Uganda and the genocide

The MRND had a huge role in the genocide. Their radio stations did nothing but promote violence and convince the Hutus that they should be killing the Tutsis. Even thought they may have started the violence the U.S. and the U.N. did nothing to stop it. The United States and Juvenal Habyarimana has said that Uganda has been harboring terrorists, but I don’t think the United States should even consider pointing a finger at us when they clearly did nothing productive during this whole time of the genocide. The U.N is also to blame for not stepping in and helping out. Uganda was the base of the RPF, witch was the people who actually went in and helped the Tutsis. So, how does this have to do with us harboring terrorists when the U.S. and the U.N. witch are way bigger powers than us did nothing at all.
I understand their situation with Samalia but we all know that they have more than enough troops that could have helped. Belgium on the other hand was also a big part in the starting of the genocide. They first favored the Tutsis and than when they had realized they “made a mistake”, they switched the power to the Hutus and just left the country. This caused chaos in Rwanda but Belgium doing that was another huge mistake they had made. Than, after realizing what they had done they still did not go back to help. All these innocent people got killed because of the switching of power and this so called “brain washing”.
After this debate, I had a really good understanding about the Rwandan genocide. This debate was also very fun! Everyone got to participate and share their own thoughts. After hearing about what people had to say about the genocide I understood more and more about every group. I can see a lot of different points of view, but we could also argue with each other witch was very exciting to everyone. I would definitely always want to learn like this because it was fun and I learned a ton! This was a great debate! (:

The American Scholar!

Emerson’s argument in “The American Scholar” about American society still holds true today. Emerson believed that we did not do enough as individuals. Now when you get into college you study one field of work that you want to progress in, and you don’t think about being anything else. For example, if you became a farmer, you would only know how to be a farmer because you wouldn’t have enough knowledge to be anything else.
Emerson’s big idea was for people to be able to be more than just one thing. For example a farmer could also be a doctor. it would give you sometihng else to be proud of and not just have a status of a farmer. Emerson also wanted people to do more idividualy. Instead of just deppending on the help of others you must also be able to achieve goals on your own.

Halloween (:

I love Halloween and trick or treating! This year i decided to dress up as a fairy. I wore a pink tutu, lime green and black striped tights, and a lime green shirt. I also had wings and a tiara. On Halloween this year, i went to my friend logan vines house and trick or treated. A lot of my family members said aren’t you to old to go trick or treating, and of course I said no. I deffinelty don’t think i am too old, and honestly i will probably go for the next three years of high school too! So, when I got to logans house we waited around for the rest of the people to get their. We had a lot of our friends coming. Mrs. Vines had made a taco dinner so until our friends had gotten there we just sat and ate tacos.
Everyone was here, so we got our pillow cases for candy and went out. It was actually a pretty cold night too! We had gone to a few houses and so far i was getting some pretty good candy. Me and a few of my other friends kept on walking until when we turned around we realized the rest of our group wasn’t their. We had no idea where we were because no one of us new how to get around logans neighborhood. It started to get even more cold and we just kept walking around hoping to find our way back to logans house.
After about a half an hour we finally made it back to logans. We were all freezing to death! I seriously couldn’t feel my hands. We went into the basement and everyone else was already sitting down there. We started playing music and were just sitting around talking and eating our delicious candy! I also had gotten my braces off the day before so I could finally have candy with out them. It was getting pretty late so I left Logans and went home. I dumped out all my candy and was very happy with the amount. I had a lot of Snickers bars, which are my favorite candy(: Overall, I had a great Halloween! I am cannot wait till next year till I can finally dress up and go again!