Ambiguous Media The influential power of the media is not an issue to be taken lightly. This influence can harbor tremendous benefits‚ or catastrophic consequences. Hotel Rwanda begins with a black screen‚ where the only thing we are exposed to is a radio broadcast‚ consisting of negative propaganda concerning Tutsi rebels in Rwanda. This is important‚ in that the black screen represents our minds‚ with the only input being what we hear over the broadcast. This gives us a sense of what the refugees
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Running head: Hotel Rwanda 1 Hotel Rwanda Mary E. Gilmore Trine University Running head: Hotel Rwanda 2 Hotel Rwanda The movie I watched was Hotel Rwanda. This movie covered the genocide that occurred in Africa between April and July of 1994 when two tribes began fighting. These two tribes were the Hutu and the Tutsi. In just a little over three months‚ 800‚000 people were murdered. In the beginning of the movie‚ a
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Hotel Rwanda Hotel Rwanda is an amazing movie I think is very important to watch as a young adult. What is amazing about this film is that you can feel the victim’s pain and sorrows. The main character Paul (Don Cheadle) the manager of a luxury hotel also a Hutu‚ decides to risk his life for his Tutsi family and 1‚200 other Tutsi people by protecting them in his hotel now nicknamed Hotel Rwanda. The movie is based on actual events in Rwanda’s capital city of Kigali during the 1994 civil genocide
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Reflection Paper on Hotel Rwanda The 1990s marked a time of turbulence and unrest in Rwandan history. During April-July 1994‚ over 800‚000 Tutsi people were killed relentlessly at the hands of the Hutu militant group “Interhamwe‚” whose name translates to “Those Who Attack Together” (History.com‚ 2009). Based on true events‚ Terry George’s Hotel Rwanda follows the Rwandan Genocide through Paul Rusesabagina’s experiences‚ and from an interpersonal communications perspective‚ appreciates both the
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Hotel Rwanda is an emotionally gripping portrayal of one man’s struggle to protect over 1000 internally displaced Tutsi people from the Rwandan genocide of 1994. The movie does an excellent job a showing a macro perspective of what the genocide and the mob rule that allowed it was like for one group of people led by a heroic Hutu man. As the story plays out it is made abundantly clear that the events that these people lived during that horrible time in 1994 were merely the culmination of a chain
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occurred they just attacked one another. As you can see the cultural and social differences between this group was another factor that led to the genocide in Rwanda. Although the Tutsis were the main group being attacked they both played a huge role in the genocide because the previous tensions between the two was showed. In the movie Hotel Rwanda‚ you can see how people were looking to kill the Tutsis. The army was after the Tutsis and if you were one you were going to be attacked. The last variable
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In Hotel Rwanda the United Nations (UN) were delivering Tutsi civilians to an airport to export them out of Rwanda.While his family went with the UN Peter stayed behind at his hotel.Even though they end up having to returned to the hotel by Hutu rebels this decision was morally right for Peter do that. First of all he runs the hotel.In the movie Peter treats the hotel as any old normal hotel while in reality he is trying to hide Tutsi civilians. When the UN tried to delivered Tutsi including Peter’s
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Hotel Rwanda‚ released in December of 2004‚ is based on the true story on the life of Paul Rusesabagina‚ a hotel manager of Hotel des Mille Collines‚ who saved the lives of 1‚268 people in the face of genocide. This movie is based on the true events of the Rwandan Genocide in 1994 that occurred in Kigali‚ the capital and largest city of Rwanda in Africa. It touches upon when the Hutu extremists of Rwanda initiated an act of genocide on thousands of the minority group‚ Tutsis. This movie was directed/written
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After watching Hotel Rwanda‚ I had many emotions including confusion‚ frustration and gratitude. I was initially unfamiliar with tribal labels‚ such as Hutu of Tutsi. ‘Tribal violence’ is not discussed frequently on the western part of the globe. I was incredibly frustrated by the non-stop nagging of the supposedly officials. The officials took advantage of their power and chose to ignore the genocide. Their ignorance made them responsible for the thousands of innocent people horrendously killed
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Rednaxela R. Calderon ASSIGNMENT No. 4 HOTEL RWANDA GUIDE QUESTIONS: 1. If you were in the situation of Paul‚ how far would you go to protect your countrymen‚ when you know very well that this will cost you the life of your family? Will you abandon your family to save the lives of others? => If I will put myself in Paul’s situation‚ I think‚ I would help and protect my countrymen as long as I can and as long as I’m living. But first I’m going to ensure my family’s safety before I gamble
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