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Genocide Vs American Genocide

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“Genocide is an attempt to exterminate a people, not to alter their behavior.” Jack Schwartz couldn 't have said it better. Genocide is a way to get rid of your problem by elimination. It is no longer a threat if you start killing off a population. Genocide can happen anywhere as it did in Europe and in Africa. However, we always talk about those genocide events, but it has also happened in the United States of America. The United States of America is a country that has risen to power over the course of centuries. Like any other nation that has rose to power, inhumane acts can be found throughout its history. Manifest Destiny and The Trail of Tears were landmarks of US History. However, do people really know what was going on? During that time, Native Americans had no choice but to leave their homes and move westward. For those who resisted were killed or sent to refugee camps. Fast forward through time to the Philippine-American war. The US defeated Spain for control over Cuba and the Philippines. The Americans then decided to colonize the Philippines. However, they disagreed; they wanted to be an independent country. The US then proceeded to take the islands away by force, killing millions of Filipinos in the process. …show more content…

Led by Adolf Hitler, Nazi Germany was ordered to exterminate the imperfects of Europe. This included groups against the government, foreigners, and other liabilities. Adolf Hitler wanted to eliminate them to create a perfect race. The effects of the Holocaust were terrifying. Millions of people died. People lost family and hope. After seeing the consequences of war, they now feared it. Many people were

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Hitler also changed the religious culture in many parts of Europe. One of Hitler’s main goals while in office was to eliminate the jewish and any other non-aryan people. In the process, Hitler made The Nuremberg Laws. Adolf Hitler, “implemented these laws to ostracize, discriminate and expel Jews from German society” (3) Diverse culture was rejected. Physically, the people of Germany, mostly jews, were affected because of Hitler trying to make the population one master race.

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According to Foner, “Some 2,000 warriors destroyed isolated farms and missions, killing 400 colonists, including 21 Franciscan missionaries. ”1 Demonstrating that they [the Natives] were bound and determined to gain their freedom back they took action and united as one. Just as the Spaniards did to their people, the Natives did what they thought was necessary for them to reclaim their culture once again.

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They proposed that the nation had way too many social issues at the time to actually integrate these islands into the U.S. properly (Greenwood). The social issues that these people would be referring to are the Native Americans in the plains slowing being pushed to extinction and the African Americans still being treated as slaves despite their rights being granted through the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments. The inability of the U.S. to take care of the social responsibilities on these islands, especially the Philippines, led to revolt. A horrific guerilla war broke out between the inhabitants of the Philippines and the U.S. army that led to thousands being killed (Greenwood). This shows that the foreign response to U.S. imperialism was as bad, if not worse, than the domestic reaction within the United

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How dehumanizing violence is: comparing the Holocaust and the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution Introduction Of outbreaks of violence that survived into historical records, Germany’s Holocaust and China’s Cultural Revolution were the most talked about and heavily studied. They are poignant reminders of human’s capacity for destruction. How are the two alike?

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With the promises of honor and prosperity, Germany unknowingly granted Adolf Hitler the power to implement his plans into fruition. As such he began his tyrannical rule over Germany resulting in a mass genocide known as the Holocaust. During this time period, Hitler and his Nazi party attempted to eradicate the Jewish population within Europe and spread their anti-Semitic policies throughout the world. At the end of World War II, only a certain amounts of people were able to survive the Holocaust. However, the survivors are still haunted by the events that occurred to them.

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Anthony Pfeiffer Mr. West Sophomore English 1/21/16 Genocide in the World Today The word genocide is the combination of the Greek word "geno" (meaning tribe or race) and “caedere” (the Latin word for to kill). When used the definition of the word means the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation. This word has such a profound impact is due to it affecting millions of people 's lives because they don 't have the freedom to believe in what they want, however, if they do they can and will be punished or killed by the leaders in their country. Many countries are still facing the problem of genocide because it directly relates to people 's beliefs and ideas, where they think that

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During this time 6,000,000 Jews were killed, not by war, but rather at the hands of Germany. Hitler believed that Jews were an inferior race and was a threat to German purity. After years of being mistreated Hitler had a plan called the Final Solution, which was the attempt to extinct the entire Jewish Population. Germany would accomplish this by concentration camps that were set up in Poland.

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Genocides, the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular group or nation, has affected various countries. Genocide not only brings a war but also problems like decreasing economic affairs and social problems. When genocide starts, society overlooks economic affairs like their agriculture since they focus on the war. In the case of Rwanda, once the genocide had begun many farmers fled or were killed. "All was

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It was not in the mentality of the people at the time to stay within ones’ borders and the United States was following the trend of imperialism on its

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The Rwandan genocide vs. the Holocaust “Genocide is an attempt to exterminate a people, not to alter their behavior.” Jack Schwartz. Genocide is mass murder, it happens in all parts of the world. A common known genocide is the Holocaust. Where a group known as the“Nazis” (lead by Hitler) murdered more than six million people (many were Jewish).

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When speaking of the Genocide most people think of the Jewish Holocaust, which was a massacre in itself, however so was the Armenian Genocide, which some do not look as this being

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Another conflict there was with the Native Americans and the colonists. Was because more British colonists would move to North America and they would take some north land so they could stay. The Native Americans weren’t happy because the colonist would be taking their land. After taking north land, the British colonies were settle they want the land owners leave the

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The UN Convention defines genocide as “any of the follow acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group” (Jones 13). The wordings of the definition can

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The genocide was an after affect of the scramble for Africa by European countries who help no regard for the people who already lived their. In the scramble for Africa many European countries raced to make claims on land in Africa that was already lived on by natives, they mistreated the natives and killed and enslaved many of them. This was prevalent in Rwanda when the belgians imperialized the land. The belgians sent the Hutus who were the majority of the population into slavery and lead to mass deaths of their people. But they lead the land through another ethnic group the tutsis who made up about 15% of the population compared to the 85% population of Hutus.

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I interview Mrs. Katie Delay, Four County Career Center’s Visual Design Instructor, to gain a better understanding in the field of educating visual arts. This interview gave me an opportunity to listen and learn from the experience of an inspiring person I can relate to. One can read books or stories from random teachers to try to scrape the surface of understanding of the art education but when you hear the stories and experience from someone who ignited your inspiration and has lived the life you aspire to have; it means the world. I intend to teach in a similar setting as Four County due to it being a vocational school and given the opportunity to teach practical art skills to enable student with a head start in their career. Being a previous

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