Sitting forward with a stern look on my face, concentrating on listening to the debate going back and forth between Belgium and every other representative, or Romeo Dellaire to the USA or the UN, trying to catch all the details of who did what and who deserves to die.
My country was France, not a major role in the debate and not normally one that the finger was being pointed at. I was glad I wasn’t a take part in this because I would rather sit back and listen to what the others have to say. If I had to say something to defend myself…. Excuse me…. My country, I did and I did it with full confidence. In my eyes, the cause of this whole genocide is Belgium giving identity cards based on the things you own, creating the whole idea of who was better the Hutus or the Tutsis, and then leaving them when things started to get messy.
I believe that the Tutsis did shoot down Juvenal Habyarimanas plane, and the Hutus had a right to be mad. Yes, I also think they were brainwashed by the radios to kill or be killed, but after Juvenal died, who was encouraging them then?
Now the USA and the UN claim they didn’t do anything because they were scared and didn’t want to be embarrassed by their soldiers, and that’s their reason why they didn’t do anything. But yes I believe that the USA does not have to take part and rescue every world tragedy, but they could have at least put up posters, or made a comment or something to help a small percentage.
Friday, November 20, 2009
Friday, November 6, 2009
The American Scholar; Do we have names?
Emerson’s argument in “The American Scholar” that man would only be known as the job they do and that is still true today.
Emerson’s argument is still true today because it is right in front of our faces. Every morning if you wake up to watch the news and they are talking about a police case, the person giving the story will refer to the men and woman working on the case as “police men”, and they will usually only give the names of some of them if they did something heroic or they are the police chiefs or something like they and they are something meaningful to the case. They only recognize them as police not as people. In “The American Scholar” Emerson says, “In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or still worse, the parrot of other men’s thinking.” And in my eyes what he means by that is once somebody goes into a certain field of profession, they can only think along the lines of what their job is.
I believe that we should change these thinking’s that is in society, a reason why is that my dad is the vice president of a steel tubing mill in Detroit, but on the side he is a race car driver. If I tell my friends or teachers that my dad is a race car driver, they only see him as a race car driver, not as a nice man or funny or anything, they just say, “Heathers dad is a race car driver.” And I think that shouldn’t just be the case, he should be known for his actual job because he is good at it, and he should be acknowledge for doing a good job.
Emerson’s argument is still true today because it is right in front of our faces. Every morning if you wake up to watch the news and they are talking about a police case, the person giving the story will refer to the men and woman working on the case as “police men”, and they will usually only give the names of some of them if they did something heroic or they are the police chiefs or something like they and they are something meaningful to the case. They only recognize them as police not as people. In “The American Scholar” Emerson says, “In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or still worse, the parrot of other men’s thinking.” And in my eyes what he means by that is once somebody goes into a certain field of profession, they can only think along the lines of what their job is.
I believe that we should change these thinking’s that is in society, a reason why is that my dad is the vice president of a steel tubing mill in Detroit, but on the side he is a race car driver. If I tell my friends or teachers that my dad is a race car driver, they only see him as a race car driver, not as a nice man or funny or anything, they just say, “Heathers dad is a race car driver.” And I think that shouldn’t just be the case, he should be known for his actual job because he is good at it, and he should be acknowledge for doing a good job.
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