800‚000 people died in the Rwandan Genocide. Since it lasted 100 days‚ about 8‚000 people died every day. Due to the efforts of an upstander‚ that number could have been higher. 1 upstander from the genocide is the Red Cross. They are brave and kind. I can compare the Red Cross to only one person‚ Greg Mortenson. Here are some similarities and differences from both upstanders. To start off‚ who is Greg Mortenson? He is a person who sold everything he owned to help build schools in Pakistan. He
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The occurrences during what has come to be known as the Herero and Namaqua Genocide were brutal and have been seen as the first attempts at genocide. This piece will analyse the issue at large and also two primary sources relating to this tragedy in an attempt to shed light on the subject of the Herero situation in particular. Firstly‚ to properly contextualise and analyse the two documents‚ we have to look at who wrote the documents themselves. The author of both documents was Lothar von Trotha
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People are distinct individuals‚ but individuals do not live in isolation. Doris Lessing’s essay “Group Minds‚” talks about the human nature of belonging to groups. Humans‚ especially those in Western societies do not like to be loners‚ but rather enjoy being part of a like-minded group. Most people cannot stand being alone‚ so therefore they are always looking for groups to belong to (Lessing 307). No man is an island and individuals live in groups and teams and classes that come together with a
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The Real Thing by Doris Lessing: It’s a short story that Lessing relates to very old times. It is the title of Henry James’ novella written in 1899. It is very much likely that this text is in connection with James’ story. You have two different cultures and different approaches towards the same things. What is the problem? Why there is a distinction between American and British? What is wrong with the fact that Henry sees Angela or Sebastian talks about Olga? Perhaps they are trying to get along
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My Aunt Dori has always been different; however‚ I never truly realized how different until a few years ago. She has severe cerebral palsy. I have always known‚ nonetheless it did not fully sink-in until August 3‚ 2003. This particular day I had witnessed her having a grand-mal seizure. I remember being terribly afraid and confused. The scent of disinfectant filtered deliberately through the air. The aroma filling my nostrils gradually at first‚ then all at once. The hospital seemed empty
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Argentina War http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-20793884 Torture centres There was court investigated crimes against 200 opponents of the military regime in six illegal detention centers in Buenos Aires‚ One of the crimes was a kidnapping of a man named Jacobo Timerman who was tortured by electric shocks‚ beatings and solitary confinement in the years he was held illegally. The prosecutor said Jaime Smart was a leading factor in the persecution of opponents in the military. The illegal
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World War II war hero Doris “Dorie” Miller was born in Waco‚ Texas on October 12‚ 1919‚ and played football at Waco’s A.J. Moore Academy. He dropped out of school at the age of 17 and enlisted in the US Navy in 1939 at the age of 20. He was a mess attendant‚ one of few positions available to African Americans at the time. Then he was eventually elevated to Cook‚ Third Class and was soldier of West Virginia at Pearl Harbor‚ Hawaii. He was working at the West Virginia on December 7‚ 1941‚ when
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Genocide never happens as a surprise. (It was cruelty that overtook them.) Genocide is always politics. Of course‚ there are political goal‚ but those political goals can be reached or achieved in different ways. Some people think that exterminating people or exterminating a group will help their goals‚ so that is why they do it (commit genocide). Genocide is something people do not like to talk about and genocides happen in every corner of the world‚ to every type of people. The numbers in the
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The genocide of Rwanda that killed almost a million people in 90 days could have been prevented. The Belgians; people from the country of Belgium in Europe‚ went to Rwanda; a country in Africa and set up a government where the Tutsi; minority group of cattle herders had power over the Hutu; majority group of farmers. The Belgians did this not knowing the difference of Hutu and Tutsi‚ being they were just social classes and not races. This led to an oppressed majority and then an armed machete revolution
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Zack Siemsen Merri Ferles HIS 202 02-12-13 Native American Genocide The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide states that according to Article 2. “Genocide‚ deems any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy‚ in whole or in part‚ a national‚ ethnical‚ racial or religious group. Such as killing members of a group‚ causing serious bodily or mental harm‚ inflicting the group member lives to cause destruction‚ imposing measures intended to prevent birth‚ and forcibly
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