This week's web log post is about the genocide that occured in 1994 in Rwanda. The genocide took place between two groups in the country; the Hutu and the Tutsi. The latter being the group that was being wiped out. About 500,000 to 1,000,000 were exe
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Today we finished up the chapter 10.We talked about the Philippines. After we took control we made sure that they had a stable government. The Filipinos thought that we would give them freedom. A guy that was a flippeneno found out that we were going
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Well there are these two groups called the tutis and the hutu. They are pretty alike they speak the same languages, live in the same spots, and have the same traditons, but for years they have had troubles with each other. When they faught the hutu w
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Today in class we watched the film, "Planet in Peril", which in my opinion was just liberal trash. Of course, what else can you expect form CNN? Well, it just went on to boost their political standings and im not going to say in class now that climat
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The German Army used flame throwers on attempt to flush out French or British soldiers from their trenches. This was also used later in World War II... Introduced in 1915, it was used with the most effect during the Hooge battle of July 30th 1915. Th
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Today in class I took the Canada map test. I basically failed the map. This map in my opinion was a lot harder thatn the Europe map test. I mean, Communists do have weird way of naming things. By communists, I mean the Countries of Eastern Europe. Do
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The Treaty of Versailles was the treaty that ended WW1. Negotiations started on January 18 at the French Foreign Ministry. 70 delegates of the 27 Allied nations involved in the war were present and none from the losing nations naturally. Russia was s
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Rwanda Genocide was a mass killing of thousand of Rwanda Tutsis and Hutu political members in 1994 by the Hutu government. The killing of the people went through the middle of July till a total of 5000,000 and 1,000,000 peopl
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Okay, instead of just starting with the uber crazy genocide thing, I am starting with where it all started. (every time you assign a blog topic, i just have to do something different;)Okay, so first we have a group of people called the Twa, a Pygmy p
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The Rwanda Genocide was a genocide of about 800,000 people of the Tutsis and moderate Hutus. The massacre happened in less than 100 days. The war started on April 6, 1994. The main reason was because of the assassination of Juvenal Habyarimana. Habya
Today in class we watched that poor peole video again. It was sad seeing a bunch of starving people, but its hard to do anything to help them because you can't jsut give them money or they'll wont try as hard to find jobs because they're getting reli
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Well to start off, the Rwanda Genocide was a mass killing of hundreds thousands of Rwanda's Tutsis and Hutu politcal members in 1994 by the Hutu winning government. Wow, thats a good way to start off a blog. Just think if you were one of those hundre
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Today the internet was down completely, so there wasn't much I could do. I have already read the chapters I needed to read. So, today I looked through the book to try and find a topic that looked interesting to me over WWI. I didn't find one that int
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Today i studied as much as i could. I eventually took the test with bruns. I studied the topics i wasn't sure about. This is what i studied...Ch. 10Discuss how the US acquired Hawaii and Alaska.In 1867 Russia was going to give up the area of Alaska.
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Today Andrea talked about her topic.Discuss the following US foreign policies:Big Stick Diplomacy--"Speak softly but carry a big stick"Big Stick Diplomacy was using our military forces and powers to do what we want. Its basically just a threat. An ex
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Today we talked about the rest of the semester. I learned about the big project over the 1920's and 1930's. We will have to do in our groups about chapter 12 through 14. My group got the causes of the Great Depression.Austin also finished his present
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This is my assigned web log, which is over the topic of: The Rwanda Genocide of 1994. All in all, it is the mass murder of Tutsis. The genocide was directed by the [roughly] 85 percent of the Rwandan population with the Hutu descent. I feel obligated
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pretty much the same as yesterday. There is virtually nothing going on in class except for research and the oral testing. Erin and I are working together on the semester project blog thing so we spent some of the clas time deciding how we are going t
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There isn't really too much to talk about today. Mr. Bruns is still trying to finish up the oral testing, and everyone else is blogging and stuff. I am doing my research on my semester blog. Chapter 13, Section 1 will be pretty easy seeing as how the
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