Genocide in Syria?

I believe that what is happening in Syria is genocide. My reason being that they are dehumanizing the country by not warranting access to the country, killing innocent civilians, killing of outside influencers, and the crack down of protestors As a result, the international community has taken away the liberties of Syria outside of the country and condemned Syria. What I think that should happen is that the international community should intervene because of what is happening and they should respond with, not peacekeepers, an army.

Who is to blame for Rwanda

the people who were in the war (Hutu and Tutsi) and the United States. The Hutu are to blame for killing their own kind and commiting genocide against Tutsi, and killing those who didnt want to help fight. The Tutsi are to blame for accepting favortism and staying in government by force until the Belgians left, and not attempting to compromise and killing those who wouldnt fight. The United States is to blame for not even attempting to help stop the genocide and not sending in troops to those who wanted to help (Dallaire).

Defiance: Movie Reflection

"After watching the movie Defiance and then seeing what the US response to the Holocaust was at the time, describe what you think the proper response of one of the individuals that you labeled as "guilty" on your worksheet should have been to what was happening. Next, describe what the proper response of the US to the Holocaust should have been as it was occurring and while we were fighting Nazi Germany during WWII. Finally, describe your views on how the international community should respond to genocide when it happens today (for example, in Syria)."
One of the individuals that I considered guilty was the president at the time. The president didn't initiate any sort of repromand toward the Nazi party, therefore contributing to the ok that gave Hitler the push to continue is terrible acts. The proper response that I think he should have done was gather up all of the allies he could and go and stop Hitler from killing innocent Jews before it was too late. We should have said something to Hitler that said that he shouldn't kill innocent Jews. My views on how the international community should respond to genocide when it happens today is that everyone should just say no to anyone who feels like killing a particular group of people and stop the person right then.

Defiance: Changing the scene

Imagine that YOU are the editor of “Defiance,”
creating a film that reflects your own ethics.
How would you choose to portray the scene where the partisans are beating the scout who is spying on their location?

A. The group kills the scout and gets on with their
lives afterwards
B. The group starts to beat him, and then stops
itself before it is too late
C. The group starts to beat the scout, and then
Tuvia stops them
D. The group kills the scout and then can't believe
what it has done
E. The group kills the scout, and when Tuvia walks
by they are angry at him for not stopping them
F. Another alternative

• Why would you portray that scene in the way that
you've chosen? Why did you choose your answer
over the other answers?
• Describe how your choice connects to your own
personal sense of ethics.


My choice would be C because I think they should have kept him prisoner until he told them. After which, they would try to change him to be friends with them and make him part of their society. Then they would clean him up. The other answers would cause the things that happened in the movie and maybe even worse. My choice describes my thoughts of real life war. Video games to me are a different thing. I dislike war and I hope to never get involved in it.

Defiance: Is it all fair in love and war?

"To espand a little bit on the conversation from yesterday today we saw that a lot of the tactics used both by the Russian partisans and the Jewish partisans were guerrilla tactics. These include disrupting supply lines, stealing from the enemies, ambushes, etc. What legitimizes these actions? Keep in mind that we used many of the same tactics to gain our independence from great britain. Should strict rules of war apply, or is all fair in love and war?"
 The legitimizing of guerrilla tactics during war is supplied by the need for food, more weapons to stay protected, and other supplies needed to survive if you are a hunted group of beings that is dying out. All is fair in love and war when meeting a hunted group's needs. Think of it as Robin Hood and the people of sherwood forest. He had to meet their needs by taking from those who took from them.

Defiance: Acts of revenge

I believe that revenge should not be taken out on those people that Zus and Tuvia are plotting against whether it is war time or not. I believe it should be like Jesus said when he was on the cross. He said, "Father, forgive them for they know not what they do." They should forgive them for killing their family members and friends and instead, fight against the nazi's who are trying to kill them. If that means killing them, then that is what they should do to survive. And if the people who killed their family members and friends are apart of that group of germans in any way, then so be it.

Level of Genocide demonstrated in the presentation/ tour of WPAFM

The stage of genocide that I noticed was denial because the SS guards tried to destroy all of the concentration camps so that it would look like the Holocaust never even existed.

Picture comparison

Pictures to compare:

photo of my family at church on youth "Out of the Box" sunday.
Everyone dressed as nerds.

photo of family on the beach

-In examining your researched photos, what evidence suggests that life was "normal" or "ordinary" for the Jews prior to the German occupation? 

-What did you discover as you looked through your own family's photos in relation to those that you had researched? Which one did you choose to share, and how does it relate to the photo you researched?

-Compare and contrast your photo with that of the photo you researched and explain how life was both similar and different. 

Organize your responses to these questions into one (or two) cohesive and well-written paragraph(s)

A normal ordinary day in the photo is examined as care free, playful and

cheerful. As I looked through my family photo's, all of the pictures were

of the family posing. There wasn't a particular one I would have chosen

had I not searched through my phone to find the one above that I thought

fit the best. Both family photos have the same playful and cheerful look

to them but aren't taken in the same setting.

Review of Pre-WWII cities

Questions to answer in a paragraph:


-How large was the town's/city's Jewish population (before the war) and how long had Jews been living there?
-What was Jewish life/culture in that town/city like prior to the German invasion?
-Where is or was that town/city located?
-When and how did the town/city come under Nazi rule (timeline)?
-What was the fate of this particular town's/city's Jews during the Holocaust?


  Before WWII , there were approximately 350,000 Jews residing in France alone. 175,000 of those people resided in Paris. The city (Paris, France) was one of the European cities that most Jews had found refuge in. It was the place where you could run to in times of trouble and not be suspected until WWII. Paris is in northern France, near the English Channel and Belgium. The city came under Nazi rule in June of 1940 through invasion in May 1940 and the signing of the armistice. 
After WWII, 50,000 Jews in Paris were deported and murdered.

Reflection on Armenian Genocide

Q: After studying the Armenian Genocide, describe how your views on genocide & and your views on how & why it happens have changed


A: Nothing much has changed in my brain, only the fact of how gruesome the killings are and why one person being killed alone is worse than government sponsored mass killings.

Victim of Armenian Genocide: Description

-Write a couple sentences describing this person, including his or her name and what the person looks like.
-Speculate as to what the person might be feeling based on their picture and their story.
-Finally, imagine and write about what you think may have happened to this person after the story he/she tells, what questions does he/she leave unanswered?




  Arpiar Missakian is a gray haired, wrinkled man who was just a little boy when he first encountered genocide. Twenty-thousand turkish soldiers with Mausers and other artillery had attacked Kessab. The men of Armenia tried to fight back with ancient* artillery and during the struggle they had lost fifty to sixty men be for they fled. 

  He returned to the city only to find out that all of the houses had been burnt down to the ground and the city needed months of repair. He and his family--father, mother, four brothers, two sisters, Arpiar was 20 or 21 at the time--were then forced to move with everything they had under armed guard control to Meskeneh on the Euphrates river, which was a huge outdoor camp made for Armenians. People in the camp were moved bit by bit to Der-Zor at which they died. Sixty-thousand Armenians had died there and were buried under the sand.

I am almost positive that by the way this memoir/biography was written that Arpiar felt full contempt for the Turks because of the sandy bread that they had to eat that they had bought from the soldiers.

After the story, I think that Arpiar would have gotten close to death but managed to escape somehow. 

Did his family members survive with him?

Did he have any friends that were Armenian that were there too?

Where there guards watching from every corner ready to kill whoever tried to escape?

*out of date, not used anymore, obsolete

Classification and Symbolization: If these are the first and second stages of genocide when do you think they become a problem?

The problems start when:

• the government starts making laws against these people
• the person cannot even complete an average task without people being suspicious
• people do not let the person in other groups
• people do not let the person even buy needed things

G3N0C1DE (GENOCIDE)

What is genocide and why does it occur?:

Genocide is when a certain body of people are discriminated against and killed in gruesome ways. Genocide occurs when a group of people (race) or certain religions are viewed as being dangerous or a threat to a certain country and that country wants the people or religion erased (permanently).

The 2 questions i have about the Genocide unit are:

• Why is it that people dont cooperate with the tribe of people instead of killing them for no reason at all?
• When did genocide first occur? Biblically or Historically?

                                                                                                            -Joey Lamb
                                                                                                             Dayton Regional STEM School