I decided to talk about the Charleston. The Charleston is a dance that was named after the city Charleston, South Carolina. The dance went with a song that came out in 1923 called the Charleston by James P. Johnson. This song was first heard in the B
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Today in class we kept on watching the video about Rwanda. Now the main guy has lots of Refugees had to deal with the oncoming Hutu Army. He is not outnumbered, because he has like 800 refugees, but he is outgunned. (considering the fact that he does
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Today in class we kept watching Hotel Rwanda. There was a lot of extras laying on the ground. Did they really go to Africa to shoot this movie? I mean, the sets and buildings actually looked good. I thought it was kinda funny that he almost left his
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I actually haven't heard anything about Darfur previous to this. I mean, I've heard the name before, but I didn't know what exactly was going on.I am starting in March of 2003 when the fighting began in the western region of Sudan. It was a confronta
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Today in class we kept watching the moive Hotel Rwanda. Nothing real exciting has happened yet. It's way more entertaining than anything else Mr. Bruns has come up with. No blood has been plastered to the screen. I see the Hutus, and I see the Tutsis
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Today in class we finished watching the movie Planet in Peril, which was heavy propaganda. It was kinda funny how they dogged James Inhoffe and accused him of only taking a stand against "Global Warming" because the Oil companies are paying him. I do
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We started back up with the movie again. We left off where Paul was trying to bribe the guy who had his family and neighbors. Paul gave him enough money to get everyone but it took awhile. Paul takes all these people to his hotel where the UN is also
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Darfur is located in the western part of Sudan. It all started in February of 2003. Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) and Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) took up arms against the Sudan government accusing them of oppressing black Africans in favor of A
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Today we went over what our schedules would be for semester tests. Mr. Bruns said that there isn't enough time for everyone to go separately so we're going in pairs. I'm with Drake on Friday at 12:15- 12:30. It kinda cuts into my lunch time but I'll
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Starting in February of 2003, Arab rebel groups, mainly the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) and Justice and Equality Movement (Jem), began attacks on government forces. They accused the Khartoum (capital of Sudan) government of favoring Afro-Arabs (or Af
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In the 1920's, the average American woman began to change. She threw aside all that was thought to be morally wrong from that past and began to, "rebel." Women in America shortened their dresses to above their knees, a length that was once looked upo
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The Darfur conflict really began in 2003 when the people accused the government of neglecting their region. The Sudan Liberation Army and Justice and Equality Movement started blaming the government of oppressing black Africans in favor of Arabs. Bec
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Well, today in class, we went over the Latin America map again. I really need to study. The test will be like on Wednesday I think ha. After that, we talked about semester test schedules again and our assigned testing time. I still need to do my seme
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The war in Darfur, Sudan is very much like the last blog that we did on the Rwanda Genocide. This war started on February of 2003 when the Sudan Liberation Army and Justice and Equality Movement thought the government thought that the Arab people wer
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Many terrible things are happening in our world right now. What happened to the good old days? When everyone was happy and got along. Why so much hatred? One issue taking place right now is the conflict between Darfur and Sudan. It all began in Febru
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still watching hotel rwanda. things are starting to make sense now...the characters are very interesting. especially paul. the casting is amazing. and paul is a very smart man. your're not a fool paul!!
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The Darfur-Sudan conflict started in 2003 because the Sudan Liberation Army and the Justice and Equality Movement were treating the Arabs better than the Africans. Africans started attacking the government under the accusations. T
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