His plane was shot down unexpectedly. Although there are no facts to prove who had caused this catastrophe, the Hutu strongly convinced themselves the Tutsi were at fault. Consequently, these assumptions sparked an appalling mass killing in the country of Rwanda; the Rwandan Genocide. By the end...
The Rwandan Genocide was one of the most tragic events of recent memory. With this lesson plan, you'll have the tools you need to help your students better appreciate the tragic events of the genocide. Find, too, related lessons and additional activity extensions to expand the unit as needed...
What was the Rwandan genocide? Majority Tension: Rwanda, a small, agricultural country in Africa, was heavily populated with two major ethnic groups: the Hutu and the Tutsi. The Hutu accounted for most of Rwanda's inhabitants, but this didn't stop tensions from rising. ...
What was the end result of Nietzsche’s efforts to become his own “agent of self-creation?” He ended up going mad. Says the narrator: “In January 1889, Nietzsche had a mental breakdown while he was in Turin, Italy. After this episode, Nietzsche was unable to speak or write and was...
What was most touching about them was not only the process of authenticity that they required, but also the path to healing and even forgiveness that they enabled. Though the Rwanda genocide and the #MeToo movement are radically different, the principle that healing is possible in a divided ...
Depending on the case, you might be able to avoid jail time if you pay a fine. Here's what you should do [sources: Spencer, McCollum]: Once you have the warrant, look at the date the charges were filed, the nature of the charge, and which court it was filed in. Seek expert ...
What might have been surprising, however, was the way in which the "comfort women," who served the Japanese military in brothels throughout wartime East and Southeast Asia, occupied so central a place in the geopolitics of memory in 2015. Ten years earlier in 2005, the sixtieth anniversary ...
Water boarding has been around for centuries. It was a common interrogation technique during the Italian Inquisition of the 1500s and was used perhaps most famously in Cambodian prisons during the reign of the Khmer Rouge regime during the 1970s. As late as November 2005, water boarding was on...
it was failed. And that is because I criticized the legacy of migration studies, where I found a fixation on brown skin, on calloused hands. There was this bizarre belief that Latinx people have an implicit spiritual connection to the land. That isn’t true. It ...
There are an estimated 11-12 million refugees in the world today. This is a dramatic increase since the mid-1970s when there were less than 3 million refugees worldwide. However, it is a decrease since 1992, when the refugee population was nearly 18 million high due to the Balkan conflict...