The Rwandan Genocide

I believe that everyone is responsible for the genocide. To give you some examples of this is Belgium supported the Tutsi supremacy and creating an ethnic divide between the Hutu and the Tutsi. The Interahamwe did the killing of the Rwandans by cutting their heads off with Meshed’s. The United Nations ignored multiple warnings of the genocide. If they did not ignore those warnings then they could have helped with the stopping of the genocide instead of doing nothing. Juvenal Habyarimana brain washed they people by having them listen to his radio station. The united States were to scared to get embarrassed because of what happened in Somalia with the soldiers getting dragged around to send troops in to Rwanda.



As the United Nations I thought that it was the fault of Belgium. I thought that because if they did not create the ethnic divide between the Hutu and the Tutsi then this would have never happened.



In class when we had a debate and we had groups who were each of the major players in the Rwandan Genocide. We got in a circle and we starting accusing almost every person for the fault of the genocide. The only group that could not get accused was the Red Cross. They could not get accused because the only thing that they did was help save people, but as you can see they did not do a great job because thousands of people were killed. It was hard to defend the United Nations because they did not do much. When people asked us questions or comments we did not know how to answer them because we did not do anything.

The American Scholar

Emerson's argument in "The American Scholar" about American society still holds true today. One reason that Emerson's argument still holds true today is that people do what they are good at. In the article The American Scholar Emerson says " Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all. Man is a priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier. In the divide or social state these functions are parceled(Something wrapped up) out to individuals, each whom aims to do his stint of the joint work, whilst each each other preforms his." This quote is saying man is everything and is divided into individuals who do their job in the society.

Man is divied into individuals. When you take all the individuals and put it into one you get society. In the article The American Scholar Emerson says "Man thinking is one of those fables which out of an unknown antiquity convey an unlooked- for wisdom, that the gods, in the beginning, divided man into men, that he might be more helpful to himself; just as the hand was divided into fingers, the better to answer its end."