Comparing Sheffield Scuffle's Contagion And Hotel Rwanda
English poet, satirist, lawyer, and cleric John Donne once said, “No man is an island, entire of itself.” In this, Donne is expressing the innate interconnectedness of the world, which is also applicable when considering the effects of international relations. In this day and age, the world exists in a very interconnected web. What impacts one nation impacts another directly, in a matter of seconds. Much of this is due to the evolution of globalization, a factor that has been capitalized on by Hollywood. However, beyond Hollywood, the effects of the interconnectedness of the world are felt on deep and personal levels by many people. Through the movies Contagion and Hotel Rwanda, as well as the public events of the Sheffield Scuffle and a rally
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The movie starts out with Rusesabagina and his job as manager for Mille Collines, a luxury Belgian hotel in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda. In a country wrought with bribery and corruption, the tension between the Hutus and the Tutsis rises, and intrastate conflict ensues. Rusesabagina is a Hutu and has powerful connections, so he is relatively okay, but his wife is Tutsi, which puts her and their children in danger. After the tensions and conflict escalate quickly within a few days, Rusesabagina takes his wife, children, and friends from his community to the Mille Collines to keep them safe. By bribing the military, he is able to protect refugees as they arrive at the Mille Collines. As more and more refugees arrive, including over twenty Tutsi orphans, Ruesesabagina tries to continue bribing the military, get help from outside sources because the United Nations peace keeping officials are not helping, protect his family, and maintain the illusion that the Mille Collines is not, in fact, a refugee camp. After much violence and death, Rusesabagina and his family and friends make it mostly intact to a refugee camp and eventually make it to Zambia. Hotel Rwanda did an amazing job of giving an accessible look at the effects of genocide, as well as the impact of globalization. Due to globalization, people were actually aware of the problem. At the Geneva Convention, the Genocide Convention was signed, and all the signatories were legally bound to intervene in the case of genocide. This coincides with R2P, or the responsibility to protect, stating that if states do not respect or are inflicting harm on their state or citizenry, then the international community has an obligation to intervene. The United Nations did intervene in Rwanda, at least somewhat, by sending in peace keeping officials. However, when peace keeping officials
The movie starts out with Rusesabagina and his job as manager for Mille Collines, a luxury Belgian hotel in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda. In a country wrought with bribery and corruption, the tension between the Hutus and the Tutsis rises, and intrastate conflict ensues. Rusesabagina is a Hutu and has powerful connections, so he is relatively okay, but his wife is Tutsi, which puts her and their children in danger. After the tensions and conflict escalate quickly within a few days, Rusesabagina takes his wife, children, and friends from his community to the Mille Collines to keep them safe. By bribing the military, he is able to protect refugees as they arrive at the Mille Collines. As more and more refugees arrive, including over twenty Tutsi orphans, Ruesesabagina tries to continue bribing the military, get help from outside sources because the United Nations peace keeping officials are not helping, protect his family, and maintain the illusion that the Mille Collines is not, in fact, a refugee camp. After much violence and death, Rusesabagina and his family and friends make it mostly intact to a refugee camp and eventually make it to Zambia. Hotel Rwanda did an amazing job of giving an accessible look at the effects of genocide, as well as the impact of globalization. Due to globalization, people were actually aware of the problem. At the Geneva Convention, the Genocide Convention was signed, and all the signatories were legally bound to intervene in the case of genocide. This coincides with R2P, or the responsibility to protect, stating that if states do not respect or are inflicting harm on their state or citizenry, then the international community has an obligation to intervene. The United Nations did intervene in Rwanda, at least somewhat, by sending in peace keeping officials. However, when peace keeping officials