Donation

Here is why I think we should donate money to Child soldiers International. They are a global organization that works to stop the use of child soldiers around the world. Stopping young people from screwing up their lives by choice or not, is morally right. Kids our age and younger fighting in a war, then become the leaders of a country is not helpful. They will want war just as the spent their whole lifes in. We can't let that happen. By supporting this organization we can help the future of the world as well as save lifes.

Genocide or Not in Syria?

I believe that what is going on in Syria is genocide. The government has threatened to exicute 21 defectors. Also, their president, Al Assad, sent tanks to restive cities and told them to fire on demonstator. President Al Assad is muslim. The internation respone hasnt been the best to this "genocide."

Blaming of Darfur

I blame humanity for the genocide because they are the ones that caused it, suffered from it, tried to stop it, and did nothing about it. You can’t have a genocide that is classified as genocide without having three groups at least involved. Here we had the ones killing, the ones being killed, and the ones who tried and didn’t try to stop it. Without those there can be genocide, and if stopping the genocide worked it wouldn’t be called genocide, or at least not to the extent it is being called now. We the people of this work have an obligation to help to weak and defenseless. We do nothing most of the time. Humanity is to blame for all genocides, past, present, and future. How much blame is put on those people is up to a government system.

                 To blame the group that didn’t try is not hard. If they had no idea as to what was going on, then they cannot easily be blamed. But to those who know it was going on, they are to blame because they know many innocent people were being inhumanely killed. They did nothing, sat by and watched as they killers killed. Those who tried were not being backed up by the ones that said they were going to help. Humanity is the fault of all things both “good” and “bad” in this world.

Guilty and Response Then and Now

One of the people I labled guilty was the man who pulled the lever to the gas chamber to let the gas in that killed the jews. A reasonable respose could have been to find a way to break the pipes so the gas wouldn't go in or he could have gone for outside help since he has inside access he would be a great asset in the camp for stopping it.

The U.S. should have showed the American people what was going on through the media. Then also sending it to other countries around the world. The U.S. also should have started a campain of some sort to try and stop or save Jews, not change their forign pollice.

Today the international community should take more responibility by publicizing the events to the world and making them known. Working harder to put an end to them, such as getting money to send military over to where it is taking place to stop it.

Defiance Question 2

I would have portrayed the scene roughly the same, that the Jewish people beat him up and killed him and didn't feel bad at all about it. Tuvia walking away as he did in the movie. The reason I would do this is because watching them kill him shows how mad they were at the Germans and Tuvia not doing anything about it shows that he doesn't care about the Germans and that he thinks they should not live. Knowing also that if he was let go of, he would come back with the German army to kill them all.

Defiance Question 1

I believe their actions are justifiable because they are a normal race of people that are being exterminated. They have to survive some how, what better way then to steal from those who are trying to kill you and turn you in to the SS. When all you love has been taken from you all you have left is revenge.

USAFM Reflection of Genocide

One stage of genocide I saw that really spoke to me was dehumanization. I saw that in multiple things. A few examples were the numbers they gave the men, women, boys, and girls in concintration camps. Thats how they were identified. So instead of saying, "Come here bob." They would say, "Come here number one." Ripping you from that human feeling of being a person. Another example would  be when they wouldn't let Jews own certian house hold items, like cars, radios, etc.