Museum Artifact 737 likely represents a bichrome‚ wheel-made kylix fired during the Cypro-Geometric III period of the Cypriot Iron Age. The kylix‚ a drinking vessel shaped like a stemmed bowl or cup and possessing a height of 5.5 cm‚ resembles a chalice with a disk base of 3 cm connected to a bowl measuring 8 cm across its widest point. Marked with two sets of concentric circles on the interior of the bowl‚ the kylix draws strong influence from greek design during the Late Bronze Age. Joanna Smith
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The genocide in Rwanda is arguably one of the greatest tragedies of the twentieth century. In 100 days approximately 800‚000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were murdered in brutal waves of violence. Despite this‚ the international community stood by and did nothing. There have been many arguments made over just why this was‚ ranging from ignorance of the situation‚ apathy towards peacekeeping missions‚ or simply having more pressing issues than a tiny state in Central Africa. This essay will examine why
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The Twentieth Century has had multiple cases of genocides and ethnic cleansing.The most infamous case of this would be unanimously stated as the Holocaust‚ but the Armenian Genocide‚ also known as the Forgotten Genocide was the precursor to the events initiated by the Nazis. The relative ignorance to the events that happened just a century ago begs the question‚ Does the wartime environment allow for human rights to be violated ? Firstly; however‚ who are the Armenians and why were they persecuted
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The Rwandan genocide is an event that forever will be looked upon in history as one of oversight and scandal. Taking place over a course of 100 days in 1994 with the murder of over a half a million innocents‚ though it was truly a critical event‚ what people may not realize is there were many times it could have been stopped or prevented altogether. It can be universally agreed upon that the Rwandan genocide was a disastrous affair that should have never occurred. However‚ we need to take it further
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One of the last major genocides that has occurred and been recorded within the 21st century is the genocide that occurred in Darfur against the civilian groups of the Fur‚ Massalit‚ and Zaghawa (p.515). This genocide was composed by the Government of Sudan and the Janjaweed who targeted the black Africans‚ with “…between 300‚000 and 400‚000 people have been killed outright and/or perished as a result of “genocide by attrition (meaning with starvation‚ dehydration‚ unattended injuries‚ and the purposeful
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organization of genocide‚ where groups of civilians who trained for the inevitable massacre‚ and other Hutus were given machetes and encouraged to kill the Tutsi. Polarization occurred when Hutu extremists killed other Hutus who sympathized with the Tutsi. Preparation took place when the Tutsi population was forced to go to desolate lands and were starved. And extermination had begun take place when the trained civilians began massacring the Tutsi. Finally‚ denial occurred when the genocide ended and the
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Genocide * Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part * Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group: Why? * There has been considerable research on why a perpetrator should want to destroy a group or‚ if not destroy the group as such‚ murder people because of their group membership. Motives are often complex and intertwined‚ but one can usually pull out among the mix a major motive.
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over the world‚ the atrocious crime of Genocide has been committed numerous times. It is the intentional destruction‚ in whole or part‚ of a national‚ ethnic‚ racial‚ or religious group. The most famous example of this is the Holocaust; over six million Jews were slaughtered. Shortly after this tragedy‚ many provisions and laws were put into action in hopes of preventing another mass killing. These laws have not created much‚ as the recent Rwandan Genocide took the lives of many innocent people
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To start off‚ “Genocide” is categorized as the action of exterminating a certain ethnicity‚ race‚ and or religion. In Sudan‚ the government and the Janjaweed have classified anyone that gets in their way a problem thus‚ making them victims. The 8 Stages of genocide explain the steps taken to classify the problems Darfur as a genocide. It’s known that after a genocide takes place it’s hard for any economy to bounce back. The genocide taking place in Sudan‚ driven by the negligent government and an
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causing much tension‚ then genocide. A nationalist movement began among the Armenian community living within the Ottoman Empire; in consequence‚ in the 1890s the Ottomans ordered the killing of tens of thousands of Armenians. Despite all the evidence against them‚ such as photographs taken by Armin T. Wegner (The Forgotten) of the atrocities committed‚ and interviews with survivors and eyewitnesses; the modern Turkish government is still in denial that the Armenian Genocide
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