our past, as well as crucial to our future. However, not many people are aware of the Armenian Genocide. The Armenian Genocide was the mass killing of 1.5 million Christian Armenians. People…

Genocide is a word used to describe the destruction of a nation or ethnic group. The word being derived from the Greek word genos meaning “race” and the Latin word cide meaning “killing”. The Armenian genocide, although covered up, was particularly brutal. The Ottoman Turks had a lot to do with the genocide taking place, the murders were brutal and the Ottoman Turks and Turkish people today have had a lot of control over the aftermath. At the time, the Ottoman Turks had just entered World War I…

who again are Armenian but this is not said explicitly. There will also be scenes showing the deportation of the Armenians from the Caucus region, but not any atrocities. In the final battle the hero will be in a bunker with his friends and a grenade is thrown through the window, wanting to save his friends the hero throws himself on top of the grenade. Exploding beneath him, he is comatose for the rest of the war. Escaping with only the loss of one of his eyes and a body full of shrapnel. He is…

Through any assimilation or acculturation process, it is difficult to let go of what is important to you and the culture you come from. In both assimilation and acculturation, the minority group of individuals is being integrated into the majority group. The different between the two is that assimilation leads to the culture losing their ties and become indistinguishable with the majority culture. On the other hand, acculturation keeps the ties of their culture and making themselves distinct as…

Genocide was not defined as a punishable crime by the United Nations until 1942. Describing the heinous act as an “odious scourge,” the UN cites a dark history of considerable loss of human life in result of hatred, “with intent to destroy” one particular group of people (UN No. 1021). Clear specifications for the punishment of the crime did not yet exist in the era of the Armenian Ottoman genocide in 1915. Once one of the largest empires the world has ever seen, the Ottoman Empire expanded to…

One scene does not symbolize the actions that I believe are to be criticized; rather the continuous action of the group as a whole in multiple scenes. In a survival aspect, it’s hard not to look at the situation in an apocalyptic sense, Walking Dead manner per se. The group’s goal is to get as far away from the turkish controlled area as possible. With adding on wounded and weak refugees on the trek how is the group going to survive? Soon Darwinism will begin to take place and you’ll be left…

The Armenian Genocide, started on April 24, 1915 and lasted until 1918. It was known as the first genocide of the modern world and contributes to the understanding of the nature of violence in modern history. To understand the nature of violence in this genocide, there must be a clear interpretation of the meaning. The World Health Organisation defines violence as ‘the intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actual, against oneself, another person, or against a group or…