Rwanda Essays

Outline of the Rwandan Genocide: Draft – Introduction Rwanda is a small land-locked nation, about 26,338 square kilometres in size, bordered by Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda and Tanzania. Though mainly flat, the country has a large mountain range on its northwest coast – the Virunga Mountains – that are home to the famous […]

Case Study: Rwanda The conflict in Rwanda is probably the most well known and documented case of genocide since the holocaust. Through years of discrimination based on ethnic and class based differences, the population of Rwanda has been constantly entrenched in periods of fighting, refuge and genocide. In the following essay we will explore the […]

Hotel Rwanda is a story about a country in central Africa that turned violent after their president is assassinated. Throughout all of this a man by the name of Paul Rusesabagina who was a Hutu and a hotel manager, would find himself giving refuge and saving thousand of lives at the expense of his own.The […]

Social perception is basically how we see others based on the information we gather from our experiences, environment and other stimuli in the environment (Stratton, 2006, par. 1). This perception is often contrasted against the backdrop of how we see ourselves against how we see others. From the perception of superiority to inferiority and from […]

The United Nations General Assembly’s Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, defines genocide as any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, such as killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to […]

Over the years there has been many awful genocides. Some have included mass killings of a specific race like the Holocaust. Others were about an extreme sense of Nationalism, or a dictator like Pol Pot and Cambodia. One that truly stands out is the Genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda. It was a story of […]

The Parallels between The Crucible and The Rwanda Genocide The subjects of justness. community and forfeit in The Crucible are cosmopolitan and can be identified in many modern events in history. including the Rwanda Genocide. The race murder in Rwanda and The Salem Witch Hunts in The Crucible have many dramatic similarities. chiefly these are: […]

In 1994 Rwanda. a little cardinal African state was put into international spotlight. In a span of 100 yearss about half a million of its citizens were killed. a concentrated slaughter of the Tutsi by the Hutu. a modern race murder that overwhelm anyone that bothered to care. As hideous events unfold mundane and calls […]

Mt. Nyiragongo is a very interesting and explosive volcano, even though it isn’t especially world renown. It is on the continent of Africa, near the Uganda and Rwanda border. Though it is near those borders, the volcano is in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The latitude and longitude of Mt. Nyiragongo is 1. 5167° […]

Chapter 1 was about a guy remembering back to the fall in 1994 to when he was on a bus early in the morning on his way to work. He was reading his newspaper, when he seems to find everything oddly in place. He looks around and sees his neighbors sleeping, reading or talking very […]

Hotel Rwanda and Erin Brockovich are two provocative films that take a look at separate deviant acts but still present similar dangerous social problems. The conflicts that are portrayed are different in the means of operation but both share a similar end with the endangerment of thousands of people. We will examine how these deviant […]

Introduction Rwanda is a small country which is found in the central Africa. It has a population of just seven million people. Rwanda has experienced very severe ethnic conflict in its larger part of the history. There are two major ethic groups in Rwanda, Hutus and Tutsi. Tutsi is the major ethnic group which makes […]