Genocide is the deliberate killing of a large group of people‚ especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation. The Holocaust is the most notorious but most definitely not the only. Others such as the Syrian Genocide are great examples of our past being recreated‚ people were killed‚ others lost and a large portion forced to move from the comfort of their homes to live in refugee camps or to try to find their way out of the country. In the text it states “Syria has cost the lives of more
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In 2012‚ Jan Karski was honored by President Obama and given the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He is very deserving of this award and his experiences in his novel‚ Story of a Secret State: My Report to the Word prove his contribution to the national security of the United States. His intentions at the time may have been to get the attention of Roosevelt or Churchill‚ alerting them of the horrors of the war‚ but his memoir sparked an interest worldwide and his honest brutality is what keeps our interest
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talking about the Syrian conflict and what happened with Aleppo. Every time a massacre happens we say never again. But do we truly mean it? We said that about the Rwandan genocide in 1995 which is considered one of the United Nations biggest failures… We said the same thing about Bosnia when there was an ethnic killing of Muslim Bosnian which happened from 1992 till 1995. Also considered one of the United Nations biggest failures.
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United States Barack Obama met with the Turkish Prime Minister to discuss about how to end up the civil war in Syria. Syrian civil was is an armed conflict‚ which started in March 2011 and developed into international demonstrations in April. The main conflict is held between non-formed rebels wanted to overthrow the power government Ba’ath Party and the resignation of the Syrian president Bashar al-Assad‚ whose family rules the country since 1971. Ba’ath Party is neo-Ba’athism dominant government
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happen? What were the reasons for this extermination? Were the Germans particularly brutal? Are there any other similar cases or is it a specific German case? No matter how these questions will be answered; the suppression of the Herero and Nama uprisings was without a doubt not only a very unproportional blowback from the Germans‚ but actually led to a
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Syrian politics is one of the political subjects that attract most of people’s attention recently. Paresh Natht‚ a political cartoonist‚ whose cartoon about the Syrian politics is one of dozens cartoons that can be found in the internet. However‚ this cartoon is controversial because some people might ask whether the image exaggeratedly informs the fact in Syria or it just tells as the matter of fact. Therefore‚ I will try my best to analyze the cartoon’s message which is hope to communicate to
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Is it Worth It In the 21st century‚ people have been known to ask‚ “why‚” and‚ “what’s the point?” Our diverse society has come across many controversial topics that some people find crucially important. Nowadays‚ once a high school student graduates he or she is expected to immediately continue their studies as they enter college‚ but some people are beginning to doubt college and ask themselves‚ “is it worth it?” People are starting to wonder on the value of a college degree‚ and whither or
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M.K.N Uprising in Syria Thesis: The situation in Syria began as a secular upheaval‚ but internal mismanagement by the regime in attempting to gem up fear by negatively embellishing the prospects of regime change has turned Syria into a hotbed of ethno-sectarian warfare‚ which in turn has attracted foreign jihadists to Syria who seek to hijack what began as a secular movement into one with religious connotations. As a result although the
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Who knew that an uprising that occurred in the fall of 1971 at a New York correctional facility would help change the American penal system forever? It was the culmination of a storm that had been brewing for months. There was a tension between the guards and inmates that had not gone unnoticed. With little to no attention given to the circumstances of the inmates‚ they had had enough. Earlier that year during the summer months‚ inmates had come together and participated in peaceful protests. These
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fought back against the Nazis. It’s a wonder that most of the Jews were able to keep hope throughout the entire war. Especially with what they went through at various camps. The Warsaw Ghetto was one of the largest ghettos in Poland. (“Warsaw Ghetto Uprising” History) A lot of the Jewish people there were being told on the way to Warsaw that they were going to various work camps‚ but in reality they were being sent to their death. More Jews were added to Warsaw shortly after the German invasion of Poland
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