Search Essays

…Potato Famine was the worst famine to occur in Europe during the nineteenth century. Many classify the Irish Potato Famine as genocide and some do not. "Famine is a useful word when you do not wish to use words like “genocide” and “extermination.” (http…

…Review: Stories From Rwanda I. Introduction The stories from the genocide in Rwanda display many imperfections in human civilization. There are tragic moral flaws that Gourevitch makes very evident throughout the book. These flaws apply…

…David Rodgers Internal Assessment Mr. Nichols NOTE: I essentially wrote everything I know about the Armenian genocide, with the aid of my sources. From 1894 to 1896, Sultan Abdul-Hamid II carried out a series of massacres of the Armenian…

…Rwanda: Genocide or Civil War? The current state of affairs in Rwanda constitutes a catastrophe that never should have happened. Unfortunately, it has happened, but do the circumstances and outcomes warrant using the term "genocide"? Based on facts…

…. The End of Hutu Power When organizers of the genocide gained control of the state, they suppressed dissent but did not extinguish it. In May and June, when the interim government was weakened by military losses and by the first signs of international…

…manifested in the novel. They are: Loss of family, Loss of property and Genocide. The most terrifying thing of all is that children, such as Vithy, went through these traumatic things. Firstly, war has devastating and lasting effects on civilians because…

…A genocide is the organized killing of a group of people for the express purpose of putting an end to their collective existence. As a rule the organizing agency is the state, the victim population is a domestic minority, and the end result…

…Why was the Armenian Genocide Forgotten? GENOCIDE By definition genocide is the organized killing of a people for the express purpose of putting an end to their collective existence (Webster’s dictionary). As a rule, the organizing…

…Hitler was with no doubt the perpetrator of the Holocaust, responsible for the deaths innumerous souls in the early ‘40’s. But an interesting thing to observe is the seldom-remembered Armenian Genocide; another pogrom where three-fifths of the Armenian…

…to implicate the Polish people in Nazi stirrings. Many argue now that an unbroken sociotemporal sin lies between the pre- and post-WWII generations, accounting for not only a Polish, but global bout of "inactivity" toward genocide-related thought, working against…