“To Kill A Mockingbird” displayed acts of heroism when trying to defend Tom Robinson‚ who was wrongly convicted of rape just because he was African-American. Another excellent example of heroism is found with General Romeo Dallaire‚ who defended the Tutsi people with his life when the Hutu people went on a mass genocide in Rwanda in 1994. A hero stands up for what they believe is right‚ no matter the outcome or the consequences. Atticus Finch‚ Scout’s father in “To Kill A Mockingbird” is a hero because
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Congo (DRC) after fearing their reprisals for their part in the mass killing of Rwandan Tutsis and joined forces with the Zairian army in 1998 to launch an offensive against the Congolese Tutsis in eastern Zaire. This erupted after the Belgian rule rewarded Tutsis with a Western education‚ and denied political and economic power to the Hutus. After Rwanadan gained Independence‚ they discriminated against the Tutsis commencing the bloody battle which ended in a ceasefire signed by the Hutu president
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motivated-in Africa‚but for the first time the 1994 Rwanda War spewed forth the seldom used Genocide. Persons who are either directly or remotely affected by the Rwandan ethnic cleansing War have relived many stories. The ethnic designations of "Hutu" and "Tutsi" became media notorious after the war but one fact remains that whenever the anomalies of war is recounted from whichever perspective‚ it remains fresh and evokes sorrow in our inner psyche as humans since the Rwandan genocide is complex! Here enters
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Are people inherently good or evil? A Yale study attempts to answer this question by deciphering whether young babies could choose right over wrong. One of the things they did within the study was a puppet show with two characters: one a “bad guy” and the other the “good guy”. After‚ the babies were told to choose which puppet they would rather play with. Results showed that the babies chose the "good guy" over the bad. This means that people are born with the ability to know the difference between
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country‚ Rwanda. Prior to the colonial era and genocide‚ the Rwandan population consisted of the Hutu (~85%)‚ the Tutsi (14%) and the Twa (1%)‚ where the Tutsi were generally regarded as the higher class of citizens while Hutus were regarded as the lesser. Tension in Rwanda began in the wake of decolonization in the 1950’s and by the 1990’s‚ the ethnic conflict between the Hutus and the Tutsis in Rwanda brought on a genocide (Burnet‚ 2012‚ p. 4). Within the short period of April 6th and July 4th 1994
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Three groups stood in Rwanda‚ Hutu which took up a majority of the population about 85%‚ Tutsi around 14% of the population‚ and Twa 1%. Around the time of the 1880’s the first group of missionary European explorers set foot in Rwanda. It became a part of East Africa in 1899. After World War I in 1923‚ Rwanda was under the League of Nations authority of Belgian. Belgian ended up causing Tutsi‚ Hutu‚ and Twa to divide into three groups. It was never their intention to have the three groups divide
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Critical Analysis of Left to Tell and Night Andrew Hayes 5/5/09 SOC 111- Social Problems Prof. John Sterlacci While reading the books‚ Left to Tell by Immaculee Ilibagiza‚ and Night by Elie Wiesel‚ the similarity in person was very prominent. Noticing how closely related these two authors were in their time of struggle and how they conquered their struggles to become survivors. Family‚ personality‚ religion‚ and lifestyle all played separate parts in the story which were told. Though these authors
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composed of three ethnic groups: Hutu (approximately 85%)‚ Tutsi (14%) and Twa (1%)” (www.unitedhumanrights.org). The Hutu population felt intimidated‚ and resented the Tutsi population. The Tutsi had previously ruled oppressively‚ and the Hutu had not forgotten. After President Habyarimana of Rwanda‚ a Hutu‚ was killed when his plane was shot down while flying over the capital of Rwanda‚ the Hutus used the shroud of war to eliminate the Tutsi population. Around
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800‚000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus over a 100-day period in 1994. The genocide was an example of ethnic cleansing‚ as the Hutu group attempted to kill or displace Rwanda ’s Tutsi minority. Before the European occupation of Rwanda‚ the Tutsis and Hutus lived different lifestyles. Tutsis and Hutus were separate ethnic groups that lived peacefully with no discrimination or clashes between the groups. After World War 1‚ Belgium overtook Rwanda as a colony and established the Tutsis as the natural
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is Tutsi. Paul does everything he possibly can to keep his family safe. He works as a manager in a hotel‚ which later on becomes a refugee camp for the surviving Tutsis. The UN sends troops to help keep the peace but they are forbidden to interfere with the civil war. When they can nothing more for the Tutsis the UN retreats leaving the Tutsis and Paul’s family behind. Paul then goes to a Rwandan Army General‚ Augustin Bizimungu‚
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