Conflict in Rwanda

My opinion on the conflict in Rwanda its not just one group responsible for the start of this war but all have contributed. Some groups, such as the interahamwe, have contributed more then others but are all a cause to the start of this bloody conflict.

Belgium is deffinatly a big impact on this problem. If they didn't go into Rwanda and split up the 2 main groups the Hutus and the Tutsis and give out indentity cards. The made it so the Tutsis had more power which greatly upsetted the Hutus and staarted this conflict.

Another big impact is the Interahamwe group. They were led by Juvenal who was killed in a plane crash in 1994. THis crash could have been caused by the RPF. This event also started up alot of contiversy in this country. Juvenal raised the Interahamwe an motivated their killing of the Tutsis by money land, being brainwashed and sparing their own lives. It is a fact that this group is responsible for most of the deaths in Rwanda.

The United States also caused many deaths even though they were are far away from Rwanda. Us not getting involved concluded in a huge amount of deaths. If our military woulg get over the little embarassment we experienced in somolia and put thesesuffering people ahead of ourselves then many innocent lives would be spared because of our strong military.

Therefore, this war in Rwanda is not just one group or persons responsbility but many. Every major group in Rwanda and even around the world all impact the deaths in this country.

In our classs discussion about the Rwandan conflict it was very difficult for me to support the Interahamwe because of their unncassary killing.

In character (memeber of Interahamwe) the fault was put on Juvenal and somewhat the RPF. Juvenal brainwashed, forced and threatened us to perform these killings. If we stayed as moderate Hutus in this war we would not have survived the slaughtering by the RPF. It was either kill or be killed for us. And we sometimes had to kill pregnant women and children because they were being raised into RPF soldiers and would continue the killing of the Hutus.

I have learned so much about this conflict. Before our discussion i knew almot nothing about this event and afterwards i can answer almoat any question about it. This discussion made it possible for me to lookj a t this conflict from different peoples points of view. And if certain events were done differently or never happened then it would impact the war greatly and things could happen much differently.

American Scholar

Emerson's argument in "The American Scholar" about American society still holds true today.

One reason Emerson's argument still hold true today is because once you go to college you focus on one career path for the future. In college your educaion and classes are all focused on teaching if you want to be a teacher or engineering if you want to be an engineer. We widen our knowledge on a variety of things not just one.

In the article Emerson states, "Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an enigineer but he is all." He is saying this is not how America is today and it needs to be this way in the near future. He is saying people become the job they perform and nothing else and we need to keep our lives open to all jobs and skills and not focus on one to put a complete stable society into existence.